10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2018

For comparison, Aransas NWR in Texas is about 115,000 acres and Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico is under 60,000 acres. ANILCA lands are not just vast, they are critical for an extraordinary variety of birds. Of course, countless other birds utilize lands set aside under ANILCA, either as residents or migrants.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2014

The pair was part of a project aimed at restoring the birds to Louisiana. The pair shot last year in Kentucky belonged to Operation Migration’s project establishing a migratory flock in the eastern United States; there is also the last true wild flock , which winters in Texas and summers in Canada.)

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NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Oh to be in Texas admiring the celebrity bird du jour , an incredibly unexpected Amazon Kingfisher ! Amazing encounters occur when amazing birders visit amazing places, but serendipitous sightings increase exponentially when so many amazing birders gather for an amazing birding festival. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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MAY 9, 2022

In The Hawk’s Way, Montgomery is very good on the ethical dilemmas inherent in falconry, centered on both the bird and the woman, even if she never resolves any of them definitively. Atria Books, New York, $20 (U.S.); $27 (Canada), 79 pp., She herself is a vegetarian, one of the sort that mourns even roadkill. May 3, 2022.

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AUGUST 4, 2015

I came late to bird feeding, and when I was finally able to put out a “thistle” sock and a seed feeder (or two or six), I was amazed by the learning curve. There is a long list of articles and books on how to feed birds in your yard. Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation by Paul J. And conservation.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Henry Philemon Attwater was born in Brighton, England and spent his early adult years in Canada, but the state of Texas – which he first visited at 30 and made his permanent home at 35 – has embraced him. Undeveloped land absorbs water, filters salt, and slows wind.

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Chickens Texas Louisiana Wildlife 124

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2012

The birders birding on a budget and doing a lower-48 big year, Renee Rubin and Michael Delesantro , are doing nicely at 614 species for the year, amazing considering how little money they have spent. Mary Beth Stowe is hoping to tick 350 species along the lower Texas Coast this year and has netter 307 so far.

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South Dakota Houston Mammals Birds 204

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

During the decade, I submitted 1,219 checklists and observed 555 bird species, all in the U.S. and Canada. I started eBirding about the same time I started birding, and I made an early executive decision (a very good one) that any pre-eBird observations simply did not count. Texas and Florida round out the Top 5.

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Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Michigan Washington 149

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JANUARY 26, 2016

But this interaction with humans apparently interfered with adult birds’ ability to successfully mate and rear chicks. Let’s hope that the eastern population of Whooping Cranes manages to find another way to rebound, and that their wild cousins who migrate from Texas to Canada and back also thrive. Image above by John Noll/U.S.

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Wisconsin Texas Florida Canada 101

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MAY 7, 2024

a handful of times, only to realize how important it is to have a resource that will help birders differentiate amongst these very similar looking birds. Fork-tailed Flycatcher is a seven-page bird, partly because the account includes a vagrancy chart (another new feature). Introductory Material Sixteen species, 190 pages.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2012

Nick Lund , formerly at birdDC and then the Birdist , should be no stranger to readers of 10,000 Birds. He’s previously shared his surprisingly strong feelings about the bird logos of NFL and MLB teams. Like any obsessive birder, of course, I’ve found a way to make birding part of the job.

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MAY 30, 2019

Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds. Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. An eyas was what he was after that day he worked the Texas draw, a young nestling about to fly.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 184

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

A bird of prey showed up in the tiny park across the boulevard from me yesterday, setting himself down on a park bench and ignoring a crowd of socially-distanced smart phone wielding photographers. Sadly, I did not, which is probably why I think a field guide to birds is a must in every household. ” people proclaimed.

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North America America 2020 Hawaii 232

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

The birders who birded on a budget and did a Lower-48 Big Year, Renee Rubin and Michael Delesantro , managed to track down 654 species, amazing considering how little money they have spent. Mary Beth Stowe hoped to tick 350 species along the lower Texas Coast this year and came up a bit short with 332.

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2012 South Dakota Costa Rica Houston 158

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Few American birds have the publicity problems of the titmouse. A bird in the genus Baeolophus is neither a mouse nor…the other thing. The word titmouse descends from the Old English terms, tit (any small animal or object) and mase (small bird), essentially meaning one small, small bird. So be on the lookout.

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Arizona Oklahoma Texas Mexico 265

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In a recent post, Corey listed five things to do when it is too cold to go birding and one of those things is planning birding travel. Here in Portland, Oregon, it is more frequently too rainy rather than too cold to go birding, at least comfortably. Thus, my “good birds” are likely the opposite of an eastern birder.

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San Francisco Portland United States Puerto Rico 100

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

If the home birding patch is in Canada or the United States of America, it’s not really that far. Get on the plane anywhere from North Carolina to Texas or Florida and we are talking three to four hours. Last weekend, I got in a morning over there with my birding buddy Susan. This is a female Green Thorntail.

