10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2015
Everything is quiet and serene; a few bird calls here and there, the low buzzing of insects, the swish of a breeze through summer leaves is all you can hear. No, you have not stumbled upon a WWI re-enactment, but a startled Ruffed Grouse , the state bird of Pennsylvania. You are walking on a wooded path in Pennsylvania.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2011
A panel of the Iowa legislature decided to ignore common sense, wildlife professionals, and Iowa’s own Natural Resources Commission and allow lead shot to be used for the new Mourning Dove hunting season. This decision is just plain dumb. Hat-tip to John.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2019
More than 5,000 bird species in the world make some kind of seasonal movement. On our North American continent, tens of millions of birds are flying northward on peak spring nights. He gives lots of marvelous examples, such as the Blackpoll warbler, “among the most astonishing and extreme of all migratory birds.”.
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