10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2013

When you move on to Montana, you discover that there are worse things that one species of tiny screaming mammal tricking you each year as you try to cope with an influx of songbirds and a winterized memory bank that contains only Black-capped Chickadees and Dark-eyed Juncos (and only about half their calls at that.) You sigh and move on.

Chipmunks 184

Chipmunks Squirrels Rodents Montana 184

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2012

The species was extinct, a vanished part of the vanishing prairie — and not for the first time. In the 1950s the species was unofficially regarded as extinct by most biologists, a small part lost in the general tumble and disarray of the entire ecosystem they’d inhabited. You couldn’t see it. But this is real life.

Ferrets 189

Ferrets South Dakota Wyoming Captive Animal 189

10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2015

There are other species of migratory birds that have a breeding population in the Neotropics and a separate migratory population. Chicks in nest in Wyoming. What is known is that the colony in South America continues to grow as birds hatched there stay and breed there. Photo: Alfredo Begazo.

South Dakota 169

South Dakota South America North America America 169

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2011

Most REAL montane species like this finch are declining in overall population. Their range of breeding is literally only very southern Wyoming to very northern New Mexico. The Alpine Tundra seems to be shrinking and that will be the demise of this species along with a few others in the historic future to come.

Colorado 169

Colorado Breeders Wyoming Breeding 169

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

The landscape known as the Crown of the Continent extends from northern Idaho and Wyoming through Montana to the Canadian border, linking the Greater Yellowstone and Salmon-Selway ecosystems and including Grand Teton, Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks.

Legislation 174

Legislation Montana America Wyoming 174

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. Betty’s Bay was also a great place to see all of South Africa’s cormorant species, including the endangered Bank Cormorant.

South Africa 254

South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 254

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Last week we were in the Teton Valley, getting ready to head over to Wyoming, and Yellowstone National Park. In talking to the local guides, and Rangers, they all agreed that they had not been seeing too many species around in the last couple of weeks. Our last night in Wyoming was spent at the historic Terry Bison Ranch.

Wyoming 106

Wyoming Wolves Grizzly Bear Mountain Goats 106

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

And of Wyoming. “Invasive&# is an ugly word, and ugly consequences have come from many of the explosive range expansions we’re most familiar with, whether of exotic species or even of native species with their normal restraints removed. . Especially of all the species that had been introduced to the US.

Montana 136

Montana 2011 New York Bahamas 136

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2016

I opened the year in California and even though I flew out in the evening on New Year’s Day I did see some species out there that I would otherwise not have seen for the year. Winter birding around New York City was just so-so but I did add one species to my Queens list. Black-billed Magpie , 31 July, Golden, Colorado.

2016 135

2016 Puerto Rico New York City New York 135

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

As of mid-October 2018, the Collaborative had submitted more than 1,700 checklists and observed 618 species in the United States. The heat map is revealing: Unsurprisingly for a site founded and run by two New Yorkers (one of whom literally wrote the book on birding New York), the Empire State boasts the highest number of species (316).

Rhode Island 114

Rhode Island United States West Virginia Puerto Rico 114

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2014

2014) — attempts to answer it by ranking species according to their “evolutionary distinctiveness,” or how distantly related they are to all other living birds. is not primarily a measure of the divergence dates of major clades of birds but rather of individual living species. ’s list.

Madagascar 278

Madagascar Comoros South America Ecuador 278

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2018

With Wyoming and South Dakota in our rear view mirror, we look toward Colorado, and a hot spot I have been anxious to visit. The numbers are as follows: Little Big Year Species – 892. species – 224. Trinidad Colorado is located just a few miles north of the Colorado – New Mexico border, and home to the Trinidad Reservoir.

Colorado 113

Colorado Texas Trinidad Albuquerque 113

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Never mind that the bulk of the fat in Starbucks's beverages comes from the milk -- yes, milk ! -- of another species. Never mind that restrooms aren't the most sanitary of places to feed one's baby. Apparently, at these Starbucks stores, while hormone-laced bovine mammary fluid is good to go, human mammary fluid has got to go.

Animal 40

Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2012

Shawn Billerman is a graduate student at the University of Wyoming studying birds, though his degree will likely use fancier words than that. The most common mating strategy in birds is social monogamy, found in roughly 92% of birds species in the world (Jenni 1974, Owens 2002). of all bird species, is polyandry.

2002 168

2002 North America 2000 2009 168