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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

March 3, 2012 by Corey 12 Comments

Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” is a marvel of modernist poetry. It is only 246 words long, divided into thirteen...

Birds

Roseate Spoonbills at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge

by Corey 3 Comments

The Roseate Spoonbill lives up to its name, spectacularly. The bird is, after all, roseate, and, not only that, but it has a big...

Birds

The mysterious international Lesser Scaup

by Jochen 8 Comments

Over much of North America, the Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis is more than just common. Rather, it could be considered the aythyian background noise against...

News

Bringing Back the Classics

by Corey No Comments

There are over eight years of 10,000 Birds blog posts in our archives and we like to believe that at least some of them...

Birds

Little Owl (Athena noctua)

by Redgannet 5 Comments

This post comes courtesy of Mrs Gannet who became rather taken with the Little Owl when we found him in Mote Park last month....

Birds

ID Quiz: Afternoon Odd Duck

March 2, 2012 by Mike 4 Comments

During the last week, I received some terrific photos from two readers who had encountered a very distinctive duck at Brazos Bend State Park in...

Birding

So, What Do Robins Mean? or, Spring-Watch Continued

by Carrie 7 Comments

Late winter, or second winter, or whatever you want to call it, continues its slow march into March. A week ago, a classmate eagerly...

Birds

Marabou Storks

by Walter 9 Comments

Marabou Storks are ugly/lovely. They have character. They are unmistakeable. I won’t expend too much energy trying to describe them… I’ll just let the...

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