10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2014

2006 – 03 March. Here are my arrival dates for my first Eastern Phoebes of the year for the last nine years: 2014 – 29 March. 2013 – 24 March. 2012 – 15 March. 2011 – 19 March. 2010 – 31 March. 2009 – 15 March. 2008 – 21 March. 2007 – 26 March. What about you?

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2014 2006 2007 2008 247

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Alexander Alvarez of Atmore, Alabama, has pled guilty to “killing migratory birds and selling the feathers on the black market” in a killing spree that dates back to 2006. ” He faces up to seven-and-a-half years in prison and fines totaling more than $500,000.

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Alabama Killing Protection Mississippi 204

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2013

And for those worried that climate change may bring these two populations together, the authors note, “Divergence date estimates indicate that the Atlantic and Pacific populations may have persisted independently for nearly 2 million years, spanning over warm interglacial periods that may have drastically reduced ice cover (Anderson et al.

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2006 Sparrows Species Rights 241

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It turns out that leucistic Limpkins are much rarer than Wood Storks anyway, the first official report I found was of a single bird in Paraguay in 2006. Nevertheless, I am still thankful for the fleeting glimpse I was granted! The post Leucistic Limpkin appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Paraguay Trinidad 2006 2016 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2012

Since 2006 a pair of Bald Eagles ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus ) nesting at Turtle Bay in Redding California have successfully raised a dozen eaglets! This year when the pair returned to Turtle Bay, they decided to build a new nest in an adjacent tree.

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Bald Eagle Turtles Eagles Sacramento 247

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2014

That is how we met, back in 2006. He established a local nature study group, visited the wetland of Tuzla on an almost daily base, sending numerous observations to the Turkish Birdbank ( [link] ), successfully nominated the site for the Important Bird Area status and guided birders around Bodrum.

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Turkey 2006 Europe Pelicans 240

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2020

During the period from 1994 through 2006, I mostly dedicated myself to itinerant ministry. My wife and I have been pastoring a local church since 2006, which discourages too much travelling. In other words, I travelled, sometimes every weekend. Most of this travel was in Mexico, but I also visited different regions of the U.S.,

2006 235

2006 Morocco Birds Mexico 235

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2012

This post was originally published in February 2006, but we hate to keep posts this good buried in the archives ! So learn to love the vapidly attractive face of the Eurasian Collared-Dove, because chances are that, no matter where you live, you might be seeing it soon.

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Bahamas Russia 2006 Turtles 233

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JUNE 17, 2013

The one exception, in 2006, when I had only been birding for one year, was in July. I hope to make up for what I missed back in 2006 this year and I am off to a pretty good start so far, with three lifers to show for my efforts. This female Black-headed Grosbeak was my first since 2006. I bet it is a lot. This is a lizard.

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California 2006 Butcher Breeding 164

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2012

References: 1 Dunne, Pete (2006). [link] He continues that description as “a tiny, compact, hyperactive, and undistinguished bird that draws attention to itself by its perpetual motions and habitual wing-flicking 1.” ” Doesn’t she look pretty all cleaned up? Pete Dunne’s Essential Field Guide Companion.

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Jordan 2006 North America New York 218

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2021

15,000 in 2006” (HBW). Pallas’s Gull also breeds at Qinghai Lake, though the numbers are sadly much reduced: “The numbers breeding at L Qinghai, China, has apparently fallen from > 87,000 in 1970s to c. For some reason, the immature gull looks almost bigger than the adult.

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China Birds 2006 Fish 264

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

You may wish to let us arrange a trip for you to some of the other reserves such as Khana or Tadoba, or a visit to Eagle Nest in Arunachal Pradesh on a testing quest for a bird only described as a new species in 2006, the Bugun Liocichla , while there we would also look for Beautiful Nuthatch and Fire-tailed Myzornis amongst many others.

