10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2013

In under a month I will looking at lots of great birds at the 17th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. John’s National Wildlife Refuge. I did find this report from the same field trip in 2008 , when they had over sixty species on the field trip so this could be a really productive and fun outing!

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Florida Alligators Wildlife 2008 172

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JULY 6, 2020

(the poor guy must have hit a building window, predawn, while migrating – which is not, unfortunately, such a rare occurrence, see Corey’s October 2008 post here ). In addition to his D.C.

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AUGUST 4, 2015

I greatly enjoyed reading these articles on diverse topics such as suet, nyjer seed, the development of humming-bird feeders, rarities at feeders, wild bird feeding in Latin America and the Caribbean, and, importantly, “funding for birds and wildlife.” Fish and Wildlife Service. Scott’s was fined $12.5 Margaret A.

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America Industry Squirrels Birds 221

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

I’ve lived in Queens since March of 2008. So we tend to only get a couple of sightings a year, usually out at Fort Tilden where there are some wide open athletic fields or on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, especially when water levels are very low, which leaves enough shoreline for plants to grow.

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Jamaica 2008 Killing Wildlife 192

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today’s post is written by Monte Merrick, wildlife rehabilitator and co-director of the Humboldt Wildlife Care Center/bird ally x in Arcata, CA. I happened to work at that facility, for International Bird Rescue at the Los Angeles Oiled Bird Care and Education Center , part of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network.

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Los Angeles Killing Wildlife Rehabilitation San Francisco 238

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. Remember, this was back in 2008. Sierra Club.

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Obama 2008 United States Industry 238

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2015

This year was my third year helping to lead trips at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. As of 2008 only 31 of the 289 cranes released into central Florida were still alive. 10,000 Birds is a Scrub Jay-level sponsor of the 18th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. ………. That number has continued to shrink.

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Cattle Florida Bald Eagle Endangered Species 190

Critter News

DECEMBER 25, 2009

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife says Wednesday that William A. Page, a meat cutter from Curlew, was sentenced to a year jail in Ferry County Superior Court after being convicted on six counts of unlawful trafficking in wildlife. Tags: wildlife trafficking State of Washington bears. Page, 63, was sentenced Dec.

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Trafficking Washington Investigation Meat 100

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APRIL 12, 2022

So armed with some knowledge from the “ Access Considerations for Birding Locations ” page on the Birdability website and some research, I twice visited the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge near Portland, Oregon with accessibility in mind. The refuge has an impressive visitor center that opened in 2008, so it is ADA compliant.

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Portland Oregon Laws Experience 182

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Worried by the lack of appropriate action by the authorities (as described in the previous post ), this year I invited two more wildlife protection organisations to take part in the annual census of Pygmy Cormorants in Belgrade. percent of their European population. percent of their European population.

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Serbia Protection Europe 2015 176

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DECEMBER 18, 2016

The nature reserve is really well managed by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust with numerous hides and wheelchair access to much of the reserve. The nature reserve is constantly evolving and although part of it is a former sand quarry it has been carefully developed to encourage wildlife. Well done Yorkshire Wildlife Trust!

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Geese Wildlife 2001 Woodpeckers 101

Critter News

JULY 12, 2009

From Wildlife Extra. Of 679 whales reported to have been killed during the 2008-2009 whale hunt in Antarctica, 304 were female. Leave it to the Japanese. Always classy. Four of the female whales were lactating, and 192 were pregnant at the time of death.

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Whales Whaling Killing Japan 100

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

November 12, 2008) – Busch Gardens Tampa Bay welcomed a new baby white rhinoceros on Wednesday, Nov. Their second calf, Dakari, was born in August 2006, and their third, Crash, was born in May 2008. TAMPA, Fla. Since its inception, the Fund has granted $5 million to more than 350 projects in the U.S. and around the world.

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White Rhinos Rhinos Tampa 2008 100

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. Not bad for a quick jaunt to Jamaica Bay! … a.

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Jamaica 2008 New York Alaska 167

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2014

According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) report on animals taken in fiscal year 2013 , “Wildlife Services” intentionally killed 657,134 Red-winged Blackbirds and dispersed1,777,960. See Birdchick’s post here. No one knows how many of those numbers were actually Tricolored Blackbirds. v=3rwi0SF8r8o.

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Blackbirds California 2014 2013 185

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. These Blasts From The Past New Bird Blog What’s In a Scientific Name?

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Deer 2011 Birds New York 140

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

I was at the Blue Heron Wetlands in Titusville, Florida, during the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival hoping to connect with a Purple Gallinule that the field trip I co-led with Laura Erickson failed to find. Muscovy Ducks in Florida just feel like aquatic pigeons and are not a bird that I would have gone out of my way to see.

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Feral Florida Ducks Texas 175

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 one thing I really wanted to do on this most recent trip to southern California was visit Santa Cruz Island again. Trips California pelagic Santa Cruz shearwaters whales'

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Whales Whaling Dolphins California 150

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. Four several years, I’ve been a volunteer at a Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. It was still alive.

