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.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 2, 2011
Between the two breeding bird atlases in the state – one done in the early ’80s and one in the early ’00s – the number of atlas blocks with Vesper Sparrows declined 49%, a decline that is echoed in breeding bird survey routes as well. What has caused the decline? What has caused the decline? … a.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2012
These Piping Plovers were photographed at White Lake, North Dakota. Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge, North Dakota. Some birds breed in flocks, at least in part to avoid predation. I don’t believe in perpetual optimism (I’m just not wired for it), but I think it will do you good in this situation.
10,000 Birds
MAY 26, 2011
I imagine these explorers had the same reaction as the Lewis and Clark expedition as they moved from the tallgrass prairies of North Dakota and Montana into the northern Rockies of western Montana. At which point, the Owl will lunge out at pluck the bird right off it’s perch. This species is an athletic and patient one.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2018
You could say that the right-brain, the part of the brain that is intuitive and creative, goes first, and the left-brain, where the logic resides, comes in second to refine and substantiate the initial impression. The process doesn’t totally ignore plumage. These vary according to species. Close-up of Laughing Gull Range Map.
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. What a horror!
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 23, 2011
4) For the sake of keeping it real…if you are the breed of birder that is in possession of a very poor set of social skills… maybe you should just send any prospective birders my way instead. Photographed near Lostwood, North Dakota. That said, not only I am astute observer of the avian, but of the human as well.
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