Wild Boars Bad For New York
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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
And while we’re working to ban captive boar hunts in New York why not ban all captive hunts? Real hunters don’t shoot animals raised in captivity or animals that are penned in, do they?
Birding at a Historic Sporting Estate
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AUGUST 16, 2020
I didn’t expect to see any birds. During cold winters, the hunters retreated to the south, intent on quail and other game species. I am also from the Northeast, and seeing architecture that reminded me of New York and Connecticut and even my home state of Maine beneath southern Live Oaks and Magnolias felt a bit odd.
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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review
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APRIL 5, 2022
Thank you, goddess of birding luck and text group people).* My inner self felt stuck in an area between disbelief and total joy and the voices near me were echoing this state of mind: “Oh My God,” “I never thought I would see this bird,” “Look at that bill!” “How did that bird get here?”
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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of January 2016)
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JANUARY 10, 2016
The New York Powerball Jackpot has ballooned to an estimated $1.3 Birding, on the other hand, costs nothing to play and contributes to lifelong happiness. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. How about you?
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Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of December 2014?
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DECEMBER 4, 2014
Before you judge rabid deal hunters and conspicuous consumers too harshly, imagine how long you might wait on line for special deals on rare bird sightings? Speaking of survival, I find the best approach to the onset of a New York winter is to flee the country entirely for warmer climes. Birding December weekend'
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The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
The Mourning Dove ( Zenaida macroura) is among the most abundant and widespread terrestrial birds endemic to North and Middle America. This gentle bird frequents bird feeders and readily nests almost anywhere. A seemingly rather peaceful bird, it gets its name from its easily identifiable mournful call. v=44fNo6B5gUI.
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Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest
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MARCH 24, 2014
I won’t pick a fight with hunters, as long as they eat what they shoot and don’t use lead ammunition. However, I will pick a fight with the Rip Van Winkle Rod and Gun Club in Palenville, New York, which is sponsoring their fourth annual “Crow Down” March 29-30, 2014. I am not anti-hunting. Plain old fashioned Fun.”.
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A Survey of U.S. Birders
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APRIL 13, 2021
In 2012 , the NFC revised some of its goals and set forth a new vision of waterfowl management that emphasized a core of hunter and conservationist supporters. Although I have no evidence, I suspect eBirders are broadly representative of birders generally, though they are likely younger than the overall birding community.
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An Owl-Inspired Haiku
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DECEMBER 3, 2013
A pre-dawn visit to the Shawangunk Grasslands in Ulster County, New York, on Thanksgiving morning was well worth the long drive in the dark, especially as it was just a little bit out of my way en route to my folks’ house for Thanksgiving.
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A First Christmas Bird Count Experience
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MARCH 2, 2011
Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or These Blasts From The Past Bald Eagles are Getting Spoiled… Help Save Migratory Birds! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Thanks for visiting!
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Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds
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MARCH 21, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds By Corey • March 21, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct.
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Old Crow Distillery Company: Old Crow
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JANUARY 11, 2019
Well, it’s happened again – my first bird of the year was a crow. This year it was an American Crow ( Corvus brachyrhyncus ), though at home in Albany, New York, it’s just as likely to be – and has been in the past – a Fish Crow ( Corvus ossifragus ). Old Crow is named not for the bird, but for Dr. James C. or “uh-huh!”
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117 Decoy: Cabernet Sauvignon (2016)
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DECEMBER 14, 2018
This just might be a birding joke as old as the hills, but it’s one I hear without fail every year come Christmas Bird Count season in upstate New York. Dad-level bird jokes are right at home at Christmas Bird Count compilation dinners. I suspect it’s quite possible.
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Birding Sweden on the Fly
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FEBRUARY 12, 2014
Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. After taking an ornithology course last year, he was hooked and spends most of his free time birding or reading birding blogs. This is truly a bird-lovers dream-destination.
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The Wildlife Conservation Stamp: An Additional Income Stream for Our National Wildlife Refuges
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NOVEMBER 16, 2012
Proposal: Creation of a Federal Wildlife Conservation Stamp A birder, wildlife watcher, photographer and non-hunter version of the Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp (aka Federal Duck Stamp). She says, “there’s just a cultural bias against anything related to hunting.”
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205 The Eagle Huntress–A Film Review
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MARCH 7, 2017
The Eagle Huntress is a documentary about Aisholpan, her path to becoming an eagle hunter, a cultural heritage usually taken on by males, the family that supports her, and the Mongolian Kazakh community that seeks to continue the ancient tradition with its Golden Eagle Festival. It’s constructed in three acts: Home, Festival, Hunting.
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102 Does This Make My Mom A Bird Blogger?
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MARCH 14, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Does This Make My Mom A Bird Blogger? Does This Make My Mom A Bird Blogger? These Blasts From The Past New York City Canada Goose “Kill Zones&# Revealed Help Save Migratory Birds!
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Bird Deaths in Washington DC Lead to Calls for a Lights Out Program
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MARCH 16, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Bird Deaths in Washington D.C. Lead to Calls for a Lights Out Program Bird Deaths in Washington D.C. for migratory birds. for migratory birds. Get yours today! Thanks for visiting!
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Reason #17411 Not to Own Wild Birds
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MARCH 11, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Reason #17,411 Not to Own Wild Birds Reason #17,411 Not to Own Wild Birds By Corey • March 11, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share Quentin Tarantino might sue you. Thanks for visiting! Wicked, right?
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Open Season on Bald Eagles
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AUGUST 1, 2011
So there will be an ample supply of young birds coming up for harvest. Bald Eagles will provide a sporting challenge for hunters. Hunters don’t even need to use decoys. However they are wary and have famously sharp eyes, so bagging eagles will be a true sporting challenge for hunters.
