10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! By Mike • March 2, 2011 • 3 comments Tweet Share During a soccer game in Colombia, a player kicked an owl that was on the field. The bird, which looked like a Barn Owl , was the mascot for the opposing team and died from its injuries.

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MARCH 21, 2011

Tags: Asides • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Hat-tip to Stella. Get yours today! • Explore These Related Posts Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners World Sparrow Day 2011 Why are Birds So Important to People?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

Tags: Asides , christmas bird count • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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MARCH 11, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Nine-legged Plover? Nine-legged Plover? Hat-tip to Mike McDowell. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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MARCH 19, 2011

Tags: Asides , house sparrows • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Are you going to help “raise public awareness about the decline of the house sparrow and throw light on the problems faced by the species&# or are you in the camp that hates the lowly House Sparrow ? Get yours today!

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MARCH 18, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! By Mike • March 18, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share If you know, please tell Mark Cocker, author of the upcoming book Birds and People !

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MARCH 20, 2011

Tags: Asides , richard crossley • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Congratulations to them and many thanks to the many, many participants of each phase of this fun, fun, fun giveaway as well as Richard Crossley and our friends at Princeton University Press !

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or

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MARCH 3, 2011

Tags: Asides • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? You can read part one , part two , and part three of Mark’s adventure on Birds and Kids (and other stuff). Get yours today! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? These Blasts From The Past One and the Same?

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MARCH 15, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! We need more predictions, more plates, and more promotions ! The deadline is this Friday, March 18. • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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Deer 2011 New York Cats 124

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MARCH 9, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or

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Deer 2011 Oklahoma Honduras 124

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Tags: Asides , festivals • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Really… you too? In that case, if you’re ready to enjoy the best of both, get on down to the Lone Star State for the 9th annual Galveston FeatherFest on April 7-10. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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MARCH 12, 2011

Tags: Asides • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Did you even realize that not every bird has a banding code? Chris West has taken on the surprisingly sticky task of parsing American avian Alpha Code s over at North American Birding. Get yours today! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Deer 2011 Birds New York 140

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MARCH 2, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! The strip up today is apropos for 10,000 Birds , though some might take exception to the appellation applied to ornithologists. If you are sensitive to mildly bad language don’t click the link. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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MARCH 15, 2011

Tags: Asides , audubon • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! However, NPR Marketplace reports that Audubon is trying to leverage social media and cutting edge gadgets to appeal to a new generation of bird watcher. Welcome to the club!

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MARCH 16, 2011

Tags: Asides • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Get yours today! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or

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MARCH 5, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Photographed in Cuba , the bird appears to be a melanistic Green Heron though it might perhaps be a dark form or even stained by algae. The jury is still out but what a cool bird! Hat-tip to Shawn. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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2011 Deer Cuba Hunters 145

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MARCH 4, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! That is why it is such amazingly awesome news that the British Birdwatching Fair raised £242,000 to help conserve a species that could become the first recorded bird extinction in mainland Africa. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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Ethiopia 2011 Deer Cats 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Though breeding grounds for neotropical migrants get the bulk of attention in North America wintering grounds are just as critical, and any news about land being preserved as wintering habitat for the Cerulean Warbler is wonderful.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

Share Your Thoughts « Best Bird of the Weekend (First of March 2011) Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru? Tags: John Burroughs , poetry • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? … *From his essay, also called “The Bluebird&# that appeared in his famous collection of nature essays, Wake-Robin.

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2011 Deer New York Peru 164

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MARCH 13, 2011

Tags: Asides • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? By Corey • March 13, 2011 • 4 comments Tweet Share It is not every day that a local newspaper covers birding at all, so the fact that The Chapel Hill News ran an article on Nate ‘s Triangle Big Year is pretty cool. Get yours today!

