10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

As I got out of my car, about fifty feet from Manzanita Lake, I heard the loud drumming of a woodpecker. I didn’t know what species of woodpecker it was, but I knew it was just in the clearing on the other side of the road. Click on photos for full sized images.

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JANUARY 3, 2023

An impressive combination of research and artwork, combined with a pragmatic organization aimed towards quick identification, and education, Baby Bird Identification extends the frontiers of bird identification guides and is an important contribution to wildlife rehabilitation literature. and three of the nine woodpeckers illustrated.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

On Saturday, 28 January, while I was at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival, Doug Gochfeld and I made our way to central Florida for most of a day’s birding, looking for the specialty species of that region. Neither were the Pileated Woodpeckers we found nor the Orange-crowned Warbler.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2016

The best place I could come up with that was within a short drive of my in-laws’ place in Yorba Linda was the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary in nearby Irvine, only a quick twenty-minute drive away. San Joaquin is renowned among wildlife photographers for the up close opportunities with shorebirds and ducks.

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OCTOBER 13, 2018

As one of our country’s most biodiverse rivers, this entire habitat is considered ‘high priority’ in the Wildlife Action Plan of the state Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. Downy Woodpecker. Pileated Woodpecker. Photo by © Michael Todd. Indigo Bunting. Photo by © Michael Todd. Summer Tanager. Photo by © Michael Todd.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

After several minutes of this deep water foraging behavior, this White-faced Ibis made its way toward me into more shallow water Posed for a little while, and then began to preen I’m glad I took the time to visit Colusa National Wildlife Refuge on this day. You never know what you might see! Get yours today! The proposal from U.S.

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JULY 23, 2022

They can’t provide the same ecosystem value as natural forest and woodland but in places intensely modifed by people, hedges are vital sanctuaries for birds and other wildlife. Hoffmann’s Woodpecker. In Costa Rica, we have those living fences, these planted rivulets of green.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

This natural space of almost a thousand acres – once a deforested area for extensive cattle ranching – has been restored for four decades, considering every detail in the aesthetics and functionality of the landscape, seeking the regeneration of bird and wildlife populations that inhabit the ecosystem.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2020

Red-headed Woodpeckers chattered to each other as they flew from tree to tree, and I marveled at just how many I spotted. Red-bellied Woodpeckers and Eastern Bluebirds rounded out the species near the pond, but in the distance I noted a Red-tailed Hawk , as well as the regular calls of a Northern Bobwhite.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

And it looks even better in my hands while I dream about a visit to regions of Brazil I had scarcely heard of before being provided with a review copy of the first volume of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil.* He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2021

That’s quite the list of charismatic and unique wildlife to add to your potential list of sightings. Giant anteaters are just one of the wildlife highlights of the Rupununi. This diminutive woodpecker has even been spotted in the botanical gardens in the city. A beautiful Blood-colored Woodpecker poses on a tree trunk.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

who can be found regularly at the bird and wildlife blog Birdland West. Today, he talks about a crazy woodpecker… A couple of years ago there was a big controversy on NPR about woodpeckers. Well, especially about one woodpecker — probably the most famous woodpecker in the world — Woody.

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MAY 16, 2020

There will probably be environmental studies and enhancements to encourage wildlife. Blue T**s and Great T**s abound as do Greater Spotted Woodpeckers. Someone will need to print “Please don’t trample me” signs. Feeder stations! Likely all done by volunteers. Just try and stop me!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Black-backed Woodpeckers. I am finally going to see a Black-backed Woodpecker , darn it. Black-Backed Woodpecker by Ryan Hagerty, courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Boreal Chickadees. Ruffed Grouse. Even in the off-season, a trip to the Adirondacks promises a bevy of delights for the downstate birder.

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APRIL 22, 2024

Preserving its habitat through sustainable practices and encouraging responsible wildlife tourism are crucial steps in ensuring the continued existence of this charismatic species. This photo explains the scientific species name haemacephalus (bloodheaded).

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APRIL 16, 2023

It was in a hole in our oaktree that we think a woodpecker made weeks ago. And that same year, we had a momma squirrel die and we found her two babies a couple of days later and we were able to rescue one of them by bringing it to a wildlife center. So we just had a baby owl sadly die in our backyard.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

Images of wildlife coated in toxic goo haunted me; particularly the birds. The current administration can now start construction on any of the public lands along the border with no concern for habitats, ecosystems, or wildlife. Destroy the habitats – destroy the wildlife. Gila Woodpecker. Public lands at risk.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

This 90 acre lake, managed by Arizona Fish and Wildlife is about a 45 mile drive from Tucson, and 9 miles from Mexico, as the Chihuahuan Raven flies. Gila Woodpeckers and Ladder-backed Woodpeckers are seen in the Cottonwood trees, especially near the boat dock. Here is one of our local Ladder-backed Woodpeckers.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Pileated Woodpecker. There are four scenic overlooks, a woodpecker viewing area, a migratory duck pond, and access to The Appalachian Trail. While a small park of only 1,050 acres, it’s surrounded by the massive Chattahoochee Wildlife Management Area. Photo by © Mike Kendrick. Sky Meadows State Park, Virginia. Red Crossbill.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2015

Okay, folks, today we will be discussing one of those internet pass-arounds which are meant to fill everyone with joy and inspiration, but which make wildlife rehabilitators look for the nearest wall against which to bang our heads. That’s why they’re birds of prey, and not woodpeckers. Wildlife rehabilitators endure.

