10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2021

“This beautiful and singular bird, although a constant resident in the southern extremities of the peninsula of Florida, seldom extends its journeys in an eastern direction beyond the State of North Carolina. I picked up a few bottles and we were off on our way home to Albany.

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New York South Carolina North Carolina Massachusetts 262

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Clavruel’s book is not a day-by-day recreation of Audubon’s various itineraries, but rather a loose investigation of “regions and birds unknown to me,” he says, prompted by his “desire to meet and sketch people who live each day in contact with nature.” Birds, mammals and other wildlife, humans and landscapes are all rendered magnificently.

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Bald Eagle Louisville Pennsylvania Ohio 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2011

For many birders a highlight of birding the southeastern United States, maybe even the definitive birding experience of the region, is taking in the great numbers and diversity of long-legged wading birds. I discovered this surprising water bird bonanza at Huntington Beach State Park in Georgetown County, South Carolina.

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South Carolina Alligators Florida United States 157

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

Louis Hoppmann III has been charged with animal cruelty after hitting a gull with a baseball bat on the aptly named Folly Beach in South Carolina. He claims he was just trying to scare the birds away from his food, but that sounds like a post-hoc explanation to me… a.

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Bats South Carolina Animal Cruelty Killing 162

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Here in the southern reaches of North America, we’re fortunate to have opportunities to view birds that are far more common far more south – like neotropics south – with some regularity. We spotted our quarry before the car even came to a stop, it’s nice when state birds are so forthcoming.

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North Carolina South Carolina Birds North America 164

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2011

After “ mysterious bird deaths ” that are pretty obviously caused by crashing into buildings in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina it is past time to figure out how to mitigate the damage. The video you can find at the link, which features footage of a variety of dead birds, is rather sad.

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South Carolina Birds 154

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2017

Once he was a black child, and he grew up on a farm in Edgefield County, South Carolina, surrounded by protected woodlands and troubled human history. Lanham is also an activist on the topic of getting more diversity into the birding community: you can see a video of his work here. Drew Lanham is a black man. Drew Lanham.

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South Carolina Stray Cows 2012 123

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2015

I was left with most of the day to explore and look for birds. hardly early by birding standards but early enough to beat the crowds of beach goers to my destination: Folly Beach County Park. They are listed as threatened in South Carolina, with approximately 375 pairs of nesting plovers. I was in birding heaven.

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South Carolina Bats Pelicans Fish 154

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2014

I was happy to read that the wood stork ( Mycteria Americana ), a bird near and dear to me, was down-sited from the status of endangered to threatened species. The wood stork occurs and breeds in Central and South America. However, birds in the U.S. On June 25, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the U.S.

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North Carolina Bald Eagle South Carolina Florida 191

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

This is a bird that flew over 3,400 miles in one flight from Brazil to South Carolina, an amazing bird that is representative of every other Whimbrel. Look at the amazing journeys that this bird had made and then say that it wasn’t a disgusting act to shoot such an astounding and amazing creature.

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Hunters Barbados South Carolina Hunting 232

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2017

The sand exposed during low tide makes for excellent walking, and even better birding. Sure, I can see most of the birds in the Bahamas while living within Florida, but not in such stunning surroundings! I had only seen that distinctive feature once before, on the much darker sands of Folly Beach in South Carolina.

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Bahamas South Carolina United States Florida 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Self-cleaning pens, never-empty feed buckets,” wrote Angel in South Carolina and Zoe in California. “A A robot that feeds baby birds so I can take a nap,” wrote Jodi in Massachusetts. “A

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 242

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2012

I realize that listing is a reviled in birding culture as it is celebrated, and more listing even more so, but hear me out here. I mean to make the argument that county listing is birding at its most pure, the ultimate combination of the two warring angels that sit upon each one of our shoulders. A fine bird for the county.

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McDonalds South Carolina North Carolina Jordan 165

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2011

European Storks are majestic, they’re graceful and stately and all of the positively connotated adjectives that are applied to birds to which humans have a long and pleasant history rooted deep in our western cultural heritage. In fact, there’s hardly a bird in the world that has such a venerated relationship with us.

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Pedigree North America South Carolina Brazil 170

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

We are just too far south for any of the above mentioned species, but that is not to say that we do not get any sparrows at all. Lucky Hammock is the best location to have guaranteed sightings of this small seed-eating bird, where it is often the most numerous species in the months of November to February.

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Sparrows Florida Atlanta South Carolina 142

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

My spark bird was the Red-tailed Hawk that lives next to Central Park, the one named Pale Male I’ve always been a little embarrassed about this. There have been three books written about Pale Male and 2 movies made about him, and saying that he was the bird that sparked my birding obsession makes me feel like I am living out an urban cliché.

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New York New York City 2013 Collecting 106

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Since 2016, writers at 10,000 Birds have been contributing checklists to a joint eBird account called the “10,000 Birds Collaborative.” 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.” For the United States, there is also a state list.

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Rhode Island United States West Virginia Puerto Rico 114

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

But those birds have to go somewhere, even if the concentrations that have come to define the above sites have thinned a little by the time the birds cruise down the mountain range. Suddenly, the forest around you begins to shake as birds, mere pinpricks at first, launch themselves into the sky and start their slow ascent.

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South Carolina Maryland North Carolina New Jersey 161

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2019

As always, I spent most mornings out looking for birds, and because the seven of us had only a single minivan to get around, I had to keep my morning outings relatively brief so I was confined to Tybee Island. Not that doing my birding on Tybee Island was some kind of horrible chore but the 5.2 square miles (8.3 I hope not!

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Georgia Cats Neutering Birds 173

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

This is not the first time that I have pointed out the perfidy of Republicans in United States government as it relates to birds or conservation. But this attempt by Congressmen Duncan of South Carolina to completely prevent any enforcement of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act is beyond the pale, even for bird-hating Republicans.

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Protection Bald Eagle United States South Carolina 260

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Rightly or wrongly, there’s an hierarchy of extinct birds in North America, in the United States in particular. … This post originally appeared on 10,000 Birds on 10 May 2011 during Wood-Warbler Week. we are hosting Extinction Week here on 10,000 Birds from 7 September to 13 September. John Bachman. What a horror!

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South Carolina Cuba Missouri Mississippi 177

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2011

It’s no small bit ironic that between the sprawling developments and golf courses and theme parks of the general public’s perception of the southeast terminus of the continent lies some of the best birding in the world, particularly for anyone who likes their birds big, flashy, and approachable (i.e.

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Florida South Carolina Alligators Wounded 154

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2023

As background, a Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp costs $25 and income from sales goes into the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund (“MBCF”). Acquisitions made with the MBCF must be approved by the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission (“MBCC”). Cape Romain NWR (South Carolina): $5,000,000 to acquire 446 acres.

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Ducks New Hampshire Kentucky South Carolina 182

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Now South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is floating Ted Cruz to fill the SCOTUS vacancy. Ted went on to say “I would note, just recently, that Justice (Stephen) Breyer observed that the vacancy is not impacting the ability of the court to do its job. That’s a debate that we are going to have.” ” Really?

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Wildlife 2016 Oklahoma South Carolina 145