10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2012

The risk of extinction for Amazonian birds has increased substantially: 07 June 2012 The risk of extinction has increased substantially for nearly 100 species of Amazonian birds, reveals the 2012 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ update for birds released today by BirdLife International.

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Parrots 2012 Birds Humane 193

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2013

Back in October of 2012, the USFWS published a document pertaining to recommendations 17 and 18 of their vision document titled “ Hunting, Fishing, & Outdoor Recreation: National Wildlife Refuge System.” Philatelists, after seventy-nine years, are already tuned in to the advantages they enjoy from collecting the stamps.

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Ducks Wildlife Hunters Hunting 236

4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

The group has more than 7,000 volunteers locally who do this. FixNation sterilizes more than 70 cats each day and will have successfully trapped, neutered and returned 80,000 cats by the summer of 2012. To date, there are 7,076 volunteer trappers and caregivers that have embraced FixNation and contributed to these results.

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Trap Neuter Return Feral Cats Neutering Spay 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2017

My reasons for not liking a strict taxonomic order were essentially twofold: Similar species are not grouped together making identification harder than it should be. The pittas ( Garnet Pitta seen above) are just such a sacred group of birds that even taxonomists dare not screw them over. van Balen, N. Brickle & F.

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Brunei 2009 2016 2014 150

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 4, 2012

The rescue group who helped Fiona, Hope for Paws, is teaming up with Planet Blue to help spread the word and raise awareness of the overwhelming population of stray dogs. The Details: Starts May 29, 2012. Ends June 8, 2012 at 12PM PST. Do you remember the heartwarming rescue video of Fiona the blind dog?

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Stray Dog Rescue 2012 Stray 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

It is technically correct, and recently fashionable, to insist that any living animal is a member of the larger group that contains it phylogenetically, i.e., ancestrally, with that group often named after the known animal that roots the tree. So, for example, humans are apes. The point is, of course, that whales are not cows.

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Camels Whales Whaling Apes 196

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2018

Looking through this compact yet extensive guide, I realized that I have been amiss in not reviewing the first book of this series, the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America by David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie (same authors, order reversed), published in 2012. But, there have been exceptions.

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North America America Oklahoma Missouri 100

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 15, 2012

Celebrate Earth Day, April 20, 2012, by seeing the latest Disneynature film, True-Life Adventure, CHIMPANZEE! The film opens in North America on April 20, 2012. Tickets for groups of 20 or more are already available by calling 1-888-DISNEY6. Take the Disneynature Chimpanzee Pledge to See and Save!

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Congo 2012 North America Africa 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

As a result, the Aruba Birdlife Conservation Foundation began a campaign to make the Burrowing Owl the country’s national bird , which was officially named in 2012. Though not based on the Aruba populations, the movie portrayed a group of friends from Florida trying to save Burrowing Owl habitat from destruction.

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Prairie Dogs Tortoises Owls South America 101

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2021

I was just getting back into birding, and had only gone to some urban sites, during 2012 and 2013. Finding this elusive and beautiful species at Pino Real kind of put me “on the map” with my wonderful group of Mexican birder friends. Among all the birding locations I have found, Pino Real was my first love.

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2013 Emotional Abandon Abandoning 158

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 30, 2012

Kimpton’s second, annual Paw-parazzi contest , going on now through May 31, 2012. Quaker Pet Group & Republic of Paws Ultimate Legacy Pet Carrier. You can upload your photos to the Kimpton’s website for the chance to win playful pet prizes. Two round trip tickets on JetBlue for human passengers. One in-room spa treatment for two.

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Pets 2012 Dogs Groups 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Thank you, goddess of birding luck and text group people).* The book is richly illustrated with contributions from a group of birders/photographers who were fortunate to see and document many of the vagrants covered. Authors Alexander Lees & James Gilroy are British ornithologists who have spent time working in the United States.

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 255

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

©2012 Donna L. There are now multiple sites where people can contribute data on window strikes and bird deaths, including NYC Audubon’s dBird , FLAP’s Global Collision Bird Mapper , iNaturalist, and, on a social media level, the Facebook group Dead Birds 4 Science , run by the indefatigable Heidi Trudell.

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 247

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The inside front covers are the start of four-page pictorial guides to bird families/groups and the pages where they can be found, a quick, easy entry to the identification process (see image above). The Species Accounts follow the ‘modern guide’ format, with illustrations clearly labeled and arranged in species groupings.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 203

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

This is a very different book from what I expected, less of a handbook and more of a comprehensive identification text on 24 groups of birds, presented in words and photographs. These are bird groups that have been covered extensively by other guides. Armistead and Brian L. It is an intriguing choice of species.

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 189

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2014

Since 2004, the three-year averages (2003 to 2012) for nesting pairs ranged from 7,086 to 10,147, all above the 6,000 three-year average identified in the 1997 recovery plan as the threshold to consider reclassifying the species to threatened status.

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North Carolina Bald Eagle South Carolina Florida 190

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 27, 2012

And you can help simply by writing a blog post before June 30, 2012 (midnight EST). Food will be donated to RescueBank , an organization that helps provide food for qualifying shelters and rescue groups. Now in it’s third year, the program has generated 650 blog posts and 6.5 TONS of food to help feed shelter dogs.

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Pedigree Dogs Shelters Adoptable 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2021

In 2012 , the NFC revised some of its goals and set forth a new vision of waterfowl management that emphasized a core of hunter and conservationist supporters. Birders seem to be a fairly modest group: “Respondents rated themselves as somewhat skilled in identifying birds.

