10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

The economic impact of refuge visitation is broad: Recreational visitors pay for recreation through entrance fees, lodging near the refuge, and purchases from local businesses for items to pursue their recreational experience. Parker River NWR (Massachusetts): 687,000; $17.2 Lee Metcalf NWR (Montana): 178,000; $4.5 million; 45.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

A robot that feeds baby birds so I can take a nap,” wrote Jodi in Massachusetts. “A A massage therapist for an hour every morning, then I wouldn’t be so bitchy,” wrote Jodi in Massachusetts. High Technology. Self-cleaning pens, never-empty feed buckets,” wrote Angel in South Carolina and Zoe in California. “A Personal Things. “A

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2020

And while Dogwoods and Eastern Redbuds may be great options in Massachusetts, they won’t grow for me in Morelia, Mexico. Every other year or so, we experience the lightest of frosts, nothing killing, and our warmest temperatures (in the 80s and 90s) occur in late spring.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Ian Davies lives in Manomet, Massachusetts, and is a recent graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a bachelor’s degree in Widlife Ecology and Conservation. Setsurigawa Bridge must be done at dawn, and is another amazing experience – over a hundred cranes partially enshrouded by mist rising off of the river at dawn.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Less and Gilroy sort through the exogenous (external) and endogenous (internal) factors thought to cause vagrancy and the scientific experiments that have sought to prove their significance with patience and plain language as well as charts and photographs. It’s not always easy reading.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Bird bloggers from Wisconsin to Massachusetts. ” Red-breasted Nuthatch at Jones Beach State Park, New York In December of last year Clare Kines wrote a post here on 10,000 Birds about the cause of the massive Snowy Owl irruption many birders were lucky enough to experience.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Hodge, of Worchester, Massachusetts, claimed in the fall of 1905 he was working in his garden when he looked up “and saw a flock of about thirty wild pigeons winging their way southward.” So touched by the experience that I cried, I’ve only seen one since, his body preserved in some formal likeness of what he once had been.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

I know from experience how accessible Dennis is, last year he helped me identify a damselfly I photographed in Costa Rica (Argia anceps, no common name). For Massachusetts, there is A Field Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Massachusetts, 2nd edition.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

My first visit, in the company of my Massachusetts-based birding buddy, Christopher Ciccone , was in the late morning of Saturday, 17 September, and we merely and metaphorically touched our toes to the deep waters of the Magee Marsh boardwalk.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

What year was the Red-footed Falcon seen in Massachusetts? The Comments sections are analyses of the species’ vagrancy pattern, the answer to pull out when someone asks you, “But, why is there a Fieldfare in Massachusetts?” The mystery of their presence makes finding one, chasing one, viewing one a unique experience.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2014

I’ve even paid a few calls to Massachusetts in the dead of winter for finches and owls. What an incredible experience. I’ve been fortunate enough to see a lot of the Lower 48. I’ve tackled Texas, collected in California, fooled around in Florida. But until this past month, I’d never been to Alaska.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

CBCs are different than your run of the mill winter birding experience, because you’re generally going to be spending much more time out in the field that you usually do, and in weather that you might not usually choose to bird in. The Superbowl of Birding in Massachusetts, while not a CBC, put our winter apparel to the test.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Nick Lund pretty much says it all when he writes, “Maine left Massachusetts in 1820 to become its own state and took the best of New England with it” (p. Its purpose, chief editor Mickey Long tells us, “is to provide useful information for birders of all skill and experience levels” (p.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

He has led birding tours, taught at Hog Island Audubon Camp, made presentations to many birding and ornithological associations, is a past president of the Wilson Ornithological Society, the Association of Field Ornithologists, and the Nuttall Ornithological Club, and is currently on the Council of the Massachusetts Audubon Society.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

He describes his experience in his introduction to Birds & Words : I took my first good look at birds as subject matter. He started experimenting with silk screening to produce most of his designs, including the images in Birds & Art. White article on bird feeding stations.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

This is like Sibley calling his bird guide “The Sibley guide to Birds of Massachusetts and North America” The latter sounds silly, right? This guide will prove invaluable to those who already take an interest in tracking and wish to gain more experience. So what is one to think of the former?

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Sadly, Gillette's experience is not unique. According to the Newsweek article "Breast on a Plane" just linked-to above, last year Victoria’s Secret would not allow women to breastfeed in their stores in Wisconsin and Massachusetts. How sick and twisted is that.

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DECEMBER 23, 2006

For example, the famous Framingham heart study has been tracking the daily living and eating habits of thousands of residents of Framingham, Massachusetts since 1948. Dr. William Castelli, director of the study for the last 20 years, maintains that based on his research the most heart healthy diet is a pure vegetarian diet.

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