10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2013

There’s a guy in Ossining and he swears he has two baby eagles in his back yard. I told him they’re probably not eagles, but he says they’re definitely eagles. As it turns out, summer camp was going full force, so no one could leave and pick up the ham and fruit-eating baby eagles. They what?” I said, alarmed. “He

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10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

It was the Marathon County Sheriff’s Department, calling to report a Bald Eagle standing “crumpled” in remote area near Wausau, Wisconsin. A waste truck driver had found the eagle, but was unable to stay with her until we could arrive. This eagle is not long for this world.”. We are off to rescue a Bald Eagle, kiddo!”

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2015

The 19th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival ! Watching a Bald Eagle catch and eat a Blue-winged Teal at Viera was amazing. 10,000 Birds is a Scrub-Jay level sponsor of the 19th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. …. I can’t wait for January! To be exact, 20-25 January 2016.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

On a sandbar in the center of the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, hundreds of ducks swirled around each other or lay down to take cover against the punishing wind. Gadwalls mixed with Green-winged Teals in the shallows , while Northern Harriers and Bald Eagles searched for prey from the skies above. What made my eyes widen?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

It’s that coastline, however, that called me to Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge, an oasis drawing migrating waterfowl like a magnet. Large flocks of ibis flew directly across the road, and Northern Harriers, Bald Eagles, and Red-tailed Hawks patrolled the skies.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Birds, mammals and other wildlife, humans and landscapes are all rendered magnificently. Davis points out in his book published earlier this year, The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird. On the other hand, Davis is, of course, a big fan of the Bald Eagle, as Audubon was not.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2021

Blue T**s on a Teasel by Scottish wildlife artist Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935). However, closer inspection of the fine print revealed this wine is actually from Chile, where t**s – or any members of the family Paridae , for that matter – don’t even exist.

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JUNE 9, 2019

Of what he did see, a pair of Bald Eagles at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge was the highlight, a species that didn’t used to be around in June in Queens at all. So, Bald Eagles as his Best Bird of the Weekend. Corey only birded for a bit on Saturday afternoon and didn’t see much that was terribly exciting.

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Critter News

MARCH 19, 2012

A federal government decision to allow a Wyoming tribe to kill two bald eagles for a religious ceremony is a victory for American Indian sovereignty as well as for long-suppressed religious freedoms, the tribe says. The Northern Arapaho share the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming with the Eastern Shoshone Tribe.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2018

As one of our country’s most biodiverse rivers, this entire habitat is considered ‘high priority’ in the Wildlife Action Plan of the state Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. Bald Eagle. It’s a good day when the opportunity to see them improves by 616 acres! Magnolia Warbler. Photo by © Michael Todd. Indigo Bunting.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

The 18th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival is less than a month away and while we don’t have snow down yet here in New York City I am pretty sick of cold weather and could use some warmth and Florida sunshine! This Bald Eagle was a sight worth seeing! John’s National Wildlife Refuge” trip.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2018

I think most of you know how important our National Wildlife Refuge system is to me. After all, I have written several posts on wildlife conservation and the Wildlife Conservation Pass that my co-founder Ingrid Taylar and I have been encouraging for years. I will close with a video from Colusa National Wildlife Refuge.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2011

John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge , AKA Tinicum, is an outstanding urban oasis in southern Philadelphia, less than one mile from Philadelphia’s airport. This area, administered for the benefit of wildlife and people, was known as Tinicum Wildlife Preserve. Being a New Yorker, I had never birded the refuge before.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Newly surrounded by wildlife, he found his love of birds reignited. People whoever they are (even the most experienced of hawkwatchers) love Bald Eagles – it’s just a given. Many of them also allow us to share a positive conservation story too: Bald Eagles, Ospreys and Peregrines all come to mind.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2018

This new year already appears to be auspicious for eagles. Not only did I pick up my life Golden Eagle on New Year’s Day, but now the Philadelphia Eagles are going to the Super Bowl. Maybe my perspective is biased, but if you’re feeling left out, you should be making 2018 your Year of the Eagle as well.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Wildlife rehabilitators are not known for our bling. People who work with wildlife wearing nice clothes? People who work with wildlife wearing nice clothes? Wildlife rehab can be so metaphorical. Sharron Montgomery went through the same thing with a badly-behaved educational Bald Eagle named Booker T.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Nisqually Wildlife Refuge. At one point, standing in the middle of one of the first dikes, I was able to spot 17 Bald Eagles , a Peregrine Falcon , two American Kestrels , and Northern Harrier. The last weekend of January found me in the frosty Pacific Northwest, meeting some long over due work and family obligations.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

