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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

And this remnant lake is very, very birdy: The dominant birds, besides those American White Pelicans seen at the right, were Northern Shovelers — hundreds of them. I normally see Ruddy Ducks on the lake’s deepest waters, and as I said, there are no deep waters in the Lake Cuitzeo right now.

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Critter News

MARCH 19, 2012

While no one questions the religious sincerity of Northern Arapaho tribal members, spokesmen for some conservation and animal rights groups question why the tribe can't meet its religious needs without killing wild eagles. The Northern Arapaho share the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming with the Eastern Shoshone Tribe.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Killing Wyoming 100

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JANUARY 3, 2023

These prescriptions are very important to Tuttle-Adams, who takes the perhaps radical approach that a bird’s welfare supersedes a birder’s ‘right’ to take a photograph. A birder or rehabber looking for a comprehensive collection should consider having both books in their collection.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Family Collecting 249

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MAY 27, 2021

” Wow, right? Actually, Terra sounds like a device that can integrate a wide array of sensors to provide rich environmental data while automating wildlife identification and data collection. But also, what’s that about a Kickstarter? The post What is the Terra Project? appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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MARCH 12, 2021

Right now, The Warbler Brewery’s beers are only available for sale at their taproom. Their offerings include two IPAs, both in the popular New England style: Dissimulation IPA and Wolfjaw Double IPA. Their namesake beer is an American pale ale named Warbler Ale.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

From the border check station, you can turn to the right and go to the “Highest Bar in Africa” or continue into the unknown. We did not make too many other stops other than to head back to the “Highest Bar in Africa” for a celebratory beer and I was able to add to my foreign currency collection with a $20 Lesotho Loti.

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Lesotho Sheep South Africa Africa 218

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Kricher is well-known in naturalist book circles as a scientist who can write about complex scientific topics in engaging smart prose touched with just the right amount of dry wit. I’m sure it must have been on my list of suggested reading for my tour (I just checked my files, and yes, it was).

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APRIL 3, 2022

There are also quite a few orange traffic cones to collect at some stage, which have floated away from the highway. This goanna below is quietly hanging out beside the highway and in the background on the right you can observe a rather vocal Red-backed Fairywren. One solution is to literally hang out in a tree. Goanna in a tree.

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JULY 31, 2019

The Yellowthroat group is an odd collection of bird species. The Bahama Yellowthroat lives, well, on a collection of Bahaman islands. I live right in the middle of this species’ range, and have seen it ten times so far. Both are marsh-dwelling species. See the difference? Neither do I!

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Mexico Bahamas South America Panama 189

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OCTOBER 26, 2019

The idea was to see how many birds could be collectively identified by folks anywhere and everywhere. Team Northwest , a group of birders and guides based in Guanacaste and the Fortuna area, collectively found more than 400 species including several key additions for the day. Global Big Day (GBD).

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Costa Rica Species West Virginia New York 204

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Without pointing to specifics, it is safe to say that the world seems pretty scary right now, particularly for those of us concerned with protecting nature and endangered animals and ecosystems. Enjoy this festive weekend, but be ready, if and when your time comes, to allay our collective fears by supporting wise environmental stewardship.

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2016 Collecting Birds Protection 154

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

There was a Gartered Trogon right above me, and one cooperative Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth on a cecropia tree, raising its head to smile at us. I came with 957, and started to collect my birds like an Acorn Woodpecker collects its nuts. A group (maybe 4-5 ex.)

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Costa Rica Nicaragua 2019 Farming 227

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DECEMBER 11, 2022

Magpie-larks collect “mud” from our garden where the water we provide for the birds overflows. Their parents really do have plenty of hunting to do, but having got them to this stage of development they must be doing something right! They build their nests out of mud. Magpie-lark nest. Juvenile Brown Goshawks.

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Breeding Australia Family Collecting 147

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JUNE 9, 2021

Last Monday, I collected Jamaican Nettletree seeds. Look to the right… A bit more to the center… There, just right. Seeds sprout, cuttings root, and apparently moribund plants suddenly produce surprising growth spurts. I feel brilliant!

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Owls Investigation Mexico Collecting 161

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Black-bellied Plover on the left, collection of Peeps on the right. Those are Dunlins on the right and in the middle; longer bills, darker breast, and much larger than the much more common Western Sandpiper on the left. Most winter in the U.S. and Canada).

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Blackbirds Shelters Ducks Mexico 213

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

It’s the subject of the eleventh essay in this collection, almost smack in the middle of the 22 pieces that comprise the book. Her first birding book, When Birds are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers (2020), is a smartly curated collection of essays from new and experienced writers.

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Birds Sparrows Connecticut New York 262

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The drawing on the left is from 1714, the one on the right is the result of Birkhead’s own dissection. And interspersed with these artworks is one of the more curious digressions in the book, the life of William Brunsdon Yapp, a 20th-century British ornithologist who studied medieval iconography in retirement.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 212

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

In issuing its condemnation of established cultural practices, the rights view is not antibusiness, not antifreedom of the individual, not antiscience, not antihuman. It is simply projustice, insisting only that the scope of justice be seen to include respect for the rights of animals. Might does not make right; might does make law.

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JANUARY 15, 2014

With birds, this happens when one takes prey or other food caught or collected by another. The following photo sequence depicts a territorial Band-tailed Gull “collecting its protection service fee” from a Red-legged Cormorant nesting within the territory the gull protects on the Palomino Islands in front of Lima-Peru.