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Seattle Wildlife Rehabilitation Rescue Dogs 204

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Lastly, it’s not exactly birds, but they’ve still got wings: Seatuck Environmental Association of Islip, New York is holding its eighth annual Bats and Brews Benefit , a fundraiser to support wildlife conservation on Long Island.

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India Falcons Austin Farming 113

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JUNE 24, 2011

Mark Carter is an independent professional birding guide and wildlife surveyor living in Alice Springs, Central Australia. In 2008 Mark founded the annual Red Centre Bird Week and Twitchathon which occurs each September/October in Alice Springs.

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Chile Australia Monkeys 2008 186

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

What events transpire miles away that make a certain destination attractive to birds and wildlife in one way or another? We filmed these particular birds in early 2008 and this was when my videographer, Aderman, was still getting to grips with bird filming. I am often guilty of neglecting “place&# when birding.

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Florida South Africa 2011 Africa 182

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

As you can imagine, I was champing at the bit to get to this lost paradise and when I finally obtained the necessary permissions in 2008, it didn’t fail to astonish! Then rumors leaked out that at this same site the mythical Red Owl could easily be seen, Madagascar Serpent Eagle was breeding and other rare birds and lemurs abounded.

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Madagascar Lemurs 2006 Owls 230

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

More precisely I wanted to learn how to draw wildlife. A self-taught Canadian wildlife artist, he has been fascinated by birds from childhood – their physical charm, their voices, their intriguing habits. He died on July 27, 2008. I guess it’s a gift you either have or you don’t.

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Birds Woodpeckers Canada Collecting 205

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2014

By both Serbian legislation and the Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, Pygmy Cormorant is a strictly protected species. In the European Union, PCs are at the Annex I of the Birds Directive and their habitats are therefore a potential NATURA2000 ecological network sites.

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Serbia Protection Legislation Europe 188

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2008

While Alaska is increasingly devastated by global warming—melting glaciers, permafrost and sea ice, as well as the severe impacts on wildlife, ecosystems and people—she seems to be working not to protect the polar bear or ultimately the citizens of her state, but to make sure nothing gets in the way of energy company plans for expansion.

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New York Times Polar Bears New York Bears 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2011

Corey: I’m shooting for the numbers of species and number of lists I had in 2008! 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.

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2011 Los Angeles Deer Birds 145

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JULY 9, 2014

I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. Regular readers of this site might be able to think of a much discussed example, that of birding on National Wildlife Refuges versus hunting. Is seeking to extract economic benefit out of nature a bad thing?

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Rhinos Hunting New Zealand Science 166

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

For thirty-five of those years the compiler was Bob Dieterich, who passed the reins to Ian Resnick in 2008, the year I did my first count. For eighty years now, the birders of Queens have given up one day in December to participate in the Queens County Christmas Bird Count.

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Birds New York City New York New Jersey 163

Animal Ethics

MAY 11, 2008

It tends to be the Jersey natives who drive too fast and refuse to build fences in their backyards who view wildlife as the enemy. May 5, 2008 People who move out here from the city generally feel the same way. The lack of maintenance and patrol is staggering under the stewardship of Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr., the county executive.

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New York Times New York New Jersey Deer 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Probably the closest guide in comprehensiveness to Britain’s Birds is the Collins Bird Guide, 2nd edition by Lars Svensson (HarperCollins, 2008), published in the U.S. I wish they had provided more background on how this guide came about and what each of their contributions was. as Birds of Europe, 2nd edition (PUP, 2011).

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 140

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The first, Field Guide to the Birds of Trinidad & Tobago, was published by Christopher Helm in London in 2007 and then published in the United States in 2008 by Yale University Press. Eckelberry, cofounder of the Asa Wright Nature Center and noted wildlife artist, did portraits of local birds.)

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 188

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2014

There has been a Black-billed Cuckoo repeatedly reported from Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge since May and it had studiously avoided Corey until Sunday morning, when he heard it calling in the South Garden.

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Bald Eagle 2014 Jamaica 2008 194

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. Hunting is on a steady downturn, and nonconsumptive wildlife pursuits are on a tremendous upswing. We can fight them back in Kentucky, too.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 238

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

The Snow Geese at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge will soon be winging their way north, so he spent some quality time with them, his best birds of the weekend. Make It to the Midwest Birding Symposium Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of September 2008? Enjoy the details and proof here. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2011 Deer Birds Owls 133

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The “Wild Rwanda – Where to watch birds, primates, and other wildlife” gives you the info how and where to look for both birds and mammals (not just primates, the title is somewhat misleading). Maps aside, “Wild Rwanda – Where to watch birds, primates, and other wildlife” is an exceptionally well written guide. Pages: 256.

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Rwanda Primates Wildlife Gorillas 200

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2017

Birders have been apprehensively watching developments regarding the construction of a border wall through the renowned birding location of Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge in Texas. Defenders of Wildlife v. Chertoff , 2008 U.S. After all, there are many examples of litigation impacting proposed development on federal lands.

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Laws San Diego United States Arizona 130