10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2014

Scientists at the University of Missouri report that most deaths of young birds happen in the first few weeks after fledging. (Another article outside the scope of Bird Week is here.).

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New York Times New York Oakland Geese 208

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Below is the blog post as it originally ran: It’s not every day that you get a call from Jeff Gordon, president of the American Birding Association , asking if you will reach out to a reporter who has contacted him about a story on the Snowy Owl killings happening at JFK Airport. 1 Commerce Plaza. 99 Washington Ave.

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Owls Killing New Jersey New York 248

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The use of wind turbines, often deployed on large scale in “wind farms,” has many benefits–wind power is a renewable resource with minimal impact on the environment. It’s worth noting that these numbers are self-reported, so researchers assume that actual death totals are higher. Except for birds, that is.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Industry United States 224

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2014

This is an excerpt from that report: “Because much native nesting habitat has been converted to agriculture and stored grains provide an essentially limitless food resource, tricolors have since the 1980s nested in large numbers in association with dairies. See Birdchick’s post here.

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Blackbirds California 2014 2013 191

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2014

I suspect that I was the last person in the UK to get the waxwing tick after missing 2 good irruption years, but eventually my incompetence paid off when a flock was reported in a small village close to my home. Seldom does a bird live up to its billing as well as this one.

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Europe Breeding Species Birds 158

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2013

Back in 2008, the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) wrote a report titled “ Danger in the Nursery: Impact on Birds of Tar Sands Oil Development in Canada’s Boreal Forest ” which covers various ways tar sand development affects bird populations including: Habitat loss. National Resources Defense Council.

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Obama 2008 United States Industry 256

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2012

I’ve long been a convert to the iPhone as a superb tool for birding, variously using it in the field to report news via phone, text, email, access news via the fantastic birdguides UK news app , occasionally browse through the Northern European Field Guide from the same stable, as well as take the odd iPhonescope image as a record shot.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

And more than 200 n on-profits support individual refuges with additional private resources. At best, most Americans are only vaguely aware of the Refuge System—some of the reporting about Malheur NWR called it a “ federal bird sanctuary.”. This is a mission that all birders can surely support. million hours of their time.

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Wildlife Grizzly Bear Puerto Rico United States 189

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

Though they face stiff competition from birds like House Wrens , to say nothing of each other, they are not without resources. In fact, they can be surprising in their subtlety: “One report documented a pair of Violet-greens assisting a pair of Western Bluebirds in raising young.

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Montana Woodpeckers Eggs Raised 159

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

1) Rare bird reporting has come a long way. I saw the bird the next day, where it was reported to other birders via text messages, cellular phone calls, and more listserv messages. Smartphones and a plethora of mobile apps assist us with field identifications, using playback (for good or ill) and on-the-spot reporting.

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San Diego California Condor California Bald Eagle 175

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

August 2, 2010 Officials finally estimate the number of barrels that leaked into the Gulf at 62,000 barrels a day, more than sixty times higher than what was initially reported. August 25, 2011 Scientists report that oil surfacing a mile from the site of the sunken rig matches that of the oil from the Deep Horizon disaster site.

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Critter News

AUGUST 10, 2009

It's a great resource. OpenCRS is another great resource. The Congressional Research Service issues reports on everything from the political situation in Moldova to environmental policies related to hog farming. If OpenCRS doesn't have it, your local representative can actually get the report for you if you ask for it.

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Moldova Legislation Farming Research 100

Critter News

JUNE 9, 2011

Brenda Barnette, General Manager of the Animal Services Department, said 64 animals have disappeared from six shelters in roughly a year,” Zanhiser reports. “Of Excerpt from CityWatch. Of that total, 39 were housed at the city's North Central shelter on Lacy Street — a missing rate considered unusually high.”

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Los Angeles Shelters Animal Kennels 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2018

Back of the book material includes References and resources a 12-page listing of Wild Bird stores; a Feeder Birds checklist; information on Project FeederWatch, including their list of the top 25 birds reported at feeders in each state; and a fairly good index to topics.

Birds 183

Birds New York City Squirrels New York 183

Critter News

APRIL 4, 2009

The Centre funds high-quality 3Rs research, organises workshops and symposia to disseminate and advance the 3Rs, and develops 3Rs information resources and guidelines.

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Research Medical Research Animal Welfare Animal 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2014

Here’s the timeframe: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) first began reporting cases of child, pet and wildlife poisonings from anti-coagulants like D-Con in the early 1980s.

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Rats Rodents 2014 Pets 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

In July 2013, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources held a meeting in Bremerhaven in Germany, to decide whether to turn the Ross Sea into a marine protected area. For obvious reasons, she has done no canoeing there, yet, her activity reports were the longest of all.

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Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 182

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

I suspect they also want to prove the superiority of their favorite park (which they emphasize is a natural park, not a designed one like Central and Prospect), and perhaps lay the groundwork for more resources and attract more birders. Norse was a Wall Street broker; John Kieran was a sports reporter and radio panelist.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 158

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2016

Terry Townsend’s website, www.birdingbeijing.com is the prime resource for anyone planning a trip to the city with intent to bird and Terry offers guiding services. But once out in the open spaces of Miyun Reservoir, it occupied my every thought. Backtrack a couple of days and I was heading out to Beijing.

