10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2021

It takes a detour to reach Cano Negro Wildlife Refuge in Costa Rica but oh how the trip is worth it. As with previous counts in Cano Negro , many thanks goes to Tatiana and Renato of Cano Negro Experience for doing a fantastic job of organizing and coordinating the count. I bet you will see a lot.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2015

As I always do on the way home, following a short visit to the San Francisco Bay Area, I take in at least one of the National Wildlife Refuges (NWR) found in the Sacramento Valley. California is blessed with 51 NWRs and Wildlife Management Areas (WMA), second only to North Dakota with 77.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

I think most readers of 10,000 Birds will, at this point, remember my great disappointment in January of 2012 when I went on the Black Rail field trip at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival and neither heard nor saw a Black Rail. John’s National Wildlife Refuge just under two years from when I left it, a defeated birder.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Birding Expeditions is a Guatemalan tour company created to help birders to have an unforgettable experience in the Mayan World. We work hard to provide the richest and most rewarding experience of the Neotropics. Besides nature, cultural experiences are a highlight when you visit Guatemala.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2021

When the photo was posted on social media, people immediately began making calls – to the local wildlife rehabilitation center, the state falconry club, and the wildlife division of the state wildlife agency. But since it wasn’t a wild bird and it wasn’t a falconry bird, it wasn’t under anyone’s control.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Violation of the law would be punishable by substantial fines, plus the cat owners would be required to perform community service at a local wildlife rehabilitation facility. Summer is high season.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2023

And understanding habitats in detail is essential to any birder who wants to get the most out of his experiences in the field. Iain Campbell is the co-author of Birds of Australia and Wildlife of Australia (both Princeton), and a professional nature guide and tropical landscape geochemist.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2020

Mourning Warblers are never a guaranteed bird in Queens and seeing one at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge was a real treat. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2021

My weekend was actually pretty slow from a wildlife appreciation angle, but the bare husks of coneflowers in my garden are still drawing curious American Goldfinches. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. October can be a fantastic birding season in the right places.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Corey explored the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge on Saturday morning and Fort Tilden on Sunday morning. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2014

The National Wildlife Refuge system is one of America’s greatest treasures. It preserves habitat, protects wildlife. and provides diverse nature experiences for visitors from around the world. Funds for National Wildlife Refuge land acquisition come from several sources. In Fiscal Year 2011: 46.5 Case in point.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2012

We join listservs so we can talk to compatriots, even if they live across the country, about things like the latest treatment for aspergillosis, what’s going on with West Nile, and who’s had what kind of experience with eye infections. My favorite group rants are when rehabbers report their calls from the public.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2021

While at San Joaquin Wildlife Refuge he tracked down the long-staying Neotropic Cormorants , a new Orange County bird for him and then found a Black Tern , which was also new for him on the state. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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JULY 17, 2013

Over the following thirty-seven years there has never been a concerted effort to promote what is still called the “ Duck Stamp ” by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to anyone other than hunters and philatelists. 30 million wildlife viewing visits. 30 million wildlife viewing visits.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Among the many options, there are shorter highlight guides, as well as various wildlife-watching safari guides. Wheatley calls Kenya “possibly the best overall wildlife experience in Africa and the world”), so, the only competition is practically 3 to 4 decades old and the time was ripe for Ngarachu’s guide.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. National wildlife refuges provide premier outdoor recreational opportunities across the Nation.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

That will be the opening day of the 18th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival in Titusville, Florida. As for Bill , I have only birded with him once, when he and some British birders were on a layover at JFK and I took them out to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. I certainly can’t wait for 21 January 2015!

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AUGUST 3, 2020

Corey enjoyed a morning walk on Saturday with three friends at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, where they spotted over fifty species between mosquitoes and biting flies. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2022

They appear to be more attracted to the flowers in the morning from my experience recently. This is a very useful little guide to get the most from your garden with the least amount of water and to attract the most wildlife. Brown Honeyeater. Singing Honeyeater. White-gaped Honeyeater and Little Friarbird. Little Friarbird.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Seeing a wild Snow Leopard is every wildlife enthusiast’s dream, probably the ultimate and most elusive wildlife experience on the planet. Knowing this, we were certainly far from disappointed by our experience but we of course all dreamed of a closer view. View of our camp in the Rhumbak Valley.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Herbert is Managing Director of Bird Uganda Safaris, LTD and his company offers a variety of birding and wildlife tours of the most naturally resplendent regions of Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda. Black-chested snake Eagle with a snake at Matheniko Wildlife Reserve Eastern Uganda. Shoebill at Mabamba Swamp.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

The 18th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival is less than a month away and while we don’t have snow down yet here in New York City I am pretty sick of cold weather and could use some warmth and Florida sunshine! John’s National Wildlife Refuge” trip. I can’t wait to be in Florida!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2020

But the birds he most appreciated were the juvenile Least Sandpiper feeding at his feet on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. As an example of how close they were, the shot above is uncropped. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2021

But, of course, it was Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge that paid off the most when Corey carefully scanned the margins of the West Pond and turned up a surprise American Bittern. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Corey got his Best Bird of the Weekend early this weekend as while he and his family were making their way home from a week-long vacation in Cape Cod on Friday a Black-throated Gray Warbler was found in Queens at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The Shoebill serves as the symbol of the magnificent wildlife experiences Uganda offers visitors, which may seem a bit odd. This deeply weird bird represents the very tip of the spear of Uganda’s wildlife tourism sector, currently considered the country’s largest and most significant export. Malachite Kingfisher.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.”

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2022

Fish and Wildlife service estimates that there are 16 million “active birders” in the United States, though that figure is likely orders of magnitude too high. The next executive director should have experience successfully managing a non-profit organization and creating and implementing budgets.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2021

Lucky for me, I still had at least one more opportunity to witness this spoonbill summer for myself in my home state: a Roseate Spoonbill found at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in Central New York in early July was still being seen there late last week.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2023

Some weeks ago, I elaborated on some of my experiences on the eastern and southeastern ends. The Icacos Lagoon is a magnificent spectacle even without considering its wildlife. One of the interesting aspects of Trinidad’s nature is that both southern corners of the roughly boot-shaped island are dotted with wetlands.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2019

If you are into amazing avian-dense trail experiences, you either want to bird Pipeline Road or want to bird it again. But this type of singular experience can be enjoyed in the Old World as well. Although Kibale famously offers a more complete chimpanzee experience, the long views the Royal Mile served up left me plenty satisfied.

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MARCH 14, 2022

This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. Regardless, we made it Marion and all else added to the experience. Salvin’s Prion.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

So armed with some knowledge from the “ Access Considerations for Birding Locations ” page on the Birdability website and some research, I twice visited the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge near Portland, Oregon with accessibility in mind. It is an eye-opening experience to view a familiar place from a new perspective.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

And it looks even better in my hands while I dream about a visit to regions of Brazil I had scarcely heard of before being provided with a review copy of the first volume of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil.*

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Until Mute Swans took over Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, gallinules bred there. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Sadly, that was before Corey moved to Queens. So it was a pleasure to see one and the gallinule was Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

After several minutes of this deep water foraging behavior, this White-faced Ibis made its way toward me into more shallow water Posed for a little while, and then began to preen I’m glad I took the time to visit Colusa National Wildlife Refuge on this day. You never know what you might see! Get yours today! Beautiful bird.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2021

The survey also sought to identify “the key attributes important to birding experiences” and learn more about “decisions to participate in birdwatching and level of identity as birdwatcher.”. A core portion of the birdwatcher survey involved discrete choice experiments (DCEs). Broadly speaking, they were not.) Paul, MN 55108.

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