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Costa Rica Falcons Birds North Carolina 127

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2011

Often seen at feeders taking suet, peanuts, and sunflower seeds, Sitta carolinensis is a familiar bird to anyone who lives in their large range and who pays the slightest attention to the natural world. … a.

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JANUARY 4, 2020

They contributed 150 lists accounting for 1032 species and more than 36,000 individual birds. Canada Goose – Branta canadensis. Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve. Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve. Texas A&M Soltis Center. The life list was pumped a further 27 sp up to 3953. 27 Dec 2019. 22 Dec 2019.

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2019 Chile Texas Sanctuary 172

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

migration corridors from Argentina in the Southern tip of South America to Canada. Birds in Delaware Bay. From North Carolina south to Texas, just under half of beaches are developed. Arctic Canada face ongoing and proposed development. Photo: Gregory Breese-USFWS.

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Endangered Species Protection Delaware Species 160

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FEBRUARY 24, 2012

It’s a long time since I’ve been birding with non-birders (“civilians”, as I privately and self-mockingly think of them) and though I know that Chuk has ample reasons to tolerate my peculiarities, I want to impress Ellie. and Mexico blend — but because each year, birds who migrate from South and Central America to the U.S.

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Woodpeckers Texas Montana Blackbirds 155

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MAY 19, 2011

Any birder who has ever visited Cape May and many who have not will recognize these place names that are iconic in the birding world. All of them were on the route of the Triathlon Hawks, our Swarovski Optik-sponsored team competing in the Carbon Footprint category of the 2011 World Series of Birding.

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New Jersey Bald Eagle Birds United States 161

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MAY 3, 2012

We now interrupt all talk about birds and migration to consider dragonflies. Together they comprise Ondonata, an order of insects that, like birds, are beautiful in flight and challenging in identification. Unlike birds, they do not vocalize; unlike butterflies, they are totally predatory, not a vegetarian amongst them.

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United States Costa Rica Massachusetts North America 237

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Not an urban legend From the time I was a small child, I would flip through the pages of field guides and imagine the stumbling across this or that amazing bird. Unlike the hobbits, space aliens, and vampires in the other books I read, the strange birds tucked away in the Peterson Guide sometimes came to life.

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Pythons Litter Montana 2006 187

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2017

Crotty is a birder and lawyer living in Portland, Oregon who loves to share thoughtful , in-depth conservation pieces with 10,000 Birds readers. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), contain many of the nation’s most renowned birding locations, including Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico, Laguna Atascosa NWR in Texas, and J.N.

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Factory Ducks North Dakota Nebraska 118

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

They consistently disappointed me by not being butterflies or small birds, and I associated them with an oppressive sun and being a long way from the garden hose and getting a headache for want of a drink. The Carolina grasshopper Dissosteira carolina ranges from sea to shining sea, into Canada and nearly to the tip of Texas.

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Montana Cooking Texas Cattle 168

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Larger, denser with avian information than your typical field guide, a Crossley Guide bursts with bird images, photographic plates that verge on the surreal of birds in all plumages and poses against real-life habitats, informing, sometimes overwhelming us with visual and, if you can take your eyes off the images, textual information.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 121

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JULY 21, 2014

It’s etched into my audio memory, which is quite a feat considering the problems I have recognizing even the most common bird cries. I look up and see three large green birds, the bright green contrasting with dark blue underwings, whitish-grayish foreheads and breasts shining in the winter sun, flying overhead. “We And cell towers.

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Chicago New York City New York Illinois 204

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge : Open to migratory bird hunting (youth only). The Refuge is now home to nearly 200 species of birds, over 50 species of mammals, 25 species of reptiles and amphibians, and a wide variety of insects, fish and plants. This is an Urban Refuge ! Why would you open it up to hunting?

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 144

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

After our brief trip thru the great state of Texas, we were headed back into New Mexico, a state I was quite excited to explore. Old cars, antique gas pumps, and neon lit motels, were just up Jeanne’s photographic alley, and Lake Tucumcari was sure to be a birding hot spot for me. This was a first! eBird.org submissions – 307.

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Albuquerque New Mexico Mexico Sparrows 123

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2018

To celebrate spring migration, I usually review an exciting new bird book. So, here, for May, is a review of two amazing field guides, reminders that there are strange and wonderful things out there in the natural world other than birds that deserve our attention. Moths are more than bird food. Happy May Day! Let that sink in.

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North America America Oklahoma Missouri 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! If you wrote to Tennessee in the 10,000 Birds campaign this winter, you can cut and paste your letter, changing “Tennessee&# to “Kentucky.&# Kentucky Dept.

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