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Asia Campaign 2010 Suffering 104

Critter News

JANUARY 4, 2010

Reporting on wildlife crime likewise should treat the matter as a crime story not a wildlife story. With paltry government resources allocated to fighting international wildlife crime, journalists are often nature's best hope against smugglers. Weak reporting kills wildlife. Choices count.

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Trafficking Wildlife Endangered Species Investigation 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2014

By the early 1980s, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was aware that poison control centers were reporting 12,000 to 15,000 calls annually regarding children under the age of 6 ingesting rat poison, and rodenticides were documented as causing large numbers of secondary poisoning in wildlife.

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Rats Barn Owls Rodents San Francisco 249

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2012

There are other resources that do this better, he says, and, in fact, spends 10 pages recommending field and advanced bird guides, web sites, magazines, and listservs. The cover of the book (not of Derek Lovitch) gives you some idea of the tools the better birder needs in the early 21st-century.

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New Jersey Science United States Birds 247

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2015

What do you think: would you have developed faster and developed better skills or habits if someone older would have encouraged you and provided training and resources at a very early impressionable age? The next spring she reported that her first class was doing very well and were able to rapidly identify nearly 200 species.

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South Dakota Nebraska Missouri Killing 266

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

Rapai devotes two chapters to the fire, illustrating, like a good reporter, both the details of the event itself and the bad and good that came out of it. William Rapai (pictured left) is a newspaper reporter and editor who is clearly also a birder. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, and the U.S.

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 241

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

However, NPR Marketplace reports that Audubon is trying to leverage social media and cutting edge gadgets to appeal to a new generation of bird watcher. Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. Welcome to the club!

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2011 Deer New York Owls 133

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

I was happy to see that the Resources section in the back of the book covers web sites and books on birds, photography techniques and computer tools programs not covered in the book (like Photoshop), and nature photography forums. Again, most probably different with a Kindle or a smaller laptop.) And, let’s face it, at $49.95

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Birds Ethics 2019 Experience 199

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2014

The following omnibus trip report lists every species I saw at any of these locations with information that may be of use to anyone planning to add birding to their Hong Kong itinerary. The BirdForum thread for China (including Hong Kong & Macau) is a phenomenal resource, as are blogs written by HK birders like John Holmes.

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2014 Eagles Asia Groups 227

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2012

Report the rare birds you see, including known “continuing” rarities. Sometimes, report the rare birds you DON’T see. This is a no-brainer. This could be very helpful to those debating a chase trip. Quit being so anal retentive.

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Tucson Endangered Species Virginia illegal 213

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Though Ron is based in Ontario his reports are eagerly anticipated by birders across the northeastern United States and eastern Canada because it takes into account a vast array of data to figure out which irruptive species might show up where. Ron Pittaway has published his winter finch forecast for the winter of 2012-2013.

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2012 2013 Canada United States 223

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

But I had been returning from an engagement in Paducah, Kentucky, where I had given a talk on Resources for Birding on the Internet at the fall meeting of the Kentucky Ornithological Society. The forests here looked more promising, with more birches that the chickadees were reported to prefer. The response was near immediate.

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North Carolina Kentucky Soreing 2000 163

Critter News

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Or, as resources grow scarcer, one nation's overexploitation of a forest or river could lead to dire consequences for other countries. In response to both kinds of scenarios, some have begun to raise the possibility of an "eco-intervention," analogous to humanitarian interventions.

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Central African Republic Protection Sea Turtles Rhinos 100

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 24, 2011

The UN reports that more than 350,000 people are taking shelter in 2,300 evacuation centers in the affected areas. NARSC is comprised of most of the national NGOs in the United States that provide emergency animal services and has agreed to collaborate and cooperate on how resources from the U.S. will be channeled into Japan.

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IFAW Japan International Fund For Animal Welfare Livestock 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

The very least that one could do is opt to have only one child, which will minimize the pressures and demands on the natural resource base. And if you know someone who is capturing birds to sell, report them with confidence to the NGO Honduran Ornithological Association. Regardless, because mankind will not learn until it is too late.

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Honduras illegal Parrots Birds 191

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The Service’s report Banking on Nature shows that refuges pump $2.4 What this press release doesn’t mention about the amount of money pumped into the economy by the National Wildlife Refuge System, as stated in the Banking on Nature Report, about 72 percent of total expenditures are generated by non-consumptive activities on refuges!

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 145

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

It was the Marathon County Sheriff’s Department, calling to report a Bald Eagle standing “crumpled” in remote area near Wausau, Wisconsin. A State of WI Department of Natural Resources Warden rescued him and brought him to REGI. Here is one of her stories: It was a dismal, rainy June day when my summer interns started.

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Eagles Wounded Bald Eagle Wisconsin 247

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Pet Care, spotlights many of the well-proven therapeutic and health benefits of pets, as reported on www.HelpGuide.org : The average domestic pet, such as a dog, cat—even a goldfish—can provide many therapeutic and health benefits. Below, Paul Mann, Founder and CEO of FETCH!

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Pets Emotional Dogs Cats 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

Material before the main text introduces us to Klem’s mission and how he found it (Preface and Prologue); extensive material in the back of the book provides lists of resources, data, a comprehensive bibliography, and acknowledgements.

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 261