10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2021

“This beautiful and singular bird, although a constant resident in the southern extremities of the peninsula of Florida, seldom extends its journeys in an eastern direction beyond the State of North Carolina. It is rarely seen in the interior of the country at any distance from the waters of the Atlantic, or those of the Gulf of Mexico.

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Reddit Animals

JANUARY 5, 2024

People in North America began using the term “right whale” in the early 1700s, and originally “right” may have meant “typical,” as these whales were considered common and ordinary. Photo: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, taken under NOAA permit 20556 submitted by /u/IFAWUK [link] [comments]

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2014

Fish and Wildlife Service is down-listing the wood stork from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The wood stork was listed as endangered in 1984, because the Florida population was dropping at an approximate rate of 5 percent per year. The wood stork occurs and breeds in Central and South America.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2013

He now wakes up to the choruses of Northern Cardinals and Northern Mockingbirds in sunny Vero Beach, Florida. This photo could have been taken in Florida’s Treasure Coast during the winter months or in South America during the same period. Please report banded and flagged birds to the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Birds, mammals and other wildlife, humans and landscapes are all rendered magnificently. But the main attraction of the book, it must be said, is not Clavreul’s prose but his artistry in watercolor. Maybe that’s so because he worked entirely from life and not photographs, he says.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2015

The invasive Burmese Python ( Python molurus ) is well established in the Florida Everglade. Another species of Python, the African Python ( Python sebae ) has established a small population in the 2,877-acre Bird Drive Area (BDA) in South Florida. Photo Credit: Invasive and Exotic Species of North America (www.invasive.org).

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Such is the burden that a digiscoping bird blogger bears when he visits the Circle B Bar Reserve in Lakeland, Florida in January. Purple Gallinules live in marshes in the southeastern United States, Central America, northern South America, and the Caribbean. What do you do with hundreds of picture of Purple Gallinules ?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2019

Sliding the glass door to my Florida backyard, I shuffled my slipper-clad feet and closed the opening behind me. Ahab wasn’t fishing, and the guys in ‘The Big Year’ aren’t watching birds, they’re scouring North America in a ruthless bid to tick off more species than anyone else. The emphasis was on discovery.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

National parks like Rocky Mountain, the Grand Canyon, and the Great Smoky Mountains, as well as national wildlife refuges, national forests, rivers and lakes, community parks, trails, and ball fields in every one of our 50 states were set aside for Americans to enjoy thanks to federal funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2020

In his blog, Birds and Nature North America, the peripatetic Bruce Beehler professes to cover not just what the title says, but also American culture, American history, and “stories of back-roads travel and camping.” Lately (in the last month or so) he’s been through the Dakotas, Montana, and Canada, up to the Northwest Territories.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2021

The survey was commissioned by National Flyway Council (NFC), which implements the North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP), which, in turn, aims to maintain abundant waterfowl populations in North America. Report to the National Flyway Council from the Minnesota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and University of Minnesota.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The Marbled Godwit ( Limosa fedoa ) in the photo above, shown landing at Fort De Soto County Park in Pinellas County, Florida, is used with permission from my friend Mia McPherson of On The Wing Photography fame. It’s nice to have friends that are excellent wildlife photographers. References: 1 Birds of North America Online ,

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Reddit Animals

MAY 6, 2023

You need to get it to a wildlife rehabilitation center. Domestic animal shelters don’t normally take wildlife and if they do it’s rare. I operate as a permitted rehab in Florida. submitted by /u/America-is-worse-now [link] [comments] It’s just not their function and against a few rules.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2017

Birders are familiar with the National Wildlife Refuge System, which consists of more than 550 units distributed through all fifty states. National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs), which are managed by the U.S. Ding” Darling NWR in Florida. The region has justifiably been referred to as the “Duck Factory of North America.”

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2013

First off, Audubon of Florida reports that counts indicate more Roseate Spoonbills are nesting in Florida Bay (between the mainland and the Keys) this year than last year, although those numbers are still lower than in the last decade. What do all these birds have in common? They’re (at least partially) pink.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2012

Living in Northern California offers nature lovers many opportunities to view wildlife in there native habitat. Most of the Osprey breeding in North America are migratory, only Florida, the Caribbean and Baja California host non-migratory breeders 1. Click on photos for full sized images.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2012

In late January this year we were commissioned by Florida’s Space Coast to produce an episode on the birding of the area and the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. I have been to this festival for the last 5 years and have watched it grow and develop into arguably the best birding festival in North America.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Fish and Wildlife Service has listed the “Rufa” population of Red Knot ( Calidris canutus rufa ) as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). migration corridors from Argentina in the Southern tip of South America to Canada. Birds in Delaware Bay. Photo: Gregory Breese-USFWS.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

