Massachusetts VMA – October 28, 2023
AVMA News
DECEMBER 13, 2023
The Massachusetts VMA (MVMA) held a celebration to honor the recipients of its Distinguished Service and Merit awards on October 28, 2023, in Cape Cod.
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Eurasian Hobby in Massachusetts
10,000 Birds
MAY 18, 2011
The second-ever record of Eurasian Hobby for lower 48 states has been spotted and photographed by Ian Davies in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It was viewed from his yard. Now that is a yard bird that any American birder would kill for! Congratulations, Ian!
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Greyhound Racing Officially Ends in Massachusetts
Animal Person
DECEMBER 30, 2009
Thanks to Grey2kUSA and the voters of Massachusetts who put an end to live greyhound racing in the Bay State as of last Saturday night! Here 's more on how it all happened and why this particular situation was unique (i.e., the ban happened while the industry was still operating).
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Birding Under the Influence: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
A bicycling big year, which started out as a cool, interesting idea after Dorian biked eight miles to see two Northern Lapwings in Nantucket, Massachusetts, becomes an out-of-the-box way to re-orient his mind and find new direction.
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Not sure if this is an animal… but anyone know what type of spider this is?
Reddit Animals
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
Found in Eastern Massachusetts. It’s a bit bigger than a quarter. submitted by /u/BafflingBinturong [link] [comments]
Need Help Identifying this Animal from Massachusetts?
Reddit Animals
JUNE 13, 2021
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General Interest Podcast Episodes for Birders
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2022
Throughout their journeys these long-distance travelers rely on well-stocked pit-stops, like Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord, Massachusetts. .): Springtime Birding with David Sibley (“A great migration is underway in the northern hemisphere, as migratory birds head north to start a family.
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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds
10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2021
“A lady put American Robin nestlings in a small Tupperware container and put the lid on,” said Jodi Swenson in Massachusetts. Thankfully the bird was alive, but he needed a lot of Dawn soap baths.” “ Herring Gull in a bait bin,” added Jodi Swenson in Massachusetts. Here’s a sad example of where logic failed.
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Black Vulture kills squirrel and eviscerates it in Massachusetts
Reddit Animals
APRIL 16, 2021
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Ending 2021 with the Steller’s Sea Eagle
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2022
I knew it had been recently seen in Massachusetts, but now I had a chance to see it for myself, on the very last day of 2021. If you are plugged into the birding community, you’ve probably seen photos of this errant eagle, normally found in Russia and Asia but now be-bopping around the United States and Canada.
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Marchesi Biscardo – Corvina della Provincia di Verona (2017)
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2021
With the risk of infection declining in the summer months, I headed over the border to Massachusetts for a day at the Berkshire Botanical Garden. All this was still on my mind when I finally ventured out of New York State for the very first time during the pandemic last Fourth of July.
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The Best Birding Locations in the United States (according to ChatGPT)
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2023
I am a westerner, so perhaps it is a glorious hotspot, but I’ve never heard Cape Ann, Massachusetts referred to as a world-class birding location. Initially, Point Pelee National Park appears to be in Ontario, Canada (not Ohio), which makes it wrong, as well as excluded by the query itself.
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Regarding Snow Leopards
Reddit Animals
OCTOBER 28, 2023
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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of July 2018?
10,000 Birds
JULY 26, 2018
Maybe I’ll be able to add something new to my Massachusetts list. So if the birding by you has been uninspiring, just wait. A change is on the horizon. I’ll be in Boston for part of this weekend. Wish him luck as he endeavors to rectify these insults.
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10,000 Birds goes eBirding – Part II
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2021
There are several states with 100-199 species: North Carolina (172, unchanged), Washington (171, up from 144), Michigan (159, unchanged), Virginia (147, up from 122), North Dakota (141, unchanged), Idaho (129, up from 57); New Mexico (112, unchanged); Massachusetts (110, up from 81); Colorado (106, unchanged), and Pennsylvania (109, up from 102).
