10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2020

Whether you happen to be more interested in music or birds, you may love “A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean” Since this is a music project rather than an actual guide of bird vocalizations, there won’t be a catalog of antbird trills and toucan yelps. Oh, how nice that would be!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

The wood duck was very scarce in many portions of its range, at least in part, for the same reason and probably owes its present status to provision of nest boxes and protection from overhunting 1.” The ivory-billed and red- cockaded woodpeckers are currently on the endangered list, primarily as a result of habitat destruction.

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North America America Barn Owls Falcons 206

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2017

The latest from his pen is Birds of Prey , a hybrid between an identification guide and an essay collection, a book of lore that provides a comprehensive overview of the raptors of North America. Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America by Pete Dunne with Kevin T. Karlson, $26.00, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2021

Birds are arriving in North America, flying from places far to the south. Many come from Central America, a good number fly much further. From the Amazon to Ohio, protecting birds also means protecting habitat through supporting and promoting sustainable use from home to the foothills of Colombia.

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Costa Rica Nicaragua Ohio Honduras 257

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2023

He happily commented: “I am now well ahead of Noah’s pace, while I haven’t even started my journey through Africa and, last but not least, the most bird-rich continent of all, South America. On the other hand, this is good news, because if a lot of money comes in, then the Brazilian government will be motivated to protect the area.”

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Papua New Guinea Guinea Suriname South America 239

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 3, 2014

Best Friends four-legged Celebrity Ambassador Lassie encourages everyone to protect pets this Independence Day weekend by keeping them in a safe, comfortable place inside the house during fireworks. Best Friends Animal Society is a national animal welfare organization focused on ending the killing of dogs and cats in America’s shelters.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

In the midst of an intensifying battle between protecting public lands and advancing private interests, I want to share a moment of avian celebration at Yellowstone National Park. To protect our wild spaces and all the flora and fauna (including humans), add your voice! For the love of birds and parks. As the first U.S.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By protecting 25 free-flowing Alaskan rivers in their natural state, we are almost doubling the size of our Wild and Scenic Rivers System. ANILCA created, consolidated, expanded, or otherwise protected numerous units of federal public land systems, including: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.

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Alaska United States Puffins Wildlife 203

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I may be in tropical Central America, but at 2100 m / 7000 ft a.s.l. Serge is a professor of ecotourism at University of Costa Rica, CEO and founder of Costa Rica Birding Hotspots Route, CEO and founder of Birdwatching Central America, and the former manager of the famous Selva Verde Rainforest Lodge. It is 6.40 ft) above ground.

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Costa Rica Panama Squirrels Nicaragua 215

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2021

Of the 6 species of quetzal, the one that lives in the cloud forests of Central America usually gets the “most spectacular” badge. This important site also acts as the perfect, outdoor teaching lab, a place where people can learn about birds from local guides who are invested in the appreciation and protection of the cloud forest.

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Costa Rica Birds Eagles America 260

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This amazing avian diversity, coupled with the fact that Colombia is now one of the safest countries to visit in Latin America, should catch your attention when you start planning your next birding holiday. Colombia, the birdiest country on the planet, occupies only 0.8%

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Colombia 2019 Industry 2009 204

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

I am sure that they have a great future in Nanhui as Chinese President Xi Jinping has just stated that “humankind should protect nature and preserve the environment like protecting our eyes in a bid to push for a new pattern of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.” ” ( source ). ” How unfair.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 178

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2019

Perhaps you like them enough to have supported legislation protecting wetlands in the United States and Canada. So, in many cases, their survival depends at least as much on the qualities of wetlands in Latin America. You may even have donated to organizations supporting wetland preservation there. appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Ducks Blackbirds United States Pelicans 115

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

The money is intended to create and protect national parks, areas around rivers and lakes, national forests, and national wildlife refuges from development, and to provide matching grants for state and local parks and recreation projects. References: 1 Land and Water Conservation Fund , 2 50 Years of Conserving America the Beautiful.

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Legislation Montana America Wyoming 172

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

And though the satellite transmitter let Machi be tracked it did not protect it from the hunters’ guns. This practice is a throwback to more than a century ago when gunners hunted shorebirds throughout the Americas. Conservation organizations continue to work toward some compromise that will reduce pressures on declining species.

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Hunters Barbados South Carolina Hunting 229

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

What are the best field guides for birds in North America? Grade: A. # # # Query: What are the best field guides for birds in North America? There are several highly regarded field guides for birds in North America that are widely recommended by birders and ornithologists. What is a “nemesis bird” in birding?

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United States North America Birds America 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The Pygmy Nuthatch ( Sitta pygmaea ) is a non-migratory bird that lives primarily in Ponderosa and Jeffrey Pine forests in western North America. They are one of the few cooperatively breeding passerines in North America and a third of the breeding pairs have 1–3 male helpers, usually progeny or other relatives.

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North America America California Collecting 165

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2017

This time the tome that three lucky readers will receive is Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America by Pete Dunne. The first and easiest way to win a copy of Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America is to subscribe to the 10,000 Birds email mailing list. How do you win one?

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North America Falcons Birds Eagles 157

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2014

The wood stork occurs and breeds in Central and South America. are considered a distinct population segment, which is protected by the ESA and the Migratory Bird Treaty act. Fish and Wildlife Service, I was involved in various aspects of the species habitat protection largely on the regulatory arena. However, birds in the U.S.

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North Carolina Bald Eagle South Carolina Florida 189

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Conservationists and nature lovers both in America and abroad may rightfully feel a sense of dread at the rumors of Sarah “Drill Baby Drill” Palin as our next Secretary of the Interior. With hope, that and many other of our worst nightmares will turn out to be mere figments of fear and pessimism.

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2016 Birds America Protection 124

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2021

I birded savannas of Southern Africa, I birded India and Central America, and I always missed having a local mammal guide with me. Yes, field guides to other groups of organisms, as there’s hardly any room left in your baggage or the energy to carry it. Yet, those bird guides are hefty.

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Madagascar Mammals Lemurs Seychelles 231

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2022

In Costa Rica, those would be the wood-warblers that do a lot more wintering in the southern USA and the Caribbean than in southern Central America. Established to protect a watershed and used for environmental education in the eastern Central Valley, Rio Loro has a few nice trails, picnic tables, and even has a small canopy tower (!).

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Costa Rica Nashville Tennessee Turtles 268

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2019

The first concern is the most important, the vital knowledge, because we can’t protect and preserve populations of migratory bird species if we don’t know where they stop to rest and refuel. With all of that bird movement going on, one can’t help but wonder where and how often they stop. What do they eat?

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Costa Rica Nicaragua Birds Panama 256

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

Wikipedia also has an interesting paragraph hinting at observation bias in ornithologists: “At the continental scale, saddle-billed storks preferred protected areas that have a higher extent of open water compared to areas without the storks. The benefit for the wasps is that they get to keep a beautiful pet.

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Ostriches Parrots Birds Eggs 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Every person has a responsibility to be part of the solution by doing something to protect and encourage the re-establishment of biodiversity. That every human on the planet ultimately depends on biodiversity and nature for stable weather and climate, food, water and fresh air; that is, life providing and supporting services.

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Wildlife North America Mammals Breeding 260

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Cuery y Salado Preserve protects a coastal mangrove system full of wildlife from monkeys to trogons. Tody Motmot is perhaps one of the most charismatic bird species in all of Central America, and Honduras is perhaps one of the best places to see it. Trips Central America cotinga Honduras Pico Bonito' Photo by James Adams.

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Honduras Monkeys Birds America 162

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2017

Though they weight less than two ounces, Least Terns migrate from South America to the West, East, and Gulf Coast to breed on dunes or flat gravel roofs (there are also populations in the middle of the United States). There is no mistaking a Least Tern: they were back! Are you going to be on a Least Tern-inhabited beach this summer?

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South America United States Protection Pelicans 102

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The Brown Pelican occurs in both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America and northern South America. They nearly disappeared from North America between the late 1950s and early 1970s because of pesticides entering the food chain. Pelicans are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

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Pelicans North America Peru Fish 157

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2015

It is possible that the birds feel so secure in the protection of the vicious, malicious plant that they can afford to reduce their flight distance and allow a close approach. Please note that this one is endorsed by the Profane Society of America.

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Phoenix Arizona Kittens Birds 171

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2019

Robin Restall is an acclaimed bird artist, whose works include the Helm’s Birds of Northern South America (2006). The majority of these illustrations were originally painted for the Birds of Northern South America (2006). I haven’t birded South America yet. Some illustrations are beautiful, others are decent.

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Ecuador South America 2006 Birds 142

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2021

As in North America this tattler loves the rockier outcrops down here in Australia too. Point Cartwright also protects a small remnant patch of coastal scrub and, more importantly, from a local birding perspective a small population of Fairy Gerygone. Obviously, the Wandering Tattler is, for us, strictly a summer visitor.

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Australia North America Cooking Fish 245

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

But one tree isn’t going to reverse the damage occuring in Latin America. I now protect the lots Huizaches, which shelter self-sown fruiting plants such as Granjenos and Prickly Pears. A few months ago, images made their way around social media here promoting the idea that each person plant one tree.

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ALA 2016 Free Range Livestock 183

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2016

Baltimore Orioles spend their winters in Florida, Central, and South America, and migrate north to breed in much of the Eastern United States. In 1882 the legislature passed special provisions to protect the bird, decades before the passage of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. .”

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Maryland Baltimore United States South America 102

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Rough-legged Hawks (or Buzzards ) don’t seem to generate much excitement here in northern North America. Their name, of course, comes from the fact that they grow a protective layer of feather down their legs for insulation. When suitably-sized branches for fixing the nest are scarce, they sometimes use caribou bones.

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North America Owls Protection Hunting 177

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The Andean Flamingo ( Phoenicopterus andinus ) is one of the three flamingos occurring in the high Andes of South America. The Andean Flamingo is now protected under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. It is the largest and easiest to identify in all age stages. It is also the rarest of the flamingos of living in the high Andean.

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Chile Endangered Species Eggs Argentina 154

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2019

One of the fastest growing cities in America, Austin is the capital of Texas and home of the University of Texas. One permanent result of the listing of the Golden-cheeked Warbler (and that of the Black-capped Vireo ) was the establishment of Balcones Canyonlands NWR , which now protects approximately 25,000 acres near Austin.

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Austin Texas Endangered Species Birds 164

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2018

Central America is much smaller than the land encompassed within the borders of Canada and the USA. Given such limited geographical dimensions, one might be tempted to assume that Central America is pretty much the same, that the region is fairly homogenous in a number of ways. The Rufous-collared Robin is one of those birds.

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Costa Rica Guatemala Birds Nicaragua 112