10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

In my experience non-birders connect with the travel, visiting beautiful places and spectacle of birding and hawkwatching often entails all three. In my experience if you show a non or novice birder their first Bald Eagle and they will be amazed, show someone their first Thayer’s Gull and they aren’t likely to gasp (sorry, larophiles)!

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Bald Eagle Los Angeles Connecticut Eagles 238

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In other words, eBird is effectively a complete history of my birding experiences. My profile page identifies the states that I have not eBirded, including Nebraska, North Dakota, Michigan, