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OCTOBER 3, 2013

Fish and Wildlife Service and the Environmental Protection Agency, are laid off. Projects are on hold, grant applications are in limbo, and dead eagles have to stay in wildlife rehabilitators’ freezers because there’s nobody at the National Eagle Repository to sign for them. Fish and Wildlife Service'

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Eagles Chicago Protection 171

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FEBRUARY 19, 2022

A fairly recent trip turned up Manx Shearwater and fishing boats got pictures of the young Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross that had also been seen in Belizean and Panamanian waters. Expeditions to Remote Parts of Protected Areas. Even so, deep waters occur and they have seen very little ornithological exploration.

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Costa Rica Birds Albatross Protection 259

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APRIL 28, 2017

It should be pointed out that feeding bluefish have a piranha-lie quality and that, upon hitting the water, the bird was likely set upon by fish in the ‘blitzing school’ ” (p. Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America by Pete Dunne with Kevin T. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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North America Falcons America Eagles 102

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

Photographed within Beljarica: five White-tailed Eagles by Snezana Panjkovic. Two hundred metres further on, two young White-tailed Eagles were soaring. Yet, the primary job of Beljarica is not to support eagles and otters, but to control the floods. I barely started when some sulphur (a.k.a. Easily enough, they got it here.

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Serbia Otters Boars Eagles 245

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Photo: This area holds 3 to 4 breeding pairs of White-tailed Eagles , which represents the biggest density per square mile anywhere in the country. White-tailed Eagles are numerous and I observed five – four of them at once (3 imm. White-tailed Eagles by Szekeres Levente. Photographed by Szekeres Levente. and one ad.).

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Serbia Protection Eagles Ducks 167

10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2015

One Common Raven is disappearing towards its nest among the branches of the poplar plantation, only to reappear a few minutes later to give a good chase – aerial acrobatics included – to its first neighbour, the White-tailed Eagle which breeds in the vicinity. The water is misty-golden and the fishes are all glossy in the early morning sun.

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Otters Serbia Fish Mammals 177

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2014

Fish and Wildlife Service is down-listing the wood stork from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). are considered a distinct population segment, which is protected by the ESA and the Migratory Bird Treaty act. On June 25, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the U.S.

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North Carolina Bald Eagle South Carolina Florida 196

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Watch the streams for fish, we saw a few, unidentified yet cool looking tropical species! Short-tailed Hawk, Black Hawk-Eagle, Brown-capped Tyrannulet , and other species. Black Hawk-Eagle from another day. In common with other trails in rainforest, mud is a regular feature. Use rubber boots at this place, you will need them.

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Costa Rica Puerto Rico Birds Owls 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2016

This Bald Eagle, photographed by Corey, was after Blue-winged Teal in Florida, not Atlantic Puffins in Maine. From the “careful what you wish for” files, in the face of climate change–related drops in fish populations, a resurgent Bald Eagle population appears to be developing a taste for Maine’s seabirds and shorebirds.

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Bald Eagle Puffins Eagles Pigs 100

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Yet, opposition to their full protection came from an unexpected side, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), whose Head of Delegation said: “These proposals would [not] have offered elephant populations any greater protection from the poachers. And it gave me a hope. EU voted as a block of 28 votes “against”.

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Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 186

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AUGUST 3, 2013

Pied Kingfishers hovered before plunging to catch small fish, Pied Crows circled overhead and Village Weavers teed themselves up on dead snags. Smaller snags closer to the water’s edge proved irresistible to the scintillating Malachite Kingfishers which liked to fish from perches around the hide.

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South Africa Mammals Reptiles Elephants 172

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MAY 26, 2016

And, in that process, the initially drawn borders started to expand to include some new sites, such as the heronry at the nearby fish farm, a few more territories of White-tailed Eagles and the roost of up to 10 percent of the European population of Pygmy Cormorants , right inside the city.

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Protection Eagles Jamaica Farming 120

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

eagles and vultures ) so we need to pay attention. According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service , there are about 10 billion breeding birds in the US. But the US Fish and Wildlife Service estimates between 97 and 976 million a year. These are the dolphins in your tuna fish, for example. So keep that in mind.

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Killing Cats Fish Birds 274

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JANUARY 8, 2015

The tropical dry deciduous jungle, or “jungle”, however you see it, covers almost 90% of 600 km2 (230 mi2) of this protected area. Grey-headed Fish Eagle Copyright © Nitin Bhardwaj. Crested Serpent Eagle Copyright © Nitin Bhardwaj. Good to know. One Chital is curiously watching us. One Chital is curiously watching us.

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Tigers Boars India Chickens 249

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APRIL 25, 2012

Living near the Sacramento River and its many lakes and tributaries makes it even more likely to see the incredible fish hawk or sea eagle we call the Osprey ( Pandion haliaetus ). Note how the male retracts his talons as he approaches the female to copulate… protecting his mate from those razor sharp claws.

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California North America Sacramento Breeders 201

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JULY 10, 2014

Since the European White Waterlily is strictly protected under Serbian law, a week ago I informed the Republic Inspection for the Environmental Protection at the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection. I have not received any answer so far. Birding Europe Patch Birding Serbia'

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Serbia Stray Dog Protection Botswana 241

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JULY 25, 2013

The move, which seems limited to just California, is meant to protect endangered shorebirds which have become favorite meals of the raptors. Fish and Wildlife Service, which granted permits to rescuers who moved Peregrine chicks away from bridges, more precarious spots than cliffs or buildings for young just learning to fly.

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California Endangered Species Falcons Jordan 184

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

Two wildlife biologists brought me a Golden Eagle inside a metal pipe.” The finders of an adult Barred Owl brought to Kathryn Dudeck in Georgia thought he had a wing fracture, so they wrapped the entire bird in the plastic protective wrap used by landscape companies and taped it up. Covered in fish slime! What are the odds?

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Transported Wildlife Rehabilitation Bats Opossums 278

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

My attention was drawn upward by the elegant flying-knife form of an Osprey bearing a large fish. As I watched a third bird joined them, or more accurately, they closed in on it – it was none other than the Osprey, still carrying the fish. It flared its wings, and the Osprey flared to match but refused to abandon the fish.

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Bald Eagle Eagles Fish Bears 165

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

But “Hawk”’s active ingredient, a deadly second-generation anticoagulant, bromadialone, has been implicated in the deaths of Red-tailed Hawks, Red-shouldered Hawks, Cooper’s Hawks, and other raptors : American Kestrels, Barn Owls, Golden Eagles, Great Horned Owls, and Turkey Vultures. Thanks for your concern for wildlife, Syngenta.).

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Mountain Lions Rats Rodents Lions 261

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

Even among the protected areas of Serbia, the Iron Gates National Park (in Serbian: Djerdap) stands out as better preserved. Keep in mind that the special nature reserves (dark green on the park map) enjoy the highest level of protection and are off limits to visitors (possible only with research permits issued by the park authorities).

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Serbia Turtles Birds Eagles 188

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MAY 6, 2021

The White-tailed Eagle is one of the easiest birds to observe in Belgrade, Serbia (almost guaranteed). And with a wingspan slightly bigger than a Bald Eagle, it is really no wonder that almost every local eBird list contains a sighting of one to several birds. The post A Tale of Two Eagles appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Eggs Serbia 263

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MAY 3, 2022

Fortunately, as I found out over the next four days, High Island, the Bolivar Peninsula, the whole east Texan Gulf coast area is a place of diverse habitats, some protected, some accidental, all offering fantastic avian opportunities. Corps of Engineers to protect Galveston Bay at the end of the 19th-century.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 211

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JULY 15, 2015

The park was created as much to protect the local communities from marauding elephants with a hatred of dangerous humans and a lack of interest in the differences between nations as it was to protect the elephants. But twice during my two week stay we did see the pack, and it was my first ever encounter with the species.