The question is why these natives of rural areas in southern South America (east of the Andes) have been so spectacularly successful in establishing their colonies. This echoes their behavior in their native South America, where they are known as agricultural pests who will eat and destroy crops. The answer lies in the nests.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2015

Many species that are currently common may stay that way, and some species will likely increase…and hopefully species besides House Sparrows , European Starlings , Rock Pigeons and Eurasian Collared-Doves , which those in North America know as the four avian horsemen of the apocalypse. Whats in it for birds?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2019

In the spring (when they look like they do — the males, that is — in the photo on the left, above) they fly more than six thousand miles from the Amazon Basin to the Arctic, via Florida and Ohio. The blackpoll, “a bird with a body just a little larger than your thumb,” doesn’t stop until South America.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

In North America we only have three regularly occurring ibis, the aforementioned White Ibis and the two species of the genus Plegadis , White-faced Ibis and the far reaching Glossy Ibis , a species we share with every continent save Antarctica making it one of the world’s most cosmopolitan bird species. I and the Bird ibis'

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

I haven’t even been to all of the best national wildlife refuges for birding. They include: Southern Florida , with stops at places such as J. I particularly enjoy birding national wildlife refuges, so I try to include at least one on each trip. Thus, my “good birds” are likely the opposite of an eastern birder.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Manky Muscovy Ducks Manky Muscovy Ducks By Mike • March 2, 2011 • 6 comments Tweet Share The Muscovy Duck ( Cairina moschata ) attracts more attention than most ducks, at least in North America.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

But, before Jerry Liguori’s wonderful photographic guides of Hawks at a Distance (2011) and Hawks from Every Angle (2005) and before Clark and Wheeler’s classic Field Guide to Hawks of North America (2nd ed., The original Hawks in Flight treated 23 raptors, the major hawks that migrate through North America.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2011

The vast majority of Baltimore Orioles that breed in North America return to the tropics between Mexico and northern South America for the cold half of the year. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. The proposal from U.S.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

.* So, it’s a good thing that Ediciones Nuevos Mundo, the publishing arm of The Friendship Association, published Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Comprehensive Guide by Nils Navarro, Cuban wildlife artist and naturalist , earlier this year. and Cuba.). It’s time to bird Cuba and it is time to learn more about Cuban naturalists.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Larry starts us off right with an owl that makes birders drool: I was able to see and photograph many great birds in 2014 but my Best Bird of the Year would have to be the Great Gray Owl , the largest Strix in North America. And I can’t forget the awesome birds I saw in Florida in January. (If

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2014

On my first day in Florida for the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival I landed at Orlando International Airport at about 9 AM, deplaned, waited for my luggage, got my rental car, and drove west. The Nanday Parakeet , native to South America, was first observed in Florida in 1973. Wait, west?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

He is the author of numerous books about birds and nature, including, most recently Feeding and Identifying Birds and The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of Eastern North America, both part of the Peterson Field Guide Series from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing. He has watched birds in more than 25 countries and on five continents.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2012

Platalea ajaja is a marvelous bird and I was delighted to make its acquaintance - for only the second time in my life – at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge’s Black Point Drive when I was attending the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival in January.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2015

Read on if you want to indulge me in reliving my version of it… In 2014 I birded in three countries (United States, Canada, Costa Rica), four states (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida), and forty-two counties. (I’m My trip to Florida and some timely twitches are all that made that happen. That’s so cool.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2016

Bowen, a wildlife rehabilitator licensed with CT DEEP for small mammals and reptiles (specializing in bats www.bats101.info) These birds are not found in North America, but have a range in the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and the Hawaiian Islands. By 10:30 PM, the bird had arrived safely in Florida with only the loss of one feather.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2011

There are a handful of sites in North America that can justifiably be considered must visits for birders. It’s only a small surprise that a significant proportion of those sites are in Florida. When I got to the terminus I turned left, towards the last of my Florida targets. everyone).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2011

I was in Florida last week, the freakiest of the southeastern states. I don’t play golf and I’m not one for laying out by the pool so my Florida related activities are almost exclusively exploration related and even though I was hardly at what you’d call a wildlife refuge, it was Florida.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

This means that there are some astoundingly large families of birds in Central and South America. James has led professional wildlife and birding tours for 15 years and his passion for birding and remote cultures has taken him to far corners of the earth from the Amazon and Australia to Africa and Madagascar. The proposal from U.S.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The authors’ goals are (1) to provide information that will help readers identify a bird nest; (2) to explore the broader ecology of bird nests of North America, “an ecological study of how hundreds of species have adapted nests and nesting behavior to environs that range from tropical deciduous forest to Arctic tundra” (p.

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