10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

For example, one of our most popular tours is birdwatching along the world famous Manu Road, crossing an extraordinary range of life zones, from highlands (C**k of the Rock Lodge) to lowlands (Manu Wildlife Center). We also set off for an oxbow lake to search for Hoatzins , which look like rust-colored, punk chickens.

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Peru Chickens Industry Groups 194

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Jose’s deep knowledge of rainforest wildlife and ecology is reflected in his detailed paintings of Spectacled Owls, Ornate Hawk-Eagles , and other jungle wildlife. It’s notable that during his 40 plus years of watching local wildlife, he had never seen a Marine Toad catch a bird.

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Costa Rica Investigation Shelters Illinois 261

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

Like leg hold traps, glue traps are indiscriminate, with non-targeted species making up a large proportion of their catch. My very first rescue was a House Sparrow caught in a glue trap,” says Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator in Kentucky. Birds birds glue traps glue traps sticky traps wildlife rehabilitator'

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Mice Rodents Rescue 279

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Before the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA), there was the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966. endangered species was issued on March 11, 1967, under the earlier law, and those listings were ultimately grandfathered into the ESA. Attwater’s Greater Prairie-Chicken – Tympanuchus cupido attwateri.

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California Condor Endangered Species Bald Eagle Parrots 103

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

If a list also shows the status for each species, birders on their way to Costa Rica would realize that they shouldn’t really expect vireos with white eyes nor blue heads (but would hopefully know that they should very much report those species on eBird so local birders can chase them!). Toucan species with new names.

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Costa Rica Birds Owls South America 202

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

It’s just that when summer is over and most wildlife rehabilitators are fried, this is the kind of thing that will make most of us fall to our knees, choking with laughter, tears spurting from our eyes. That’s what we call it when you try to get a hold of wildlife that the idiot in possession thinks they can take care of better than you.”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Turtles Turkey Wildlife 222

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2015

And, of course, the reputation of certain species of birds as troublemakers for humans is a problem in bird conservation, so this is worth watching. Close to 5% of turkeys being farmed in Minnesota have been or shortly will be destroyed , and the virus is also affecting chickens. So, we have not seen widespread death among wild birds.

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Mississippi Fowl Turkey Minnesota 176

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2012

It concerns the nature of wildlife in Australia, and is perhaps the most remarked about aspect of Australia’s wildlife, at least the impression you’d get if you’ve ever watched ten minutes of Animal Planet. The very dangerous nature of the wildlife. Check out those claws!

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Sharks Birds Australia Boars 230

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

I didn’t realize how many new species I would see within the city itself! Because of this, areas around the city that were once sleepy are now “urban,” with humans and wildlife struggling to keep up. Given how far west I found myself, I was hoping for at least a handful of new birds.

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Austin Texas Birds Non Human 112

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

As part of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil giveaway we asked readers of 10,000 Birds to name the bird in Brazil that they would like to see more than any other species. What follows are the responses that readers offered, a veritable aviary of sought after species.

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 212

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

So I asked seven wildlife rehabilitators, “Tell me your favorite (or one of your favorites) release story – the kind that makes you keep going, in spite of everything.”. “A But lets see … I’d say one of my most memorable releases is that of a Purple Martin , a species of special concern in California.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 229

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2013

Parents are encouraged to do it to introduce wildlife to children. This past winter was very good for the chance to see boreal owl species in the United States. It’s a wholesome activity that grandparents share with the kids. We have citizen science projects like Project Feeder Watch headed by Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

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Owls Birds United States Tennessee 221

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Private property holders with prairie/agricultural land can potentially make a big difference in maintaining and recovering populations of many of these charismatic species. Mountain Plover and many other grassland birds have populations in steep decline. When I hear of the plight of some U.S.

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United States Protection Endangered Species North America 159

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2012

But, as I have already shown in one of my two posts about visiting Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge, that is exactly what the boat load of birders I was with got the chance to see way back at the beginning of March. The female of the species lays ten to thirty eggs in a burrow she digs about 65 days after mating.

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New York Reptiles Eggs South America 166

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death. Birders know that the light’s not always perfect or even particularly good when you’re trying to tell one species from another. So we can squawk at the state wildlife departments all we want, but the USFWS has the final say. The big white one.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2012

I even managed to shoot a video with hands trembling of excitement, probably a first of the species. Burrowing Owl Tai Haku liked Mike’s choice of a chicken in our original post but decided to do him one better. It was a mythical bird I didn’t ever expect to see. Then we watched an adult and a chick feeding along the poolside.

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2012 Ghana Ireland Birds 133

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Just before I left for Italy, I took a trip to the Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge for a healthy dose of migration. No Snow Geese or swans yet, and no Sandhill Cranes , but it did renew my taste for some of the simpler, homier pleasures of birding.

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Bald Eagle Montana Owls Italy 110

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In the time we spent on Culebra I saw 49 species of birds, not bad for an island outside of the wintering grounds for most neotropical migrants and only measuring eleven miles square. If you go to Culebra you will be astounded at the sheer number of outdoor cats and chickens. I spotted eight species in my time on Culebra.

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Puerto Rico Birds Sea Turtles Chickens 110

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2011

Views like this offer specialty niches for many high-altitude species. These White-tailed Ptarmigan are without a doubt one of the most sought-after species in Colorado. These small chickens are mountain-top specialities. This species is an athletic and patient one.

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Colorado North Dakota Montana Owls 135

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

This bird spent the 2011-2012 winter at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge in northern California, migrated someplace exotic and distant in February, and returned to the same pond at the beginning of this month. This bird represented only the second documented record of this species in Florida.

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2012 Birds Guatemala Florida 153

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2011

I missed some very common species. Some were glaring misses since I started the year with a goal of 600 species (while working). When I upped my goal to some insane stratospheric level in June, going back to find things like Lesser Prairie-Chicken (which I missed) became more problematic. No, really. Misses will happen.

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New York City New York New Hampshire Research Center 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2011

Orlando is so rich in roadside and overhead birds that I kept a list of species seen from the car which ran to 30+ on the first morning and included a Bald Eagle nonchalantly sitting on a street lamp by a Target store. These Blasts From The Past Make Mine Mines Road Missing Birds on Staten Island What is the Chicken Inferno?

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2011 Alligators Florida Deer 117

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2014

1700, is a fake, formed from a plaster cast of a real Dodo head and real Dodo feet combined with chicken wings and Ostrich feathers. Number 33, Parabolic reflector, 1888, for example, starts with the invention of the reflector by a German physicist and broadens into the early history of wildlife sound recording technology.

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Collecting Mauritius Egypt Cyprus 173

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

The land ethic, in sum, is as much opposed, though on different grounds, to commercial traffic in wildlife, zoos, the slaughter of whales and other marine mammals, etc., dogs, cats, pigs, cows, and chickens); cell 4 (the southeast quadrant) contains domesticated plants. as is the humane ethic.

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