10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

The refuge has an impressive visitor center that opened in 2008, so it is ADA compliant. That’s the hashed-out area to the right of the top space in the photo below.) The visitor center is the building on the left and the FWS refuge headquarters is on the right. An observation deck is between them.

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Portland Oregon Laws Experience 183

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2011

The last time we had a Banded Lapwing Vanellus tricolor visit was 25th February 2008 and prior to that was 23rd September 2005. On those occasions the bird was on one of the school ovals, but this time it has decided that the Golf Course right against the Poo Ponds is the place to be.

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2005 2008 Australia Experience 175

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Although Henslow’s had been reliably found in nearby Sharon Springs for many years, the last documented sighting was in 2008, and the sighting startled longtime birders, waking them up to the fact that breeding sites in the state were rapidly being lost. In July 2011 a Henslow’s Sparrow was found in Ames, N.Y.,

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Birds Sparrows Connecticut New York 261

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

The pair of Pied Oystercatchers have been successful in raising a chick on two occasions that we are aware of in recent years and that was in 2008 and 2011. In fact they were the only pair to successfully raise a chick in the 2008 season and only one other chick survived in 2011. Pied Oystercatcher chick approaching its parent.

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Breeding Eggs 2011 2008 134

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Yeah, if he would count Muscovy Duck in Florida it must be alright, right? Muscovy Ducks swimming right at me – I was scared. Oh, and if you want to see a nice assortment of Manky Muscovy Ducks , well, you’ve come to the right place! And, sure enough, he did. I have another bird on my ABA list.

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Feral Florida Ducks Texas 176

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2019

There had also been an increase in bird numbers since the previous survey in 2008/2009 and the number of birds had doubled. The Garganey continued to inhabit the area right through to the end of 2018. We moved forward slowly and the Garganey continued to feed in the fading light. A pair of Garganey feeding on dusk.

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Australia Ducks 2018 2014 113

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2015

They are choosing specific locations with willow trees located right by the water. For more than 10 years during which the League for Ornithological Action has been following the Pygmy Cormorants in Belgrade, the maximum number was recorded in the winter of 2007/2008, when the population counted 6,750 individuals.

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Serbia Protection Europe 2015 176

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. One White-eyed Buzzard has turned its back to us. It is too early to show. Only in protected areas in southern and central India (e.g.

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Tigers Dogs India Snow Leopard 231

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2012

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, NY, 3 August 2008 It was while watching flocks of shorebirds on Friday on Cape Cod (an adventure I will soon describe) that I first heard of a Red-necked Stint being found at Jamaica Bay. Oh, and did I mention that the stint was still in breeding plumage? Not bad for a quick jaunt to Jamaica Bay!

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Jamaica 2008 New York Alaska 167

Animal Person

MARCH 10, 2010

I credit Will Potter as the catalyst for shifting my focus away from critiques of other activists and activist groups (particularly his post, " While the Government Continues Attacks on Activists, Animal Rights Groups Protest Each Other " back in 2008). I'm not saying that criticism of PETA, or any other group, isn't warranted.

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Animal Legal Defense Fund Protest Protesting Protesters 100

Critter News

APRIL 1, 2010

In a country where guns are tightly controlled and even carrying a kitchen knife can result in a prison sentence, animal rights experts and politicians say street thugs have turned to dangerous-looking dogs to cow their victims.

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Dogs Legislation 2004 Cruelty 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. I imagined walking right up to them. High Island in April requires Weather, so I was told. American Avocets.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 201

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

First issued in a limited printing in 1972, then re-issued by Ammo Press in 2008 after Harper’s death in June 2007, it contains images that are iconic and familiar, striking and unique. Graphic artist Todd Oldham writes in the 2008 preface that this font is called “kismet”. I can’t find any kismet-titled fonts that are swirley.

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Betty Crocker Birds 2008 2007 170

Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2010

A recent agreement between farmers and animal rights activists here is a rare compromise in the bitter and growing debate over large-scale, intensive methods of producing eggs and meat, and may well push farmers in other states to give ground, experts say. This concession was to avoid a November ballot vote a la California's Proposition 2.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory Farming 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2014

This means that when you find something unusual you have an obligation to the rest of the community to get it right in case someone else is going to be spending their time and money to try to see it. In 2008, I found an Ash-throated Flycatcher, then the state’s 12th or so record, in remote Jones County, NC.

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Raleigh 2008 Rights Raised 201

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

2008 and this video recommended by the Ted Talk people: The Early Birdwatchers ), or the social behavior of Common Guillemots (what we North Americans call Common Murres) ( Bird Sense: What it Is Like to Be a Bird , 2012). The drawing on the left is from 1714, the one on the right is the result of Birkhead’s own dissection.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 209

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

Back in October 2008, in his first field job out of school, he helped a Cornell PhD student, Karl, with his dissertation on vocal communication in Green-rumped Parrotlets Forpus passerinus. The eyes are still not developed enough to open, and the feet are just strong enough to help right a toppled chick.

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Eggs Venezuela Porcupines 2008 267

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Reason To Become a Bird Watcher #2: Birds Are Everywhere You Are Why Cats Love FeederWatch Where Are You Birding This Last Weekend of October 2008? Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of July 2008? Wicked, right? Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of May 2009? Hat-tip to Stella.

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Cows Cattle 2011 Birds 141

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2013

The last time I was out there was in January of 2008 and Daisy and I had really enjoyed both the boat ride and the island itself. The whales, the dolphins, and the seabirds all combined to put on an amazing show, with one Humpback Whale even coming to the surface right next to the boat and then diving beneath us. It was amazing.