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Minnesota Research Pennsylvania Ohio 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2015

It belongs to a group of species of special conservation concern, which under the European Birds Directive requires Member States to designate Special Protection Areas (Annex I species). The study was prepared in 2012, but no protection has been declared to date.

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Serbia Protection Europe 2015 176

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2012

They are often in large groups in these areas when they are not breeding. Looks like it’s coming to us in 2012 now!! They will often fly at both people and other animals in defense of their eggs and young. Don’t camp near these birds unless you want waking up early!

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Breeding Cows Eggs 2012 143

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Buying a bunch of votes and dropping it like a big crap bomb at an annual meeting may get you what you want but boy howdy, I can’t imagine people lining up to join that group. The 2012 event was held at Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. It’s a pleasant way to spend and hour on the refuge.

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Family Beavers Minnesota Sparrows 156

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

I think most readers of 10,000 Birds will, at this point, remember my great disappointment in January of 2012 when I went on the Black Rail field trip at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival and neither heard nor saw a Black Rail. We had heard two Black Rails ! We were a happy bunch of birders well satisfied with our experience.

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Wildlife Philippines Florida Experience 175

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2017

On top of that, he wrote and self-published Guide to the Birds of Honduras (which we interviewed him about back in 2012). A group of twenty volunteers have been busy translating the nearly 500 pages of the Honduran bird book and are nearly half-way done. But there’s still something missing. A Spanish edition of my field guide.

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Honduras Missouri Birds Panama 131

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2012

Harlequin Duck - 01 January 2012 – A great way to start the year at Fort Tilden, and it made up for missing several the previous winter. Snowy Owl - 04 February 2012 – A bird that was long overdue and one that I had predicted on my previous list but not on the most recent.

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Connecticut 2011 2012 Jamaica 169

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2012

Tucson, AZ, August 2012 – When you get a bunch of bird bloggers together, which you do you imagine comes first: birds or blogs? Swarovski Optik confirmed the obvious answer rather quickly when the SONA group invited a bunch of us to Tucson for a Social Media Summit.

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Tucson Arizona North America Sparrows 154

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 7, 2013

Malayan tiger cub births in managed care are rare – just one successful birth in 2012 as part of the SSP. The cubs will rotate separate sessions on the habitat with the Bengal tiger groups that currently reside there. There are currently just over 50 Malayan tigers in the Species Survival Plan.

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Tampa Tigers Thailand Livestock 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Tours groups that I guided to Ethiopia ten years ago had to endure very basic accommodation, almost no surfaced roads and low levels of service. White-rumped Babbler A near-endemic, this attractively-scaled babbler is not uncommon is small noisy groups in woodlands and thickets. Males have dark heads whereas females sport sooty ones.

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Ethiopia Eritrea Africa Mammals 263

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

If those 16th Century Spanish sailors knew the kind of grief with which they’d be saddling this remarkable group of birds for all time, perhaps they would have had something resembling empathy for those who will be forced to live with the ramifications of their irreverence. Let’s address, up front, the funny name.

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Birds Buffalo New York Pelicans 192

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

Take, for example, the group of the goatsuckers Caprimulgidae – the nightjars, and nighthawks, and whip-poor-wills, and widow-chuckers. Here, I show you a few images of Savanna Nightjars , a Southeast Asian species I was able to observe nicely and commonly on Java and South Borneo in 2012 and 2013. I am just not fooled anymore.

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Goats Indonesia Science Experience 186

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2018

The Pied Oystercatcher sitting on eggs in the header photo has used that particular area of Cable Beach just north of the rocks since 2008 and the pair has only successfully raised one chick and that was in 2012. Each year we hope for anther success, but so far it has not happened. Pied Oystercatcher nest.

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Breeding 2018 Eggs 2016 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2014

I wrote of some birding areas around Derby in August 2012 and we hoped that we would be able to get to some of those this last week. Further along we came across a small group of Royal Spoonbills, Little Black Cormorant and the occasional Common Greenshank and suddenly everything took to the skies. Plumed Whistling-Ducks.

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Birds Ducks 2015 2014 145

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) And, to make things even more confusing, why did Ian’s 2012 ffrench guide list the motmot under its old name, Blue-crowned Motmot? .

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 189

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Many of these refuges and associated Conservation Areas, which have the potential to protect more than 1 million acres of vital wildlife habitat, have been forged through creative partnerships with sportsmen, conservation groups and private landowners. We need 25,000 signatures by December 14th so let’s get crackin’!

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Wildlife Hunters Ducks Hunting 193

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2019

My first year on eBird, 2012, exactly 20 people submitted checklists for the entire state. I saw a group of six medium-large, long-billed shorebirds feeding in several inches of water. I am not very good at learning to ID birds by song or call. But my home is not in the U.S. or the U.K.; At least, that is what I thought!)

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Mexico Birds 2013 Lamb 126

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

During this study, all the pigeon predation was observed on one small island where the birds grouped to preen and drink. Or, it could just be some weird thing one group of catfish do. Except that last one doesn’t really happen, does it? Well, maybe not, but here is a case of a squid eating a Gull off the surface. Cucherousset, J.,

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Fish Birds Whales Whaling 199

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Hawk watchers and birders who look at hawks (not always the same group!) There are probably more identification guides about raptors than there are for any other bird group. If the accipiter swivels its head to look at a group of hawk watchers without moving its body, it’s a Cooper’s. Hardover, 352p.

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North America Bald Eagle Birds Eagles 215

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Dolphin and whale photographic plates offer notes on fin and blowhole size and shape, with the text giving visual clues on what surfacing whales look like (a sperm whale “looks like a giant turd”) and how various dolphin species leap and group together.

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Pennsylvania Texas Whales Whaling 158