10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2016

They are described as “hardy,” and “handle marginal diets and poor housing conditions better than other breeds and still continue to produce eggs.” ” Best of all, they lay between 150 and 200 eggs per year. Though they only weigh.1-.2 Think about it, Rhode Island is tiny, and so is the hummingbird!

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Rhode Island Oklahoma Chickens Minnesota 101

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2020

But the Kentish Plover was sheltering its young under its body, and the Little Ringed Plover was incubating an egg — right in the middle of downtown Madrid! But the Great Swallow-tailed Swift is one of the largest Swifts in North America. These two shorebirds are exceedingly common in western Europe. I think all Swifts are cool.

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Austria Spain 2019 Birds 150

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. In the all too brief introduction to the book, they state, “This book aims to shed light on the family lives of birds, a topic that has captured our collective imagination and enriched our language despite being shrouded in mystery.”. Oops, the curmudgeon in me slipped.) Peregrine Falcon nests.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2013

All four major flyways in North America — the aerial migration routes traveled by billions of birds each year — converge in one spot in Canada’s boreal forest, the Peace-Athabasca Delta in northeastern Alberta. About three billion birds fly north to the Boreal Forest each spring to build nests and lay eggs. depend on the Boreal Forest.

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Obama 2008 United States Industry 252

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2017

Though they weight less than two ounces, Least Terns migrate from South America to the West, East, and Gulf Coast to breed on dunes or flat gravel roofs (there are also populations in the middle of the United States). It’s mid-April, and soon they will begin laying eggs.

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South America United States Protection Pelicans 103

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

To keep things relatively close to home and reasonably-priced, I have limited myself to birding in the United States, creating my own birding area consisting of all 50 states and the U.S. A direct flight from Portland is also a plus, as is seeing new parts of America. territories such as Puerto Rico and the U.S.

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San Francisco Portland United States Puerto Rico 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2014

According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) report on animals taken in fiscal year 2013 , “Wildlife Services” intentionally killed 657,134 Red-winged Blackbirds and dispersed1,777,960. . References: 1 Birds of North America Online. See Birdchick’s post here.

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Blackbirds California 2014 2013 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2012

Green Iguanas range from southern Mexico and the Caribbean islands to South America and are relatively common. The female of the species lays ten to thirty eggs in a burrow she digs about 65 days after mating.

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New York Reptiles Eggs South America 166

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

In short, the answer is that in the United States there are 20 billion birds at the end of the breeding and fledging season, which gets winnowed down to 10 billion by the following early spring. If so, then that means that of the 10,000,000,000 birds that apparently die each year, kitties are responsible for perhaps 5%.

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Cats Boston Ferrets Killing 185

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. Between 1974 and 2005, more than 7000 young Peregrines were hacked in the United States and Canada. And grow they did.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 186

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The team explored Nevada and Utah, with Ridgway collecting thousands of bird specimen, plus nests and eggs for the Smithsonian. He wrote about birds in North America, Central America, and parts of South America, including the Galapagos.

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Collecting Illinois United States Science 151

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

It was not a kitty cat, even though all of its relatives in the Americas were. But they don’t live in North America. I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. In North America, you’ve got Bears at the large end, Cats in the middle, and at the smaller end, the Mustilids.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 256

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The first, Field Guide to the Birds of Trinidad & Tobago, was published by Christopher Helm in London in 2007 and then published in the United States in 2008 by Yale University Press. For some reason, Yale University Press discontinued its arrangement with Helms, so there is no United States edition.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 201

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

Corey did just this in this 2011 posting about Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus in New York State. I was also curious, as a birder of the northeast United States, to see what kind of avian changes have been going on in Pennsylvania.

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 235

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

They cut down the trees the parrots used for nesting and brought black rats, who ate their eggs, and honeybees who swarmed into their nests, and by 1937 there were only about 2,000 Puerto Rican Parrots left. Clue: El Yunque is featured on one of the coins in the America the Beautiful Quarters program.).

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 238

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JUNE 3, 2020

Instead, they lay their eggs in other species’ nests, and let those nest-making birds (often significantly smaller than the cowbirds) raise their young. Its historical year-round range stretches from extreme northwestern Colombia to northern Mexico, with migration into the southwestern United States in the summer.

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Birds Blackbirds Mexico Cattle 156

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Birders are always happy to see a turtle or tortoise, and there are times of the year when my social media feeds are sprinkled with photos of turtles beings removed from roads or crawling to land to lay eggs. He has written several books, including Turtles of the United States and Canada, 2nd ed. , (with Carl H. Press, 2009).

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Turtles Tortoises Family Terrapins 205

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

from University of Miami in 1966 and has written over 75 scientific and popular papers and books, including Shorebirds of North America: The Photographic Guide. Press in 2009), active participation in the Dragonfly Society of the Americas and leading dragonfly trips to Costa Rica and, hopefully this summer, Panama.

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United States Costa Rica Massachusetts North America 238

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Still, I can’t help thinking that there is some parallel between the mass slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon in 19th-century North America and the mass slaughter of songbirds in southern European countries today. How many eggs did a pigeon lay? In both countries, birds have been killed for reasons of food, commerce, and sport.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 160

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This may have been partly a leftover from the Victorian fascination with egg collecting (the infamous passion known as oology), but probably more from people’s burgeoning interest in the nests and eggs found in their gardens and fields, gateway artifacts to a newer hobby called birdwatching. The Harrison guides are out of print.

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Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 238

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2019

But pisco persisted through these hardships and even spread north up the Pacific coast of the Americas, becoming especially fashionable in the late-nineteenth century saloons of San Francisco and Gold Rush California.

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Peru San Francisco Parrots Chile 124

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2011

It made us reach for our field guide for North America, but that really does not compare to the real thing. I did not get to appreciate all that America had to offer for the birder until I returned with my husband, Grant, in 1989. I then had a year in Florida – beware the alligators and hurricanes!

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South Africa United States Austin Alligators 159

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

The where and how of egg laying and larva emergence is briefly treated, with page references to larval drawings at the back of the book. And, to be fair, with the small number of species located in Great Britain and Ireland, there is far less confusion than in North America. In fact, visuals dominate all the introductory sections.

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Ireland France Breeding Eggs 177

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 122