10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

The legislature named the grouse the state bird in 1931 , and as it is a game bird it is legal to hunt them in the fall and winter seasons. Though Pennsylvania is in the southern part of their range, grouse can digest twigs and buds , allowing them to survive winters in the northern United States and throughout Canada.

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Pennsylvania Legislature United States Hunting 159

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2015

I just flew nonstop from Canada to South America and boy, are my arms tired.” It’s not quite Tippi Hedren–worthy, but birds swarming your living room is probably fair game for some NSFW language. Help them rack up 4,000 species in 24 hours on eBird!). Even more thought-provoking is the original article from which it sprang.)

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Malta Barn Owls Cyprus Fowl 187

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2019

Unlike several other gamebird species commonly raised and released for hunting in North America, the Northern Bobwhite ( Collinus virginianus ) is, of course, a native of the continent, though its natural range lies mostly in the southeastern quarter of the continent, and south into Mexico and the Caribbean. What’s in a name?

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North America Vermont America Farming 113

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

we learn) that are home to coveted boreal species, breeding wood-warblers, and two species of Grouse. A statue now memorializes the Great Black Hawk at its favorite place, Deering Oaks Park, but the Steller’s Sea-Eagle is alive and roaming and has intermittently been spotted in Canada, it may return to Maine soon.)

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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 205

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2018

Upon returning, she raved about her new favorite species: the Clark’s Nutcracker. Clark’s Nutcrackers are larger than robins but smaller than crows, found in western states and into Canada. ” At this point he tired of my game, “Erika, I’m trying not to drive off a cliff.” ” “No.”

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Montana 2017 Fish Game 101

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Hunting sandhill cranes in Kentucky is a bad idea from a public relations standpoint, considering the growing cadre of birders and nature enthusiasts for whom cranes are a touchstone species. Sandhill Hunt: They’re Voting Now Sandhill Cranes: Game Birds?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 252

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

A Field Guide to the Birds: Giving Field Marks of All Species Found in Eastern North America was published in 1934 by Houghton Mifflin (note–Peterson was 26 years old), after being rejected by four publishers. Adding the 76 new species in the Hawaii section, this makes coverage of approximately 884 species.

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North America America Hawaii Birds 218

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Developed in the post-frontier era, the NAMWC helped put a stop to wanton wildlife destruction in an era where many species were being hunted and trapped ruthlessly to the brink of extinction. Wilderness Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Air and Water Acts, and similar acts in Canada.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 245

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The inscrutable species frustrated me and I found myself especially stumped by the difficulty I had distinguishing them, and wildly mystified by the excitement they inspired in my fellow-birders. Watching the birds in action felt like playing a video game, where your field of vision is constantly pelted by flying objects.

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Puffins Whales Whaling Bald Eagle 181

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2014

” Well, one next-thing is The Warbler Guide App, a mobile computer application that has taken the rich content of a groundbreaking print identification guide and re-conceptualized it into a new product that is convenient and educational and more fun to use than any bestselling computer game. This is all in the app as well.

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United States Species Philadelphia Tennessee 252

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In talking to the local guides, and Rangers, they all agreed that they had not been seeing too many species around in the last couple of weeks. Of course, there were plenty of big game around, and so I will post a few of those shots at the end of this posting. Little Big Year species – 888. eBird submissions – 292.

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Wyoming Wolves Grizzly Bear Mountain Goats 106

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

The core of the book are the Species Accounts, 190 accounts by 52 authors, some names that readers will easily recognize, others birders and ornithologists well-known in Pennsylvania. You can see the Species Account for Henslow’s Sparrow above, in the banner photo. The second page is the map page. Brauning and Andrew M.

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 236

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JUNE 24, 2012

He told me where he’d found them, and we hung up and I went back to my card game. In the last couple of weeks I’ve seen over 20 new species. I added six species to my year list, including a first (for me) observation of Sanderlings in Nunavut and in breeding colours. Things happen quickly up here.

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Bald Eagle Breeding Raised Whales 172

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

A large portion of North American birders are relatively new to the game, with less than ten years under their belts. Not only is it a very impressive citizen science project that manages to marshal the legions of birders around Canada and the U.S., Hello my birding sons and daughters. Consequently, we now live in an age of splitting.

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San Diego California Condor California Bald Eagle 172

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

. “Invasive&# is an ugly word, and ugly consequences have come from many of the explosive range expansions we’re most familiar with, whether of exotic species or even of native species with their normal restraints removed. Or, to be perfectly honest, playing games on Facebook, but let’s not talk about that.

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