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You Are What You Eat: A Flicker Mystery Solved

October 13, 2016 by Meredith Mann No Comments

It’s been a head-scratcher for quite some time. What’s with the yellow-shafted Northern Flickers in the eastern U.S. bearing some orange feathers? (As in the photo above,...

Trips

There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

by Dragan 2 Comments

In the most of Europe, Brown Bear is a mythical creature that lives only in mediaeval tapestries and folk tales. It has become extinct,...

Birds

Belding’s Yellowthroat, Revisited

October 12, 2016 by Tom Brown No Comments

I recently wrote a short story here on 10,000 Birds about one of our endemic species, the Belding’s Yellowthroat, Geothlypis belding beldingi. and its...

Birds, Plants

The Sunbird and the Parasite

by Duncan 2 Comments

I’m back! Back to the site, and back from 6 weeks in Africa (with four weeks gloriously cut off from any news of an...

Trips

Exploring East Bay and the Yellow River

October 10, 2016 by Erika Zambello 1 Comment

It was odd to realize that with a temperature of 85 degrees F and a breeze, I felt like “fall” had begun in Northwest...

Birding

Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of October 2016)

by Mike 2 Comments

One downside to birding in autumn–certainly not the only one–is how almost everything you see heading south is something you caught earlier in the...

Birding

Black-fronted Dotterels maintaining egg temperature

October 9, 2016 by Clare M 2 Comments

The Black-fronted Dotterel breeds throughout the year around Broome and usually close to fresh water. Although I have written about this small resident shorebird...

Birding

“….an owl a day….”

October 8, 2016 by Redgannet No Comments

A chance remark may have opened the door to a whole new branch of alternative medicine. To complement homeopathic remedies, hypnotherapy and acupuncture, may...

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