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AUGUST 3, 2023

So I adopted this crayfish earlier today and I'm curious as to which species it is. I'll try to add better pictures by this evening. Thanks for any help? submitted by /u/Hypercoreriper [link] [comments]

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Adoptable Species Animal 52

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2022

The week on the cusp between March and April was the first week in which failed to pick up any FOY species for the year 2022. This following week, in which I did take a longer trip, I again picked up four FOY species.). Extra points to these American Avocets for adopting a different pose for each numbered group.

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Blackbirds Germany Sparrows Adoptable 184

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2022

Our church “adopted” them, finding them a place to live, and making sure they would have food, kitchen equipment, winter clothing, and all the other things they would be unlikely to bring. I told Ricardo we might see 50 species or more in one day, which would apparently be extraordinary in his native land.

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ALA Louisiana Adoptable Mexico 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2022

The HBW reports that until recently several subspecies were commonly recognized, notably brevipes , ocularis , micronesiae , minima , leucophrys , meeki and tannensis , but that the differences are slight and the species is now treated as monotypic. Bird information does not get much more irrelevant than this.

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Branding Micronesia Birds Buffalo 183

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

An associated issue is that the Belize and Costa Rica guides share many of the same descriptions of species, written by Howell. Similarly, descriptions of species repeated across volumes do not lose their accuracy with each publication. Other species are splits and lumped and have had their names changed. Why are these issues?

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 216

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

This leaves Shanghai in June with basically just the year-round species and the summer breeders, maybe with a few added ultra-lazy individuals of migratory species. Fortunately, there are a few more such breeding species than most Shanghainese are aware of. Such as the Black-winged Cuckooshrike.

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Birds Eggs Breeders Breeding 130

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2012

It’s tough to make out what species the baby bird is but it sure likes bluegrass. No worries – it was adopted and cared for by a veterinarian in the audience. If bluegrass isn’t your thing the fun starts at the minute-and-a-half mark of the video. As for the bird? … a.

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North Carolina Adoptable Birds Species 219

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2019

This is the same history of conquest and despoliation which now puts many of these very species in danger of extinction. … Most birds were named by now dead white men who didn’t appreciate that most of the species they were “discovering” had already been discovered and had names.

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Birds North America Cooking Campaign 260

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

And with no natural predators or resistant trees in their adopted territory, things have been looking pretty grim. … Here at 10,000 Birds 20 July – 26 July is Invasive Species Week. Nonetheless, this week will be chock full of invasive species. Enter the woodpecker.

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Woodpeckers Illinois Science Chicago 273

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

Wikipedia seems not too impressed with the species, stating that “the brown honeyeater is a medium-small, plain grey-brown honeyeater” The Latin species name indistincta (indistinct, obscure) sounds similarly underwhelming. The species was bred at the zoo of Memphis, Tennesee ( source ). ” ( source ).

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Birds Australia Parrots Memphis 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2019

In my adoptive country of Mexico, however, site discovery is not only possible, but necessary. In my case, fully half of the eBird hotspots within an hour of my city of Morelia that have more than 100 species registered were my discoveries, and I had a hand in increasing the species list for almost my nearby sites.

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United States Squirrels Adoptable Species 137

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Adopted as the state bird in 1948 , the Carolina Wren actually superseded another species: the Northern Mockingbird. Still, it’s important to note that when you hear the loud song of a wren, you are hearing the male; unlike other wren species, only males sing with high volume.

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South Carolina United States Legislation Birds 172

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

” Funny how the difficulty of breeding a species can be illustrated in simple monetary terms. But that may have helped me to see them – the species is quite nomadic and settles wherever there is rain. Ok, back to the (presumably non-sacred, certainly non-mummified) Australian species. In a paper published in 1938 (!),

Birds 147

Birds Australia Sheep Zebras 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2019

I pushed for Wikipedia to adopt them, and then to follow the taxonomy, and given the dominance of Wikipedia in Google search results, this is no small thing. Then someone decided that the Canary Island birds were a separate species. Later, the North African ones were moved to the Canarian species. But the Blue Tit was different.

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Iran Barn Owls New Zealand Europe 129

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Fortunately for me, my adoptive land of Mexico is rich in, precisely, double-hyphenates. Among our bird groups with many such species are the Wood-Partridges, Quail-Doves, Ant-Tanagers, Forest-Falcons, and Tody-Flycatchers. The juvenile Green-striped Brush-Finch is drab enough that you might think the species was nothing special.

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Sparrows Mexico United States Groups 136

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2013

Many escapes and introductions have taken place over the years and some species have found the warm, dry climate to their liking. Quite a few species are well-established and breeding from San Diego to Los Angeles and beyond. In particular, subsection iii seems to be the hurdle that most species can’t clear.

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Parrots California Los Angeles San Diego 220

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2016

I enjoyed encountering a lot of first-of-year spring arrivals, but the species that most piqued my interest was White-winged Scoter , with a late flock of 17 hanging around Braddock Bay. The birds had already adopted their drab eclipse plumage, unlike the winter warrior featured in the photo above. What can I say?

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2016 Adoptable Florida Birds 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2019

When I was a new birder, I adopted Pillar Point Harbor near Half Moon Bay as a “patch.”. According to eBird, there have been approximately 270 species seen at the hotspot that includes the harbor. Before I moved north to Portland, I lived in San Francisco. Sequoia Audubon Society has an excellent overview of the hotspot.)

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San Francisco Portland Whales Whaling 129

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 31, 2015

Yep, those two guys identified 331 species in one small area, sans vehicle. Can you imagine even identifying more than 250 species while walking and using a canoe in one day? Essentially, their record was broken in 1986 by Terry Stevenson and John Fanshawe when they recorded 342 species during one calendar day in Kenya.

