10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2019

Despite their foreign origin, introduced gamebirds in North America seem to enjoy a better reputation among birders than other nonnative birds. And because of the resemblance they bear to their New World cousins in the family Phasianidae , they even look the part of an “authentic” wild bird in North America.

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North America Vermont America Farming 113

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2012

There cannot be many ABA area breeding birds harder to get than those that only breed on the remotest tips of the north of North America and then fly off to places that aren’t on the major continental flyways. They do turn up on the coast of North America, but not often.

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North America Fiji Hawaii America 187

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

These are the largest nightjars in North America, significantly larger than Whip-poor-will or any of the nighthawks. They have long raptor-like wings that enable swift flight, large eyes for nocturnal hunting, bristles close to the bill to aid in prey capture and a mouth that truly defies description.

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Florida South America United States North America 247

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

Further down the road, we reach a derelict building with a large veranda hidden among the trees – an abandoned hunting lodge (if I were in a situation to invest, I would choose to upgrade this into a luxury wildlife lodge). Even in protected areas of north-east India, prey densities are very low. It is too early to show.

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Tigers Dogs India Snow Leopard 246

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2016

Partners in Flight estimates that the global breeding population is around 50 million; 30% of which can be found in North America and Canada. While hunting plays some role, habitat loss as farms switch to monocultures is the greater culprit.

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South Dakota Hawaii United States North America 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

” The Cinnamon Teal ( Anas cyanoptera ) is one of the least abundant dabbling ducks in North America. The availability and quality of wetlands and surrounding upland nesting habitats in the arid West may provide the most important limitation on North American populations 1. By 1985, approximately 3.2

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Sacramento Wildlife United States North America 178

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2020

The most recent report was issued in December 2019 and it used data from the 2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. million copies in print of all seven editions of the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America. Several sources state that there are 2.75

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2016 North America 2020 2019 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Rough-legged Hawks (or Buzzards ) don’t seem to generate much excitement here in northern North America. Let’s face it, they’d probably eat the nose right off Chuck Norris’s face.

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North America Owls Protection Hunting 185

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

But they don’t live in North America. I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. In North America, you’ve got Bears at the large end, Cats in the middle, and at the smaller end, the Mustilids. Unless we put them there. Have you ever seen the Dryfus Lion?

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 256

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAMWC) is often held up as the best system of wildlife management and conservation in the world. 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.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 247

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

” In North America it is more often called chasing, though the British usage is starting to catch on there, especially among younger birders 1. I make this statement with this addendum; I would not post the location of a species that could be targeted during hunting season. I have never really been a twitcher.

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California North America Wildlife 2016 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

I’m focusing on Turkey Vultures here because they are undoubtedly the species most birders in North America (the home of 10kB) are most familiar with, but the name vulture applies to birds found around the globe. Vulture Hunts Down and Ravages Sea Turtles – Dale Forbes, 10,000 Birds. Here’s the kicker though.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 190

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2015

It can’t have escaped your notice lately that the blog has been overrun with articles about North America’s pseudo-warblers (or wood warblers, as some people, apparently unaware the name is taken by a proper European species, call them), and, even worse, no small amount of poetry.

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Africa Feral Ethiopia Tanzania 175

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It is estimated that Snowy Owl populations in North America have declined by 52% since the 1960s (Berlanga et al. Snowy Owls are at risk of getting killed via collisions, incidental poisoning from rodenticides, and even illegal hunting (Stone et al. In The Birds of North America (P. 1999, Holt et al. Kerlinger, P.,

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Ethics Owls New York North America 154

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

He continues with images found in illuminated manuscripts such as Catherine of Cleves’s Book of Hours and Frederick II of Germany’s On the Art of Hunting With Birds. Egyptian tomb painting depicting duck hunting in the marshes, from the eBook version of Birds and Us, © 2022, Tim Birkhead and Princeton University Press.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 235

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

mile walk around the National Mall will be led by Cesar and Scooby, followed by an afternoon packed with Scooby-Doo-themed activities such as arts & crafts, a reading lounge, game tents, a scavenger hunt, and more! additional pack walks will take place nationwide September 23–30, with the help of the Animal League of North America.

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Family North America Abandon Abandoning 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

In North America we only have three regularly occurring ibis, the aforementioned White Ibis and the two species of the genus Plegadis , White-faced Ibis and the far reaching Glossy Ibis , a species we share with every continent save Antarctica making it one of the world’s most cosmopolitan bird species.

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Birds North America Charlotte New Jersey 224

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

Within its European range, it was heavily hunted until the late 19th century, and the Mute Swan was subsequently a very rare bird to encounter in the wild. Its natural range in Europe was restricted the the surroundings of the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, and in Asia it ranged from Asia Minor to central China.

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Feral Europe Asia North America 171

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 7, 2012

“ Untamed Americas ” is a high-definition miniseries event narrated by Academy Award-nominated actor Josh Brolin. In it we get to see some of the amazing places in the wild areas of North America, Central America and South America. Untamed Americas: Mountains. Premieres Sunday, June 10, 9 p.m.

