10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2019

This is the vital time to get outside and see what’s around because lifers could be in the neighborhood, rarely seen species might be just around the corner, and each and every “regular” bird is decked out in beautiful breeding plumage, many also filling the outdoor audio scene with song.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Add more than 350 pairs of White Pelicans to that picture, numerous herons and up to 700 pairs of Pygmy Cormorants breeding in the same reedbeds (cover photo)… It must be bursting with activity in spring, but I was there in mid-September. Have you heard of it? Can you pinpoint it on a map?

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Greece Pelicans Geese Breeding 252

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

.” And after separating all the parts of the boluses and presumably weighing them, your conclusion would have been that “the most regularly occurring food items recorded are fish (63%) and insects (33%)” (the other 4% are the few remaining bits of chocolate and gummy bears brought to the chicks by their grandparents.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2018

All of the neck-strain-free birds below breed in Montana. The Yellowstone District south of Big Timber is full of campgrounds, if you want to bird right next to the tent. Ask how to ‘be bear aware,’ as they say. Sharp-tailed Grouse. Photo by © Michael Todd. Ruffed Grouse. Photo by © Michael Todd. Dusky Grouse. Sage Grouse.

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Montana Bald Eagle Birds Bears 144

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. These days, the species shares habitats with Tigers, Snow Leopard, Bears, etc. One White-eyed Buzzard has turned its back to us.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

They had to cancel a big project that would have showcased polar bears and seals. Lanthier, a veterinarian and walrus researcher who took the helm in Calgary two years ago, says the cancellation of the polar bears exhibit might please some animal-rights extremists, but the reality is a blow to Canada's white bears.

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Polar Bears Zoos Walruses Extremist 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

Farallon NWR , a group of islands near San Francisco, hosts the largest colonies of breeding seabirds south of Alaska. These refuges support huge numbers of swans, geese, ducks, cranes, and shorebirds as they hopscotch their way to breeding grounds in the north. These protected areas are not merely convenient, they are essential.

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Wildlife Grizzly Bear Puerto Rico United States 189

10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2015

I figured that it is only fair and right to include the male Mountain Bluebird ( Sialis currucoides ) for comparison. Lassen Volcanic National Park is also home to approximately 57 species of mammals ranging in size from the tiny shrew to the North American black bear. Click on photos for full sized images.

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United States Mammals Squirrels New York 171

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

With populations plunging dramatically over the last decade, researchers from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Birds Russia, and a number of other conservation organizations made the always-controversial call to pluck eggs from the imperiled wild population and establish a captive breeding program as a final hedge against extinction.

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Eggs Russia Research Breeding 163

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

Right: Robert McCormick, by Stephen Pearce. Unlike Darwin, who was a self-funded gentleman naturalist on board, McCormick was bound to the Beagle by his duties and was furious that a civilian passenger on board had usurped his rightful position as ship’s naturalist. There are 11 species of birds that breed in the Ross Sea region.

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Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 164

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

That’s right, I, along with my family and some really good friends, was camping. Our campsite was gorgeous North Lake State Park in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York, where the air is crisp, the forests are largely intact, and the bears force you to be careful about leaving food out when you go to sleep. (And

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

This year’s theme is “PandaQuest” which shifts the focus from panda breeding and rehabilitation in captivity to re-introduction in the wild. Pambassador finalists will participate in the current panda release plan, designed to re-introduce captive bears into the wild. Isn’t that exciting?

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 7, 2012

In a rarely filmed event, see newly awakened black bears go on the hunt for newborn elk calves. Then travel to the Rockies, for a ringside seat as male bighorn sheep go head-to-head in a bloody battle for breeding rights. Premieres Sunday, June 10, 9 p.m.

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America Sheep Penguins South America 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

That’s right, the overwhelming benefits to the environment and the economy are generated by non-consumptive uses of the refuges like wildlife photography, environmental education, wildlife observation and interpretation, not hunting and fishing. The State of Louisiana has increased fines for illegal killing of bears.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Beside birds, in this park you stand a chance of spotting the Eurasian Lynx , Brown Bear and Gray Wolf ! The national park ranges some 100 km in length along the right bank of the Danube (the left bank is in Romania), where the river varies in width from 5 km / 3 mi to only 150 m / 500 ft and the mountains rise up to 800 m / 2600 ft a.s.l.

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Serbia Turtles Birds Eagles 182

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

However, even now, the ancient movements of birds between summer breeding grounds and tropical wintering places have been taking place in Costa Rica. In the meantime, I hope to bear witness to the continued spectacle of fall migration right at the homestead and further afield. It can and does work !

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Costa Rica South America Tennessee 2019 142

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2011

As you read this, I am riding my trusty Grizzly Bear through the backcountry of Yellowstone National Park, helping my colleague Seagull Steve find some new birds. Birding by bear is by far the best way to view the park, although it seems to terrify the hoofed animals. Good day to you, my fine fellow birders. Here we go! 1) Be weird.

