10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Trinidad Colorado is located just a few miles north of the Colorado – New Mexico border, and home to the Trinidad Reservoir. One morning, I woke up to see a White-breasted Nuthatch in the tree right behind our 5th wheel, but before I could get out there with my camera, it was gone, never to see seen in the next three days.

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Colorado Texas Trinidad Albuquerque 113

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2018

Chaco Cultural National Historic Park, a World Heritage Site in New Mexico, teeters back and forth with ongoing lawsuits. As we enter the second century of protecting, preserving, and respecting our wild spaces, certainly no one would actually consider undoing, reversing, and exploiting our national parks, forests, and monuments.

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Colorado Protection Bears ALA 166

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Birding trips to Florida , New Mexico , and Texas are obvious too. The places I expected ( Pillar Point Harbor in California and Ridgefield NWR in Washington) are right at the top of the list, but even places I thought I’d been to countless times have modest numbers. It continues to roll out new functionality.

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Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Michigan Washington 153

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2011

Nine thousand pour into tiny Socorro, New Mexico, each November for Bosque del Apache’s Festival of the Cranes. Everywhere cranes gather, from New Mexico to Indiana to Tennessee, people come to watch them. The big gray feather in Kentucky’s cap, to my thinking, is more like a big old hole, shot right through the crown.

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Kentucky Hunting Tennessee Indiana 258

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2012

The southwestern US is still undiscovered country for me – barring one trip to San Diego and a handfull of layovers in Las Vegas, I’ve never been – and I had imagined a Grace’s Warbler darting out of a treetop in Nevada or New Mexico to add a flash of color to my first real exploration of the region.

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Las Vegas San Diego New Mexico Nevada 161

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

The Barn Swallow at right was rescued by Rebecca Dmytryk of Wildlife Emergency Services in Moss Landing, California, and transferred to Native Songbird Care and Conservation in Sebastopol. What a coincidence,” says Mikal Deese of On A WIng and A Prayer in New Mexico. “I He died five months later, before I could let him go.”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Mice Rodents Rescue 279

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

So right from the beginning, none of this makes any sense. That’s why I can’t take owls to a lot of my education programs out here in New Mexico.”. You simply feel relieved to have your baby back. So it goes with birds, with one additional point: except for pigeons and vultures, birds have almost no sense of smell.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Porcupines Raccoons Birds 185

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2011

We spent almost 4 months crossing the USA and had an amazing time, although it was not the right time of year for Wood-Warblers. We did however see a Yellow-rumped Warbler at Elephant Butte Lake, New Mexico on 16th November 1989 and a Townsend’s Warbler at Big Sur, California on 3rd December 1989.

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South Africa United States Austin Alligators 159

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2012

We left Boonville on Route 12D heading north and finally reached our destination, a mauve house on the right side of the road in Locust Grove,** at 9:40 AM. The ornithologist and author of Birds of New Mexico , Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey , was born there in 1863. ……… a.

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New York New York City New Mexico Mexico 185

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2017

That can take years, particularly in Texas, where property rights are deemed sacrosanct. After all, there are more than 600 miles of border fencing, walls, and other barriers in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, and there has been plenty of time to assess the effectiveness of barriers.

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Texas United States Mexico Campaign 189

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The section on shooting birds in snow, for example, covers how to expose for snow (to the right), the consequences of different shutter speeds (fast shutter speed to show individual snowflakes or slow shutter speed to show streaks?), Each illustration (and, there are many) is captioned with equipment used and camera settings.

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Birds Ethics 2019 Experience 199

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

His parents moved where opportunity beckoned, taking him from San Angelo, Texas, to Columbus, New Mexico, then to Dallas, and finally on to California. He had stalked the nest for days, waiting for just the right time when she would be on the verge of fledging, then took her into his care.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 190

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

Johnson is not a birder or a naturalist; he was fly fishing to get his mind off the stress of working on the List Project, an advocacy organization he founded to aid Iraqis who had helped the U.S. government (Johnson had worked in Iraq for USAID, where he learned about his friends and colleagues problems first-hand).

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Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 105

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2019

This year the big prize must go to Tom who has pushed himself, right to the wire to acheive a magnificent score for a self-funded, wife-organised, wife-sponsored Little Big Year , accounting for 57% of the total. Elephant Butte Dam area, New Mexico. Hwy 469, near Tucumcari New Mexico. 11 Apr 2018. 01 Jan 2018.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113