10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

The ray of hope comes from the WWF and their Global Tiger Recovery Program: in Sankt Peterburg in 2010, the leaders of all tiger range countries have accepted a common goal to increase their numbers in the wild to 7,000 by the year 2022 and once again extend their range to areas where they once roamed. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge : Open to migratory bird hunting (youth only). The Refuge is now home to nearly 200 species of birds, over 50 species of mammals, 25 species of reptiles and amphibians, and a wide variety of insects, fish and plants. This is an Urban Refuge ! Why would you open it up to hunting?

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 143

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2024

A first-winter Red-breasted Goose at Cley, North Norfolk As a general rule, geese are birds of subtle, even dull, plumage. With its deep chestnut-red breast, exquisite head pattern and black and white body it’s an exceedingly handsome bird, and one that never fails to attract admirers when one turns up in Britain.

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Bulgaria Geese Romania Estonia 130

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2012

Do people go birding while inebriated? There is the blog The Drinking Bird , but what about the drinking birder? Birdchick hosts Birds and Beers but that is held in bars and the birds tend to be discussed, not seen. No, I have not birded drunk before. But to get back to booze and birds. Was it fun?

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Birds illegal Parrots 2010 254

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2015

This being a life bird for me I had no choice but to take the drive. The good news is that these majestic birds have been increasing in numbers every year! The 2010 continental estimate of trumpeter swan abundance was 46,225, an increase of 33% since 2005 and the highest recorded since the surveys began in 1968 3. v=kq1bx7Ic2FY.

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North America Iowa Wisconsin America 176

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

The proprietor of our ecolodge guides my small group of birders up a steep slope where we see, just at the point where a scope view deteriorates into pixels, a huge bird—a Chaco Eagle, also known as a Crowned Eagle—on a huge nest. We start with Lendrum being arrested in 2010 at the Birmingham (U.K.) Author Joshua Hammer.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 208

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

I must admit that I was astonished as I had never considered Ghana a potential birding destination, nor knew of any birders who had ever been there. My clients insisted that they wanted to go to Ghana as they had heard that the birding was great. We also knew we had discovered Africa’s next hot birding destination.

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 191

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2020

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is in the midst of overhauling its interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) and it recently issued a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) on its proposed interpretation. of the EIS) to avoid harming birds. .” of the EIS) to avoid harming birds. of the EIS.).

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Industry Birds Laws Maryland 327

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) recently finalized a rule regarding its narrowing interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA). As explained in an earlier post , the changes revolve around an issue known as “incidental take,” which are actions that harm or kill birds incidental to another lawful activity.

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Maryland New York Birds New Jersey 210