10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

Anyway, the story is not quite how I remembered it, to be honest, but fitting enough to describe the almost claustrophobic birding experience in ever-shrinking Nanhui. This is partly due to hunting in China, where about 90% of the species winter (HBW). And it does not even live in reeds.

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Raccoons Birds Oregon China 229

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The only thing that could have made the experience with Tryngites subruficollis better would have been some sunlight. It’s odd, then, that the best place to find them in the eastern United States is at sod farms, perhaps the only positive ecological impact of people wanting monocultured and manicured lawns.

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Farming Argentina South America United States 158

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic. Done properly, a young hawk is curtailed in a growing compulsion to fly greater distances and hunt for herself by a process sometimes called “manning.”

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 190

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

I recently asked ChatGPT some questions about the best birding locations in the United States and the results were decidedly mixed. How many birders are there in the United States? # # # Query: What is birding? Encountering a spark bird is a transformative experience for many birders.

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United States North America Birds America 147

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It’s probably on your mind too, especially if you live in the United States. In addition to habitat loss, extreme weather, invasive species, hunting, and the illegal capture of birds for pet markets are major contributing factors. Cuba is on my mind. 26 endemics! Bee Hummingbird, the smallest hummingbird in the world!

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Cuba Birds United States 2000 238

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in.

America 239

America Industry Squirrels Birds 239

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. I’m wondering as I write if you are shaking your head, uneasy that all these FACTS will interfere with your love of observing owls, an experience that easily borders on the mystical for some of us. They are also hunted. I don’t think so.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 224

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

If you ever wonder why so many American birders leaven their love of nature with a little self-loathing, look no further than the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation , which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conducts every five years or so. It’s that damnable Duck Stamp. That money counts.

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Ducks Hunters 2006 Wildlife 252

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

I new him because we enlisted his Dryfus Lion and one of his tigers to carry out experiments with bones (this is something archaeologists do). Here we conduct a systematic review and quantitatively estimate mortality caused by cats in the United States. That was one of his cats. billion birds and 6.9–20.7

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 256

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Is this the type of avian experience we want? We know what those large flocks were like.

Mauritius 102

Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 102

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

COVID-19 was the worst of it but we also endured horrific wildfires, tremendously damaging hurricanes, another year of the worst President of the United States in history, and the list could go on ad infinitum. 2020 will be remembered as a year that we’d like to forget.

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2020 Birds Costa Rica Germany 245