My work as a wildlife rehabilitator over the past forty-five years has allowed me a unique perspective on a disturbing trend. Consider this: ninety percent of birds treated at wildlife centers are admitted as a result of human interactions that have nothing to do with “nature.” People passed the eagle often.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Birding at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival is really pretty darn cool… Great Horned Owl on nest Bald Eagle on nest Sorry for such a short post – the next one will be longer, I promise! 10,000 Birds is a Scrub Jay-level sponsor of the 15th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Daily birding in my own hometown added to the joy of seeing common species in uncommon circumstances, like a Bald Eagle perched on a Destin sand dune. Marks National Wildlife Refuge replenished by naturalist spirit, but remained all I could manage. Not so much. And the third trimester?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2016

Wildlife lovers and rehabilitators, as always, tried to intervene. “I I have been caring for raptors for almost 29 years and not even a Bald Eagle can carry off 12 pounds,” wrote Eileen Wicker, the Executive Director of Raptor Rehabilitation of Kentucky. “I The frightening responses went like this: “Just shoot ‘em.”

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Most are still endangered, but some are not, including one of the great conservation success stories, the Bald Eagle. Fish and Wildlife Service’s ECOS (Environmental Conservation Online System), an online gateway to mountains of information about endangered species. Bald Eagle – Haliaeetus t.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

The 17th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival will take place from the twenty-second of January until the twenty-seventh of January in 2014. … 10,000 Birds is a Scrub-Jay level sponsor of the 17th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. Will you be there? I sure as heck will!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

The Weekly Reader had shocked everyone in class with news of Bald Eagles dying – and humans were to blame! Images of wildlife coated in toxic goo haunted me; particularly the birds. Destroy the habitats – destroy the wildlife. Photo courtesy of © Matt Clark/Defenders of Wildlife). ~. Public lands at risk.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2014

I also couldn’t help but notice that the drone passed by at least one eagle nest (the operator probably had no clue it was there) and wondered how much an eagle would tolerate from a small unmanned aircraft. And we would know what to watch for if the eagle didn’t like it and would back the drone off.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

But “Hawk”’s active ingredient, a deadly second-generation anticoagulant, bromadialone, has been implicated in the deaths of Red-tailed Hawks, Red-shouldered Hawks, Cooper’s Hawks, and other raptors : American Kestrels, Barn Owls, Golden Eagles, Great Horned Owls, and Turkey Vultures. Thanks for your concern for wildlife, Syngenta.).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2012

Around thirty miles from Missoula in the Bitterroot Valley lies the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge. Many more of the same waterfowl we’d already seen turned up on additional ponds, but we also spotted nesting Bald Eagles and Great Blue Herons , and a small flock of Snow Geese. Fish and Wildlife Service a.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Feeding birds is generally regarded as a harmless past-time, a wholesome way for people to share nature and enjoy wildlife with the family. Sometimes people find themselves the victims of ill-informed home owners associations that have a phobic view of wildlife. Another example would be the Eagle Lady in Alaska.

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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). Fish and Wildlife Service, I was involved in various aspects of the species habitat protection largely on the regulatory arena. On June 25, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This refuge came up as #4 on a recent list of the top 25 National Wildlife Refuges that were featured in a great story here by 10000 Birds own Jason Crotty. While most major estuaries in Washington state have been filled, dredged, or developed, Nisqually River’s has been set aside for wildlife.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The show covers an entire year along the Mississippi, and shows the many challenges that the wildlife in the area deal with. You will see everything from bald eagles, wolves and deer, to wild turtles, baby ducklings and other animals. Who knew our country was so diverse in just one region?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

En route, the teenagers were chatting away when suddenly I screamed “Eagles!”, Bald Eagles ,” I said encouragingly/defensively/lamely. The mission of wildlife rehabilitators is to return injured birds to the sky, or the sea, or wherever it is they came from. Soon the girls emerged. How could you not?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2011

I was lucky enough to get off work early the other day and thought I would head out toward Battle Creek Wildlife Area and try to get some better photos of the Harlan’s Red-tailed Hawk I’ve seen on Dersch Road. My eye followed this young eagle as it circled its way to the ground, just over a small rise and out of sight.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2019

For example, I’ve seen Bald Eagles in 15 states. And I will continue my quest to see all of my Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for Birding too. On the other end of the spectrum, I’ve only had one checklist for both Mountain Plover and Northern Goshawk , among many others. Of course, you can use the data in many ways.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Just before I left for Italy, I took a trip to the Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge for a healthy dose of migration. Most exciting, there are already hints that Northern Hawk Owls may be on the move (although of course, one stray does not an irruption make.)

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2015

This year was my third year helping to lead trips at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. He waved me down and I braced myself, expecting him to point out any of the several Bald Eagles I had already spotted. 10,000 Birds is a Scrub Jay-level sponsor of the 18th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. ……….

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Saturday morning, 30 August 2014, was a perfect time for shorebirding at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge’s East Pond. When I finally took myself away from the dowitchers I scanned north and spotted a young Bald Eagle feeding on a duck. Then the eagle took off from where it was hiding and all the shorebirds near me skedaddled.

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