10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

Eight years later, Christian Cooper birding Central Park became a very different kind of media image: the black man falsely accused by a white woman of threatening her life after asking her to leash her dog in the Ramble, an area where unleashed dogs are not allowed. It was the same day George Floyd was killed. I remember that day.

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Emotional Birds Minneapolis Nepal 227

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2023

Except in the sad year of 2020, when Lake Cuitzeo had almost entirely dried up by January 1st.) Sure, the dog didn’t count for our eBird list. And in my case, that means heading up to Lake Cuitzeo. Most years, a day in January of serious birding around Lake Cuitzeo can give me around 85 species.

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Blackbirds 2020 Ducks Mexico 147

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 30, 2019

What better way to ring in 2020 than with one of six unique calendars featuring Australia’s hottest firefighters with rescue cats, dogs, horses, and native animals! It’s hard to believe the new year is already right around the corner. A … Continue reading →

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Horses 2020 Rescue Australia 160

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

And, in “The Black and White,” Sara Crosby tells the evocative tale of finding a deceased Black-and-white Warbler on Charles Street while walking her dog. Press, 2020, 304p. When Birds Are Near: Dispatches from Contemporary Writers , edited by Susan Fox Rogers. Comstock Publishing/Cornell Univ.

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New York City Birds Owls Fox 196

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2020

FWS stated that “[d]esigns may include, but are not limited to, hunting dogs, hunting scenes, hunting equipment, waterfowl decoys, managed waterfowl areas as the background of habitat scenes, or other designs that represent our waterfowl hunting heritage.” The comment period closed on March 16, 2020.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2019

It can be mixed into any number of cocktails during the countdown celebration, or – on the morning after – poured liberally into a screwdriver, bloody Mary, and many other restorative hair-of-the-dog concoctions you may find yourself craving early in the new year. Deciding what to drink on both New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day?

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Geese Branding France Poland 136

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2019

Marathon Prairie Dog Town. Chestnut-collared Longspur – Calcarius ornatus. 13054–13098 53rd St SW, Belfield US-ND (46.6442,-103.1987). 08 Jul 2018. McCown’s Longspur – Rhynchophanes mccownii. 03 Dec 2018. Snow Bunting – Plectrophenax nivalis. Breezy Point Tip. 21 Jan 2018. Corn Bunting – Emberiza calandra.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The proposal essentially meant that all submissions had to include a dog, decoy, blind, or some other hunting element. After the 2020 election, the Biden Administration stated that it would revisit the issue, and, on June 22, 2021, FWS proposed a new rule to effectively undo the Trump Administration Rule.

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