10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The White-shouldered Starling is not very common in Shanghai or even in China in general, despite its species name sinensis. It is another species on which limited information is available – there is still work left for ornithologists outside of the determination of mitochondrial DNA. Going to Nanhui is more reliable).

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MAY 11, 2021

” The event was open to everyone , including those not members of the AOS, and it was recorded and placed on the group’s website and on YouTube. As I have previously written about this topic , I virtually “attended” the event. Some species have taxonomy that is in flux while others are stable.

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JUNE 4, 2013

The Florida sub-species of Burrowing Owl is now classified as a threatened species in Florida and it is one of the rarest sub-species of Burrowing Owls. Loss of habitat due to development, disturbance at burrows and negative interactions with humans are some of the threats facing this charismatic species.

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AUGUST 26, 2021

And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. The rest of the 216 pages long book is devoted to various African bird families and half a dozen individual species. He has authored several other books and many articles, largely on natural history.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

What if there was an event that truly captured the rigors and fast-paced nature of the sport? What if this event took place in one of the most biodiverse natural areas in the world? Enter the inaugural Peru Birding Rally Challenge , the first international birding event of it’s kind in the world.

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MAY 7, 2015

The event is spearheaded by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and has as goal to raise money for bird conservation and to tally 4000 of the world’s birds in a single day. Folks at CORBIDI are mobilizing bird enthusiasts throughout the country to go out on May 9 and to count as many bird species as they can.

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JUNE 1, 2021

Pough “with illustrations in color of every species” by Don Eckelberry, Doubleday, 1946. If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. The press material says it covers over 800 species, so you know I had to do a count.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The sequence of events in the establishment of this exotic tree is one that relates to frugivorous birds. As far back as 1926 a garden enthusiast residing in Punta Gorda had raised many pepper trees that he distributed among friends. Plants Bird Behavior Brazilian Pepper invasive species'

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APRIL 8, 2011

Of course, the fun of a bird race increases exponentially by the quality and quantity of the species that might be seen. The species list for this rich expanse of avifauna represents nearly 75% of the Lone Star state’s 600 birds, with some teams spotting over 300 in a very intense 5 days!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

There are two thoroughly enjoyable events for bird watchers coming up in the next couple of months. But this event is about the community of people that share a love of birds. For MBS 2011, our co-host the Ohio Ornithological Society , has pledged to match the money raised through the MBS conservation raffle, up to $10,000.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2021

It’s probably a rare event but then again, how many people are witness to the biodynamic happenings of the tropical forest understory? Jose’s deep knowledge of rainforest wildlife and ecology is reflected in his detailed paintings of Spectacled Owls, Ornate Hawk-Eagles , and other jungle wildlife.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

One of the less well remembered awful things that happened in the Second World War (a six year period of history filled with an uncountable number of awful things) is that war’s direct role in the extinction of two species of rail. Still, like many of the events of the war, its worth putting them in their proper historical context.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

In honor of World Spay Day 2014, GetYourFix will dramatically ramp up a microfunding feature – Fix of the Week – to meet a goal of raising funds to spay/neuter 25 animals. cats dogs events people helping animals' The post FiXiT Aims to Facilitate 25 Spay Neuters This Week appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

They all went extinct since 1500 and they are only eight of the nearly two hundred species that have blinked out since then. What right do we have to even exist when our very existence as humanity is what has caused a rate of extinction not seen except during cataclysmic events? The eight species above still exist. Mariana Crow.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2017

Over the past few months there have been a lot of birds breeding around Broome with the excellent rain events that we have been having and the vegetation is at long last revived. The grass is green, the wildflowers are spectacular and now we have numerous species of dragonfly to enjoy as the season starts to change.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

We nature lovers, celebrants of life in all its exquisite multiformity, feel more keenly than most the loss of even the most undifferentiated species. Enjoy these eloquent Extinction Week eulogies and regret those species we have lost, if only so we needn’t lose any more. Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But I’ve compiled a sampling of this year’s news and events for your edification. 08–20 Many bird species are in trouble, but the Hooded Grebe is really really in trouble. Birds are raised from the egg to follow a certain migration timing, but that timing shifts when the egg hatches later or earlier due to changes in conditions.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

In a sequence of events to which every wildlife rehabilitator can relate, stories of the brothers who cared for injured birds circulated, their telephone began to ring, and their quest for medical knowledge escalated. Their bedrooms doubled as operating rooms and critical care units, and the roof of their house became an aviary.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

For mankind to snatch away a species’ very existence is wrong on so many levels that I can’t begin to explain them. However, despite our best efforts to wipe them off the face of the earth, some of the more vulnerable species have managed to hang on. this species breeds. Here are some U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

