10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2021

My lifer Golden-crowned Sparrow at the Lombard Street Reservoir in San Francisco, just around the corner from the most famous crooked street in the world. Sure, the next three days we planned to spend in Napa County were out, and we scrambled to find last-minute accommodations and to replan the rest of our trip.

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San Francisco 2020 California Blackbirds 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2014

Avoid the city and surroundings between 6:30 and 8:30 in the morning, and between 4:30 and 6:30 in the afternoon at all costs or suffer the consequences of seeing nothing more than an occasional Rufous-collared Sparrow during a traffic jam. As with most modern-day big cities, traffic during rush hour is a time-swallowing behemoth.

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Costa Rica San Jose Owls Birds 222

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2015

Groups of Cape Turtle Doves feeding on the grass were occasionally joined by a nervous and much larger Rameron Pigeon, and Southern Grey-headed Sparrows and a single Bokmakierie hoped around as well. Above the gardens a wheedling just fledged Gymnogene begged fro food from its long suffering parent.

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Africa South Africa Stud New Zealand 219

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

They’d also have to pay for every aspect of care the injured bird requires, as well as the emotional suffering of the wildlife rehabilitator!”. That more rehab centers would accept non-natives, like pigeons house sparrows, and starlings,” wrote Charis in Oregon. Change in Attitude. “I

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma Michigan 255

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2024

They have almost disappeared as breeding birds from England Both Turtle Doves and Spotted Flycatchers were once common summer birds here in Suffolk, but have suffered severe declines, so much so that they have become very scarce and difficult to find. A Kerkini Turtle Dove.

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Greece Turtles Breeding Europe 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

link] Duncan Mar 14th, 2011 at 11:20 pm My boss from Tern has let me know that Laysan apparently suffered “significant loss of wildlife and some damage and loss of infrastructure and equipment.&# The islands of French Frigate Shoals are also considerably less substancial than Midway. I see Kure was also badly hit.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2012

My ABA list suffered from poor documentation, while keeping track of country, state, and county lists wasn’t even a viable option. The eBird interface allows a user to slice and dice lists and sightings in almost every way imaginable. How can a person keep up with this endless wave of revisions?

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Arizona Belize Adoptable ALA 230

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

Daisy had heard of an organization called YANA (You Are Not Alone), that was distributing relief supplies to those who had suffered from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, and that needed warm clothes and other supplies for children, so she prepared a box of clothes that Desi had outgrown, along with wipes and diapers. People are too.

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Battery Suffering New York City Birds 145

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

All day Friday I suffered the “Needs Alert” emails as birder after birder found the bird and reported it to eBird. Sparrows were plentiful, with Fox , Song , Swamp , and White-throated enjoying the patches of mugwort that hasn’t been removed yet. It was enough to drive a county-lister crazy! The search continued.

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Fox Sparrows Suffering Rights 124

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Sure, the traffic noise was horrible and the only birds I could hear over the traffic were House Sparrows but it is getting increasingly hard to add a bird to my Queens list – my last addition was Bar-tailed Godwit in May of last year – and it felt good to finally get another. This is an ugly location.

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Puerto Rico Geese Canada Porpoises 176

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2013

Yes, suffering readers, it is time once again for a blog post in verse. Whether a shorebird , a falcon , a sparrow , You feel the need deep down in your marrow. And not just any verse, but the horrible, vile, lousy verse that I sometimes produce, verse so bad that it isn’t even worthy of being called poetry. It is just doggerel.

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Mississippi New York Suffering Falcons 154

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2019

That is because Lago de Cuitzeo receives a huge number of migratory waterfowl and shorebirds, with smaller numbers of sparrows, buntings, and other migratory birds in the areas around the lake’s shore. Not only are the species numbers good, but the spectacle of so, so many individual birds can be thrilling.

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Ducks Blackbirds Pelicans United States 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

Soon we were out of the protected harbour and into choppier waters, and here I have to say I suffered for about two hours from the dreaded affliction known as sea-sickness. As we left the long harbour there were plenty of inshore seabirds such as gannets, shags, gulls and terns.

