10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2024

In our early birding days, Erik and I had one of our most hilarious bird-related fights while looking at a flotilla of ducks in Mission Bay yelling at each other about field marks before realizing we were looking at two different ducks. We regularly find Snowy Egrets , scope out Brant , and shorebirds.

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San Diego Sea Lions Lions Birds 199

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2016

As a birder, this 72 minute documentary film about the Duck Stamp Contest didn’t accomplish what I was hoping it might – get people excited about the Duck Stamp, or at least wildlife conservation. The film follows several contestants on their journey to win what is described as the “Olympics of Wildlife Art.”

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

There were plenty of birds on the water to keep me entertained, with close to 60 Greylag geese, 50 Canada Geese, 80 Wigeon, 250 Coots, plus a good assortment of Tufted Ducks, Gadwall, Shoveler and Mallard. One count I undertake every year is the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust’s Big Farmland Bird Count.

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Ireland Turtles Geese Farming 217

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2016

Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. Raising and lowering its head, like stretching. Actually, when I started to bird, my second ever duck, after the Mallard, was a Ruddy Shelduck! The closer one raises her head, than lies back.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2016

In 2015 a Federal Duck Stamp Task Force was convened under the auspices of the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) consisting of seventeen individuals. b) Recommendation : Work with all groups to identify synergistic opportunities for promoting broad conservation benefits of the Duck Stamp. 1) Action : U.S.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2024

Being a westerner — raised in California, and now living in western Mexico — I was perhaps most excited about the migratory birds that breed in eastern North America. Like the previous park, there were no ducks, coots, or grebes to be seen. Then, around 4:00 p.m., Which is rather freeing, don’t you think?

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Mexico Birds Raccoons Baltimore 193

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2021

There was a panel discussion too, where I gave the opening lecture on Reva’s wildlife and the value of this area for the polluted city with 2M people. A photo exhibition “Birds buried alive” was open at the dumping site itself, giving visitors a reason to walk over the rubble and see the size of the devastation.

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Otters Protest Protesting Protesters 261

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Normally wildlife rehabilitators do not go around wearing birds on purpose. Swifts and swallows are notoriously hard to raise and/or rehabilitate, so rehabbers who don’t specialize in them tend to lose their heads when they’re successful. said Leslie, who successfully raised five of them last summer. Now it’s birds AS bling.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Wildlife Raised 225

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

If it is an emergency and since I get calls and texts from all over the country (even a few out of the country), I direct people to Rehabber Search or Wildlife Rehabber. If you cannot find the nest or it’s too destroyed, do not try and raise a chick this young. Never raise a wild goose or duckling yourself.

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Birds Fox Raised Ducks 265

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

I spent a few hours in the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge blind #1 last weekend and filmed the following video of Gadwalls ( Anus strepera ) engaged in courtship displays. These pairs of ducks are obviously strengthening their pair bonds at this point. Almost always followed by Down-Up Display. Down-Up Display.

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Sacramento Raised North America Ducks 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

The haunting call of the West Indian Whistling Duck has long been a sound synonymous with the ever-shrinking wetlands of the Caribbean. The whistling duck call carries with it the crimes of big business, the failures of governments and the ignorance of irresponsible hunters. They are also the rarest. Until recently.

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Antigua and Barbuda Puerto Rico Dominican Republic Jamaica 220

10,000 Birds

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. This raises the question of whether or not drones can cause serious harm to birds. Even drone retailers and manufacturers are getting in on the game.

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Birds Protection Idaho Bears 182

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This refuge came up as #4 on a recent list of the top 25 National Wildlife Refuges that were featured in a great story here by 10000 Birds own Jason Crotty. While most major estuaries in Washington state have been filled, dredged, or developed, Nisqually River’s has been set aside for wildlife.

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Fox Washington Geese Sparrows 125

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Fish and Wildlife Service. On the short list of wins for wildlife during the Bush II era, Short-tailed Albatross were officially listed as Endangered in 2000. But within a couple of decades, it’s effects on both wildlife and humanity became apparent. A curious Laysan Duck takes a stroll at Midway Atoll.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 203

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

It’s just that when summer is over and most wildlife rehabilitators are fried, this is the kind of thing that will make most of us fall to our knees, choking with laughter, tears spurting from our eyes. That’s what we call it when you try to get a hold of wildlife that the idiot in possession thinks they can take care of better than you.”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Turtles Turkey Wildlife 213

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Fish and Wildlife Service desperately needs your feedback as they craft a new vision for our National Wildlife Refuge System. The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond.

