10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2017

The hours are ticking down to Super Bowl LI, a hotly anticipated contest between perennial contenders New England Patriots and the upstart, high-flying Atlanta Falcons. Will the Atlanta Falcons actually win the Super Bowl? nationalist, holy person, or some species of pirate has won it all. But will they?

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Falcons Atlanta 2001 Game 107

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2015

Brown Thrashers , large, rust-colored songbirds, were so popular in Georgia that they became the namesake of their NHL hockey team, the “Atlanta Thrashers!” Thrashers’ color patterns are similar to thrush species, with reddish backs and spotted breasts.

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Georgia Legislature Atlanta Birds 155

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2013

Alas, Atlanta couldn’t seal the deal in the second half, but Baltimore bullied their way to the Big Game. Since there are only nine species of Raven in the world, Corey and I are going to host a quickie for the coolest corvids of all this week. I need your ravens by 6pm EST on Wednesday, January 23.

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Falcons Atlanta Baltimore ALA 150

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2012

Even if you’re not ticking new sightings, pay attention to your FOY birds, the first of year sightings that commemorate the phenological passage of assorted avian species in and out of our life.

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Atlanta Zimbabwe 2012 New York 158

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2013

” Not because there’s anything wrong with common or confiding species, but because depending on where you live and what you do with your habitat, darn near anything can be a backyard bird. Anyway, on to this book. I have to admit, I normally have a twinge when I see the phrase “backyard birds.”

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Atlanta Ohio Birds Montana 133

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Nat Geo WILD takes viewers around the world to follow dedicated people working to save Nature’s Miracle Babies – often the last hope for critically vulnerable species. The giant panda is one of the world’s most iconic species, but its population numbers are critically low. Tuesday, September 13, at 8P ET/PT.

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Pandas Leopards Gorillas Zoos 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Almost any park, even within large cities such as New Orleans and Atlanta, will host such quintessentially common Nearctic species such as Field , Song , Chipping , and White-throated Sparrow in good numbers. We are just too far south for any of the above mentioned species, but that is not to say that we do not get any sparrows at all.

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Sparrows Florida Atlanta South Carolina 145