10,000 Birds

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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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Birds 192

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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California Condor Falcons California Birds 165

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

” are the big questions at the heart of Vagrancy in Birds by Alexander Lees and James Gilroy, an impressive, fascinating book about what ornithologists and wildlife biologists have found out about avian vagrancy so far and their theories explaining this phenomenon. ” and its companion question, “Why is this bird here?”

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 251

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Either way, it was a heck of a sight and another example of why Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge is the best place in New York City to see amazing wildlife spectacles. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. It was a great experience.

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica New York 167

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) attempts to calculate the economic contribution of National Wildlife Refuge visitation to local communities. Rather, birding and other wildlife observation ( e.g., photography) are lumped together as “non-consumptive” uses of a refuge. Every few years, the U.S. billion for local communities.

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Wildlife Maryland San Francisco Minnesota 235

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. As visitors’ and the public’s interests expanded from the Big Five, and an appreciation for lesser mammals, birds and smaller wildlife has became more widespread, the term Little Five was coined.

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 192

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

David Tipling, award-winning and widely published wildlife photographer, travelled the world during this period, photographing people interacting with birds, and sometimes, just birds. He started working on Birds and People in January 2007, according to the book’s web site, and the project ultimately took six years.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 201

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. But that’s old news. Birders pay bupkis.

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Ducks Hunters 2006 Wildlife 232

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

This offering is actually hard to part with: a copy of Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal and Cerrado of Central Brazil signed by both John Gwynne, who managed the project, and Guy Tudor, eminent neotropical bird artist and art director of the project. Time to give away a wonderful book on 10,000 Birds!

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Deer 175

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

On the second day of the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival I wasn’t scheduled to lead any field trips. Goodwin Waterfowl Management Area , which is open to vehicles not driven by hunters on Mondays and Thursdays only. In particular, I headed south, to the T.M. But I’m getting way ahead of myself here.

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Owls Hunters New York Wildlife 179

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

As part of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil giveaway we asked readers of 10,000 Birds to name the bird in Brazil that they would like to see more than any other species. They really appeared to enjoy this, because as soon as they swam back to the rocks they would line up again to repeat the experience.

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 194

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

My own trip was not an intensive birding experience, and August is clearly not the most productive month. Ecotourism will no doubt arrive soon, and with luck its revenue will prove that there’s more to be gained from protecting wildlife than selling it to hunters.” “I would certainly recommend Serbia to visiting birders.

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Serbia Birds Bulgaria Farming 147

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). This almost certainly can be argued to be true just on the basis of logic, because feral Cats are proficient hunters and are entirely out of ecological place. That was one of his cats.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 251

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. But after repeated good experiences with birders as individuals, Mr Jordan has consented to allow the bird to be made public before it leaves. I disapprove. Corey Mar 22nd, 2011 at 5:38 am I agree. The proposal from U.S.

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New York Woodpeckers Jordan 2011 182

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Just yesterday the FBI was able to complete its evidence gathering and clearing of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, returning the refuge back to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and freeing the seventeen refuge employees to go back to work. So far the cost of the Malheur NWR occupation is estimated at over $3.3

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Hunters Utah Extremist Agenda 120

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

This bird spent the 2011-2012 winter at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge in northern California, migrated someplace exotic and distant in February, and returned to the same pond at the beginning of this month. It was a heart-pounding scene straight out of Jurassic Park, an odd experience for a laid-back pursuit like birding.

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2012 Birds Guatemala Florida 141