10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

The chapter titles of Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds represent both ends of the spectrum: “A World Full of Poisons,” “Malaria,” “Forest Intruders,” “Lead Shock,” “Shot.” Conservation. It’s not easy.

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 199

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2023

But does ChatGPT have even a rudimentary understanding of a niche topic like birding? I asked it a few questions about birding locations and the (unedited) results are below, along with some brief analysis. Please note that the availability of specific bird species may vary depending on the season.

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United States Michigan Texas Virginia 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2017

It’s one thing to go birding. A long trip to a distant hot spot, a targeted species, the careful working of a patch, a heady plunge into the whirlpool of migration or a determined sifting of shorebirds, gulls, distant raptors – all these varieties of birding have their own pleasures and proponents.

Montana 133

Montana Birds Fish Groups 133

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2018

Many were specifically established for migratory birds and are strategically positioned along one of the four major North American migration flyways. Others were established to protect specific bird species or subspecies. As a result, there are excellent birding hotspots in the system. Lee Metcalf NWR (Montana).

Wildlife 214

Wildlife Las Vegas Texas Minnesota 214

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

Birders know that some of the finest birding locations in the country are on federal land , which include national parks , wildlife refuges , forests , monuments , and seashores , among others. These lands support countless birds, either year-round, as migratory stopovers, or as breeding grounds. But what else should birders know?

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Virgin Islands Alaska United States Endangered Species 233

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2013

When you move on to Montana, you discover that there are worse things that one species of tiny screaming mammal tricking you each year as you try to cope with an influx of songbirds and a winterized memory bank that contains only Black-capped Chickadees and Dark-eyed Juncos (and only about half their calls at that.) You sigh and move on.

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Chipmunks Squirrels Rodents Montana 190

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

For some reason, this is the year that the masked butcherbirds have been around in my corners of Montana, with as many sightings for me in 2014 as in the rest of my life (including the other three years I lived in Montana) combined. Birding Montana New York Northern Shrike'

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Montana 2014 New York Sparrows 195

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2014

The state of Montana is very firm on the subject of spotted knapweed, and the closely related diffuse knapweed and Russian knapweed. Spotted knapweed arrived in Montana in the 1920s, most likely in a batch of alfalfa seed or perhaps on the creep down from western Canada, where it may have come ashore in the ballast of ships.

Montana 165

Montana Goats Sheep Species 165

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2014

But I grew up with old field guides and a mother who was disgusted by the fact that we’d swapped two cool birds with two reasonably-cool names for one bird with one, very uninspiring name. Moving to Montana was not even exotic – it was a non-possibility. But I was, perhaps, slow to see them.

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Baltimore California Condor Montana Cleveland 180

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2014

As I bird, walk the dog or run errands, puffs of white float down on the breeze. The species that calls western Montana home is the black cottonwood, while plains and narrowleaf cottonwood call the rest of the state home. Up on Higgins near the book store it’s just the occasional bit of fairy floss angling down across my vision.

Montana 174

Montana Cattle Deer Humane 174

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

This is the area that fostered my lifelong interest in birds. During the weekend that I was there, it was announced that there were over 1300 fires burning just within the state of Oregon, not to mention California, Washington, Montana and British Columbia, Canada. It was to latter area that I was traveling.

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Oregon Birds Montana California 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

You get three or four books in one with Jonathan Meiburg’s A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey. Meiburg doesn’t say it in so many words, but it’s almost as if he believes he and the birds are in telepathic converse. And it’s more than the sum of the parts.

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Guyana South America Washington DC 257

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Last week many birders were shocked and saddened by the deaths of thousands of Snow Geese who, trapped by adverse weather conditions, landed at the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana. As an Explainer of Montana, I am here to help. You may be curious about what exactly is the deal with that.

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Montana Geese Collecting Species 154

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2021

There is also a research institute dedicated to wilderness: the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute is an interagency facility located at the University of Montana. The post A Birder’s Guide to The Wilderness Act appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Like federal public lands generally, wilderness areas are not free from controversy.

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Puerto Rico Alaska Protection Research 275

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. And us, the birders who travel here from March to May to worship the birds as they seek to survive.

Houston 233

Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 233

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2020

In his blog, Birds and Nature North America, the peripatetic Bruce Beehler professes to cover not just what the title says, but also American culture, American history, and “stories of back-roads travel and camping.” Lately (in the last month or so) he’s been through the Dakotas, Montana, and Canada, up to the Northwest Territories.

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New Hampshire Washington Virginia United States 246

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

It had been a long time since I birded Central Park. Birders can chase and lure, scrutinize and organize, but we can’t control the weather, and so like all weather-dependent activities birding is a vital reminder of our lack of omnipotence, both humbling and liberating. Well, I am sort of am from Montana now, I guess.

Montana 169

Montana New York City New York Nashville 169

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2018

The birding around Lago de Yojoa in Honduras is frankly phenomenal, as I learned during a June 2018 birding junket organized by the Instituto Hondureño de Turismo. Peraza , could not sit still knowing that so many tasty target birds could be found within easy driving distance. EL RANCHO HOTEL Y RESTAURANTE.

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Honduras Birds Farming America 154

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2018

In the fall of 2017, my mother and favorite birding buddy visited the mountains of Montana for a fishing trip. While hiking along a river, she spotted a large, gray and black bird on the branch of a tree. Would I have enough time to seek out this unique bird? They really are beautiful birds.

