10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

The key point is that Refuge System is perhaps the most important conservation program in the United States. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and they are located in every state as well as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and they are located in every state as well as Puerto Rico, the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2015

Mount Lassen erupted and exploded in May of 1915 sending ash and steam in a 6 mile (10 km) tall mushroom cloud, making it the largest recent eruption in the contiguous United States, until the explosion of Mount St. As the fifteenth national park established by Congress, it is one of the oldest national parks in the United States.

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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. Purple Gallinules are awesome.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

True, they are the oldest continuous professional American football club in the United States, running hard since 1898. However, there are much more to cardinals than just the beloved mascot of seven states and various sports teams. However, in their migrations from Chicago to St.

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Critter News

JANUARY 22, 2009

The Humane Society of the United States and The HSUS Wildlife Land Trust are offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the illegal killing of a grizzly bear found dead in Ashton Reservoir near Ashton, Idaho. The Humane Society is offering a 2500.00

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10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2013

Normally she would be living somewhere in Europe or Asia, but she was born and raised in captivity in the United States. Rehabbers have to grin and bear it during baby season; we raise incredibly cute wild birds behind masks, give them no human attention, and make sure they bond with each other and not us.

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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. The National Audubon Society Birds of North America covers all species seen in mainland United States, Canada and Baja California. GUIDE COVERAGE.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2019

Today, even as technological progress untethers us with more and more wireless applications each year, up to 185 million utility poles remain erected across the United States alone as permanent vestiges on our landscape. There is an undeniable appeal to the sight of a bird sitting on a wire.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2012

Eastern Kingbirds breed across the eastern United States and much of southern Canada. You can tell that from the jaunty bearing of the small warrior when it returns from a high-climbing pursuit in a series of glissandos to fetch up on its tree-top perch. When hawks are lacking a wholly innocuous heron will do.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

Sure, you can find it across much of the eastern United States, even as far north as southern Canada but I ask you, are you really seeing a Prothonotary Warbler if you’re not watching it pick through a flooded forest in the south? Now back to all the transient species that I can’t bear missing. Proud cavity-owners!

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North Carolina Investigation Jordan United States 198

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2018

The brewery was founded by Vanburg & Dewulf, the largest importer of Belgian beer to the United States, back when classic ales like Duvel and Chimay were still sought-after rarities and American craft brewers were mostly producing British-style ales – only with tons of Cascade hops.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Wuerthner states, “Perhaps the most significant and obvious conflict between the goals of the NAMWC and actual behavior of state agencies has to do with management of predators, particularly bears, cougars, coyotes and wolves. Those whose actions result in additional costs should bear them.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2013

For birders heading off the coast of the eastern United States and attempting to tackle the mess that is the Band-rumped Storm-Petrel complex, a group of up to four cryptic species, this is a very real possibility. It still does so with me, but bear with me here. And that’s where molt comes in. The four actions?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Because of its large contiguous stand of bottomland hardwood forest, Bayou Cocodrie National Wildlife Refuge was designated as critical habitat and serves as a corridor for the Louisiana black bear between Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge and Red River Wildlife Management Area. Why are they still allowed in the United States?

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 15, 2010

In the last year alone, foreclosure rates have risen 15% in the United States (a total of about 300,000 properties), while almost three million homes were threatened with foreclosure. And with the economy continuing in a state of recession, these numbers will continue to go up over the coming years.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

While schedules can make it difficult for some to bear the responsibility of a pet, resources such as professional in-home pet walkers and sitters are available to ensure Fido and Felix not only receive food, water and outdoor time, but also love, affection and even physical fitness when the owner is away for extended periods. guest post'

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

For the United States, there is also a state list. The writers at 10,000 Birds span the globe, but I am particularly interested in the lists for the United States, as that is my “beat.” As of mid-October 2018, the Collaborative had submitted more than 1,700 checklists and observed 618 species in the United States.