The Heath Hen had gone extinct two decades before, but we could plausibly blame Mother Nature for the final knock-out events and there hadn’t been any loss of cuddly megafauna from our fair shores since then. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again. Most species go extinct. … Extinction is forever.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

There seem to be so many that some days the negative stories just seem to pile up in my reader, species lost here, habitat destroyed there, poisoning, illegal persecution, the list can seem endless. It can be difficult not to feel impotent and under attack from all sides. This was a little win perhaps, but hopefully the first of many.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

processed the entire genomes of 48 bird species and compared nearly 42 million base pairs of DNA (Hackett et al. Now we move on to the Neognathae , which also has two very deep branches that lead to all the other living species of birds. Erich Jarvis discuss key findings. ). were revolutionary for using 32,000 base pairs!) This is why.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In any event, there is no better judge of potent potables in the birding world, no better writer about them, than Tristan Lowery, in his charming and unique “Birds and Booze” essays. Wenfei Tong’s Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds addresses such topics as courtship, mating systems, raising chicks, sex role reversals, and others.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death. Birders know that the light’s not always perfect or even particularly good when you’re trying to tell one species from another. Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism. It may be as simple as trying to hit the big white one. The big white one. It flies on.

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DECEMBER 6, 2010

The seven-night television event features visually stunning and powerfully resonant stories of nature’s fiercest felines! Big Cat Odyssey chronicles their meticulous work over three decades of filming, photographing and documenting the behavior of big cat species in Botswana. Big Cat Week starts tonight on Nat Geo WILD! Are you ready?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2017

While neither is an endemic they are two of the five hummingbird species found in Puerto Rico and we wanted to make sure to see them, mostly for Mike’s sake as I had seen both in Culebra last year. In the event, neither of us was correct as a Puerto Rican Flycatcher ended up being the first endemic to cross our field of view.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

So, while waiting for evolution to produce new birds for our life lists is inadvisable, we sometimes catch a break and every few years get a new species or two when some genetic research or study of breeding distribution presents enough evidence to split what was once considered a single species into a few new ones.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2011

But still, there is variation in variation and how rapid climate change occurs can matter, as demonstrated in a paper just published in Science: The Influence of Late Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity on Species Endemism. Species diversity drops and the systems become very simple and uninteresting, and probably not very stable.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The very first thing we notice about this large member of the Galliformes is that there is a wild version and a domestic version, and although the two are rather different, they are both given the same species name, Meleagris gallopavo. This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2011

So defined, bird songs are the sounds, often but not always loud and musical, that (mostly) male birds make as part of that species’ mating system. The templates can be discovered by raising birds in the absence of adult song, and they often sound very little like the normal final product. London: John Murray. 1st edition.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Duck Stamp) for wildlife observers (81 votes, 12 comments) Create a photography permit allowing regulated off-trail access to refuges (80 votes, 15 comments) Christmas Bird Count for Kids – A half day free family event with partners @ all USFG visitor centers (46 votes, 5 comments) Establish partnership(s) with national birding conservation orgs.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2014

There’s no way around it as the various species are reasonably common, and you will surely want to identify them. And since River Warbler is an incredibly neat species (aka difficult to get on your life list), it sure is worth the effort of peeking at its undies. This may sound tough, but it really makes it very easy.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

And, because of a special family event (see below), I happened to be in Los Angeles County over the Thanksgiving holiday. Whooping Crane is not listed as a “sensitive species” for Florida, and there are reports for other locations in the area. Mountain Plover, California. ” [[link]. An eBird mystery. I also noted that the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Shark Attack Experiment: LIVE will feature a team of free-divers and conservationists putting their safety on the line to separate myth from reality and dispel negative myths about sharks while raising public awareness about shark species which are being driven to extinction.

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APRIL 11, 2023

He had a legal permit to own them (Conditional Species Permit), and had legally microchipped them according to FWC guidelines. The 10-year-old Boa was pregnant and had been raised by McAdam since it was a baby. But just because these are snakes, this event is getting very little coverage.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2011

In addition to this tight clustering of related parakeets, the genus also had two species in the far-flung Society Islands (now in French Polynesia). These species, recorded by early European explorers, are now sadly extinct, but the disjunct distribution is something of a mystery. of the Yellow-crowned Parakeet.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Even if you don’t live in the summer range of a particular species, you may have opportunities to observe it while it passes through, especailly if you live in an active flyway, like I happen to. Another question this raises has to do with migration itself. The birds do the flying for you. Why migrate? Well, not really.

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