10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2015

When it comes to individual North American species, the old reliable trick of naming them after physical traits is in full effect. Well, I never did see a Black-backed Woodpecker on my trip, but they were on my mind… What could be more straightforward than the naming of woodpeckers? Here are birds that peck at wood.

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AVMA News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The Fall 2024 AVMA Animal Welfare Assessment Contest, also known as AWJAC, recently brought together hundreds of competitors from across North America and Europe to apply science-based methods and ethical standards to assess the welfare of animals in a variety of settings.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Maybe it’s because the American Coot ( Fulica americana ) is the most abundant and widely distributed species of rail in North America that it gets no respect? The post The American Coot – One of the Least Appreciated Birds in North America appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2017

The latest from his pen is Birds of Prey , a hybrid between an identification guide and an essay collection, a book of lore that provides a comprehensive overview of the raptors of North America. Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America by Pete Dunne with Kevin T. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2015

Importantly, the paper offers support for the hypothesis that the ancestor of the entire clade came to North America by way of Beringia — the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska exposed at various times through Earth’s history.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2013

This is called the “Head Immersion Method”, according to Birds of North America (BNA), a feeding process in which the bird dips its head in the water and mud to feast on aquatic invertebrates. (I National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 6th ed. Random House, 2003. Houghton Mifflin, 1986.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Like many warblers the Nashville Warbler breeds in North America and winters in Mexico. I feel rather fortunate having this visitor to my yard as Birds of North America Online states that they are an “uncommon fall migrant in California” usually in August and September.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2020

North America is home to many amazing bird species, including several which require a special effort to see and appreciate. In the summer, they are the highest altitude breeding songbird in North America. So let’s look at this sampler, shall we?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2024

While writers from all locations are welcome, we are currently particularly looking for writers from North America and Singapore, as we have many readers there yet few writers. If neither that nor that we do not pay anything does not put you off, please get in touch. The post Want to be a Writer for 10,000 Birds?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2021

The Cinnamon-rumped Flowerpiercer is the only flower-piercing game in town if you live in North America. And yes, Mexico is part of North America, not Central or South America.) Its range extends as far as Nicaragua in Central America, where it is joined, in Costa Rica and Panama, by The Slaty Flowerpiercer.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2012

The family has representatives throughout the forests North America, Eurasia (including North Africa), and Indomalaya. In North America, we have, traditionally at least, four species, the most familiar of which is the White-breasted Nuthatch ( Sitta carolinensis ).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Curlews The first branch contains the curlews, plus North America’s the Western Hemisphere’s Upland Sandpiper. Those of us in North America may not necessarily associate “uppies” with the highly derived Long-billed Curlew , but check out the Eastern Hemisphere’s Little Curlew for comparison.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The family Ardeidae consists on long-legged, long-necked, long-beaked, water birds called waders in North America or maybe just herons, egrets, and bitterns everywhere else. We’re going big with next month’s installment of I and the Bird. I’m looking for diversity people!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2012

Most of the Osprey breeding in North America are migratory, only Florida, the Caribbean and Baja California host non-migratory breeders 1. References: 1 Birds of North America Online … A fish may love a bird, but where would they live? This pair copulated several times while I was observing.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2012

Here in Northern California I am fortunate to have at least three of the western hummingbirds of North America visiting my yard. The male is the only hummingbird in North America with a rufous back. The least common species of hummingbird I see here is the Calliope Hummingbird ( Stellula calliope ). www.youtube.com/watch?v=hARzx_fuFKA

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

The Bank Swallow ( Riparia riparia ) is North America’s smallest swallow. Historically, all Bank Swallow colonies in North America were found in natural sites such as banks along rivers, streams, lakes, and coasts; today, many colonies are in human-made sites like sand and gravel pits and road cuts.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2015

Although it was formerly abundant and geographically widespread, Trumpeter Swan numbers and distribution were greatly reduced during the early fur trade and European settlement of North America (1600’s to 1800’s), when it was prized for its skins and primary feathers 1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq1bx7Ic2FY. v=kq1bx7Ic2FY.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

2012), and (4) Waterfowl of Eastern North America, 2nd ed. 2020, all also published by Firefly); children’s books and books on bird feeding. Arnold Small, an ABA founding birder and past president.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2024