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Welcome to Come@Me Week
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JUNE 24, 2018
Controversy and conflict are also nothing new to birders. Both the online world and the birding world are full of disputes, arguments, disagreements, squabbles, and quarrels. You may not agree with some of the things that you read on 10,000 Birds this week. 7AM – Donna: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds.
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Don't Forget the Birds of Brazil Giveaway
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MARCH 7, 2011
Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or If You Think Squirrels Raiding Your Feeders Are Bad News… Monk Parakeet Battle Continues in West Haven, CT The New Google Analytics Looks Good! Thanks for visiting!
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140 What is the National Bird of Nicaragua?
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MARCH 11, 2011
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What is the National Bird of Denmark?
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MARCH 4, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / What is the National Bird of Denmark? What is the National Bird of Denmark? It is no wonder that the ugly duckling grew up to be the national bird of Denmark. The Numbat is the animal emblem.
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Winner of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil Giveaway
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MARCH 12, 2011
And if you like entering contests in which books about birds are the prize please make sure that you also enter the latest 10,000 Birds giveaway, in which we are giving away three copies of The Crossley ID Guide. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.
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Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas
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MARCH 16, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Conservation / Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas By Mike • March 16, 2011 • 2 comments Tweet Share The U.S.
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What is the National Bird of Honduras?
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MARCH 18, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / What is the National Bird of Honduras? What is the National Bird of Honduras? By Corey • March 18, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share The national bird of Honduras is the Scarlet Macaw.
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152 Gray Jay Perisoreus canadensis
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AUGUST 19, 2011
How anyone can possibly resist a bird that has been called Whiskey Jack is beyond my comprehension. Others include Camp Robber , Lumberjack , and Moose-Bird. The bold gray-and-white birds know what humans are good for and that is as a source of food! There are at least eleven subspecies and the birds pictured here are all P.
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Cool Green Heron
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MARCH 5, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Cool Green Heron Cool Green Heron By Corey • March 5, 2011 • 3 comments Tweet Share If, like me, you like Green Herons and if, like me, you like birds with oddball plumages, then this post is for you.
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Last Chance to Enter
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MARCH 10, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Last Chance to Enter Last Chance to Enter By Corey • March 10, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share You only have until midnight tonight to enter the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil giveaway.
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140 World Sparrow Day 2011
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MARCH 19, 2011
• Explore These Related Posts Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners Why are Birds So Important to People? Tags: Asides , house sparrows • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Get yours today!
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Redtails in Tornados
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
We’re in upstate New York, so this is unlikely, but still disturbing. He was a small male, six or seven months old, and obviously not a skilled hunter. Yet another Red-tailed Hawk ! They saw movement on the grassy area to the side, slowed, and found a young hawk, soaking wet, unable to get off the ground. What should we do?”
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Nine-legged Plover?
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MARCH 11, 2011
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159 Honduras Trip Winner Has Blogged His Trip
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MARCH 3, 2011
You can read part one , part two , and part three of Mark’s adventure on Birds and Kids (and other stuff). Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or What is the National Bird of Denmark? Get yours today!
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145 Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus
10,000 Birds
APRIL 14, 2011
The Ruffed Grouse is a bird of the forests across much of North America, from Alaska and the mountains of the west through Canada, and in the east down through the Appalachians to Georgia. It is a beautiful bird and well worth taking examining closely if such a situation can somehow be arranged.
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More Habitat for Snowy Plover?
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MARCH 22, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / More Habitat for Snowy Plover? By Corey • March 22, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. Coreys 2011 Year List - 228 Copyright © 2011 10,000 Birds.
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145 Duck Butts
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FEBRUARY 28, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Duck Butts Duck Butts By Corey • February 28, 2011 • 7 comments Tweet Share We here at 10,000 Birds believe that every bird is beautiful and, moreover, that every part of every bird is beautiful.
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Herpetology Vs. Ornithology
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MARCH 2, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Herpetology Vs. Ornithology Herpetology Vs. Ornithology By Corey • March 2, 2011 • 4 comments Tweet Share If you like science and comic strips you definitely want to read xkcd. Thanks for visiting!
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155 Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania: A Review by an Atlas Novice
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APRIL 2, 2013
A breeding bird atlas is a special kind of book. For birders, it’s the extremely large book, shelved in a place where it can’t crush the field guides, used to research the history of a bird in their area. Corey did just this in this 2011 posting about Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus in New York State.
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233 Carnival of the Blue XLV
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MARCH 9, 2011
Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network.
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124 Cerulean Warbler Gets a Boost in Colombia
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MARCH 3, 2011
and Colombia respectively, have secured thirteen new conservation easements in Colombia with private landowners that will protect important habitat for the Cerulean Warbler – North America’s fastest declining neotropical migrant songbird. Thanks for visiting! RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?
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145 Review: Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil – The.
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FEBRUARY 28, 2011
And it looks even better in my hands while I dream about a visit to regions of Brazil I had scarcely heard of before being provided with a review copy of the first volume of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil.*
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Duck Migration
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MARCH 14, 2011
And, sure enough, as the sun set birds came over in ones and twos and fours and fives, adding to what was already a pretty darn big flock of birds spread out on the West Pond. Mostly the ducks were Red-breasted Merganser and Greater Scaup , the two most prevalent species on the pond, but there were a few other birds mixed in as well.
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172 Liben Lark Gets a Lifeline
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MARCH 4, 2011
That is why it is such amazingly awesome news that the British Birdwatching Fair raised £242,000 to help conserve a species that could become the first recorded bird extinction in mainland Africa. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Thanks for visiting!
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