10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2017

The resulting properties—WPAs—are small ponds, wetlands, and associated grasslands, primarily in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana, but also in Michigan, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Iowa. Mallards at Rainwater WMD in Nebraska (USFWS). But taken as a whole, WPAs total almost 3.8 million acres.

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Factory Ducks North Dakota Nebraska 117

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2015

But apparently Fred was not alone because over the last three years quite a few people from Michigan, Ontario, Indiana, Iowa, and Nebraska have chimed in to say that they too, grew up stamping robins and some mentioned passing it on to their children and grandchildren.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2012

It gives those Sandhill Cranes in Nebraska a run for their money. Yes, these are common birds, yes they sometimes eat eggs and baby birds (even woodpeckers do that) but it’s unbelievable to see that much bird mass in one spot.

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Minneapolis Nebraska Eating Eggs United States 162

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The petition relied on a genetic and ecological analysis by Dr. Robert Zink, a biologist at the University of Nebraska (the “ Zink study ”). More recently, a group of developers petitioned FWS to delist the gnatcatcher because the underlying science was allegedly flawed and the coastal gnatcatcher is not really a distinct subspecies.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

This week, a new study was published about Sparrows in Nebraska, that in some ways resembles the study by Bumpus and may well be a better example of Natural Selection in birds. The new study is about Cliff Swallows ( Petrochelidon pyrrhonota ) in southwestern Nebraska. As you know, a lot of birds are killed in the U.S.

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Killing South Africa Nebraska Collecting 193

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2019

My profile page identifies the states that I have not eBirded, including Nebraska, North Dakota, Michigan, Mississippi, and Vermont. I don’t think I have added any new species, but I did add Alaska, Kansas, and Oklahoma to the group state list. Ten years seems like a good time to look forward as well.

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Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Michigan Washington 145

Critter News

APRIL 24, 2012

Nationally, California ranks behind Texas, Kansas and Nebraska in total cattle numbers. The sale of cattle and calves was a $1.82-billion billion industry in California 2008 and fifth among the state’s top 20 commodities. Beef cattle are raised in nearly every California county.

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Cows California Meat Industry Nebraska 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Couple that with the fact that Greater Prairie Chickens are either holding on or in decline in all states except Nebraska and the national picture becomes clear. As he traveled the court circuit, he probably flushed hundreds each day from the roadsides. Today in Illinois, 68 males survive. This species is in trouble.

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Chickens Illinois Campaign Nebraska 204

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2015

Tyson looked forlorn and Samantha had moved to her Grandparents house in Nebraska, at least for now. Kelly and I went through everything I brought and rejected my one pair of 10x42s as too beat-up. So I had one pair to give. I gave Reegan my old pair of Bushnell Elite 8x40s. James is OK and his home is at least relatively intact.

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South Dakota Nebraska Missouri Killing 266

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2011

15,000 people flock to the Rowe Sanctuary in Kearney, Nebraska, each spring, from every state and 46 different countries. Gassett, 30,000 people come to one wildlife area in Indiana ( Jasper-Pulaski Wildlife Area) each year just to watch these big gray birds. That’s about a person for every crane: high ecotourism return, by any measure.

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Kentucky Hunting Tennessee Indiana 257

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2018

Funk WPA in Nebraska is one of the larger WPAs (nearly 1,200 acres) and it is an eBird hotspot. For example, Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs) are little-known but critically-important units of the Refuge System in the Prairie Pothole Region of the United States. WPAs support huge populations of waterfowl and other birds.

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Wildlife United States 2018 Nebraska 101

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

According to the study’s lead author, Mark Vrtiska of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, “You may think the fall in hunters would be good news for ducks, but ironically it is leading to less money for the conservation of their habitat.

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Ducks Hunters Hunting Wildlife 210

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

There are a number of trips on my bucket list, but here are three: Platte River, Nebraska. A direct flight from Portland is also a plus, as is seeing new parts of America. For me, it seems the birding location is as important as the birds. Nome, Alaska.

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San Francisco Portland United States Puerto Rico 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

About the Author Rick Rick Wright studied French, German, philosophy, and biology at the University of Nebraska. Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of May 2009? Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of July 2008? Following a detour to Harvard Law School, he took the Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1990.