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South Africa Elephants Africa Lions 146

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2017

Some of you have been counting on federal funding or habitat protection that now looks shaky; some of you have mates who never made it back from migration; some of you just can’t catch enough fish. Especially those of you with an all-fish diet. Look, you guys, I know it’s been a rough start to the year for everyone.

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Bald Eagle Belize Iowa Eggs 100

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The associated bird species seek out drongos, apparently relying upon them heavily for protection. They are also quite catholic (sorry, I really like this word) in their prey selection, feeding on 17 different species of fish and prawn in the study cited above. It very effectively forms a small foraging group in this manner.

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Birds Sri Lanka Taiwan Cats 213

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APRIL 13, 2015

Nearly 2,500 square miles of the wildest sections of the Omo Valley are protected in the almost contiguous Omo National Park on the river’s west bank (Ethiopia’s largest park) and Mago National Park on the east bank.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Birds 242

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OCTOBER 29, 2011

The fine folks at the Fish and Wildlife Service are happy to tell the tale: The history of Tinicum Marsh, the largest remaining freshwater tidal wetland Pennsylvania goes back to the first settlements in the region in 1634. The remnant of this once vast tidal marsh is protected by the refuge. But how did such a refuge come to be?

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Wildlife Philadelphia Bald Eagle Pennsylvania 224

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2018

After the owners contacted the Royal Socieity for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), looking for an explanation as to where the heck all these birds came from, it was determined that the farm would be used as a feeding station. The show stopper was his Eagle-owl.

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Puffins Wildlife Reserve 2003 Farming 100

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OCTOBER 1, 2015

Pelicans and cormorants breeding at the Mikri often go to the Megali Prespa to fish the cold, deep waters – actually, cormorants to dive for fish and pelicans to wait for the cormorants at the surface to steal their prey. Dalmatian and White Pelicans (White = the black ones). Watering hole in lichen-bearded oak forest of Mt.

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Greece Pelicans Geese Breeding 252

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

In 1974, Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge was established to protect the delta and its diversity of fish and wildlife habitats. Northern Harriers, Peregrine Falcons, American Kestrels, and a fair number of Bald Eagles all can be found on the refuge year round. I got to see several Brown Creepers in the area.

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Fox Washington Geese Sparrows 126

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MARCH 2, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Bald Eagles are Getting Spoiled… Help Save Migratory Birds! Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled.

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Experience Experiments Deer 2011 162

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MAY 8, 2012

It is predominantly a wetland bird and most productive larger wetlands and lakes of Africa will support a population of these large, hulking birds that hang around the shallows searching for fish, waterbird nestlings and anything else remotely edible. They also prey on frogs and crabs.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 240

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AUGUST 22, 2022

As the national bird of Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, the African Fish Eagle is usually very busy whenever it stays in these countries, giving speeches, opening shopping centers, etc. Reportedly, the Water Thick-knee sometimes locates its nest close to the nest of Nile crocodiles as this offers some protection.

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Zimbabwe Birds South Africa Benin 147

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JUNE 17, 2015

Danum Valley is a conservancy that protects a large area of lowland rainforest in Sabah in northeastern Borneo. Two highlights of the walk back were a bright green Greater Green Leafbird and a Lesser Fish Eagle following the road above our heads. Oh, there were Buffy Fish-owls. Black-and-yellow Broadbill.

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Lemurs Family Rhinoceros Fish 158

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AUGUST 31, 2017

Yet, nothing of the calmness of my previous visits remained: a week ago, the reserve was recommended in some angling magazine and I found parked cars and a dozen people, swish-swooshing their fishing rods. A narrow bluff-top buffer zone is also protected. White-tailed Eagle – Haliaeetus albicilla.

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Serbia Breeding Woodpeckers Feral 117

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JUNE 6, 2020

The potential for contagion through clicking on links has long been acknowledged and with a desire to protect our precious readers, the links have been discontinued. Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus). White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla). Fish Crow (Corvus ossifragus). Eurasian Marsh-Harrier (Circus aeruginosus).

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2020 Sparrows Niger Woodpeckers 152