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Montana 2017 Fish Game 102

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2017

Or at least the four dogs in the house I’m staying at in Montana showed no particular reaction to the 5.8 The mother bird is even more disturbed and vocalizes for almost twenty minutes. So it turns out dogs are useless. earthquake and series of aftershocks that made the state wobbly in the early hours of Thursday morning.

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Montana Dogs Birds 114

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Many years ago, back in the 1970s, I visited my sister, who lived in West Yellowstone, Montana, in the dead of winter. Overall they are pretty amazing birds. Great Trumpeter Swan birding report HERE. Birds Conservation Cygnus buccinator hunting Minnesota Trumpeter Swan' We rented snow mobiles and drove into Yellowstone.

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Minnesota Wounded Montana Wildlife Rehabilitation 227

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

If you’ve ever wanted to understand why warning calls by one bird species seem to spread rapidly, like an avian version of the Wave , to birds of other species, Professor Erick Greene from the University of Montana is your man. And recordings of birds’ frantic calls in response to such.

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New York Times Montana Science New York 154

10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2013

The Spotted Sandpiper – or Mountain Meep Bird, as Chuk dubbed it — was everywhere as we floated along the North Fork of the Flathead River. Lakes and ponds, streams and rivers, all are home to this widespread bird. Birds mountains Spotted Sandpiper' And especially Spotted Sandpipers. But they do not want ours.

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Bald Eagle Montana Eagles Birds 164

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

It’s been beautiful here in Montana lately. By beautiful, I mean too cold, too gray, and as always too dry, but full of birds. First, the hope that I can lure them to my feeder and count them as yard birds, even (God help you all) try to photograph them. And second, the omnipresent hope of Hoary Redpolls.

Montana 107

Montana Jamaica Suffering Owls 107

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2014

But, of course, there is no reason to believe that Osprey have dignity to lose, or that a silly name for a beloved bird would somehow make people less concerned about conservation. I just, apparently, care deeply about the issue of bird naming on every level. Birds Montana names Ospreys web cams'

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Montana Eggs Birds 156

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2011

The Sage Grouse is getting a boost in Alberta with the work of The Sage Grouse Recovery Group , which is seeking to augment the dwindling population in Alberta with birds from Montana.

Montana 165

Montana Groups Birds 165

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2011

Doi Inthanon National Park in northern Thailand is a birding paradise (IMHO). I only got to spend a couple of days there, but the altitudinal range - and corresponding habitat and bird assemblage variation - really touched me. Female White-browed Shortwing ( Brachypteryx montana ) at nest with two nestlings. Dale Forbes a.

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Thailand Birds Montana Africa 200

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2012

One of the admirable things about Montana is how it contains prime examples of not one, but two iconic North American landscapes. But eastern Montana contains the equally though differently stunning high plains, a world unto itself with very different wildlife meeting very different challenges.

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Wildlife Ferrets Montana Prairie Dogs 197

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Just when you’ve persuaded everyone you know, from barflies in Montana to hotshot Manhattan editors to your infant nephews, that birds are the greatest thing ever… something like this happens.

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Falcons Montana Breeding Woodpeckers 154

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2013

I have to admit, I normally have a twinge when I see the phrase “backyard birds.” ” Not because there’s anything wrong with common or confiding species, but because depending on where you live and what you do with your habitat, darn near anything can be a backyard bird. Reviews backyard birds Ospreys'

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Atlanta Birds Ohio Montana 133

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2018

This year, a few months after my fortieth birthday, when I saw a Blue Jay in West Glacier Montana I felt only a small bit of surprise – it was an uncommon bird but no longer really extralimital as a wintering species. The post Shifting Baselines and Sneaky Jays appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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New York Times Montana Oregon Deer 140

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2017

Last night I lay awake from 4 am til almost 5, worrying about the black-footed ferrets I met in Montana and the humans who had devoted their lives to helping them. As my fellow blogger Meredith Mann pointed out last summer, the Endangered Species Act in particular has been a massive success for birds.

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Endangered Species Ferrets United States Montana 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

No Snow Geese or swans yet, and no Sandhill Cranes , but it did renew my taste for some of the simpler, homier pleasures of birding. With all my traipsing about this year I’ve actually been shamefully lax on birding Montana. Montana offers little in the way of flamingos, generally speaking.

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Bald Eagle Montana Owls Italy 113

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

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Nicaragua El Salvador 2011 Deer 200

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

The swallows here in Montana have an admirable ability to assort themselves into nesting niches. And then there’s this guy: Birds without a nesting site assigned to them by name seem to be a little more confused. All About Birds describes the Violet-green Swallow as a cavity nester, seen in open woods at middle elevations.

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Montana Woodpeckers Eggs Raised 160

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2013

Since I moved to Montana I’ve been updating it sporadically at best, and over the past year or so, not at all. Plenty has been written about the joys and values of birding that isn’t list-centric, and a lot of it is right. Birding big year listing' Part of it has been sheer laziness.

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Montana 2007 Game Birds 173

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Way, way back, during our inuagural game of Gone Birding , my friend Molly developed a theory of birds. I just chalked this up to my friends being weird, until I took the Master Naturalist Class at the Montana Natural History this fall. water birds (ducks!) According to Their Kind Everyone knows this one. In the U.S.,

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Montana Bald Eagle Owls Ducks 163