10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 19, 2012
This weekend was dedicated to enjoying the company of my visiting mother, brother, sister-in-law, and niece. But on his boat ride around lower New York Harbor and Jamaica Bay on Sunday he found himself appreciating the Herring Gulls more than any other species. Have you been participating in the Great Backyard Bird Count ?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2014
As bird lovers, we’re happy that laws exist to protect birds, and that people are especially looking after protected species. In the New York metro area, not-quite-hurricane Sandy unleashed a significant amount of devastation back in October 2012, with storm surge and severe flooding along shorelines.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
Back in December I was in Orange County, California, enjoying the holidays with my in-laws. In 2012 I got my 500th bird in the ABA area when I twitched a Painted Redstart at Lacy Park in San Marino, California. Fortunately, a Painted Redstart was frequenting Irvine Lake, a mere fifteen minutes from my in-laws house, in December. (In
10,000 Birds
MAY 15, 2011
Will it come back in 2012? We’ll see… But there is one more thing to do for Wood-Warbler Week, and that is to figure out what wood-warbler is represented in the Wood-Warbler Week logo, which was created by my wonderful sister-in-law, Stephanie Chung. What species is shown? Wood-Warbler Week is finally over for 2011.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
And, John Laws widely praised The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds (2012) is mysteriously missing. The index lists bird species by whole name, which is less than satisfactory. Bird species are not capitalized. 118-119) was split into two species in 2016–California Scrub-Jay and Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay. (I
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 21, 2016
I am not entirely sure whether most birders outside Germany know or realize that Germany still has a decent population of one of Europe’s most attractive and desired bird species: the Great Bustard Otis tarda. This is prohibited under German nature conservation laws and a moral no-go.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 16, 2012
Without adequate funding, habitats are not restored, invasive species are left unchecked, poaching and other illegal activities occur and our nation’s wildlife suffers 1. Additional issues include a shortage of law enforcement officials, as well as invasive species problems on 2.5 million acres of Refuge lands.
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