10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2018

At the top of those destinations is the stretch of Gulf Coast Texas barrier islands starting at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in the north, through Padre Island National Seashore, to South Padre Island near the country’s border. Many fly through these Texas hotspots, transforming physics into magic right before our eyes!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2017

and it breeds in the scrublands of Texas, Oklahoma, and northern Mexico. Moreover, management to control parasitism by Brown-headed Cowbird has improved vireo breeding success. And the expansion of prescribed fire as a wildlife management tool has improved and maintained breeding habitat. FWS should decide within a year.

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Endangered Species Species Texas Oklahoma 123

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2014

Last week might have been the official observance of International Migratory Bird Day along with innumerable Big Days, Big Sits, and Great Texas Birding Classics (well, maybe only one of those!), but spring is still springing and birds still winging towards their breeding or wintering grounds.

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2014 Texas Birds Breeding 180

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2024

The Habitat, Distribution, and Seasonal Status section gives essential information on habitat preferences, nest description (for species that breed in North America), breeding range, migration patterns and when migration takes place, tendency for vagrancy and where vagrancy usually occurs.

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Los Angeles North America Species America 169

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

A few breed in Texas’ Big Bend area.) All of our other migratory species either breed mostly in the U.S. and Canada, and winter in Mexico, or breed in Mexico, and winter in Central and South America.

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Mexico Birds South America Turkey 155

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. His parents moved where opportunity beckoned, taking him from San Angelo, Texas, to Columbus, New Mexico, then to Dallas, and finally on to California.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 171

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Among these lands are some of the most productive avian breeding grounds in the United States. For comparison, Aransas NWR in Texas is about 115,000 acres and Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico is under 60,000 acres. Yukon Flats NWR is one of the most productive waterfowl breeding areas in North America. million acres).

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Alaska United States Puffins Wildlife 203

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

Ontario is larger than Texas, more than 1 million square kilometers of forests, cities, wetlands, tundra, rivers and lakes. It borders the Hudson Bay to the north and four Great Lakes to the south, accessible by car and sometimes feet from the United States over bridges with names like Rainbow, Ambassador, and Seaway Skyway.

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North America Birds Owls Canada 200

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2019

With birds bedecked in their breeding best and filling the air with song, this is migration at its loveliest. Threatened by loss of habitat both on breeding as well as wintering grounds, a few species have even become endangered or at least on a perilous track towards that worrisome designation.

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Costa Rica Species Belize New Jersey 174

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2020

The burgeoning number of waders in the fall reminds locals that many herons and egrets disperse northward during the late spring and early summer to breed and feed, returning in the late summer and fall to seek refuge from the oncoming cold and lack of food.

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Florida Miami Birds Falcons 247

10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2019

The endangered Golden-cheeked Warbler breeds only in Texas Hill Country near Austin and San Antonio, but much of its nesting grounds have cleared in favor of subdivisions. For example, the Bandera Corridor Conservation Bank (BCCB) provides mitigation offsets in several counties in Texas Hill Country.

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San Antonio Endangered Species Texas Austin 124

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Instead, they are summer visitors, moving up to Colorado in the warm months to breed before returning to wintering grounds in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. During the summer breeding months, Lark Bunting males – a sparrow species – are jet black, their white wings contrasting beautifully with the dark bodies.

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Colorado Legislature North America New Mexico 101

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2013

Quite a few species are well-established and breeding from San Diego to Los Angeles and beyond. This means that the free-flying populations in southern California and southern Texas could end up important to the species’ survival in the wild, ironic because they only exist in California and Texas because of the cage-bird trade.

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Parrots California Los Angeles San Diego 211

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2013

Even though it doesn’t show on the NatureServe range map above, Golden-crowned Sparrow vagrants have been recorded eastward to Ontario and Nova Scotia, Michigan, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey; also south to Alabama, Texas, Louisiana and Florida 1. Resources: 1 Birds of North America Online.

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Sparrows Alabama North America New Jersey 160

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2011

You could be hearing this too if you are in eastern US, as far west as, say, parts of Texas and going north to approximately the Canadian border. 3 rd word, second syllable: A bird that breeds in Florida, the northern limits of its breeding range. It is a bird not often seen, it is a bird of swamps and marshes.

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2011 Louisiana Texas Florida 151

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

One of the two sub-species of Red Knot occurring in North America, the Rufa subspecies breeds in the Canadian Artic Region and migrates along the east or Atlantic coast of the United States. The other sub-species, Calidris canutus roselaari , migrates along the Pacific Coast and breeds in Alaska and the Wrangel Island in Russia.

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Endangered Species Protection Delaware Species 160

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2018

The birds also need it because this is when they build nests and breed. As the local birds get into breeding mode, some others take advantage of the nesting to feed broods of their own. If you see some of those birds on a Texas coast, know that many of them flew right through Costa Rica. Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher.

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Costa Rica Blackbirds Texas Geese 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

For example, essentially the entire population of the endangered Whooping Crane winters at Aransas NWR in Texas. Farallon NWR , a group of islands near San Francisco, hosts the largest colonies of breeding seabirds south of Alaska. Individually, many NWRs protect crucial bird habitat.

