10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2013

This will give North American birders, the birders that Larkwire is meant for, plenty to do in the remaining time before the breeding birds come back. It is two different games that you can play on your desktop, laptop, smart phone, or tablet. (If You can play the games any time with whatever time you have available.

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APRIL 18, 2020

She should have bailed but, game gel that she is, took a huge leap, slipped and spread-eagled on landing. Outside of the breeding season the birds are reasonably tolerant of each other, often feeding in close proximity, but as spring moves on they are likely to become far more territorial and defensive.

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JUNE 29, 2016

But this breeding and social arrangement has its risks. Scientists from the University of Exeter in England and the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) found that having more females in the group makes each individual female a little less stressed about watching out for threats, and more able to forage in prep for breeding.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Conservationists at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) have been using remote controlled drones to watch the nests of endangered breeds and monitor the progress of reintroduced species. Over time, it’s these physiological changes that can disrupt animals’ breeding or rearing habits.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Together with African Kori Bustard (which I observed on a camping trip in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve), this is the heaviest flying bird in the world. Habitat destruction combined with hunting has pushed them away from their former breeding grounds. m–8 ft 10 in). What treats do they face? Lots of it.

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MAY 13, 2022

I guess having one racket is still enough to play the game, though it may not be sufficient to find a high-quality mate. The story is similar for the Red-breasted Parakeet – native and Near Threatened in Thailand and surrounding countries, but with an established breeding population in Singapore, quite likely established from escapees.

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MARCH 21, 2014

My Dark-eyed Juncos are trilling in preparation to retreat to quieter breeding grounds, the Black-Capped Chickadees sing their two notes, and the Song Sparrows absolutely will not shut up. Snow Geese overgrazing their breeding grounds, displacing other Arctic-breeding species and setting themselves up for a fall. The result?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2014

Sometimes bird rehabbers who end up with tiny, semi-feathered little mystery birds end up playing a game called “Name That Bird.”. Aha, Georgia, so it’s too small for a Carolina Wren and there aren’t any House Wren s in your area during breeding season.”. “You don’t have many breeding warblers down there, do you?

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In the non-breeding season, male Baya Weavers sometimes enter the basket-making trade, often with considerable success. Meanwhile, the females seem to have a much more relaxing life, at least in this early stage of the breeding season. You can see why here. Trust me, the species name makes sense for the male, though not for the female.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2013

We hypothesized that trends in waterfowl hunter numbers, as indicated by Federal Migratory Bird Hunting Conservation Stamp (duck stamp) sales, have become independent of breeding duck populations, and we assess the impacts on habitat conservation. 4 0.81) and 1995–2008 (r 1?4

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Mosco is also the author of Birding Is My Favorite Video Game: Cartoons about the Natural World (2018, a collection of Bird and Moon comics); co-author of several children’s books, including The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid (2018) with Dylan Thuras and Joy Ang, Butterflies Are Pretty … Gross!

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JULY 17, 2020

Juniper is a decidely wintery spice, and its piquant, piney flavor is generally used to season game, offal, and charcuterie, steaming heaps of sauerkraut, warming cordials, and other hearty fare best enjoyed during the shorter, darker days of the year. Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are important pollinators (depicted here by John James Audubon).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2015

It isn’t just tourists and game hunters that like them though; Painted Wolves are also big fans, as they are easier to bring down than the larger species but have more meat to eat than a small duiker. The crest on the back becomes erect during breeding displays.

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APRIL 26, 2016

Since then their range has spread across the United States and southern Canada, and they remain a sought-after game species. Partners in Flight estimates that the global breeding population is around 50 million; 30% of which can be found in North America and Canada. During some seasons, millions of male pheasants are killed.

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

I’ve republished the full initial statement with Alvaro’s kind permission in order to elicit the kind of nuanced discussion 10,000 Birds readers are so good at: Listing is just a game, but one that many take seriously. The rules of the game, and what you can and cannot count, are the domain of the ABA.

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AUGUST 13, 2014

” The report continues: “Following the breeding season, most tricolors are found in the Sacramento Valley where they aggregate with red-winged and other blackbird species and feed, often in large flocks, on ripening rice. Thus, the number of tricolors in California continues a rapid decline. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rwi0SF8r8o.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

It sounded birdy and I was game. But your reason to check the canyon is a White-throated Dipper that breeds there and with some luck, you may even encounter a Rock Bunting. Also present here, the Red-breasted Flycatcher is a rare breeding species of Serbia, inhabiting mostly thickly-overgrown gullies.

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MAY 2, 2023

It could easily be mistaken for a book about aviation or space navigation or even a flight simulator game if you don’t read the long, adjective-filled subtitle: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration. Flight Paths is a splendid but risky title for a book about bird migration.

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JULY 17, 2011

One was “Superdad,” one of the few successful breeding whooping cranes in the entire eastern population. Eastern flyway breeding populations appear to be maxing out their available habitat, and are subject to abundant natural limitations such as ground predation by coyotes, foxes, raccoons and opossums. Quick: what’s this?

