10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2016

I was privileged to help my mother-in-law see her first Common Loon in its summer finery, but for me, the highlight amidst the myriad ducks and grebes was a new regiment of Ruddy Ducks in the waterfowl mix at Conesus Lake. Best of all, your birds next weekend may be even better than what this weekend offered. How about you?

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2016 Jamaica New York Laws 101

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2016

I don’t know which legislative branch to appeal to, but there ought to be a law that mandates life birds on a birder’s birthday. I spent several hours of an otherwise excellent weekend dipping multiple times on a rare ABA Tufted Duck. Perhaps we should require lifers on anyone’s birthday. Sure beats cake!

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2016 Legislation Jamaica Laws 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Feeding birds is generally regarded as a harmless past-time, a wholesome way for people to share nature and enjoy wildlife with the family. Sometimes people find themselves the victims of ill-informed home owners associations that have a phobic view of wildlife. How do you know when you are a little too involved with feeding birds?

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Bald Eagle Birds Deer Minnesota 246

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

endangered species was issued on March 11, 1967, under the earlier law, and those listings were ultimately grandfathered into the ESA. Fish and Wildlife Service’s ECOS (Environmental Conservation Online System), an online gateway to mountains of information about endangered species. Laysan Duck – Anas laysanensis.

California Condor 102

California Condor Endangered Species Bald Eagle Parrots 102

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2014

Say a duck hunter knows that the closed pools nearby has ducks and it’s dead in the pool where they are hunting. They call their friend to check the ducks with a drone and the ducks get flushed and go to the hunting pond? Is a regular flight of a drone over a wetland going to affect what birds nest there?

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Bald Eagle Mississippi Eagles Ducks 195

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

So far as I can determine the swan was not officially granted status as the national bird of Denmark by law but by a popular vote held by either Danish Television or Denmark Radio. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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Denmark 2011 Honduras Deer 163

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2011

Mark Carter is an independent professional birding guide and wildlife surveyor living in Alice Springs, Central Australia. Today Mark owns and operates the wildlife guiding and biodiversity survey company Desertlife.com.au. I stood there, frozen mid-piddle, and the most incredible bird I had so far seen stepped forward.

Chile 194

Chile Australia Monkeys 2008 194

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Last year, I compiled a subjective list of the Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for Birding. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) manages the wildlife aspects of the unit while another federal agency (in this case the U.S. Under federal and state law, mineral owners have legals right to access and extract their mineral rights.

Oklahoma 136

Oklahoma Texas Dallas Wildlife 136

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

Local farmers view it as a threat to domesticated wildlife. We then switch to Andy McWilliam, a genial investigator with the National Wildlife Crime Unit, who combines the skill of a life doing police work with a deep appreciation for the importance of Great Britain’s wildlife laws.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 211

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

There are drawings comparing the hind claws on pipits, images of hybrid ducks, a table of key identification features of redpoll species, a table on the key features of Chiffchaff races, drawings of tails of Collared Dove, Turtle Dove, and Rufous Turtle Dove, comparisons of the bills of Rook, Carrion Crow, and Raven.

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 145

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2020

For those interested in avian conservation, some knowledge of the bureaucratic process is useful, as it is used to implement many important conservation laws. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) recently sought public comments on its proposal to permanently add a hunting element to the Duck Stamp art competition.

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Ducks Hunting Hunters Legislation 200

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

The Nuttall’s Woodpecker Tufted Duck at Cold Spring Harbor, New York The northern southern Woodpecker.Or Looking at the Queens Bird List Again Ducks Winding Up Migration Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of November 2010? Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity.

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New York Woodpeckers Jordan 2011 194

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

It is also a month when the Law of Diminishing Returns over-took itself. Trinidad Lake SP–Watchable Wildlife Trail. Ra’s al-Khor Wildlife Sanctuary–Flamingo Hide. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge–East Pond. San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. 28 Sep 2018.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 113

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2022

I initially thought I would focus on the intersection of birding and the law and birding on federal public lands, and I have done lots of posts on those topics. I suspect many pageviews are by birders who feel they ought to know a bit more about how the law impacts bird conservation, rather than their intrinsic interest of the topic.

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Puerto Rico California Condor Virgin Islands Laws 173

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2022

I initially thought I would focus on the intersection of birding and the law and birding on federal public lands, and I have done lots of posts on those topics. I suspect many pageviews are by birders who feel they ought to know a bit more about how the law impacts bird conservation, rather than their intrinsic interest of the topic.

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Puerto Rico California Condor Virgin Islands Laws 130

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2016

The law of diminishing returns brings the inevitability of repeat sightings and has checked the momentum of the combined beats’ list for June. Blue-billed Duck – Oxyura australis. Musk Duck – Biziura lobata. Maned Duck – Chenonetta jubata. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. 22 May 2016. 22 May 2016.

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2016 Sanctuary Ghana Australia 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

A line plotted against the law of diminishing returns describes an increasingly downward curve and a lister’s life is destined to follow that decline. Plumed Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna eytoni. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna autumnalis. Fulvous Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna bicolor.

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2018 Australia Los Angeles Sacramento 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

I am really excited to say I’ll be heading down to Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival in Titusville, Florida, next month as a correspondent for 10,000 Birds. Corey let the cat out of the bag a couple days ago. It won’t be my first trip to Florida. In fact, I’ve visited the Sunshine State several times.

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Florida North Carolina Miami Family 131

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Among them are Federal Duck Stamps and related waterfowl conservation programs. There are several funding sources for the MBCF, but two predominate: (1) Duck Stamp sales, and (2) import duties on arms and ammunition. Thus, Duck Stamp money goes into the MBCF and the MBCC decides how to spend those funds.

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Ducks New Hampshire Kentucky South Carolina 189

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2018

In June, the 2018-2019 Federal Duck Stamp was released. Birders have been encouraged by the American Birding Association and others to buy Federal Duck Stamps. Not long ago, I posted a list of the 25 best National Wildlife Refuges for birding. Duck Stamps and import duty contributions were similar, at about $34-38 million each.

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Ducks Wildlife Texas Hawaii 203

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2019

Other than a sweeping public lands package in 2019 , there has been little or no progress on the environment or wildlife protection. Among them are Federal Duck Stamps and related waterfowl conservation programs. Duck Stamps and import duty contributions were similar, at about $34-38 million each. Senators, and two U.S.

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Maryland 2017 Texas Ducks 155