10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

It was advisable to remove them at night, to keep them calm, to establish immediately a feeding board on which they would be fed chopped beef and egg to start, then fresh birds, rabbit or squirrel. “I’d witnessed Peregrines and Gyrfalcons in the fall of 1949 while I was doing undergraduate work at the University of Alaska.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 196

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The lengthy Introduction gives both a personal history and a global history of birds and art, including brief profiles of John James Audubon and the far lesser known Genevieve Estelle Jones, who conceived of a book eventually called Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio in the late 19th century. Western Scrub-Jay (pp.

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Birds Eggs Laws Woodpeckers 165

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

He’s also worked with the National Wildlife Refuge System, co-led birding tours to Alaska, and co-authored A Guide to the Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds (1997). The 2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation , p.36, Margaret A. The writers have created a good book.

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America Industry Birds Squirrels 243

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Holt also travels up to Utqiavik, Alaska every June, and has been for over 30 years, to study Snowy Owls and Brown Lemmings. They are also hunted. They roost and hunt, at night (mostly) when we can’t see them. “Well, that’s great,” you may be saying, “but what does that have to do with owls?

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 231

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Not only were they a common bird, they were a common bird nearshore; indigenous peoples hunted them up and down the coast. Alaska’s long-lining fleet now must have bird-deterrent measures in place, which means a lot more Laysan, Black-footed and Short-tailed Albatross are not being injured or drowned in fishing gear.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 221

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2023

To be honest, both the robin and the flycatchers shown above remind me of the easter eggs I hunted for as a child – the same strong colors in front of a green background, same time of the year (feel free to insert your own Proust Madeleine reference here) … Bluethroats apparently are good at imitating other birds.

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Monkeys Birds South Korea Owls 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2013

02–19 There may be a crisis of the Duck Stamp, and the relationship between duck hunting, habitat preservation, and funding may be shifting as Duck numbers and Duck stamp sales no longer correlate. 01–15 Who could forget the catfish that figured out how to eat birds ? With global warming, this has meant earlier hatching.

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