10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2011

Bald Eagle image is by Francois Portmann and is used with permission You know, I’ve been thinking about this whole dustup over hunting cranes in Tennessee and now Kentucky. And while we’re at it, I think it’s time to open a limited season on Bald Eagles. We’ve always hunted Bald Eagles. I get it now, I really do.

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JULY 6, 2017

Despite mostly guiding them, I still somehow managed to see a European Badger sitting and watching me back for several seconds, before it slipped into bushes and quite a few White-tailed Eagles , e.g. four in just one morning. And how about Black Storks, otters and eagles? And, with it, its otters, eagles and storks.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The case involved two men, Douglas “Vance” Crooked Arm and Kenneth Shane, and they were charged with baiting and killing eagles and hawks to make fans of tail feathers. Seeing two golden eagles flying overhead during a meeting with Shane, one of the undercover agents said to his partner: “There’s your tail, Liz.”

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JUNE 14, 2022

For the next five years, it must also implement an Eagle Management Plan. The company, ESI Energy LLC, built facilities in high-risk locations, failed to obtain permits, and its wind turbines killed approximately 150 eagles. But if it was built, ESI should obtain an eagle take permit. It further alleges that the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2022

Ecotourists’ accommodation was developed by Gabon Wildlife Camps & Safaris, parallel with the parks themselves, e.g. in the Loango National Park you may choose from Loango Lodge, Louri Wilderness Camp and Akaka Forest Camp; in the Ivindo National Park there is a Kongou Forest Camp, in the Lope National Park Moabi Tented Camp, etc.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Faithful 10,000 Birds readers will remember Suzie as our wildlife rehabilitation beat writer. Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. And birders!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2015

Okay, folks, today we will be discussing one of those internet pass-arounds which are meant to fill everyone with joy and inspiration, but which make wildlife rehabilitators look for the nearest wall against which to bang our heads. Here is the text, taken verbatim: The eagle has the longest lifespan among birds. I could go on.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2011

John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge , AKA Tinicum, is an outstanding urban oasis in southern Philadelphia, less than one mile from Philadelphia’s airport. This area, administered for the benefit of wildlife and people, was known as Tinicum Wildlife Preserve. Being a New Yorker, I had never birded the refuge before.

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Critter News

MARCH 19, 2012

A federal government decision to allow a Wyoming tribe to kill two bald eagles for a religious ceremony is a victory for American Indian sovereignty as well as for long-suppressed religious freedoms, the tribe says. The Northern Arapaho decline to say specifically what they will do with the eagles the federal permit allows them to kill.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

If you want to know what happened on August 31, 1984, I can name at least one event: In the Padang-Sugihan Wildlife Reserve in South Sumatra province, a Large Frogmouth was mobbed by a Greater Racket-tailed Drongo, as described here. A Crested Serpent Eagle , looking a bit ridiculous after a rain. At between 4 pm and 6 pm, to be exact.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The route Corey and I took in advance of the 2019 African Birding Expo may not be the only optimal way to go, but this approach yielded an absolute bounty of wildlife excitement in just 48 action-packed hours. Beaudouin’s Snake-Eagle … wow!! What makes this destination so magnificent?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

Occasionally I host wildlife rehabilitator vent-fests, where I post a question on Facebook and duly note the rehabber responses. Today’s topic comes from Tracy Anderson in Hawaii: what was the strangest container (or method of transport) in which you have received wildlife? said Alix Parks of Happinest Wildlife Rehab in Tennessee.

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

As part of the shutdown, most park employees–the ones who monitor and care for wildlife, including birds–are furloughed. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Environmental Protection Agency, are laid off. News Environmental Protection Agency government shutdown National Eagle Repository national parks U.S.

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MARCH 15, 2021

That’s quite the list of charismatic and unique wildlife to add to your potential list of sightings. Giant anteaters are just one of the wildlife highlights of the Rupununi. The mythical Harpy Eagle , a bird that is actually easily seen at its nesting sites around villages like Surama, definitely falls into this category.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2011

I was lucky enough to catch this photo of an adult in flight at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge back in February showing the horn and their distinctive black and white plumage. Unlike the Brown Pelican, the American White Pelican scoops up fish while swimming. During the day prey is probably located by sight.

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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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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Birds, mammals and other wildlife, humans and landscapes are all rendered magnificently. Davis points out in his book published earlier this year, The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird. On the other hand, Davis is, of course, a big fan of the Bald Eagle, as Audubon was not.