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Fish and Wildlife Service tells states when they may propose a hunting season on cranes, and has ultimate jurisdiction over whether the states get their seasons. So we can squawk at the state wildlife departments all we want, but the USFWS has the final say. Now, it’s time to go to the top. Street, N.W. Mail Stop 7060 Washington, D.C.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 242

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. Hunting is on a steady downturn, and nonconsumptive wildlife pursuits are on a tremendous upswing. We can fight them back in Kentucky, too.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 245

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

The wildlife steward boasts 8 pairs of Common Kingfishers along this stretch as the stream diverts through small wildfowl ponds. These ponds and the larger Cedar Lake and collection pond hold Tufted Duck , Greylag Goose and Eurasian Moorhen. A few other remnants of the former collections might raise eyebrows in some circles.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2013

So if you come to Spring Wings, and you’d be well served if you do, get ready to see lots and lots of shorebirds and ducks and waders. Our guide, former wildlife refuge manager Mike Goddard, pointed out a pair of Cinnamon Teal in flagrante delicto. Yellow-headed Blackbirds singing in the reeds allowed us to get an arm’s length away.

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Nevada Birds Barn Owls Cows 170

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

While photographing the Brown Bears in the Russian Far East, a friend of mine, Jovan “Lucky” Lakatos, was with Michio Hoshino, Japanese-born nature photographer specialized in Alaskan wildlife and experienced in how to behave facing this apex predator. Mallard duck, Anas platyrhynchos. Hawaiian honeycreeper (or amakihi), Loxops virens.

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Animal Bears Stray Dog Blackbirds 115

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2012

Ferret 492 — a black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes — raises her head from a black-tailed prairie dog’s burrow, sniffs the April night. The ferret raises her head again — up periscope — and hesitates. She looks at us, then ducks down, then back up, as we draw closer. Russell National Wildlife Refuge.

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Ferrets Prairie Dogs Coyotes Kittens 169

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

Mandarin Duck, Central Park, NYS. It is very possible that Mike and Corey will penalize me for including the Mandarin Duck–also known as the “Hot Duck,” “Mandy” only to tourists and the Gothamist–in this list, but its celebrity cannot be ignored. Everybody wants to know about the Hot Duck. ” [[link].

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2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 155

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

It was decreed a national symbol of Honduras on 28 June 1993 by the National Congress of Honduras as a way to raise awareness of the varied avifauna of Honduras. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. Their plumage is simply amazing and the colors are astounding.

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Honduras 2011 Deer Birds 151

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

Very few kids just take to birding like ducks to water (terrible pun I know!). Publications like Ranger Rick and National Geographic Kids can also satisfy their curiosity through their kid-friendly articles on birds and wildlife. This book explains how we are all at risk of raising kids with nature deficit disorder.

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Birds Game Wildlife Family 278

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

It was therefore an absolute thrill when I heard the news that biologists from The Peregrine Fund, whilst surveying for endangered Madagascar Harriers in November 2006, had discovered a small population of these diving ducks at a very remote crater lake 330km north of Lake Aloatra!

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Madagascar Lemurs 2006 Owls 237

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Alkborough Flats were only formed in 2006 when the River Humber burst its banks and flooded 450 hectares of farmland and it is now a haven for wildlife. Bird hides have been built and two small car-parks and one of these has wheelchair access to the trails. Alkborough Flats sign at top car-park.

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Geese Australia 2006 Investigation 140

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

I am really excited to say I’ll be heading down to Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival in Titusville, Florida, next month as a correspondent for 10,000 Birds. I raised my binoculars, confirmed the ID, and the bird bolted. Corey let the cat out of the bag a couple days ago. It won’t be my first trip to Florida.

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Florida North Carolina Miami Family 130

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

First published in November of 1843 the tale of a baby swan, or cygnet, being raised among ducks strikes a chord with many people, but in Denmark the works of Hans Christian Andersen bring feelings of national pride. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity.

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Denmark 2011 Honduras Deer 163

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2019

He raised his binoculars above his head and cried out with courage and clarity, “I am Sparticus!” Blue-billed Duck – Oxyura australis. Musk Duck – Biziura lobata. Falcated Duck – Mareca falcata. Yellow-billed Duck – Anas undulata. Tufted Duck – Aythya fuligula.

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2019 Farming Sparrows Charlotte 139

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2013

The book sparked constructive conversations about what is a field guide and the efficacy of drawings versus photographs in a bird guide and just how far does one tweak a wildlife photograph for publication. Don’t forget, Richard Crossley was born and raised in Yorkshire, England! or birds usually seen in flight (Raptors!).

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Ireland 2013 Breeders Ducks 171

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

I discovered very much by accident that questions have been raised by British birders about the accuracy of some of the book’s photographs; this is the to-do at Birdfair I referred to in the beginning of the review. I wish they had provided more background on how this guide came about and what each of their contributions was.

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 143