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India Wildlife Tigers Otters 260

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JANUARY 12, 2012

This is especially likely to be a problem when recent branches are long and deeper branches in the species tree are short, as occurs in parts of our tree including the branch to Pluvialis.

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Family 2007 Iceland Louisiana 245

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

This post was first published in September 2006 but has been republished because titmice are always in vogue! ). The Bridled Titmouse ( B.wollweberi ) looks like the missing link between titmice and chickadees, bearing the gray back and crest of the former and the black chin of the latter. Birds chickadees and tits titmice

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Arizona Oklahoma Iowa Texas 267

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2022

This theatrical personality was first introduced to a wider audience in Bill Buford’s excellent 2006 culinary memoir Heat , which depicts Cecchini as uncompromising – and perhaps a bit mad – genius of butchery, but one with the utmost reverence for his craft and the respectful use of the animals we eat.

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2019 Butcher Livestock 2006 264

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APRIL 7, 2021

Jonathan Trouern-Trend’s Birding Babylon: A Soldier’s Journal From Irag , a lovely little 2006 book, is also well worth your time. It’s like being with a bunch of his squaddies down at the Gas Light bar on a Friday night, laughing and chaffing while downing pints, and listening to his stories.

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Kuwait Fox Bosnia Afghanistan 254

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2019

Robin Restall is an acclaimed bird artist, whose works include the Helm’s Birds of Northern South America (2006). The majority of these illustrations were originally painted for the Birds of Northern South America (2006). Some illustrations are beautiful, others are decent.

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Ecuador South America 2006 Venezuela 201

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The next memorable hunt came from winter 2006/07. The Mallard did something that all dabbling ducks can do but I haven’t seen any of them doing it but this one – it took a dive and disappeared underwater. (My My notes of that paddle include some other mouth-watering birds too, such as three Velvet Scoters and two Red-throated Divers.).

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Serbia 2004 Eagles Chickens 259

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2011

Interestingly, Proposal 491 didn’t initially present any new information, citing studies from 2006 and 2008. The SACC will have to determine whether they believe there’s strong enough evidence to make these changes now, or whether to wait for additional published research before making such significant sequence changes.

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Parrots Falcons Costa Rica South America 258

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AUGUST 2, 2022

Actually, many birds are able to use smell; the 2006 edition of the classic textbook Ornithology states, “Although they have been underestimated in the past, the olfactory abilities of most birds are comparable to those of some mammals (Mason and Clark 2000). Freeman, 2006, full text available on Internet Archives, [link].

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Science Research Turkey 2006 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2013

References: 1 Dunn, Pete (2006), Pete Dunne’s Essential Field Guide Companion. .” Of course, if you have a good ear, you can tell them apart by their song. Here are the three American Rosefinches songs from Xeno-canto.org: House Finch , Purple Finch and Cassin’s Finch. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.

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2006 New York Birds Species 207

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

Back in 2006, Problogger Darren Rowse proposed a fun Group Writing Project challenging bloggers to put together a good “How To&# post. Up to that point, I’d offered Great Reasons to Become A Bird Watcher in an effort to encourage the uninitiated to try bird watching.

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United States Birds 2006 Breeders 259

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Her seven books include 101 Ways to Help Birds (2006), The Bird Watching Answer Book: Everything You Need to Know to Enjoy Birds in Your Backyard and Beyond (2009), and the National Geographic Pocket Guide to the Birds of North America (with Jonathan Alderfer, 2013). Winkler and Justin Hite).

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2013

I spotted my first Common Redpolls way back in February of 2006, when I had been birding for less than a year and was still living in Albany, New York. It is amazing what words in a field guide can do to your senses. Both of our redpoll species, Common Redpolls and Hoary Redpolls , have nice pink coloration.

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Kazakhstan New York 2006 United States 208

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

But between 1988 and 2006, Project Feedwatch showed a fifty-percent decline in Evening Grosbeak sightings. And in all the years I’d been waiting and hoping, not one big yellow-and-black finch had showed up at my parents’ feeders.