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

I mean, I’ve been to games, but I don’t memorize who played third base for Pittsburgh in 1960.” Two-thirds of the world’s population breeds colonially on Greek islands. (It’s an odd thing – do you remember that dialogue from the City Slickers: “ Phil: So, do you hate baseball? Bonnie: No, I like baseball.

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JUNE 27, 2017

Ka’ena Point is also a breeding ground for the Federally protected Laysan albatross, where 45 nests were being carefully monitored by the non-profit Pacific Rim Conservation. Emboldened by the averted gazes, the excuses by the adults in their lives, the legal bargains and wrist slaps, they set their sights on increasingly bigger game.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

These birds have lost more than half their global population, and the 33 species combined have lost hundreds of millions of breeding individuals in just the past 40 years. The main reason for this rapid decline, as in the case of most species, is loss of habitat.

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DECEMBER 1, 2015

Rattlesnakes are fair game, as are other reptiles, scorpions, frogs, birds, and insects. million breeding birds, Greater Roadrunners have a stable population (according to Partners in Flight). Their impressive speed is used for hunting, and roadrunners will eat almost anything that moves.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

Finally, South Africa has three 400+ hotspots, namely 1 Mkhuze Game Reserve 458 sp. The best season for the north-west circuit is February to May, during the rains when most birds breed. The best timing is during the rains, April-May and October-November, when birds breed. 3 Lake Manyara NP 573 sp. 4 Arusha NP 565 sp.

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JUNE 24, 2012

Which these days involves a frenzy to breed and raise a brood. He told me where he’d found them, and we hung up and I went back to my card game. This is the 3rd year for these most northerly known breeding pair of loons. A Baird’s Sandpiper, our most common breeding shorebird. Things happen quickly up here.

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JUNE 20, 2012

In addition to their homing tendency, breeding swallows are attracted to old nests. In California, the Cliff Swallows usually arrive in February so the agency in charge of enforcing these laws, the California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG), considers February 15th to September 1st the swallow nesting season.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Come September most of the summer seabird people had left, but there were a small number of seabirds still breeding and so I stayed behind for three years to continue their monitoring and do the migrant landbird surveys, as well as the Great White Shark surveys. It was astonishing, like a game drive in the savannah of Africa.

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JULY 9, 2019

A little less than a mile away, there is a spot where a nice population of Burrowing Owls, have been relocated in hopes of starting a new breeding population. Several times, a couple of the juvenile owls would take off in a game of chase. Look like it is working as last I heard there were three pairs that fledged birds this spring!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2017

So, when Carnival season gets here, the entire waterfront becomes a glut of food booths, silly carnival games, nightly Mardi Gras style parades, and nearly two miles of vendors hawking a large variety of wares for sale. Now, at this point you are probably asking your self, what does this have to do with birds.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

There’s lots of disheartening stuff going on in the bird world this week, so let’s start with some love in the air, in honor of Valentine’s Day: An avian version of “The Dating Game” at a Chicago-area zoo aims to reveal how best to manage mating in captivity. Bad news: The massive Common Murre die-off along the U.S.

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

Ndumo Game Reserve lies in the Easternmost part of South Africa, close to the border of Mozambique and Eswatini. Greater Flamingos are considered cooperative breeders as fledglings are raised in a creche, in which large numbers of young are watched by multiple non-breeding adult greater flamingos.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

An auspicious Bald Eagle sighting – positioned high in a pine tree – heralded the beginning of a magical afternoon, where we sailed amidst over a million breeding seabirds. On our way to the breeding rocks, we saw a group of Ruddy Turnstones fly off, but they turned a corner before we could get acquainted properly.

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JULY 24, 2014

To explain what a Grallard is one must first go back to those societies and recall that one of their predominant preoccupations was game. New Zealand had, once upon a time, some fairly spectacular game birds, including massive flightless geese, massive flightles rails, and really enormous moa. Female Mallard, photo by Corey.

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JULY 11, 2017

Many species had left for breeding in more northerly climates, and those that remained hid out in cool spots until saner temperatures reigned in the morning and evening. Yes, but we were playing the numbers game. One, we were quite simply tired, and it was past 9 a.m. when we got our gear and snacks into the car.

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AUGUST 1, 2011

There was a lot of hunting for Bald Eagles—it is traditionally a game species. In my home state, Bald Eagles are breeding in 35 Ohio counties. The Bald Eagle has the potential to be the Holy Grail of game birds. We’ve always hunted Bald Eagles. Bald Eagles were nearly exterminated from the Lower 48 by the mid 1970’s.

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MARCH 29, 2017

At this point, the official status of the Pacific population of the Snowy Plover is shown as “Threatened” The state of California lists the bird as a “Species of Concern” In 1981Washington State, and their game department, have listed the bird as “Endangered” in policy #402.

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MAY 8, 2012

Yellow-billed Stork portrait (note the pink flush indicating breeding status), Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania by Adam Riley The Yellow-billed Stork has a closely-related sister species in Asia known as Painted Stork. During breeding season, their white plumage turns a delicate pink color, a lovely sight indeed.

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