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Malta’s hunters have been shooting rare birds of prey YET again. The Times of Malta reports that one of 16 Lesser Spotted Eagles that in all cost €1 million to protect in Germany was shot and wounded on Sunday. The eagle was found with gunshot wounds and taken to a local police station. (For more [...]

Corey’s post on looking for a Eurasian Collared Dove last week (Couldn’t collar a Collared Dove) ended with the words, “And if you European birders are snickering to yourselves about this failed twitch (yes, this means you Charlie), well, how many Mourning Doves did you see today?” Collared Doves are of course common in my [...]

Welcome to 10,000 Birds! With so many new visitors arriving every day, we felt an overview of the site might be in order. After all, we wouldn’t be very gracious hosts if you showed up here and we didn’t take the time to give you a tour, would we?
First, a bit of history. [...]

So far this year in New York I have seen Red-eyed Vireos, White-eyed Vireos, Warbling Vireos, Yellow-throated Vireos and Blue-headed Vireos. The Philadelphia Vireo, which nests much further north and only in scattered locations in the Adirondacks, has eluded me. Eluded me, that is, until Sunday.
On Sunday morning at 6:30 AM a fellow [...]

is apparently what 10,000 Birds has hit. The Wall Street Journal has an article about bird blogs and we got a mention as well as Birds Etcetera, Birdchick, Bill of the Birds, and I and the Bird.

is available at Karavans with lots of eco-friendly links to explore.

An important anniversary passed quietly by recently. It was 93 years ago this month that the last individual of what had been estimated to be the world’s most abundant bird died. On September 1st 1914 ‘Martha’, the last surviving Passenger Pigeon in existence, was found dead in her cage in the Cincinatti Zoo. The following [...]

by putting vinyl over glass at New York City’s Morgan Processing and Distribution Center. The birds no longer get confused by reflections of greenery, and have stopped crashing into the building.

…Warblers.
At least this year. What other reaction can I have to the evil little bird snubbing me at Central Park, avoiding me at Floyd Bennett Field, and leaving me standing in the rain for two hours at Muttontown Preserve? That’s right, Muttontown Preserve. But before I get to the whole sordid story let me [...]

Autumn’s equinox heralds far more than just rueful thoughts of what summer might have been. This splendid moment of equipoise between the diurnal and nocturnal sees a myriad of creatures great and small caught up in the relentless throes of zugunruhe. It’s a natural fact, this seasonally recurring restlessness, this implacable urge to migrate. Millions [...]