10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2014

There’s no species of bird more associated with the North American desert than Greater Roadrunner. When I was cutting my birding teeth in southern Missouri lo those many years ago, Greater Roadrunner was limited to a couple distant glades, cedar glens on the south side of Ozark mountains, in the far south of the state.

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Missouri Mississippi Agenda Rodents 197

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2011

Fortunately for me, there were birds around too! An outing with an eighteen-month-old and two non-birders as participants can’t be focused entirely on birds, of course, but as we walked along I could certainly listen to what was singing. No, I have no such diabolical agendas! Pure coincidence!

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Kentucky Agenda New York Wounded 160

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2013

I had an interesting email come in this winter: “I have been photographing birds for the past 8 years and have been confronted by numerous “Rude Birders.” I worked with education owls for over ten years, from Great Horned Owls to Saw-whet Owls (above bird). So, how close is “too close” for an owl?

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Owls Barn Owls Agenda Zoos 256

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2011

The trick is to see the bird before you get too close. The easiest way to eliminate the Common Snipe is by noting the white trailing edge to the secondaries, but since this is not always conspicuous, it is not reliable if you fail to spot it on a fast moving, zig-zagging bird. Two male-plumaged birds were seen in this paddy.

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Agenda China Farming Humane 170

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2016

And, let me tell you, it was an amazing trip with gorgeous scenery, lots of cool mammals, and, of course, a whole big bunch of birds! This Pine Grosbeak was just one of the cool birds that came in to take advantage of the feeder. The birds weren’t high on the agenda while we were in Wyoming but I still managed to see some.

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Idaho Colorado Wyoming San Francisco 103

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2012

Saturday was set aside for birding. Redgannet was in town and had all day to get out looking for birds so I had booked us for the pelagic trip out of Freeport and our plan was to find his life Snowy Owl and then get on the boat and enjoy a host of alcids, gulls, and gannets. The owl, much to Redgannet’s dismay, was a no-show.

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Agenda Owls New York Fast Food 167

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Be water birds, be air birds. Be water birds, be air birds. Apparently the man with his head buried in a book is not interested in the “idle&# behavior of birds, and, by extension, those who would watch them. Twirl on, you and your satin blue. Be these purple tumblers you are. What is there to analyze here?

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Chicago Geese Horses Agenda 176

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2017

If you do eBird , there’s a pretty good chance you were birding somewhere on May 13th. You may have birding from the window of your home, you may have been counting birds at a local wildlife refuge, you may have been counting birds on a feverish run from one end of a state to the next. instead of midnight.

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Costa Rica 2017 Owls West Virginia 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Proposal: Creation of a Federal Wildlife Conservation Stamp A birder, wildlife watcher, photographer and non-hunter version of the Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp (aka Federal Duck Stamp). Sign the White House petition started by 10,000 Birds! Look for it in upcoming posts. The Wild Duck Chase.

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Wildlife Hunters Ducks Hunting 192

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In fact, I was already embarrassed two months ago, when the pandemic and at-home duties had forced me to write about the same michoacano birds for a couple of years running. (It’s It’s a good thing that I can access some 300+ michoacano birds! New places, new birds! ” Of course, I birded every moment I could.

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Turkey Spain Mexico Agenda 162

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

My own trip was not an intensive birding experience, and August is clearly not the most productive month. I chalked up 132 species in a pretty relaxed eight days, during which birds shared the agenda with culture. This area offers probably the best wetland birding near Belgrade. What has changed in the meantime?

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Serbia Birds Bulgaria Farming 149

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2014

Defenders of the gun club accused me of lying, of distorting facts, of being anti-hunting, of being an animal rights activist, of being allied with the dreaded Friends of Animals, of hiding my true agenda (gun control), and of being unconcerned that animal lovers were supposedly threatening members of the gun club with death.

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Killing Hunting Hunters Possums 255

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Take, for instance, the word “ruddy” Outside of birding, when was the last time you used it? In fact, it’s one of the few species of birds that’s found on the six major, not ice-covered, continents. The Pac Loon never made an appearance.

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Agenda North Carolina Ducks Groups 157

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2013

Name-calling and charges of agenda-promoting ensued. Those unable to fathom how one could celebrate a life by filling the skies with latex locked horns with those unable to fathom how any type of alternative could be suggested to a family during their time of loss. It’s over; the balloons all went up between 4:15 and 4:30 on a Monday.

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Wildlife Agenda North Carolina Raised 249

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! If you wrote to Tennessee in the 10,000 Birds campaign this winter, you can cut and paste your letter, changing “Tennessee&# to “Kentucky.&# Kentucky Dept.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 238

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

The lack of people does not mean we have any less extinct or threatened bird species than other countries. Even the first explorers to Australia documented there was a risk of extinction of birds and animals into the future and subsequently decided to collect as many specimens as possible! Handbook to The Birds of Australia, 1865.

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Species Australia Birds Parrots 174

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2017

Birding in Germany was okay during the first half of the year but essentially came to an end in June due to several issues, most significantly a move to a different appartment within Heidelberg. You can see my birding activities abroad and within Germany on the maps at the top of this post. 1, my best bird of the year… 10.

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2016 Germany Italy Netherlands 101

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2017

And resistance to this anti-environmental agenda is essential if we want to keep our country, and our planet, safe for future generations. “On Wednesday morning, activists from Greenpeace unfurled a massive yellow and orange banner with the word ‘Resist’ on a tall crane behind the White House,” read the NPR story.

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Agenda Obama Protection Groups 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Ken Ivory is not the only politician trying to advance this agenda. We need to be wary of politicians like Republican Utah State Representative Ken Ivory who is also co-founder of an organization called the American Lands Council , created to advocate and lobby for the transfer of federal lands to states.

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Hunters Utah Extremist Agenda 122

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

My agenda is to help to make the Ross Sea an international marine protected area. Also, for quarter of a century I have been canoeing the Danube backwaters inside Belgrade and collecting data about birds (most of it I have entered into the eBird). Yes, none of the above. Vote for me! But what do I stand for? What do I want to deliver?

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Agenda Protection New Zealand Argentina 162