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Pythons Litter Montana 2006 242

Critter News

OCTOBER 17, 2008

A judge has found five animal-rights activists not guilty of getting too close to seal hunters during the 2006 hunt off Canada's east coast. The five were charged with coming within 10 metres of seal hunters on March 26, 2006 while filming the annual slaughter in the Gulf of St. That's good news. Lawrence, not far from Cape Breton.

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Seals Humane Society Of The United States Slaughter Slaughtered 100

Critter News

MARCH 9, 2009

Checking out their website, I came across this page saying that they merged with the Humane Society in 2006. The live link takes me to an announcement in 2006 about the merger. I just recently became a member of the Doris Day Animal League. I also learned that the Humane Society merged with the Fund for Animals in 2005.

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The Humane Society Humane Animal Welfare 2006 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

And, just in case you were curious about the breeding plumage of the Greater Yellowlegs , I have a photo from last April taken at Clover Creek Preserve in Redding, California. References: 1 O’Brien, M., Crossley, R., and Karlson, K. The Shorebird Guide , Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, New York a.

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San Francisco Delaware Jordan New York 165

10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2012

There were no sightings during 2006, but that means we did not see them and they may well have visited! I was excited as we had already had a good start to our new “weekly garden list” with a Sacred Kingfisher on our pretend powerline as the sun came up.

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2012 2000 2006 2005 187

Critter News

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Some 119 pigs were used in the research at the Government's military research laboratory Porton Down, near Salisbury, between 2006 and 2009. He said 25 pigs were used in 2006, 19 in 2007, 40 in 2008, and 35 in 2009.

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Pigs Afghanistan Iraq 2006 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2014

But I had seen one in 2006 and I have since seen them twice more so the species never rose to the level of nemesis bird for me. I have been relatively fortunate in my birding life in that I don’t have a single nemesis bird that has vexed me.

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Costa Rica Hungary Honduras Woodpeckers 251

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2013

Books and resources used in search of the term “bubble-gum pink legs”: The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of North America , by David Sibley. Random House, 2003. Pete Dunne’s Essential Field Guide Companion , by Pete Dunne. The New Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Western Region , by Lillian and Donald Stokes. by Jon L.

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North America America 2011 Jordan 249

Critter News

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Last summer, Alley Cat Allies conducted an analysis of Illinois Department of Agriculture reports collected from the 247 animal pounds and shelters licensed by the state that handled cats in 2006. More than 60,000 cats were killed in Illinois animal pounds and shelters in 2006. Things don't look too good.

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Cats Feral Cats Illinois 2006 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2018

I’d only ever had two encounters with Tundra Swans in Queens, one in November of 2006 and a flock of thirty-three, believed to have been forced down by a storm, in November of 2014. A regional rarity around New York City, Tundra Swans are only regular at Hook Pond in Suffolk County, way out on the eastern end of Long Island.

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Jamaica Wildlife New York City Ducks 154

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Bufflehead by Mike Bergin ( I first wrote about Buffleheads in November 2006 but haven’t seen the term spread as an insult in the general vernacular yet. The title of this post is a line attributed to Plautus, a renowned playwright of ancient Rome, one I suspect that wasn’t directed towards a duck.

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Buffalo Ducks Jordan 2006 138

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2011

I first met Paul Guris, owner of See Life Paulagics , fittingly enough, on a pelagic trip out of Freeport, New York in February of 2006. It was my first pelagic trip, we nearly swept the east coast alcids, we saw a Western Gull , and I had a great time.

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Delaware Iceland Birds 2006 225

Critter News

MARCH 27, 2009

A 2006 inspection found no problems. . # A routine USDA inspection in September 2008 found the center in compliance. # A May 23, 2007, USDA inspection revealed several problems with drainage and waste disposal operations, and peeling paint in primate housing areas. # USDA inspections dated July 19, 2005 and Dec.

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Animal Cruelty Animal Welfare Research Center Louisiana 100