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Whales Whaling Dolphins California 150

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2012

The day was sunny and calm (a novelty), and the time of year is right for seals. They are now protected by Taputeranga Marine Reserve , a marine reserve created in 2008 and to protect marine life around Wellington. In five years of living here and I haven’t made it there yet, though I have tried a few times.

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Seals New Zealand Fur Marine Life 156

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

Interestingly, the field guide I’m looking at today, the larger field guide covering all of North America, was not published until 2008, the year Peterson would have been 100 years old. The Accounts present text on the left and images on the right. The text pages have a lively look. Conclusion.

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North America America Hawaii Birds 199

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Indeed, by 2008, when I first really became aware of the issue, the West Coast of South Island was pretty much their only stronghold. I mentioned 2008 as the year I became aware of the issue. By the 1970s the Mallards were beginning to rule the roost. Or so it was assumed. Why were the Mallards so successful?

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Species New Zealand Ducks Game 165

Critter News

JUNE 20, 2010

For example, there was a higher-than expected number of bats passing away each year between 2004 and 2008, but the zoo didn’t do anything to decide why. The stingrays passed away right after an interactive display opened that let visitors put their hands on them.

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Zoos Animal Abuse Bats Goats 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2017

Birds of Borneo (2009): based on taxonomic order from 2008, with some changes due to practical reasons, review here. In the book from 1993 they are at the beginning of the songbirds, in 2009 three quarters towards the end, in 2014 almost on the last pages and in the most recent 2016 guide they are right in the middle. Phillipps, Q. &

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Brunei 2009 2016 2014 150

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2014

And asking yourself the right question is more than half the way towards the answer. Large windows and unobstructed views of the river are a criterion for the right observation point. The main willow grove, the one by the Belgrade Fair (the right bank), has overgrown a mud bank, which they haven’t cleared for more than two decades.

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Serbia Protection Legislation Europe 189

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 31, 2011

While shopping for pet food in 2008, Maryam Faresh and her partner Bruce Meade saw a sign hanging on the wall with a picture of a white puppy with spots and strange looking eyes. At only 10 months old Louie was in the process of having half of his back right leg amputated while his back left leg was broken and in a cast.

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Puppies Rescue 2008 Cats 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

southern Australia’s cool winter weather and wonderful birds sound mighty appealing right now and 2. ’s landmark 2008 paper ) in the context of each other. And so it’s July, which for this North American birder means a couple of things: 1.

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Madagascar Birds Louisiana Groups 163

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2011

Not for nothing did 10,000 Birds readers elect the chickadee as the Most Beloved Backyard Bird of 2008 ; if we had run elections in other years, chickadees would no doubt have been front-runners. Even though I was too ignorant to identify the bird, the intake volunteer on the desk recognized him right away.

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Seattle Wildlife Rehabilitation Rescue Dogs 205

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

There were the neocons, which despite their association with the authoritarian right wing government of George W Bush were wide eyed idealists who believed that you could make the world a better place, and there were the realists, who thought the world was essentially bricked and the best you could hope for was some stability.

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Rhinos Hunting New Zealand Science 166

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

In the right season, with a little luck, we often find it, and sometimes it perches high and long enough that we can admire its scimitar of a bill, its stern face pattern, and even the patch of rusty red on the undertail that gives the species its English and its scientific names. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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2011 Tucson Arizona Deer 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

Say Hello to the Recurve-billed Bushbird Liben Lark Gets a Lifeline Birds of the Solstice: December 2008 About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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Deer 2011 Birds New York 140

Animal Person

AUGUST 1, 2009

As of mid-2008, there were 4,777 black men imprisoned in America for every 100,000 black men in the population. We're never going to have a serious national conversation about the rights of sentient nonhumans. Anyone counseling a less militant approach is counseling self-defeat.

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Obama New York Times New York illegal 100

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In 2008, two-year-old Bill was released from a puppy mill breeder and put out to auction after spending the first two years of his life sitting in a cage. It may seem callous, but they knew they hadn’t the patience or desire to embark on the long road to rehab, and ultimately did the right thing by returning him to the rescue group.

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Puppy Mills Boston Rescue Adoptable 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Visitors to the reserve we met along the trail were excited to tell us about the arrival of a Whooper Swan and told us to check the northern field to our right as we circumnavigated the lakes anti-clockwise. Well done Yorkshire Wildlife Trust!

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Geese Wildlife 2001 Woodpeckers 101

Animal Ethics

JULY 22, 2008

The Unalienable Rights of Chimps ,” by Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, July 14): The Spanish Parliament’s decision to grant rights to apes is indeed groundbreaking, and will foster philosophical discussion about animal protection for some time. To the Editor: “ What’s Next in the Law? Suffering is far from a uniquely human experience.

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New York Times Humane Society Of The United States New York Apes 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2011

First there was the Scott’s Oriole that showed up at the Catawba County feeder of the local bird store owner in February of 2008. They just need the right birder to find them. Their inclusion on my state list is no doubt a symbol of the sort of confiding rarities we get here in the Tarheel State.

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North Carolina Sparrows 2008 Hunters 154

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2014

Whether the inspiration to this post came from Germany winning the U19 European football championship yesterday right on the heels of our (adult) team winning the world cup (Yes! The following image of an immature bird was taken by me (on my birthday) in July 2008 not far from said possible breeding location, so who knows?

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Eagles Germany Breeding Hunting 167