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What is Wrong with People?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 3, 2011
In Dartmouth, Massachusetts an Osprey was recently found with a gunshot wound that proved fatal and in Santa Clara, California some sick person has taken to shooting Mallards with darts from a blowgun. What is wrong with people?
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Montezuma Winery: Carbonated Rhubarb Wine
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2021
So far, the closest Roseate Spoonbill to me in Albany, New York has been a bird discovered in the last week just over the border in western Massachusetts – but I don’t really care about my list in that commonwealth enough to cross the state line, even if it is for a spoonbill.
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263 “Birds of Passage” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2012
Longfellow was born in Maine, then a part of Massachusetts, in 1807. He outlived two wives and upon his death was buried next to both of them in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He attended Bowdoin College, traveled extensively in Europe, and later returned to Bowdoin to teach before he moved on to Harvard.
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Tales of the 2012 Superbowl of Birding
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
You can read about it in The Eyrie , Birding North Central Massachusetts…and beyond , and the Maine Outdoor Journal. Though no one from 10,000 Birds participated in this year’s Superbowl of Birding IX and the Bloggerhead Kingbirds did not field a team that doesn’t mean that you can’t read about what happened this year.
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What’s up with this deer? It’s almost completely white which I’ve never seen before, sorry the quality is so bad. Massachusetts
Reddit Animals
MARCH 21, 2023
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Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of New England: A Field Guide Review by an Aspiring Naturalist
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2012
It was Massachusetts Representative John Weeks who sponsored and fought for the 1911 Weeks Act, which authorized the use of federal funds for the purchase of forest lands for conservation. I had the pleasure of briefly meeting Kenn Kaufman several years ago at the Hampshire Bird Club, located, appropriately, in Massachusetts.
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Quoth the Ravens: We’re Ready for Our Close-up
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2014
Now you can add another one to the list: the Ravencam, in the unlikeliest of places—the campus of Wellesley College , just outside of Boston, Massachusetts. There are hawk cams , falcon cams , puffin cams , tern cams , heron cams , and even Osprey cams. Common Ravens tend to avoid nesting around lots of humans.
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The Predominately Western, Golden-crowned Sparrow
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 16, 2013
Even though it doesn’t show on the NatureServe range map above, Golden-crowned Sparrow vagrants have been recorded eastward to Ontario and Nova Scotia, Michigan, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey; also south to Alabama, Texas, Louisiana and Florida 1.
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Backyard Birdfeeder Bragging Rights, a Great Adventure for a Great Twitch, and More: This Week in Birding News
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
This lucky youngster from Massachusetts has almost 300 ticks, but just added his favorite— a Great Gray Owl his supportive family drove hundreds of miles to glimpse. That’s the subject of a study focusing on California’s agriculture-rich Central Valley. How big was your life list when you were nine years old?
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Sand Trap: Netting Red Knots for Science
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
That’s just what researchers on Cape Cod in Massachusetts are using–a cannon-fired net. What if, however, you want to nab a group of shorebirds that will scurry or take flight at the merest approach? To paraphrase Roy Scheider , you’re gonna need a bigger net. Their goal?
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Skittles’ Surgery GoFundMe
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 4, 2014
Any funds that are raised in excess of Skittles’ medical bills will be donated to Cape Ann Animal Aid, a no-kill animal shelter in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Now, she hopes to reach more animal lovers to help fundraise the remaining amount. If you have some extra money and would like to help Skittles please click here.
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Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for Birding
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 30, 2018
Parker River NWR (Massachusetts). Klamath Basin NWR Complex (California and Oregon). Laguna Atascosa NWR (Texas). Lee Metcalf NWR (Montana). Malheur NWR (Oregon). Minnesota Valley NWR (Minnesota). Ottawa NWR (Ohio). Pea Island NWR (North Carolina). Quivira NWR (Kansas). Santa Ana NWR (Texas). Marks NWR (Florida).
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2014
But parts of Fire Island are nesting habitats for the threatened Piping Plover (like the one above that I photographed, albeit in Massachusetts).
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Birding Hokkaido
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. Corey first met Ian five years ago when he showed Corey three lifers in the span of half-an-hour.