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Protection Peru Chile Collecting 187

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AUGUST 1, 2021

The chick is just to the right of the adult bird in the photo below in the shade. The Pied Oystercatchers moved around the vegetation and collected food for the chick. We sat well back for some time and watched the area until we worked out where the Pied Oystercatcher chick was being hidden. Pied Oystercatcher and chick.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Over the past two weeks I have introduced you to the section of items that Great Bowerbird will collect in a remote area of Keep River National Park with no human influence and then at the Big Horse Creek camping ground. Hiking trails from Katherine Gorge to Edith Falls.

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Collecting Horses Rights Humane 133

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JANUARY 11, 2022

This is a rather scattershot collection of aspirations, some of which are addressed by other, larger non-profits ( e.g. , conservation and education, the focus of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology , the National Audubon Society , and American Bird Conservancy ). Nevertheless, some criteria will obviously be important.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Since the Juan Santamaria Airport in Costa Rica’s Central Valley is located in an area that lacks similar open habitats, its grassy fields and adjacent puddles bring in birds that would have flown right over while also attracting other non-forest resident species in search of a home. Birds that Would Have Flown Over and Kept on Going.

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APRIL 25, 2022

However, the lockdown forces me to go deeper and deeper into my photo collection, if I want to write anything at all. If you are in a cooperative mood, you may acknowledge the small “mane” of the male on the right side of the photo below. And that seems to be the only vaguely satisfying thing left to do at the moment.

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Australia Birds Koalas Parrots 181

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OCTOBER 15, 2022

Global Big Day has become an annual collective event in May that encourages thousands of people to watch birds on the same date. Pre-dawn birding for us on October 8 gave four owl species, a Common Potoo (not so common), and then a host of species right at and just after dawn.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

My friend was right. This time I got to see Pied-billed and Least Grebes at the reservoir, along with last week’s collection of Egrets. As I pointed out at the beginning of the pandemic, this can be a very valuable skill right now. And E-Bird only listed a couple of high-quality sites back then.

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San Francisco 2020 Experience Experiments 163

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DECEMBER 9, 2014

In addition to the serrated bill, Collared Aracaris have a barbed tongue, which you can see in the bird on the right. In speaking to one of the owners of the lodge, Tom Newmark, he let me know that they agonize over plants like this. I don’t think they miss, ever. Also, look at that serrated bill! Disturbing, no?

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Costa Rica Horses Farming Collecting 228

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FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Even sparrows, if you choose the right species and play your cards right, can be elevated to ‘cute’ status. My first instinct was that the rarest gull would rank high on the ‘most interesting’ scale, but that’s a lister’s instinct – a sort of stamp-collecting bias, at best.

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Seals Lifestyle Turtles Parrots 216

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JULY 15, 2015

This is interesting right now because the AVian Phylogenomics Consortium has just announced the Bird 10K project, which ties together a pile of previously done research with some exciting new projects just taking off now. To the right are superorder (-imorphae) and higher unranked names. Order names are according to (36, 37) (SM6).

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Birds Research Groups Investigation 224

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

Perhaps a footnote in brewing history now, Anton Dreher was an illustrious personage in his own time: this bronze portrait of the brewer by the Austrian medalist and engraver Anton Scharff (1806-1855) is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Boston Austria Industry Europe 175

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MAY 2, 2023

Knowing the history of how that came about enriches our appreciation for our birding colleagues, our collective history, and our birds. And reading the table of contents (trust me, most people do not read the table of contents). Geological Survey.

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Science Illinois Investigation Research 182

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APRIL 22, 2020

Fortunately, my own garden is currently being visited by a nice collection of resident species. A pair of Warbling Vireos are regular client right now, and we have also had visits from Black-headed Grosbeaks and a Northern Beardless Tyrannulet this year.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Egg collection for local consumption still continues at lower scale. Andean Flamingoes and Chilean Flamingo (far right) (Photo: Ron Knight – Flickr). The more immediate protection measures include finding ways to solve the problems of mining activities, egg collecting, poaching, and uncontrolled ecotourism.

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Chile Endangered Species Eggs Argentina 154

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JULY 6, 2012

When it noticed a piece of kelp with an air bladder attached, it abandoned the stuff near shore and made the short swim out to collect its prize. I was flabbergasted and reminded that we don’t have exclusive rights to imagining, planning, executing, and then forgetting. More in a couple weeks.

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Raccoons Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 202

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The other New Zealand eagle was also one described from the fossil record, from the collections of the very same Henry Forbes that the harrier was named after. Right from the beginning the species was something of a mystery. So why have you never heard of New Zealand’s other eagle?

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Eagles New Zealand Bald Eagle Collecting 101

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

But the minute you bring up your fantasy team, a collection of paper players with no relationship outside of your computer screen, you can see the shock register on your companion’s face as they rapidly seek out the nearest exit. Until this past weekend, you’d be right. It’s too much like fantasy football.

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JUNE 24, 2019

Instead, he led a life of leisure: playing billiards and golf (he competed in the 1904 Olympics as a golfer but somehow didn’t finish the course), traveling, and amassing a massive collection of dead birds, over 19,000 all told. Well, no more! Or, at least, pointing out some names that suck.)

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