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Cows Cattle 2011 Birds 141

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Finally a Feeder Watcher Recent Forest Park Birding Unpacking My 2009 Year List New Year, New Bird Exodus: The Migration of Saw-whet Owls in North America About the Author Rick Rick Wright studied French, German, philosophy, and biology at the University of Nebraska. at Princeton University in 1990.

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2011 Tucson Arizona Deer 140

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

The Rainwater Basin in Nebraska is one of the most significant waterfowl stopover areas on the continent. But people do visit Aransas NWR and those 84,000 visitors generate nearly $3 million in economic activity, creating 25 jobs. The report also includes other FWS lands, including the under-appreciated Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs).

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Wildlife Maryland San Francisco Minnesota 244

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2016

To be fair, he was slightly better positioned to do so, being a professor of biological sciences with the University of Nebraska. Johnsgard was actually doing something about it. My major complaint about this book, unfortunately, relates to the physical nature of the volume.

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North America America Nebraska Neglecting 122

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2013

After being nabbed in Nebraska and outfitted with a GPS collar in April of this year, Bird No. Not quite as fancy as the satellite tracker that Bird No. 112 got, this radio transmitter nevertheless tells scientists at the Missouri Department of Conservation where this Greater Prairie Chicken is. .

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Chickens Missouri Iowa Nebraska 190

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2018

On eBird profile pages, size matters: tiny Delaware is barely noticeable whereas Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri are conspicuous. Other states, such as North Dakota and Arkansas, were also gray, but those seemed less troublesome, since I have never visited either state. But that’s better than other parts of the country, such as the U.S.

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District of Columbia Puerto Rico Michigan Colorado 124

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Some states have no species at all, not even a pigeon, crow, or sparrow: Hawaii , Utah , Nebraska , Oklahoma , Minnesota , Iowa , Wisconsin , Kentucky , West Virginia , Mississippi , Alabama , Connecticut , and Rhode Island. Even the nation’s capital has been ignored.

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Rhode Island United States West Virginia Puerto Rico 114

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Though all are well-written, there are several that standout for excellence of the writing, challenge of topic, or stylistic daring.

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New York City Birds Owls Fox 184

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. From July 1 2008-June 30 2009 Ducks Unlimited raised 200.4

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 243

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2012

Government to set up several forts, including Fort Mitchell in western Nebraska. , Kestrel , Northern Harrier , Great Blue Heron , and Wild Turkey. Scotts Bluff National Monument, NE – During the War, Native American raids prompted the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Hint for your letter: Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has just returned from Nebraska’s Lillian Annette Rowe Sanctuary in Kearney, where he fell silent, entranced by the spectacle of tens of thousands of sandhill cranes rising from the braided shallows of the Platte. In the only state in the Central Flyway that protects cranes from hunting.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 241

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2022

As a popular game bird, the Ring-necked Pheasant seems to have such high importance in the US that there are several papers just discussing the species in individual US states. Examples: California. Connecticut. New Jersey. North Dakota. Rhode Island. South Dakota. Washington. Wisconsin. I particularly like this photo of a female at Nanhui.

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Rhode Island Research South Dakota North Dakota 147

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

However, 12 states, namely, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming and Wisconsin [Imagine, The Dairy State doesn't protect a woman's right to nurse!],

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Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America, Seventh Edition covers resident and migratory birds from the Atlantic coast west to a line that runs roughly along the 100th meridian (western border of Nunavit and Manitoba, down through the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, most of Oklahoma, and the eastern part of Texas).

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North America America 2020 Hawaii 224

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

If you’ve ever visited a crane blind in Nebraska in spring, you’re familiar with the jockeying for position in a dark blind, the heavy rules about not talking, not walking too loud, no flash photography.

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Hoarding Nebraska Minnesota 186

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2017

Please consider sending a public comment opposing the Keystone Pipeline to the Nebraska Public Service Commission, no later than 5pm Friday Central time via the Sierra Club. Note that approving the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines are a couple of the very first items on the list.

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North Korea Mountain Lions Legislation Nebraska 102