10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

These vociferous little birds can usually be heard throughout the freshwater and saltwater marshes in North America. The male shown in the video above, filmed at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, was in the process of gathering nesting material for what usually adds up to a dozen to two dozen nests! Why do they build so many nests?

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JULY 4, 2021

Things looked even more dire when the colony left the marsh and headed for their wintering grounds – usually somewhere between the West Indies and Central America – which meant the young egret would have to spend the entire winter in captivity. But sometimes things work out.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

If this sounds like a great idea to you, providing a consistent source of income for our refuges, separate but parallel to the current Federal Duck Stamp program, and you are involved in conservation or wildlife preservation, please send me an email with a short bio and a photo (at least 150 x 150 pixels) to place on our “About Us” page.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2016

The largest hawk in North America weighs about four pounds, so leaving the ground carrying three – let alone twelve – would be aerodynamically (not to mention logically) impossible. The answer is: no. No hawk can carry off a 12-pound pet. No hawk can carry off a 3-pound pet.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

Maybe the two photos below could have been taken most anywhere in America – anywhere east of the Rockies, anyway – but once you know that both were taken in southeastern Ohio, you think “yes, of course – couldn’t be anywhere else.” (The pictures show two of Zickefoose’s favorite places near her home, down near Marietta.)

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10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2012

The very excited response was that she had been banded as a fledgling in 1983, which made her, at 27 years and 9 months of age, the second oldest living wild Red-tailed hawk ever recovered in all of North America. This filled me with both glee and dismay. On one hand, I wanted to simply bask in the glow of the Great Matriarch.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

In late summer, wild swifts will congregate in large numbers in a single roost as they begin staging for their coming migration all the way to the Amazon Basin in South America. If they are to survive, it is crucial for them to be released at an active communal roost.

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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. Today’s Guest Post is written by Linda E.

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