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Costa Rica South Africa Kenya Ecuador 166

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2013

This form is thought to be a different species and the name Golden-bellied Woodpecker has been adopted by some. The accepted popular name may be woodpecker, but like so many birds, it has a few pet names used by those who are familiar with the species.

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Woodpeckers Argentina South America Adoptable 165

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

Other species have certainly expanded their ranges, but never in such a rapid and global scale. For reasons that are not quite clear, this species underwent a massive range expansion. In the east, this species can be found along the east coast of Africa, the Nile Valley,and into parts of the middle east and India and southeast Asia.

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Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 170

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

— but there is apparently an entire literature about women who adopt wild birds and devote substantial portions of their lives and psyches to those birds thereafter, often for years and, necessarily, to the point of obsession. As she has done for many years and with more than twenty species, she adopted a baby bird, a blue jay.

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Ohio Adoptable Emotional 2019 142

Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2009

It's a TLC show about humans that adopt monkeys and treat them as their children. Monkey business is big business in the United States, where some people pay up to $5,000 to adopt a monkey of their own, often a capuchin monkey, which can grow up to 22 inches and 9 pounds. Thanks to Chimpanzee Information for pointing this travesty out.

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Monkeys Primates United States Endangered Species 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Here, for example, is the emblem of Italy, adopted by the Italian Republic in 1948. Sadly for Italy, the Italian Wolf is not considered a full species by any scientists. The lack of a national bird is not because Italy has a paucity of birds or a lack of interest in symbols.

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Italy Birds Adoptable Europe 195

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

A Field Guide to the Birds: Giving Field Marks of All Species Found in Eastern North America was published in 1934 by Houghton Mifflin (note–Peterson was 26 years old), after being rejected by four publishers. Adding the 76 new species in the Hawaii section, this makes coverage of approximately 884 species.

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North America America Hawaii Birds 210

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2013

There are two species, rather conservatively named the Southern Giant Petrel and, the star of today’s show, the Northern Giant Petrel. When dealing with competitors on the beach they adopt a wings out position known as the beachmaster, similar to what I saw these squabbling birds doing out at sea.

Albatross 147

Albatross Penguins Adoptable Birds 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2013

New World populations of the widely distributed Sandwich Tern ( Thalasseus sandvicensis ) are treated by some authorities (including the British Ornithologists’ Union) as a distinct species: Cabot’s Tern ( T. Proposal 2013-A-3 recommends adopting that split on the basis of a 2009 study (I wrote about it back in the day here ).

2013 186

2013 Sparrows Owls Stray 186

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

I like observing them, reading about them, grappling with species and subspecies identification, and even—on a good day—talking about sparrow taxonomy. Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America covers 61 species of the New World sparrow family Passerellidae that breed in Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico.

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North America Sparrows America United States 149

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

In May 1992 European Union governments adopted legislation designed to protect the most seriously threatened habitats and species across Europe. This legislation is called the Habitats Directive and complements the Birds Directive adopted in 1979. Noudar has recorded 184 different species since 1999.

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Portugal Legislation 2000 Adoptable 251

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2020

The hapless Sooty Tern ( Onychoprion fuscatus ) is the classic hurricane bird, but other pelagic species are entrained in storms and blown ashore as well, like Bridled Terns ( Onychoprion anaethetus ), White-tailed Tropicbirds ( Phaethon lepturus ), and Magnificent Frigatebirds ( Fregata magnificens ).

India 168

India Squirrels North America America 168

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

There probably wouldn’t be a need for all this attention if there wasn’t still so much hostility toward rosé, or – to adopt a more cynical stance – if there wasn’t so much of the stuff to sell to reluctant drinkers put off by its reputation as an overly sweet fad.

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2017 France Lifestyle Feral 115

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2017

Annex II of the Bern Convention lists 45 of Beljarica’s bird species, with a further 91 species in Annex III. The Convention on Migratory Species (the Bonn Convention) lists two of these species – the Ferruginous Duck and the White-tailed Eagle – in Annex I, with a further 64 species in the Annex II.

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Eagles Campaign Otters Serbia 169

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2016

Designated in 1967 (36 years after Idaho’s), the Mountain Bluebird can be found all year round in Nevada, though in general its range shift southward for the winter months; in the summer, this species can be found as far north as Alaska. They let schoolchildren vote too, which must have been a fun class exercise!

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Nevada Idaho United States Alaska 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2015

They don’t even take their tucked-in heads out, a position some resting ducks adopt, when people approach them to distances of only a few meters. Is this the first record of this species in the region in over a 100 years? Ducks at Villa Marshes. Photo: Courtesy of Victor Bustinza. So what to make of this? Both sides have strong points.

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Ducks South America Peru Adoptable 157

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Now that we have returned to our adopted home of La Paz, Mexico, our bones are starting to thaw out from the trip to chilly Seattle. This small bit of arid land that has been set aside to display, and preserve the various species of cactus from this region is about a 45 minute drive from La Paz. Ahh, what a difference a week can make!

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Mexico Sanctuary Seattle Woodpeckers 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Walking along a dirt track next to a prairie, my friend and I were on the look-out for different sparrow species when a large bird suddenly darted into the clearing. Officially adopted as the state bird in 1949 , the Greater Roadrunner was once known as the “Chaparral Bird.”

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New Mexico Mexico Coyotes Rattlesnake 101

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2013

Because this group is so rich in species, so readily able to exploit a wide range of environments and food sources, debates about how to classify these birds have smouldered for decades. John Boyd adopts what he calls a “compromise phylogeny” of 10 families , noting that uncertainty remains. Barker et al.

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Family Blackbirds Groups Sparrows 178