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New Zealand Albatross 2011 Cooking 212

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

As things appear to be returning to normal, The UK suffered its worst ever week for Covid infections. 434 House Sparrow – Passer domesticus. 452 Stripe-headed Sparrow – Peucaea ruficauda. 453 Black-chested Sparrow – Peucaea humeralis. 454 Black-striped Sparrow – Arremonops conirostris.

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Woodpeckers Sparrows Blackbirds Ducks 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2011

This first birding vignette is actually from just before the weekend, when I was at Alley Pond Park on a day that I was miraculously released from work a tiny bit early and was hoping to find a Yellow-throated Warbler but settled for a Swamp Sparrow by Little Alley Pond. Besides, suffering brings birds, right? Of course it did.

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New York City New York Walruses Sparrows 215

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2024

Both male and female Corn Buntings look alike, an unusual feature in the Emberiza family While the Cirl Bunting is making something off a comeback in Britain, its larger cousin the Corn Bunting is suffering from loss of habitat and is in steep decline; it has featured on the UK Red List (birds of conservation concern) since 1996.

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Bulgaria Greece Breeders India 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2015

Though all birds will be somehow impacted by climate change, I think it is important to note that not all will suffer. High elevation species will surely suffer from shifting and reduced habitat, and that process seems to have started already. Will early-arriving birds suffer from having to endure late winter storms?

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North America San Francisco Suffering California 263

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

Sentient people recoil at the idea of leg-hold traps, those medieval–torture devices which cause so much pain and suffering before their victims eventually die, are killed, or (very occasionally) are rescued. My very first rescue was a House Sparrow caught in a glue trap,” says Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator in Kentucky.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Mice Rodents Rescue 279

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The Red-flanked Bluetail is also the subject of an otherwise relatively unremarkable paper , but it uses the interesting term “autumn obesity” Maybe this Marsh Sandpiper also suffers from autumn obesity? And yes, sparrows in areas with polluted air are less healthy. Thank god that this does not apply to humans.

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Birds China Eggs Owls 272

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

There are are presently thought to be five species of kiwi with a possible sixth extinct species, all of which have suffered varying degrees of range contraction since the arrival of humans. For all its cultural ubiquity in New Zealand, actually seeing a wild kiwi is actually quite a challenging proposition for a birder.

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New Zealand 2011 Deer Namibia 203

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

What seeds does a Baird’s Sparrow eat? This has all sorts of implications on learning and being more resistant to the mental effects of aging that mammals suffer from. What does a Flammulated Owl do all night? Where do Cook’s Petrels go to forage in the summer?

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Emotional Science Mammals Alaska 252

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2024

The eBird author of the entry on the Common Redpoll apparently suffers from winter depression, asking readers to “listen for their [the redpolls] chattering calls ringing through the desolate winter landscape” No winter wonderland for this depressed writer. At least such a statement will not offend the species, I guess.

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Iran Germany Research Humane 243

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2011

I am sharing it again here, at the request of Corey Finger, who takes some sort of sick pleasure in seeing other birders squirm and suffer under the weight of their obsession with life birds. Note: This is an account, originally published in June 2006, of my quest to remove a jinx bird from my bird-watching soul. –Bill Thompson III.

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Connecticut North Dakota Ohio Owls 231

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2019

The Management are still in Africa, suffering the buffering that comes with remoteness. White-browed Sparrow-Weaver – Plocepasser mahali. Shelley’s Rufous Sparrow – Passer shelleyi. Golden-crowned Sparrow – Zonotrichia atricapilla. Northern Gray-headed Sparrow – Passer griseus.

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2019 Farming Sparrows Charlotte 208

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Besides he is a rank coward: The little King Bird [ Eastern Kingbird or Tyrannus tyrannus ] not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the district. With all this injustice, he is never in good case but like those among men who live by sharping & robbing he is generally poor and often very lousy.

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Bald Eagle 2017 United States Turkey 200

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

What could be plainer than the Eurasian Tree Sparrow ? This allows you to watch birds (well, at least those that are not too noise sensitive) while not having to suffer their sounds. While I kind of like the species, to be honest, I only included it in this post to make references to two songs.

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Birds Sparrows Mountain Goats Protection 259