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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? The author is one of the foremost experts on bird identification in the United States and Canada, and understands how to communicate his expertise in simple, specific language and images.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2016

Interestingly, the eagle featured in Panama’s coat of arms is not the Harpy Eagle, but a representation of an American eagle species, as the United States was the first country to recognize Panama’s independence. A Harpy Eagle. Like Woods, I can’t get over their talons.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2018

Following passage of the United States Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, the California Condor ( Gymnogyps californianus ) was among the first 75 species listed for protection, the so-called “Class of 1967”. So, after bearing with that admittedly lengthy lecture on Cologne and its beer, let’s return to the condor.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

In North America, you’ve got Bears at the large end, Cats in the middle, and at the smaller end, the Mustilids. Here we conduct a systematic review and quantitatively estimate mortality caused by cats in the United States. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4–3.7 billion birds and 6.9–20.7

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2011

The Mexican Duck, as its name suggests, is native to Mexico and parts of the southwestern United States, and unlike the Mallard, the Mexican Duck does not have a showy male breeding plumage; both sexes are brown throughout the year.

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Ducks North America Texas Mexico 169

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2014

American Dipper – Yes, I have seen Brown Dipper in Kazakhstan and White-capped Dippers in Ecuador but somehow I am missing the only dipper found in the United States, the American Dipper. And if I dip again…well, that doesn’t even bear thinking about. I console myself after missing quetzals by buying magnets.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

And sun bears. Hopefully, the publication of The Jewel Hunter in the United States will spur additional attention to this family and the need for rain forest preservation and ornithological study. If it were just the birds, I’d grab my bins and be on the next plane to Asia or Africa. And mosquitos. And leeches. And pit vipers.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

We are all suckers for an albatross, at least in the United States. Though the coast of British Columbia, a part of the Great Bear Rainforest, was rich in both, it was appallingly deficient in scientific data. At Sea With the Marine Birds of the Raincoast opens with the unexpected appearance of a Laysan Albatross.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

COVID-19 was the worst of it but we also endured horrific wildfires, tremendously damaging hurricanes, another year of the worst President of the United States in history, and the list could go on ad infinitum. It bears an iconic name associated with insanity and betrayal, but also with time and seasonality.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2017

I have been to refuges across the United States, but I never thought that I would have a deadline to visit any particular refuge. Several trails wind along the banks of Rio Grande, which constitutes the border between the United States and Mexico. Fish and Wildlife Service signs, usually in English, are also in Spanish.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

The United Nations released its new list of protected species as well, adding the Great Bustard along with the Polar Bear and other species. Maybe those Kirtland’s Warblers are onto something: USA Today names Magee Marsh the best birding spot in the United States. Better luck next time, African Lion.).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2018

But while that holiday has come and gone, 2018 remains the bicentennial year of the first export of Guinness to the United States, an anniversary the brewery is commemorating with a special release of Guinness Draught in cans decorated with its famous Guinness “Zoo” advertising art from the 1930s.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2017

At least in the eastern half of the United States and, generally speaking, in the northern 2/3 of the northern hemisphere. There is powerful force that can be brought to bear on this situation and it is within the ranks of us birders. What about having a total nutter as President of the United States?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Ever the moral perfectionist, Franklin argued that the turkey was a much more honorable and determined fowl, and suggested the bird – as an “original Native of America” – would make a decidedly more fitting avian mascot for the United States (seemingly implying – incorrectly – that the Bald Eagle is not an indigenous New World species).

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2017 Bald Eagle United States Turkey 151

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

As reported in the AP story, two styles of Sean John jackets—one a hooded snorkel style, the other a classic version—were originally advertised as faux fur, but an investigation by the Humane Society of the United States [ HSUS ] found that the jackets were made from dog fur.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Scott Pruitt was confirmed as the head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. In his prior role as Oklahoma’s attorney general, Pruitt frequently sued the EPA over its regulations, notably leading a 27-state lawsuit against the Clean Power Plan. Hatch (R-Utah) that he will shrink Bears Ears National Monument, a 1.35-million-acre

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