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

We are incredibly grateful to the Uganda Tourism Board for so generously sharing the splendor of birding and wildlife watching in the Pearl of Africa. Mike and Corey attended the 2019 African Birding Expo in the company of African birding legend Herbert Byaruhanga and a slew of international birding professionals.

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JUNE 3, 2021

There was a panel discussion too, where I gave the opening lecture on Reva’s wildlife and the value of this area for the polluted city with 2M people. Once I observed a man walking his two small dogs here, passing by a perched White-tailed Eagle but looking down at grass and not noticing the largest raptor in Europe at all.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

Marsh and Long-tailed Tit joined the list, quickly followed by Nuthatch (heard but not seen), Great Spotted Woodpecker and Jay. A Grey Wagtail on the river Black Bourn Micklemere is a wetland reserve belonging to the Suffolk Wildlife Trust, and was my next location. Treecreeper would have been a bonus, but none were to be seen.

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OCTOBER 24, 2014

So I asked seven wildlife rehabilitators, “Tell me your favorite (or one of your favorites) release story – the kind that makes you keep going, in spite of everything.”. “A Maggie Rufo, who works with Veronica at NSCC in Sebastopol, remembers a juvenile Pileated Woodpecker she agreed to release where it had been found in Mendocino. “I

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Nature lovers, on the other hand, find time for wildlife watching every weekend. I saw lots of different kinds of woodpeckers this weekend, but that big, honking Pileated always wins out over the others for Best Bird honors. Just be sure to choose a Halloween costume that doesn’t obscure your vision too much!

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JULY 14, 2020

Fish and Wildlife Service cannot effectively restore the lake or other natural hydrology. There were several conspicuous groups of Hairy Woodpeckers, including this female. The namesake “lake” generally only exists when there is enough runoff during the spring, as the area was extensively modified for farming years ago.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

If you want to know what happened on August 31, 1984, I can name at least one event: In the Padang-Sugihan Wildlife Reserve in South Sumatra province, a Large Frogmouth was mobbed by a Greater Racket-tailed Drongo, as described here. At between 4 pm and 6 pm, to be exact.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2016

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was any of the three R ed-cockaded Woodpeckers he saw in the pine woods of Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area in central Florida on Friday during the “Central Florida Specialties” trip for the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. How about you?

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NOVEMBER 14, 2014

We also get a few woodpeckers, and pigeons. just for fun wildlife' The little birds are called juncos, and they love to come eat our walnuts. You will see both juncos and pigeons in the video. Note, this video has no sound. What it is the weather like in your part of the world?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2020

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge–East Pond. San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge–East Pond. San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. Uganda Wildlife Education Centre. San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. 02 Dec 2019. 27 Dec 2019. 22 Dec 2019.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Up to 100 kg – possibly a female, my guide and a bear researcher from the wildlife charity Callisto, Yannis Tsanakis, tells me. The tour was organised by the Natural Greece ecotourism specialists from Athens, Greece, in collaboration with the Callisto wildlife charity which has done a lot of work on bears in this area.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Two full days at Hart Mountain Wildlife Refuge, three days at Dog Lake, and a short visit to Upper Cottonwood Lake brought back many great memories, in addition to a nice list of birds. Then, to finish the week, we visited the famous, and not necessarily for all the right reasons, Malhuer Wildlife Refuge.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Last Saturday, I was walking around the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, on a cloudy, gray 28F morning. I was not surprised to see Ladder-backed Woodpeckers, Gila Woodpeckers, Cactus Wrens and Blue-gray Gnatcatchers , but there were a few species that certainly did surprise me. Ahh, what a difference a week can make!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

Turns out, Monday brought more than a little rain, and we got soaked as we explored the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge and the Currituck National Wildlife Refuge along the ocean. Someone had told me a group of Red-cockaded Woodpeckers called this patch of forest home, and we were determined to find out if he was right.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2019

However, as with many other places throughout the globe, this small country also has its fair share of urban wildlife. Hoffmann’s Woodpecker. Our Red-bellied, Great-spotted, or Golden-fronted , this is the woodpecker that lives with people in the Central Valley of Costa Rica. Lots of birds, a lot of really cool birds!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This refuge came up as #4 on a recent list of the top 25 National Wildlife Refuges that were featured in a great story here by 10000 Birds own Jason Crotty. While most major estuaries in Washington state have been filled, dredged, or developed, Nisqually River’s has been set aside for wildlife.

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