10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The explanation for these differing attitudes toward life (and much, much else) has to do with the aforementioned biotic interchange — what one paleontologist, as quoted by Meiburg, called “one of the most extraordinary events in the whole history of life.”.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Two weekends ago I was scheduled to take part in a live birding video, one of twenty birders from across North and South America who were out and about looking for good birds to share with the world through Swarovski Optik Birding’s Facebook page. There’s a reason that camera operators for sporting events make decent money!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2015

Importantly, the paper offers support for the hypothesis that the ancestor of the entire clade came to North America by way of Beringia — the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska exposed at various times through Earth’s history. The paper is by leading researchers F.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2012

You can be a part of this by organizing and registering a Moth Night event. And if you live in North America, be sure to pick up the new Peterson Field Guide to the Moths of Northeastern North America by David Beadle and my buddy Seabrooke Leckie! Let us know in the comments if you do.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

It’s a protracted event, one that begins with waders, Willow Flycatchers , and other first birds on the move to the south. Bank and Barn Swallows also migrate through in huge numbers, maybe even the majority of the individuals of these common species that breed in North America. How many Sinaloa Martins also fly this way?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2015

With the breeding colony concentrated on one small island this species is vulnerable to a catastrophic weather event. If you want to learn a lot about bird species, I find “Birds of North America Online” the best resource on the net. References: 1 Birds of North America Online , 2 BirdLife International.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2019

Some of those migrants don’t have far to go but the majority of species are winging their way in from Mexico, Central America, and South America. While our winter residents bulk up to head north, they are joined by other species coming from South America. To add to the avian excitement, aquatic birds are also on the move.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2021

. “ So wrote John James Audubon of the Roseate Spoonbill ( Platalea ajaja ) in The Birds of America , his epochal printed and pictorial account of North American birdlife published in serial form between 1827 and 1838.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

There are other bits and pieces of evidence for earlier occupation of Madagascar, but just as is the case for Australia and the Americas, the thing does not hang together yet. For now I think we have to stick with the old and extant model of later arrival of humans, followed quickly by a local extinction event.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2013

Bluebird Man is about Alfred Larson, but you can be one of the film’s heroes by contributing to its production… There is something special about bluebirds, and it isn’t just because the world’s three species are only found in North America. This would be a tragic turn of events for several reasons.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Podilymbus podiceps is most certainly common in my experience, able to be seen consistently across varied habitats throughout nearly all of North America and much of South America. The Pied-billed Grebe , a most wondrous waterfowl, perfectly exemplify the distinction between common and mundane.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In Chapter 11, simply entitled “A World of Birds,” Doug explores tough questions about bird diversity around the world: Why are hummingbirds in tropical America and sunbirds in Africa, Asia and Australasia? Why are all the real tanagers in tropical America? that’s three birds).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2013

The insanity of March Madness makes me wonder if any other country has a comparable phenomenon, meaning an annual event or period where college sports dominate discussion. Can anyone share a similar scenario?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Arriving in North America around the time of Columbus, they have become “one of the most successful invasive species on earth.”. In any event, “Cat Wars” is valuable in that it calls to attention a huge problem (set of problems, really) of which many people have, hitherto, been unaware — or ignored.

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JULY 2, 2012

What began as a regional event in Los Angeles in 2011 has expanded to include a series of local Pack Walks around the country between September 24 – 30, led by North Shore Animal League America national shelter partners and Mutt-i-grees Curriculum schools. The movement culminates in Washington D.C.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2014

If that’s your cup of tea, you will be rewarded with a rich meditation on death, life, success, failure, and the nature of the strange historical/geographical project that is America. And it’s an excellent example of what happens when an artist takes one of the great events of natural history as a subject.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

July 28, 2011 – This fall, thousands of people in more than 35 cities across North America will gather for the 2011 Walk for Farm Animals, a series of fun, community-focused events that promote kindness to animals and raise vital funds to support the lifesaving work of Farm Sanctuary, the nation’s leading farm animal protection organization.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2020

How many birders are there in America? However, at least one source reported that way back in 2002, there were approximately 700,000 copies in print of the Sibley Guide to Birds and 250,000 of Kenn Kaufman’s Field Guide to Birds of North America. For such a simple question, it turns out there are very few solid estimates.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2012

I just returned from a phenomenal long weekend in Tucson, AZ where I participated in a really enjoyable event. Of course, Clay Taylor, Naturalist Market Manager for Swarovski Optik North America and reigning champion of the Great Texas Birding Classic , was in attendance with other members of the SONA team.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2022