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America Sheep Penguins South America 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2011

The Ruffed Grouse is a bird of the forests across much of North America, from Alaska and the mountains of the west through Canada, and in the east down through the Appalachians to Georgia. It is a beautiful bird and well worth taking examining closely if such a situation can somehow be arranged.

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Georgia North America Alaska Hunters 213

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2011

Though its population is declining everywhere that numbers are available, and seemingly precipitously in North America, it still has an extremely large population. The Short-eared Owl has an enormous range, occurring on every continent except for Australia and Antarctica.

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Owls New York City New York Rodents 145

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2012

The very excited response was that she had been banded as a fledgling in 1983, which made her, at 27 years and 9 months of age, the second oldest living wild Red-tailed hawk ever recovered in all of North America. She taught them how to hunt, and when they were released in the fall she stayed on her perch, dozing in the sun.

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Rabbits New Jersey Neglecting North America 249

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. Useful species were ones you could eat, or hunt, or preferably both, which is why New Zealand had several species of deer, the alpine goat-antelopes known as the Chamois and the Himalayan Tahr introduced.

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New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 162

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

I wonder if birders in North America before European colonization were eager to watch the colors of a singing male Indigo Bunting go from shaded black to shining sapphire blue? I love the challenge of “the hunt” and the satisfaction of the find but I also have the ones I want to see the most, my biggest targets if you will.

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Costa Rica Bald Eagle Eagles Birds 101

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Done properly, a young hawk is curtailed in a growing compulsion to fly greater distances and hunt for herself by a process sometimes called “manning.” ” Cade was later to comment, “1951 was when I first saw the high-flying style of hunting performed by the wilderness-inhabiting Peregrines of Alaska.”

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 191

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

BBC Nature has a really cool video of the Peregrine hunting a pigeon in a stoop. Although Peregrines are famous for hunting birds from above by stooping down on them, they use several other means of attaining prey and are most active at dawn and dusk. Don’t miss it! Peregrine Falcon from Sacramento NWR auto loop.

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Falcons Wildlife Sacramento Endangered Species 138

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

The first was Lewis Binford, who noted, correctly, that if you look at actual animal bones from actual archaeological sites, you could not objectively see clear evidence that would distinguish hunting from scavenging, and if you compared these “food remains” to hyena food remains, they looked roughly the same.

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Humane Lions Buffalo Hunting 165

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2015

Well-travelled birders will recognise Cattle Egrets following the steps of hippo or African Buffalo , and Black-crowned Night Herons , but more African species occur in the form of the massive Goliath Heron , the smaller Squacco Heron , and the highly distinctive Black Egret , famous for creating a canopy with its wings to hunt small fish.

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Botswana Birds Lesotho Elephants 162

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

If this was America, we might not be concerned because starlings are an invasive species, at least in North America. But in Iraq, and more exactly, Kurdistan and Iraqi Kurdistan, they are supposed to be there (and are regularly hunted and eaten) and the fighting is not supposed to be there. BBC has the story as a video.

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Science Iraq Research Birds 152

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2015

I reached the narrow strip of the riparian forest and the vast mudflats, saltflats and the lagoon of the old delta of the Kalamas River (due to the irrigation, the current Kalamas Delta is pushed further north). The first good bird was one Grey Plover (in North America a.k.a. Barn Swallows and Sand Martins (a.k.a.

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Greece Dogs Pelicans Fish 237

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

The 6 th edition of the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America , for example, includes “extinct” and “probably extinct” species in a chapter, mixed in with accidentals.) Other species are less known. The story of the Mamo is particularly poignant.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 270

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Larry starts us off right with an owl that makes birders drool: I was able to see and photograph many great birds in 2014 but my Best Bird of the Year would have to be the Great Gray Owl , the largest Strix in North America. Larry’s BBOTY – Great Gray Owl. Adam’s BBOTY – Lammergeier.

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 197

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. Analysis : Good summary.

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United States North America Birds America 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2012

So there I was with one of North America’s most famous birders, safely out of the rain, with a cold beer, my binoculars, and my camera. Well, for starters, a Snail Kite was hunting the marsh for snails: This kite was easily recognizable as an individual by virtue of the fact that it was missing a couple tail feathers.

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Honduras Birds 2009 North America 188

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2017

3) It is a sequel to Good Birders Don’t Wear White: 50 Tips From North America’s Top Birders , the popular 2007 collection of essays. Another surprise is the two pieces on hunting, an interesting change from the essays on bird feeding in volume one. White and Jeffrey A. Gordon, illustrated by Robert A.

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2017 Costa Rica 2007 Hunters 151

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Joining us for the day was Sheri Williamson, who literally wrote the book on hummingbirds in North America. The hunt was on in earnest. But there had been a few hanging around some of the hummingbird hotspots in the region, and it wasn’t out of the realm of possibility for us to come across one. The last missing piece.

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Arizona Wounded North America 2012 159

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The believability of this is underscored by the fact that the Pilgrims and their guides listed among their possession numerous “fowling pieces” … for hunting wild birds. They may have also had hunting dogs with them as well. Which would be weird.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 211