10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

And a very happy Masemas for anyone who observes my son Mason’s birthday (probably not as many as the last group!) My mother, mother-in-law, and godmother are all visiting right now. Blair Cessna Mar 17th, 2011 at 3:01 pm I do most of my birdwatching right from my computer chair looking out my den window to my back yard.

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2011 Deer Birds South Dakota 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Not only are the individual ducks hard to look at, but in groups, the feral populations create the same messes other masses of waterfowl do. OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! Wicked, right? Thanks for visiting! Hat-tip to Stella.

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Ducks 2011 Deer New York 226

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Dale Forbes Mar 16th, 2011 at 7:48 am @Corey, Is there also a Daisy involved in this Group Marriage? We are now up to 3 males and at least 4 females (I see there is a Kim in the group photo too). These group dynamics are always hard to track, but this group seems particularly complex. Wicked, right? Any reason?

2011 221

2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 221

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

YourBirdOasis.com Mar 11th, 2011 at 11:00 pm Motmots are totally cool group of birds! OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! Wicked, right? &# Clare and Grant-Broome Western Australia Mar 11th, 2011 at 8:11 pm WOW!!!! Thanks for visiting!

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Nicaragua El Salvador 2011 Deer 194

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

All of this leads to a longer life list, which is, after all, the entire point of bridwatching, right? It turns out that humans without compasses make no use of magnetic fields.) If migration evolved many times in birds, then it would be worth asking if it evolved in birds more often than in other groups of vertebrates.

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Research Humane Compassion New York 201

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

Fortunately, favor smiled upon me this day because I entered Owl Woods right behind a group from the Rochester Birding Association. OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! Wicked, right? Within minutes, we saw it, the Saw-Whet!

2011 174

2011 Owls Deer New York 174

Animal Person

AUGUST 6, 2009

a sense of hope that the empire in the North would finally exhibit compassion toward its southern neighbors, that the unfair trade agreements, privatizations, draconian IMF Structural Adjustment Programs, and threats of military intervention would slow down and perhaps even fade away. 3) George W.

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Honduras Los Angeles Obama 2009 100

Animal Ethics

JULY 22, 2008

The Unalienable Rights of Chimps ,” by Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, July 14): The Spanish Parliament’s decision to grant rights to apes is indeed groundbreaking, and will foster philosophical discussion about animal protection for some time. To the Editor: “ What’s Next in the Law? Suffering is far from a uniquely human experience.

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New York Times Humane Society Of The United States New York Apes 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

By collecting data and following individual birds it is possible to provide data to both governments and environmental groups to help protect the habitat both here and overseas into the future. OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! Wicked, right?

2011 150

2011 Australia Deer China 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

This is an endemic breeding bird in North America and much is now being done by various federal and non-profit groups to ensure and foster its conservation. OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! Wicked, right? Thanks for visiting!

Florida 200

Florida South Africa 2011 Africa 200

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

We have avian beauty right in our European back yards as well, and need not seek cover when encountering birders from far-away shores. And yes, Renato is the only one allowed to throw a couple of completely unknown and bizarre, unrealistically colourful bird groups into the mix. Jakob: whoa, you are perfectly right!

2011 167

2011 Birds Deer Europe 167

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

Most of the tourists, of which there are quite a few, opt to go on the tours provided by the Supporters, so by walking away quickly from the slowly coalescing groups we were able to lose the crowds quickly. OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more!

New Zealand 149

New Zealand 2011 Deer Cats 149

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

from left to right Fred, Mike, Isaac, Andrew, Gene (in back), Tom Though it was an absurdly long trip and the ratio of birding to driving was not ideal the twitch was well worth it. Isn’t conservation about putting the group ahead of the individual? Wicked, right? Thanks for visiting! Hat-tip to Stella.

New York 204

New York Woodpeckers Jordan 2011 204

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

Currently she does full time voluntary work for the local Australasian Wader Study Group, which aims to understand and analyze the factors determining shorebird numbers in a rapidly changing world. OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! Wicked, right?

Australia 153

Australia 2011 Sharks Deer 153

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

Currently she does full time voluntary work for the local Australasian Wader Study Group, which aims to understand and analyze the factors determining shorebird numbers in a rapidly changing world. OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! Wicked, right?

2011 146

2011 Australia Deer New York 146

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

That’s right – birds eating clay. By twos and fours they arrive and scatter in small groups among the canopy to their favorite perches in iron, cecropia and aguaje palm trees. OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! Wicked, right?

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

That’s what you do with other game, right? Fourth Whooping Crane This Winter Shot Animal Rights vs Conservation in Cyprus Tennessee Crane Hunt Tabled for 2 Years! But I do think this issue of hunting sandhill cranes goes beyond the right to hunt. Why not just shoot the biggest one? Sandhill Hunt: They’re Voting Now.Or

2011 243

2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! Wicked, right? Thanks for visiting! RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. Hat-tip to Stella.

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2011 Deer Fish New York 156

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Researchers comparing these traits across groups of closely related species – parrots, tits, sparrows, darwins finches etc – find no general correlation between neophobia and exploration. OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! Wicked, right?

Cats 151

Cats 2011 Costa Rica Deer 151

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Each bird illustration consists of two parts–the image itself on the right-hand page full-page size with a wide white border, and the text on the left-hand page, a brief description of the bird in Harper’s distinctive voice. Charles Harper’s Birds & Word s is the signature book of this bird and nature artist’s career.

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Betty Crocker Birds 2008 2007 170

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

In 1903, the distinguished Elliott Coues declared , “This is a definite and perfectly natural group, which will be immediately recognized by the foregoing characters, one of which, complete webbing of hallux, is not elsewhere observed among birds.&# Wicked, right? He could not say the same today. Thanks for visiting!

2011 155

2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 155

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

I studied biology but just like him was mostly busy being outside and looking at birds – which is what got me a job after all, so both Mayr and I were doin’ it right Okay, this is where the analogy ends – Mayr was an absolute scientific GENIUS. Wicked, right? I am clearly not. Thanks for visiting! Hat-tip to Stella.

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2011 Cyprus Deer Species 157

Animal Person

MARCH 28, 2009

And though I did almost all of the work at the start, I'm frankly not sure why I'm even involved right now. I'm proud to say that Project Treadstone is a nearly-well-oiled machine thanks to the compassion and willingness to help that I have encountered by almost everyone I've encountered regarding the cats at the site. TAYLOR Eng.

Project Treadstone 100

Project Treadstone Welfare Trap Neuter Return Cats 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Here’s a tidbit from the NRA’s Hunters’ Rights website: “Sandhill cranes are hunted much like geese, with decoys set in fields and hunters stationed in blinds. A group of men, appointed by the governor, to reward his political cronies. Wicked, right? Isn’t that neat? Thanks for visiting!

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 254