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Wildlife Grizzly Bear Puerto Rico United States 189

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Even though the female lays only two eggs per nest attempt, they enjoy a protracted breeding season in which multiple nesting attempts can occur every 30 days, and in Southern locations, nearly year round. North American breeding bird survey annual summary 1989, 3 US Fish & Wildlife Service.

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Hunters Hunting North America Game 173

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2022

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). A bit surprisingly (at least to me), the Kalij Pheasant has been introduced and established as a gamebird in Hawaii. Connecticut. New Jersey. North Dakota.

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Rhode Island Research South Dakota North Dakota 147

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Red-billed Curassow ( Crax blumenbachii ), a large, ground-dwelling bird belonging to the same family as the more familiar Plain Chachalaca of southern Texas, was never a very widespread species. This is a short series that brings attention to these incredible birds, and my various adventures to try and see them.

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Brazil California Condor Parrots Texas 206

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2011

The Mexican Duck, as its name suggests, is native to Mexico and parts of the southwestern United States, and unlike the Mallard, the Mexican Duck does not have a showy male breeding plumage; both sexes are brown throughout the year. © David J.

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Ducks North America Texas Mexico 169

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2023

The maps are fairly complex, showing breeding range, winter range, year-round range, migration routes, times, and directions. They have co-authored a number of articles, including several on field identification for Birding and Texas Birds Annual. This is followed by a page or four of Andy Birch’s lovely, detailed illustrations.

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Los Angeles North America America Species 201

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2011

The main wintering area for Ross’s Goose ( Chen rossii ) is presently in the Central Valley of California, though increasing numbers winter in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Texas, and the north-central highlands of Mexico 1. The Ross’s Goose is the smallest variety of the white geese that breed in North America.

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Geese South Dakota Sacramento Arkansas 152

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2017

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), contain many of the nation’s most renowned birding locations, including Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico, Laguna Atascosa NWR in Texas, and J.N. WPAs provide critical breeding, resting, and nesting habitat for millions of ducks, geese, and swans, as well as shorebirds and grassland birds.

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Factory Ducks North Dakota Nebraska 116

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 21, 2012

It honors dogs of all breeds — from working dogs to family pets — and encourage pet owners to do something special for their dog. All dogs – whether Best Friends clients or not – are invited to stop by any of our 42 locations on Saturday between 9 a.m. for a free ice cream.”.

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Dogs Oklahoma Maryland North Carolina 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The maps, which are positioned to the left of the text, are small and indicate primary seasonal status–whether and where the bird is a resident breeding species, seasonal breeding migrant, seasonal nonbreeding migrant, or transient migrant. of Texas Press, 2004). I love the writing here.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 203

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2011

Here’s an image I took of a Plain Chachalaca in Harlingen, Texas coming in for grapefruit originally intended for orioles. They are species that breed in the US and then spend the winter in Central and South America, eating what’s avialable–especially fruit. All sorts of birds can be drawn in by fruit.

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Nigeria Birds Belize South America 243

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Sitta canadensis isn’t just irrupting out of its far northern home but exploding southward, with reports in every southern state except for Florida, including birds on the outer banks of North Carolina, on Grand Isle, Louisiana, in a suburb of Atlanta, and on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Bird bloggers from Wisconsin to Massachusetts.

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United States Owls Atlanta New York 261

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. About half of all breeding Wandering Albatross nest on the Prince Edward Islands. Which makes it a haven for seabirds….and

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 261

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2013

The ABA currently lumps the Mangrove Warbler and Golden Warbler with the Yellow Warbler (the IOC lumps Mangrove and Golden Warbler together but splits them from the Yellow Warbler that breeds in North America.)

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Connecticut Baltimore North America New York City 169

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

You find them in the south from Florida to Texas and down into Mexico, occasionally as far north as the Carolinas in the east and up the Mississippi River as far north as Illinois. It is one of several species in the Mallard -complex of ducks, along with American Black Duck , Mexican Duck , and quite a few others.

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Ducks Florida Illinois Mississippi 164

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2015

Though they breed on the tundra, Pomarine Jaegers spend most of their lives at sea. If a seabird is trying to breed, if all the forage is too far from their nest, their nest is guaranteed to fail. Seabirds will surely have much less real estate to work with in the coming years.

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North America Birds San Francisco Suffering 209

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

While the Collared Plover is a super rare vagrant in Texas, it’s far easier to see this resident shorebird in Costa Rica than a Warbling Vireo. . The tendency for migrants to be rarities doesn’t exclude birds that breed in the country, Harpy and Crested Eagles perching at the top of the rare resident target list.

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Costa Rica Birds Panama Sparrows 161

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Just another swallow, yes, but Cave Swallows breed no closer to New York State than the southern tip of Florida, though that is not the population that supplies New York birders with our Petrochelidon fulva fix. But what’s the big deal about seeing Cave Swallows in New York anyway? After all, it’s just another swallow, right?

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New York Florida Texas Breeding 104

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

If left unchecked, free-roaming cats will breed and their populations increase at locations where they find suitable shelter and food, resulting in environmental/property damage, and public nuisance. In Copperas Cove, Texas. There is a petition to reverse the anti-feral cat policy.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 202

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Some things still seemed out of reach ( Texas , for instance, seemed about as likely a destination as the moon) but I began to do things with the purpose of “building my list” in earnest around this time, not so much for the sake of the list itself, but to see these birds that I’d always wondered about.

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Pythons Litter Montana 2006 179