The book’s structure is brilliant—Kroodsma divides the book into two sections: a dawn walk in Eastern North America, and a second walk in Western North America. Listen to the Birds is also a perfect book to pair with a morning hike with children.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

” The Cinnamon Teal ( Anas cyanoptera ) is one of the least abundant dabbling ducks in North America. The availability and quality of wetlands and surrounding upland nesting habitats in the arid West may provide the most important limitation on North American populations 1. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2013

Bluebird Man is about Alfred Larson, but you can be one of the film’s heroes by contributing to its production… There is something special about bluebirds, and it isn’t just because the world’s three species are only found in North America. There is something more.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2015

References: 1 Birds of North America Online. At about the 2:03 mark you will notice a Ross’s Goose moving behind the dark morph goose from right to left and another following behind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYNb-0vYTE8. v=DYNb-0vYTE8. Birds geese Ross''s Goose Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Snow Goose waterfowl'

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2013

Bushtits ( Psaltriparus minimus ) are the only New World representative of the long-tailed t**s ( Aegithalidae ) and they are primarily limited to the western parts of North America and the highlands of Central America. References: 1 Birds of North America Online. Birds Bushtit chickadees and tits West Coast

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2012

In North America there is really only one duck that could even come close to competing with the Wood Duck for the title of most fair, and the Harlequin Duck is just too much of a trollop to really compete.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2013

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a surprise American Golden-Plover at Big Egg Marsh in Queens, a very good bird for the east coast in spring, as they tend to migrate north through the center of North America. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2012

This didn’t detract from the pleasure of finding one of North America’s most strikingly marked wablers. I was thrilled to be seing warblers so early in March, until I remembered that Townsend’s Warblers can be seen along the west coast during the cold months. It was almost as if the species had been forgotten.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2017

This time the tome that three lucky readers will receive is Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America by Pete Dunne. The first and easiest way to win a copy of Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America is to subscribe to the 10,000 Birds email mailing list.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The recent hubbub in the northeastern United States in terms of rare birds has been all about the Whiskered Tern at Cape May, the third record of this species for North America. All three of those records are from Cape May. You can read more about this awesome bird here.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2015

They fly from extreme northern North America to the southern tip of South America and are seldom seen perched during migration. Another cool fact was learning that the Barn Swallows has started to breed in South America since the 80s. They are still among the coolest birds on my list. Photo Alfredo Begazo.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2014

References: 1 Birds of North America Online. Once s/he showed itself and I began taking photographs, the bird seemed to be intrigued by the sound of the camera clicking, flying up into the tree right in front of us where I took the featured image above and this one. Birds Green-tailed Towhee Mountain Bird Festival towhees'

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2013

Nearly every species of heron and egret in North America forage only feet away, some of them in their dazzling breeding displays. This is a bird that is becoming increasingly hard to see anywhere in North America so we passed over the dozens of Black-bellied Whistling Ducks to get a look at this pretty rarity.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2011

million bird observations in North America alone. It is this last feature that I personally find the most exciting - the ability for me to find birds anywhere I travel in North America. Consider the fact that in January 2010 eBird participants logged more than 1.5

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2016

Why, I asked myself, did the loons come to be called loons in the English-speaking regions of North America when they were already known by the much more practical term divers back in the colonists’ mother country? Long ago, before I became the bird-name rancoteur I am today, I had an idle question.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Winter may not technically begin for another couple of weeks, but frigid temperatures and wicked snow are assailing various parts of North America. The weather outside is frightful, but winter birds are so delightful… guess that’s as good a reason as any to brave the cold.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2015

Florida is perhaps the one place in the United States where you can rack up a pretty great list of birds, including some of North America’s most impressive species, simply by walking down the sidewalk for an hour or so. That was largely due to the vagaries of a single rental car and two young children, but it wasn’t so bad.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2013

The series, which was four years in the making, follows birds across six continents, from eagles in North America to hummingbirds in South America, cockatoos in Australia, cranes in Asia, and flamingos in Africa. And many more!).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2012

If you see shorebirds on a coastal beach in North America they are most likely Sanderlings ( Calidris alba ). If they are running back and forth as the waves ebb and flow they are almost assuredly Sanderlings.

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