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2011 Deer Obama Cats 133

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MARCH 12, 2011

… Tags: brazil , giveaway • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! And if you like entering contests in which books about birds are the prize please make sure that you also enter the latest 10,000 Birds giveaway, in which we are giving away three copies of The Crossley ID Guide.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

… … Tags: duck butts , ducks , mallards • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? We even have both a male duck butt and a female duck butt for you. We only ask that you not tell us why you like duck butts so much. We really do not want to know. Without further ado, duck butts. Get yours today!

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Ducks 2011 Deer Brazil 216

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! You have no idea how bad it can get. • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? These Blasts From The Past David Sibley on the Jones Beach Shrike Tangled Bank #86 eBird is now World-Wide!

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Squirrels 2011 Deer Cats 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

Tags: iatb • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Submit a link and summary to your best recent post about birding or wild birds to me or our next outstanding host, Pat O’Donnell at Costa Rica Living and Birding. Submissions should reach mike AT 10000birds DOT com or information AT birdingcraft DOT com by March 15.

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2011 Deer Costa Rica Denmark 145

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MARCH 18, 2011

Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru » To learn more about 10,000 Birds, Mike, Corey, or the many marvelous Beat Writers, please click here. Tags: spring , wheatears • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Photo: A Northern Wheatear at the Paphos headland, taken by Jane Stylianou on March 15, 2011.

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Cyprus 2011 Deer New York 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! If you’re looking to maximize your odds of getting one of these guides, you might want to tell me which plate in The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds is your favorite and why in 100 or fewer words. Just saying. The deadline is Friday, March 18.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

I may have to quit blogging… Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! I blame Charlie Sheen. What is even more terrifying is that the link takes you to Cracked. • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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2011 Deer New York Owls 151

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

Tags: Asides Explore These Related PostsCarnival of the Blue XLVTerrifying [.] Everyone who sends a four-sentence paragraph to 10000birdsblogger AT gmail DOT com by the end date of the contest explaining what Brazilian bird they would most like to see and why will be entered into the drawing for the field guide. It is that awesome!

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Deer 183

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

Tags: denmark , mute swan , national bird , swans • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Denmark is the only country with the Mute Swan as its national bird but it certainly seems like a perfect fit to this American birder who has never been to Denmark. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Slimbridge Wetland Centre (c) Mike Fuller @Riverhead, NY (c) Joe Kelly Magnificent Muscovy (c) Karen Davis Tags: ducks , features , manky , muscovy • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? If you have great photos of manky Muscovy Ducks you’d like us to add to this gallery, send them to mike AT 10000birds DOT com!

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Ducks 2011 Deer Costa Rica 221

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Perhaps one with a name tag on its breast would help. Tags: ID Quiz , quiz • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Better yet, I want to invent a new generation of binoculars and scopes. Focus on a bird, double-click on it and magic happens. The bins will indicate key characteristics to note.

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2011 Deer New York Kentucky 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Tags: motmots , national bird , Nicaragua , Turquoise-browed Motmot • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? As far as national birds go a country can do far worse than a motmot, especially one as aesthetically pleasing as the Guardabarranco. … This is the second in a series of posts about national birds. Get yours today!

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Nicaragua El Salvador 2011 Deer 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Tags: Asides , tsunami • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Once you’re prepared, check out this remarkable post and gallery by Pete at Midway. Tip of the hat to our own Duncan Wright, who used to work on Tern Island. • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

… Tags: Breeding plumage , gulls • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? So when I was trying to keep my eye on some ducks out on the lake as I made my way to a more advantageous position, well, I did manage to not fall down and the gull was not harmed. Let’s leave it there, shall we? Get yours today!

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Breeding 2011 Deer New York 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

Pavonine Quetzal ( Pharomachrus pavoninus ) Tags: ecuador , quetzal • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! • Explore These Related Posts Long-wattled Umbrellabird in Ecuador Velvet-purple Coronet Rufous Potoo (Nyctibius bracteatus) in Ecuador Fruiteaters (Pipreola) in Ecuador Jacamars in Ecuador.Or

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