This species has also established a presence in South America (Brazil) and Iberia. According to Wikipedia, the ancient Chamorro people believed that when it screamed over a house it meant that someone would soon die or that an unmarried girl was pregnant (apparently similarly catastrophic events, I guess).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

If you’re in North America, you might very well be, considering that the dog days are often the doldrums for finding interesting birds. Find a mothing event, or start your own ! Mike photographed this Unmarked Dagger ( Acronicta innotata ) at his family’s annual “Chicken Inferno” in 2009.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2013

Whatever else happens, please, by everything that sane and beautiful, let’s not end up with “Eastern White-breasted Nuthatch” and “Western White-breasted Nuthatch” as English names in such an event. Photo above by Matt MacGillivray). Lumping Rosy-Finches?

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AUGUST 27, 2011

2, America is invited to vote for their favorite entry at WagginTrainBrand.com. Five finalists will be flown to Nashville during Country Music Awards Week where they’ll perform their jingles for Adkins at a private event. From now until Sept.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year. Marybeth and Lynn chase birds familiar and unfamiliar to me, a Northeastern birder, and I’m sure it will be the same for any reader in North America. And there are the birds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2012

It certainly looks good on birds from the Americas ( Elaenia , Flatbill , Greenlet , Piculet , Piha , Siskin , Thornbill ) to Africa ( Flycatcher , Thrush ). North America’s most famous olivaceous avian, Vireo olivaceus is better known for the color of its eyes than that of its plumage.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2013

This is the second version of an event like this in a different region of the country; and this time I will be participating!!! A Birding Rally Challenge is a unique birding event for its “Non-stop” modality, bringing together the most renowned birding teams competing in a neutral country. Photo: Courtesy of Dubi Shapiro.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

On November 7th, Capitol Hill’s “ Tribute to War Heroes…at Both Ends of the Leash ” celebrated America’s military heroes. Not only did the event celebrate veterans, but also the heroic dogs who serve our country with them! “We Accompanied by Debbie Kandoll, who trains dogs for PTSD work.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2014

Instead it will celebrate one of the UK’s most spectacular natural events. Our own avian migration cannot compete with that of Northern America, but we can take comfort in the fact that we have Bluebells. As the wood warblers swarm north, it may seem odd to have a post that does not concern itself with birds at all.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2011

Hundreds of thousands of us have enjoyed the incredible programs and birding opportunities at some of North America’s largest, longest-running birding festivals. I love these well-established, deservedly popular birding events and have participated in each one multiple times.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2019

In 2019, this event will help with conservation efforts in the Las Brisas Reserve and thus work at improving vital and increasingly scarce habitat for the Cerulean Warbler and many other species. How will you help Cerulean Warblers and other migrants flying to and from South America?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

If this was America, we might not be concerned because starlings are an invasive species, at least in North America. The golden-winged warblers had just returned from South America to their breeding grounds in the mountains of Tennessee in 2013 when a massive storm was edging closer.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

In North America, everyone recognizes hawks on the wing, even the ones that aren’t Red-tailed Hawks. Don’t think that this event is only open to North American birders. Kestrels may be the coolest raptors nobody knows of. Obviously, Bald Eagles are a pretty big deal too.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

And the Southern Black Tit was as at home foraging upside down as right side up, just like its relatives, the t**s and chickadees, do back in Europe and America. The next day my foot was mended enough to head back into the bush, but it was nice that my day in camp was as eventful as the bush would have been! Blue Waxbill.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2016

We spin stories to help us remember and contextualise events and history. I have seen two species of woodcreeper in Central America, the Ruddy Woodcreeper and Tawny-winged Woodcreeper. Historians see past events (particularly far distant events) in terms of probability. Lists are memories. We use lists to do the same.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

In early December we had the privilege of filming the inaugural Peru Birding Rally Challenge , a six day, five night event where teams from around the world compete to see the most species of birds.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

additional pack walks will take place nationwide September 23–30, with the help of the Animal League of North America. All proceeds from the National Family Pack Walk events will be donated to the Cesar Millan Foundation, which raises awareness and supports the rescue, rehabilitation, and re-homing of abused and abandoned dogs.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

After these trogons, the eBird description of the Yellow-bellied Prinia as “brightly-colored for a prinia” sounds a bit like the dialogue from Succession: “Tom: ‘The poorest rich person in America. I am sure one could make a very boring movie based on the events described in this paper.

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