10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

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. I’ve long advocated for a habitat stamp strickly for birders as some of us don’t want to be labeled as hunters.

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

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JUNE 21, 2012

Among the Efe (Pygmy) people that I lived with in the 1980s, the young men would in fact disappear from the bosom of their families and spend a lot of time, perhaps months, living on their own in the forest. We are seeing the beginnings of a mass extinction in birder’s resources and at the same time the rise of new species.

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Birds Collecting Rodents Wounded 169

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2011

At the very least you have to be informed and prepared. That’s a skill as much as recognizing vagrant peeps or putting a name to non-vocalizing Empids, and one under-rated by some would-be vagrant hunters. So kudos to Ali, and congrats to the state of North Carolina for species on our list. It can pay off in big ways.

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North Carolina Sparrows 2008 Hunters 154

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

It’s my fantasy and it’s yours: Quit the job, say good-bye to the family, and bird. And, to give his dream year a little more oomph, he created a grand once-in-a-lifetime goal: to track down and see every pitta species in the world in one year. Each chapter of The Jewel Hunter reads like a mini-travel novel. And mosquitos.

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Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 189

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2022

And learn that the Latin species name concinnus is more interesting than the English one – it means “elegant, neat, pleasing” (according to the HBW). These photos were taken in early March – the species looks more attractive in its summer breeding plumage. If this is what you want to read, go there. 0 out of 3.

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Birds Humane Family Germany 147

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JULY 6, 2021

If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. Hummingbird species, on the other hand, number in the hundreds. So, when British natural history writer Jon Dunn (not to be confused with U.S.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Both appear almost childishly simple on the surface, and reveal layers of surprising information on repeated viewings and readings. So, the Eastern Kingbird ”is one of the Tyrant Flycatchers, Tyrannidae –America’s largest bird family–365 different species.” The chapter also gives hope.

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Betty Crocker Birds 2008 2007 170

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

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. Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 241

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 240

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2015

Each year Hog Island offers programs, taught by a stellar staff of naturalists and artists, to groups of all kinds (teenagers, adults, families). We stopped on a nearby island for lunch, a hike, and an information-packed talk about the area’s geology from staff member Eric Snyder. There are over a million species of arthropods.

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Puffins Birds Groups West Virginia 249

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DECEMBER 1, 2015

Written by state experts, each book covers the 100 or so most common and notable birds of the state, offering compressed but specific information on identification, habitat, areas of the state where the bird is most likely to be found, and photographs by Brian E. I wish the American Birding Association’s Birders’ Guides had been around then.

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Papua New Guinea 2014 Penguins Birds 179

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Even if you don’t live in the summer range of a particular species, you may have opportunities to observe it while it passes through, especailly if you live in an active flyway, like I happen to. Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. The birds do the flying for you. Specifically, Itcher Tern. Image source.

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Research Humane Compassion New York 189

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Very little information was available at the time, so we hired a car and off we went, following the few tips we had managed to gather but mostly our noses. Blue-moustached Bee-eater is rainforest species occurring in just a few scattered sites in Ghana, it was previously considered a subspecies of Blue-headed Bee-eater.

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

Not a cover species The Black Kite is not actually black, but of course, misleading bird names are not exactly rare. No surprise then that the species is listed as Vulnerable. One interesting bit of information on these munias is that birds that inhabit areas with more mixed flocks sing simpler songs ( source ).

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Birds Iraq China Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Larger, denser with avian information than your typical field guide, a Crossley Guide bursts with bird images, photographic plates that verge on the surreal of birds in all plumages and poses against real-life habitats, informing, sometimes overwhelming us with visual and, if you can take your eyes off the images, textual information.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 116