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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List
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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Lamplighter Brewing Company: Birds of a Feather
10,000 Birds
MAY 31, 2019
Actually, I would be happier if I could identify the two birds depicted on the can of this week’s beer – Birds of a Feather by Lamplighter Brewing Company of Cambridge, Massachusetts. I have no idea what they are. Yes, I even took a photo of the can and tried getting Merlin to ID it – nothing).
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 30, 2015
After Nadeem attends the NWRA conference in Princeton, NJ, he will go to Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research in Delaware; The Wildlife Center of Virginia ; New Jersey’s Mercer County Wildlife Center ; and The Cape Wildlife Center in Massachusetts. What’s left? The indiegogo campaign needs donations. .
Say Hello to Our New Nature News Beat Writer!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2013
When Meredith was a little girl in the New York suburbs, her dad praised her “eagle eyes,” but she didn’t see her first eagle until decades later along the Hudson River.
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Animal Person
MAY 27, 2009
You may recall that Massachusetts voters let their opinions about dog racing be heard when they voted to ban racing in their state. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Greyhound Matters Florida Gambling Greyhound Racing Massachusetts Michael J. Here are a couple recent bits of good news. Mooney Rhode Island.
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What is the State Bird of Rhode Island?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 16, 2016
Originating in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, these birds are known to be good choices for people with small flocks. Schilling , the premier American poultry artist. I didn’t know we had leading poultry artists! To be sure, it’s a nice chicken. ” Best of all, they lay between 150 and 200 eggs per year.
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Best & Worst States for Animal Protection
Critter News
JANUARY 3, 2011
New Jersey Illinois Massachusetts Colorado Maine WORST STATES Ohio Hawaii Alabama North Dakota Mississippi Idaho South Dakota (worst) According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the states fell this way. According to this Technorati article , the Humane Society rated the states on their animal protection laws.
Teaching Ornithology in High Schools
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
The gap is in high school, though there are a few teaching in high school, including Steve Maguire in Massachusetts. And, of course, many colleges and universities have undergraduate and graduate level ornithology courses. Examples here , here , and here.) I checked in with Manker three years after his article for an update.
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264 Wildlife Rehabilitators vs. Bird Thieves
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 14, 2014
Jodi Swenson of Massachusett’s Cape Ann Wild Bird Rescue released a crow named Odin, who occasionally still appears at her open window. Many rehabbers raise several crows together and release them on site. The crows are not friendly to humans, although they sometimes make an exception for the person who raised them.
What is the State Bird of Maine?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2015
As it is a common sight throughout New England, it is no surprise that this chickadee species is also the state bird of Massachusetts. This little songbird has a range that extends across the United States and Canada, and is a ubiquitous backyard feeder visitor. Tom Brown, Jr.,
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Animal Rescue Month
4 The Love Of Animals
AUGUST 13, 2010
Volunteers will earn double points for time spent on animal rescue-related activities, which they can redeem for rewards from the site’s retail partners, such as Especially for Pets, a seven store Massachusetts pet food and supply company.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 5, 2013
The Stokes checked out some Snowy Owls in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Another inventive post, or, rather, series of posts, is the Tumblr of pictures of things that are NOT Snowy Owls. At the Nemesis Bird Tim Shrekengost featured Snowy Owls digiscoped with his iPhone 5.
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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
He’s also Professor Emeritus of Biology at Wheaton College, Massachusetts. I don’t have a copy of the 2006 edition, but I was able to read selected pages via Google Books. This new edition accomplishes two things: It updates taxonomy, distribution, and conservation challenges, and it adds illustrations, lots of illustrations.
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Shutting Your Trap
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 20, 2013
The states which have essentially banned leghold traps are Florida, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts, California, and Washington. The trapper, who was not a local, ended up in court, had to pay a fine, and (we were eventually told) was not planning to trap in the area in the future.
Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2019
But in the fall (with plumage as in the photo on the left, above) they take an entirely different, and heroic, route, first to Massachusetts and then, after a rest, south over the Atlantic Ocean. The blackpoll, “a bird with a body just a little larger than your thumb,” doesn’t stop until South America.
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