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JANUARY 13, 2014

Herons and raptors and rails and gulls and ducks and cranes and jays and owls and alligators are all awaiting me – and you – at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. Blue-winged Teal like these at Meritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in 2012 certainly count as good birds. I can’t wait until Space Coast!

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The study also revealed that between 2014 and 2019, five massive die-off events occurred, surpassing the magnitude of previous events. These die-offs were linked to persistently warmer conditions in the Northeast Pacific in the preceding months.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

He was very pleased to see two of these marvelous shorebirds on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and nearly as pleased to check them off his Queens list. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend is one he considered long overdue, his first Buff-breasted Sandpiper in Queens ever! Number 305! How about you?

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MARCH 16, 2014

He was pleased to see several hundred Snow Geese at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was actually a pretty common bird most winters in Queens, though this year they mostly went further south. There are few things nicer than a big ol’ flock of Snow Geese! How about you?

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(Some, according to her, consider it a form of slavery; a 1982 book in my library, The Birdwatcher’s Companion cites “the sentimentalist element of the wildlife protection movement” as deeming falconry to be comparable to cockfighting.). The latest volume on the subject is Montgomery’s The Hawk’s Way: Encounters With Fierce Beauty.

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JULY 13, 2014

I’ve only been in Virginia Beach for a few days and I’ve already knocked down most of my targets, including Blue Grosbeak and Yellow-breasted Chat at Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge. The grosbeak gets the edge for my best bird since I have a thing for blue birds.

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JULY 27, 2014

While others were enjoying the beach this weekend I was enjoying the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge where I reacquainted myself with the mud and the shorebirds. If we could only find good ways to get beach-goers interested in birds instead of irritated by them. Ideas anyone?

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JUNE 6, 2014

This was more than 30 years after these types of anti-coagulants had first been implicated in the deaths of protected wildlife and pets, as well as the sickening of children. Activists and environmental groups went into overdrive, and in March 2014 the State of California approved a ban on the sale of the worst types of anti-coagulants.

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JANUARY 23, 2014

Corey is cleaning up at the spectacular Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival , which is probably where a number of our readers can be found. Considering how painfully cold my part of the world is, I’m watching birds from my window this weekend.

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MARCH 17, 2019

I saw my first migratory Eastern Phoebe of 2019 this morning at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. 2014 – 29 March. Actually, I saw my first five phoebes there, perhaps the most I ever saw in one location for my first of the season. For me, it is now officially spring! 2019 – 17 March. 2018 – 30 March. 2017 – 12 March.

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AUGUST 13, 2014

The Results of the 2014 Tricolored Blackbird Statewide Survey confirm that this species is in rapid decline. According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) report on animals taken in fiscal year 2013 , “Wildlife Services” intentionally killed 657,134 Red-winged Blackbirds and dispersed1,777,960.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

While at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival I could not resist making the drive north to Daytona Beach one day to witness the awesome gull fly-in from the dump to the beach. … 10,000 Birds is a Scrub-Jay level sponsor of the 2014 Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival.

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MARCH 12, 2017

I saw my first migratory Eastern Phoebe of 2017 this morning, 12 March, at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, thus kicking off spring for myself over a week early. 2014 – 29 March. It’s also the earliest I’ve had over the last ten years. Below are my first dates for the last ten years if you are really interested in such things….

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MARCH 12, 2019

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) declared the Golden-cheeked Warbler “ endangered ” under the Endangered Species Act. In 2014, FWS completed a five-year status review , concluding that continuing urbanization and associated habitat destruction and fragmentation still threatened the warbler. United States Fish & Wildlife Serv.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2015

While drones have the potential be a great tool in the world of wildlife conservation, they can also pose a serious problem for the animals they’re trying to protect. In 2014, the National Park Service banned drone use in all 58 national parks in order to protect wildlife and precious ecological landmarks.

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MARCH 24, 2014

However, I will pick a fight with the Rip Van Winkle Rod and Gun Club in Palenville, New York, which is sponsoring their fourth annual “Crow Down” March 29-30, 2014. People say there are too many crows and they eat all the crops,” says Missy Runyan, director of the Friends of the Feathered and Furry Wildlife Center in nearby Hunter, NY.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

When I went to Honduras in 2014, I was advised to use The Birds of Costa Rica by Richard Garrigues and Robert Dean (2014) and The Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America by Steve N.G. It has been a long time between field guides for most of these countries. Howell and Sophie Webb (a classic, but big and published in 1995).

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MAY 14, 2019

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) declared the Golden-cheeked Warbler “ endangered.” In 2014, FWS completed a five-year status review , concluding that development still threatened the warbler. Moreover, larger sites are better for wildlife and are easier and less expensive to manage. In 1990, the U.S. How does it work?

