article thumbnail

ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

10,000 Birds

By Julie • March 14, 2011 • 18 comments Tweet Share ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public comment on a proposal to hunt sandhill cranes in Kentucky. A Great Backyard Bird Count Miracle Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2011) What is the International Bird Rescue Research Center Anyway?

2011 241
article thumbnail

Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of April 2011)

10,000 Birds

For those of you playing along at home, this gives me 17 new ABA birds for a total of 467 as of May 1, 2011. My own best bird was Caspian Tern , right on time along Lake Ontario. On the other hand, a woefully brief glimpse of a Hook-billed Kite at Bentsen State Park was all it took to move it from my world list to my ABA list.

2011 157
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Your Best Birds of the Year for 2011

10,000 Birds

On this final day of 2011 it is time, just like it was on the final day of 2010 , to share your Best Birds of the Year. Here, without further ado, are your Best Birds of 2011, in no particular order. The bird I picked as my Best Bird of the Year 2011 is the Yellow-rumped Warbler.

2011 161
article thumbnail

Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

With two of North America’s major flyways, Mississippi and Central, overhead, and with almost 400 miles of coastline Louisiana is one of those states where you can see Eastern and Western birds and a hell of a lot of shorebirds and waterfowl. Louisiana is a magical place to bird. ’ What was left to write about?

Louisiana 264
article thumbnail

Save the Painted Bunting, y’all: Keep wonder alive

10,000 Birds

There are two Painted Bunting populations, one that breeds along the Atlantic Coast from North Carolina to Florida and one that breeds in the interior United States and northern Mexico from southeastern New Mexico to western Mississippi. You can see the two disjunct populations mapped in this animated occurrence model from eBird.

article thumbnail

Rev. Bachman’s Lost Warbler

10,000 Birds

The species disappeared from the record for several decades afterwards due to the war and all, but it popped up again in the mid-1880′s where it was reported to occur in decent numbers across much of the southeast all the way west to the Mississippi bottomlands of southeast Missouri’s bootheel. Mississippi in 1949.

article thumbnail

Birds of Prey of the East & Birds of Prey of the West: Review of Two Field Guides

10,000 Birds

Like most regional bird guides, the Mississippi River is the line of demarcation. Birds of Prey of the East covers species that reside or migrate east of the Mississippi River and east of Manitoba and the west shore of Hudson Bay in Canada, and eastward across the Arctic islands to Greenland. Structure & Organization.