10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2012
Over a hundred organizations have again petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to ban lead in hunting – a move opposed by many hunting groups. At issue is that millions of birds each year end up eating the lead and dying.
10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2024
The most popular of the ten eBird hotspots is McNary NWR–Headquarters/Quail Trail , which does indeed feature California Quail , as well as Yellow-Headed Blackbirds and numerous other species. Along the way, Marsh Wrens flitted in the cattails, Caspian Terns noisily passed overhead, and an Osprey hunted over the water.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 12, 2021
At more than 15 million acres, California is the only other state with more than 5 million acres of wilderness. For example, hunting is not permitted in most NPS wilderness areas, but it is often allowed in wilderness areas managed by the other agencies. The post A Birder’s Guide to The Wilderness Act appeared first on 10,000 Birds.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 19, 2016
Photo above by Louise Hunt, courtesy of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology) At just about 5,000 individuals, Florida’s only exclusive endemic is Endangered. It turns out that smaller, scattered “satellite” groups of the bird are a source of needed genetic diversity when individuals leave the satellites and join the main populations.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2017
Soaring on the warm desert updrafts, or sitting on a group of cactus tops, always in groups of two, three or more. Their proclivity for living in small social groups was fact that I learned much later. They have adapted a form of communal living, to the point of cooperative hunting techniques.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 4, 2012
Birders in Northern California have been treated to rare sightings of several species, sending avid twitchers from all over the west in our direction. Personally, I’m waiting for the irruption of Snowy Owls to reach northern California! They also can be easily attracted to nest boxes (plans available here ).
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2014
There’s very little thrill of the hunt, very little excitement. So it was almost out of a sense of duty that the group of birders parked the bus at urban Telocote Park and unloaded to walk along the concrete viaduct in search of these unwanted, but still desired, birds. Birding California exotics' It feels almost cheap.
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