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AUGUST 4, 2015

I greatly enjoyed reading these articles on diverse topics such as suet, nyjer seed, the development of humming-bird feeders, rarities at feeders, wild bird feeding in Latin America and the Caribbean, and, importantly, “funding for birds and wildlife.” million by the EPA in 2012 and was sold to Global Harvest Foods in 2014.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Nevertheless, only the most important news I did follow, those about the decision-making process on future sales of elephants and their ivory at a global wildlife summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, the first such meeting since 2013. We are facing a plague of poaching that is again decimating the species. And it gave me a hope.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2015

But that is not all, Save the Survivor – a non-governmental organisation taking on an increasing number of injured or orphaned rhino and giving them a second chance – says the actual rhino-poaching statistics for 2014 are 30% higher than the official tally and the number of rhino killed could be as many as 1,700!

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JANUARY 5, 2015

2014 was a great year for birding! Read on if you want to indulge me in reliving my version of it… In 2014 I birded in three countries (United States, Canada, Costa Rica), four states (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida), and forty-two counties. (I’m That increased my total list from my balcony to 92 species!

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Of course, habitats of all sorts attract wildlife. While the city brewer might contend with urban vermin like rats and pigeons, the country vintner generally enjoys the company of more charismatic wildlife. Ravenswood Winery: Besieged (2014). The post Ravenswood Winery: Besieged (2014) appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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JANUARY 15, 2014

Forest Service plan to allow 30,000 acres of logging in the burned area will cause significant harm to wildlife, water and the regrowing forest. 4 Center for Biological Diversity and the John Muir Project (2014). Version 1.0. The Institute for Bird Populations and California Partners in Flight. Point Reyes Station, California.

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AUGUST 6, 2015

Allow me to take you back in time, to November 2014. For God’s sake, how much can we extract from 400 shooters, to make it worth encouraging large scale wildlife poaching and tainting the country’s name? Unfortunately, this meeting was not about their protection, but about the lack of it!

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JANUARY 21, 2016

In October 2014, during a meeting in Hobart, Australia, the protection of this important region was once again blocked by China and Russia. And I need you to vote for me and send me to Antarctica, so I could write wildlife blogs on Adélie Penguins and Leopard Seals. Back to the Future – the Case for Protection. Now you know.

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JULY 21, 2014

Even today, newspaper and magazine articles about the parakeets have headlines like this one, that ran in the Broward (FL) Sun-Sentinel on March 2, 2014: Monk Parakeets: Delightful Import or Pest? ProQuest Historical Newspapers, viewed July 17, 2014. and Sam Logue. Florida’s Introduced Birds: Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus).

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APRIL 5, 2022

” are the big questions at the heart of Vagrancy in Birds by Alexander Lees and James Gilroy, an impressive, fascinating book about what ornithologists and wildlife biologists have found out about avian vagrancy so far and their theories explaining this phenomenon. ” and its companion question, “Why is this bird here?”

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JUNE 6, 2019

An individual was located in Tansa Wildlife Sanctuary in the Thane district in 2014.” In Maharashtra, a pair was observed (out of 7 pairs in 2004) in Toranmal Reserve Forest, and in Madhya Pradesh, six individuals were observed in Khaknar. Later stages of the same tour: Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Gaur Morning.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

In this new book, she puts everything she has learned in over 30 years of wildlife photography down in writing. Her photos have appeared in numerous magazines, educational exhibits, calendars, and she has won prestigious photography awards. “Bird Photography Hotspots,” presents ten U.S.

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JULY 30, 2014

Modoc National Wildlife Refuge, CA. Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge offers a fine show of raptors and waterfowl, Modoc National Wildlife Refuge has reliable Trumpeter Swans in winter, and the Warner Mountains are home to Cordilleran Flycatcher in spring and summer. Northeastern California. Ventura, CA.

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

Quentin won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition (junior section) with the first-ever photograph of a nesting Chest-nutheaded Thrush. Press, March 2014; UK: John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd; 2014. By Quentin Phillipps and Karen Phillipps. 372 pages, 8.3 inches, 141 full color plates, 600 distribution maps, 12 maps.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

Clearly, author Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, the author of 24, soon to be 25, children’s books, is also a birder (and a little research brings up a presentation she gave at Ogeechee Audubon, Georgia with the biographical information and she and her family “love watching birds and wildlife seen near their lagoon on Skidaway Island.”

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Saturday morning, 30 August 2014, was a perfect time for shorebirding at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge’s East Pond.

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APRIL 19, 2023

Back in 2014 we stumbled upon a juvenile Double-toothed Kite and that was the first and only time I have ever seen that species well. Within Nariva Swamp is Bush Bush Wildlife Sanctuary, a sandy, low-lying peninsula populated by palms, strangler figs, and other hardy forest trees.

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JUNE 20, 2019

When I came here for the first time in 2014, I stayed at the Limneo B&B in the Chrisochorafa Village and met its owner, Nikos Gallios. They were still listed as Endangered, but wildlife management measures taken in this park were clearly working. What should I expect? Someone should tell the police who is actually paying them.

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JULY 6, 2014

There has been a Black-billed Cuckoo repeatedly reported from Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge since May and it had studiously avoided Corey until Sunday morning, when he heard it calling in the South Garden. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a bird that has frustrated him for quite some time now.

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