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What’s Inside a Bird’s Nest: A KidLit Bird Book Review
Looking for a bird book that has appeal to cross the generations, one that will delight both the preschooler and the seasoned birder? Try New York Times Bestselling author and illustrator Rachel...
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Bird-Ranking: My favorite birds (as an amateur bird watcher)
As a little child, I´ve always liked watching birds fly around and imagined, what it would be like flying around on my own whenever I feel like it and not having to sit in an airplane full of nice...
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Our Very Own Hybrid
If you have birded very long, you are probably aware that members of closely related bird species, when their ranges overlap, sometimes love each other very much, and have babies. Some even do this so...
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Wagbachniederung in Late Spring
The weather around Bonn was unpredictably volatile in May, with some extremely sunny days followed by a series of cold and wet ones. This made being outside rather tricky, and I got me caught in the...
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Avian squatters at the end of Europe
The Cuckoo Cuculus canorus has a bad reputation because of its habit of laying its eggs on the nests of other birds, who then raise their young. But in south-west Europe there is a bird that kicks out...
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Three Hokkaido Woodpeckers
A Japanese book on Hokkaido birds lists 6 species of woodpeckers – I saw three of them, presumably the most common ones. The most interesting of the three (at least to me) is the Japanese Pygmy...
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Tufted Puffins on the Oregon Coast
Many imagine life on the Oregon Coast as idyllic. Wind-blown Shore Pines, sunny beaches, rugged rocky outcroppings, deep blue waters, and green hills often fill tourism magazines and Instagram pages to...
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Want to be a Writer for 10,000 Birds?
Whenever we feel 10,000 Birds could have more writers, we ask one of the many online AI art creation sites for a suitable illustration. The result is always ugly (see example above) and the opposite of...
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Spotting the 4 Eagles Of Alaska
By Amelia Caldwell Amelia Caldwell, an avid bird enthusiast and the founder of Birdie Learning, has been captivated by the enchanting melodies of birdsong since childhood. This early fascination...
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I Started a Club
It seems that almost none of the major storylines in my life were the result of any planning on my part. I studied music in an American college, but ended up devoting myself to church work in Mexico....
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A Pennine Challenge
Seeing 50 species of birds on an early summer day in lowland England isn’t difficult, but on the moors of the Pennines – the rugged hills that form the spine of northern England – it’s not so easy....
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“Birds & Flowers”: a book review
When we think of bird pollinators we – at least we in the Americas – think first of the hummingbirds: “They dominate the scientific literature, natural history documentaries, and our wider...
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To bird or not to bird…
Naturally, I am thinking of Shakespeare’s play while the ferry approaches Helsingør’s Kronborg Castle (Elsinore). The sea is frothing with Great Cormorant and Herring Gull, with more than 100 birds...
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When the sea becomes a desert
I associate different times of the year with particular birds and bird movements. In some cases, I have been following these events since childhood and they have become a part of my life. One such...
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Birding Tan Phu Forest, Vietnam (Part 1)
Tan Phu Forest is about 2 hours North of Ho Chi Minh City, and the location of a few bird blinds set up by a Vietnamese who used to be a park ranger at Cat Tien National Park and probably learned...
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What’s Inside a Bird’s Nest: A KidLit Bird Book Review
Looking for a bird book that has appeal to cross the generations, one that will delight both the preschooler and the seasoned birder? Try New York Times Bestselling author and illustrator Rachel...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bird-Ranking: My favorite birds (as an amateur bird watcher)
As a little child, I´ve always liked watching birds fly around and imagined, what it would be like flying around on my own whenever I feel like it and not having to sit in an airplane full of nice...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Our Very Own Hybrid
If you have birded very long, you are probably aware that members of closely related bird species, when their ranges overlap, sometimes love each other very much, and have babies. Some even do this so...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wagbachniederung in Late Spring
The weather around Bonn was unpredictably volatile in May, with some extremely sunny days followed by a series of cold and wet ones. This made being outside rather tricky, and I got me caught in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Avian squatters at the end of Europe
The Cuckoo Cuculus canorus has a bad reputation because of its habit of laying its eggs on the nests of other birds, who then raise their young. But in south-west Europe there is a bird that kicks out...
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