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Grizzly Bear North Dakota Downers Bears 165

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. if we believe it's our right to do what we want with the lives of other animals. . . . Tags: Activism Books Current Affairs Ethics Language 100 Heartbeats animal rights Jeff Corwin veganism.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

Like manky mallards, ganky geese display remarkable variety due to both the methodical manipulations of breeders and the variable volatility of the more natural kind of breeding. Even the ones that bear the same plumage as their progenitors, however, can usually be distinguished by their larger bulk. Wicked, right?

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Geese 2011 Deer New York 145

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. A small range map is placed in the upper right/left hand corner showing summer, winter, resident, migration, and rare locations. PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS.

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North America America Birds California Condor 278

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

By March though Scandinavian Rock Pipit begins to show some changes into breeding plumage and outs itself as a migrant rather than a resident. Or These Blasts From The Past Reason To Become A Bird Watcher #13: Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! Wicked, right? Join Mike in Jamaica! I so miss it now that I live inland!!!!

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2011 Deer Fish New York 149

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

Am I willing to give up the field guide which bears the mud and dirt of so many falls on so many birding trips? A guide that feels so right in my hands? Images show the bird in flight, both underside and upperside, and in juvenile and adult plumages– breeding and nonbreeding, and, where appropriate, male and female.

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North America 2003 Birds America 151

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2024

A study on the breeding biology of Whitehead’s Broadbill was just published in May 2023 but leaves a bit of a puzzle as the breeding success is described as relatively high, meaning there should be other reasons for the population decline of the species. That might help these species deal with climate change.

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Birds Indonesia Breeding Charlotte 214

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2022

Tropical Cyclone Anika became a rain bearing depression over the past week. Sooty Oystercatchers , Pied Oystercatcher and a Whimbrel on the right. The Great Knot are also well camouflaged amongst the rocks and the shorebirds are all starting to get their breeding plumage. However, that does not mean that our wet season is over!

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Australia Eagles Bears Breeding 196

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

bought the rights to Noah Webster’s famous American Dictionary of the English Language , though it later lost exclusive rights to the “Webster” name.). Are Laysan and Midway, the two primary breeding locations, “adjacent” despite being hundreds of miles apart and separated by other islands? But I’m no lexicographer.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the next few days, the Alpine Accentors ( Prunella collaris ) will arrive on their high-Alpine breeding grounds – it is time to start singing, despite that the treeless Alpine landscape is still under metres of snow. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes.

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 202

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2014

Despite the amount of time spent birding I did not neglect my family at all, enjoying an outing to the Bronx Zoo on Saturday afternoon and a hike at Doodletown Road in Bear Mountain State Park on Sunday. The decision about where to hike had nothing to do with the Cerulean Warblers that are found breeding at Doodletown.

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New York City New York Kentucky Abandon 172

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Once you reach Coconut Wells the road bears to your right and just as the bitumen ends you take a left turn towards the beach. Last weekend we went by vehicle to check on the Pied Oystercatchers that breed along that stretch of beach and there has been continued egg loss over the past few weeks. Lesser Frigatebird.

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Eggs Birds Investigation Bears 140

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

The clifftop habitats along rocky shores of the North Atlantic (on both sides of the pond) abound in bird biomass during breeding bouts, for instance. The largest bird, forming the short bar on the right of the bird histogram, is a swan. There are probably other major trends that depend, for example, on latitude and timing.

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Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 172

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

because, if the film rights to this book have not been snapped up yet, Hollywood is making a huge mistake) (c) Will I ever see a Blakiston’s Fish Owl? b) Who will play author Jonathan C. Slaght in the film version? The fish owl is Jonathan Slaght’s grail and also, more prosaically, his dissertation topic.

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Owls Russia Fish Research 130

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

Informed literature bears out my experience that most birds are seen singly or in pairs. Outside of the breeding season a few birds may join together in a loose flock if the feeding is good. Wicked, right? The former British colony’s Z.c. Hat-tip to Stella.

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2011 Deer India New York 175

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2012

The IOC world birdlist recognizes 90 species that bear the name “weaver” or “malimbe” Not all of these are true weavers as we will discuss below. Weavers are truly magical birds, combining bright plumages with ingenious weaving talents and cheerful, noisy social lives. These nests can weight up to 1 ton!

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Tanzania Buffalo Kenya Namibia 212

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2018

Tropical Cyclone Joyce dumped 100mm of rain in Perth as it travelled south as a rain-bearing depression and the whole family had the experience of torrential rain in Western Australia. Occasionally you do have to move right to the edge of the highway or even off the highway if the ground is not too soft to let “wide loads” go by.

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