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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2017

Most of these are common/abundant residential and migratory birds (and, this being Kruger, that includes five Hornbill species, four Sunbird species, a Trogon, five Owl species, and many other goodies); uncommon and striking-but-rare species are also included, so we have Storks, Martial Eagle, and Pel’s Fishing-Owl. And, heavy.).

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2023

I always undertake a number of short timed surveys for the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust’s Big Farmland Bird Count in February, and though the counts didn’t add anything to the year list, they were memorable for finding big flocks of finches and buntings, while a daylight-hunting Barn Owl was a pleasing sight.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2021

I am a wildlife artist based in the UK, I have never had a real job! Other than paint, the only other thing I do is organize and joint-lead wildlife tours, mostly in Africa and India. It teems with wildlife of every kind and is justifiably known as “The Jewel of the Kalahari”. My name is Ashley Boon.

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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.

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MARCH 30, 2012

Around thirty miles from Missoula in the Bitterroot Valley lies the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge. Many more of the same waterfowl we’d already seen turned up on additional ponds, but we also spotted nesting Bald Eagles and Great Blue Herons , and a small flock of Snow Geese. Fish and Wildlife Service a.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The area is known for more than 600 bird species, of which 472 were eBirded by now: Cinereous Vulture , Pallas’s and Lesser Fish Eagles , Ibisbill , Wallcreeper , etc. Other wildlife includes Asian Elephant , Tiger , Leopard. Other wildlife includes Phayre’s Leaf Monkey. The best season to visit is from November to March.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

My work as a wildlife rehabilitator over the past forty-five years has allowed me a unique perspective on a disturbing trend. Consider this: ninety percent of birds treated at wildlife centers are admitted as a result of human interactions that have nothing to do with “nature.” People passed the eagle often.

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JUNE 30, 2022

Yala National Park is brimming with wildlife and there are good chances of seeing Leopard , Sloth Bear and Asian Elephant , while it is also excellent for dry-zone birds, while the nearby Bundala coastal marshes and Palatupana ponds are good spots for shorebirds. And the final 15 pages are devoted to various Glossaries.

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JULY 2, 2021

I am hoping that there is an appreciative audience here, willing to learn a little about down-under birds and wildlife. Today we were lucky as the first of the mainly wintering Australian Gannets had appeared and were fishing as I remembered. I also hope that my posts go a small way to encouraging folks to visit and bird my country.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

Black Stork and three pairs of White-tailed Eagles breed here. 2 Baranda fish farm. The fish farm complex that lies about 30 km north from Belgrade, stretching between the villages Baranda and Sakule, is known as the Baranda fish farm. eBird bar chart. #4 4 Beljarica Foreland (Kovilovo floodplain), Belgrade.

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JULY 3, 2014

Fish and Wildlife Service is down-listing the wood stork from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Fish and Wildlife Service, I was involved in various aspects of the species habitat protection largely on the regulatory arena. As a biologist working for the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Because ingestion of spent lead shot has been documented to cause acute health problems in wildlife (most notably death), use of lead shot has been increasingly restricted over the past few decades. On federal wildlife refuges and many states’ wildlife management areas, non-toxic shot is required when hunting all game birds.

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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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JULY 16, 2020

After earning his Masters in wildlife conservation from Humboldt State University, Chris Smith spent four years travelling the globe doing bird field work on five continents. A Field Guide to the Birds of Mongolia by Dorj Ganbold and Chris Smith (2019) offers more than 500 species in one neat edition.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

For example, wind turbines are designed to generate electricity, but they incidentally strike eagles and other birds. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) would have had no authority to regulate or otherwise influence such actions. Under the proposed rule, the U.S.

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DECEMBER 6, 2013

Wildlife rehabilitators are not known for our bling. People who work with wildlife wearing nice clothes? People who work with wildlife wearing nice clothes? Wildlife rehab can be so metaphorical. Sharron Montgomery went through the same thing with a badly-behaved educational Bald Eagle named Booker T.

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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. Another example would be the Eagle Lady in Alaska.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2015

Austringers were doofuses and the cool falconry kids did not want to associate with them – at least in Britain, where flying eagles was not a done thing until the nineteenth century. No one calls you a doofus when you have a Golden Eagle at the ready to eat their face. Images courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Newly surrounded by wildlife, he found his love of birds reignited. People whoever they are (even the most experienced of hawkwatchers) love Bald Eagles – it’s just a given. Many of them also allow us to share a positive conservation story too: Bald Eagles, Ospreys and Peregrines all come to mind.

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