10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

If you like birds on posts, if seeing “little brown jobs” posing nicely in the distance as you drive or walk along a dirt road only to have it fly away as you approach makes you deliriously happy, then North Dakota is the place for you. Scott Barnes, N.J. Audubon Naturalist, and Linda Mack, N.J.

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North Dakota Birds Sparrows Blackbirds 147

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AUGUST 15, 2022

This turned out to be nice for one researcher who thus could do the research for her Ph.D. thesis on the “Social Behavior and Cooperative Breeding of Kalij Pheasants” in a place with much nicer sanitary facilities than where I saw the bird (in rural Fujian). North Dakota. South Dakota.

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Rhode Island Research South Dakota North Dakota 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

In June, I visited North Dakota for the first time. Here’s a diagram, available on the Audubon site , that compares its 2000 range with its anticipated 2080 range: Only 1 percent of the bird’s breeding range remains stable between 2000 and 2080 if global warming continues on its current course.

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Species Science Los Angeles Birds 178

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The Service proposes opening the following refuges to sport fishing for the first time: North Dakota. Seney National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1935 as a refuge and breeding ground for migratory birds and other wildlife.” Ardoch National Wildlife Refuge : Open to sport fishing.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. The sandhill crane has the lowest recruitment rate (average number of young birds joining a population each season) of any bird now hunted in North America. Or These Blasts From The Past What’s In A Name?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 254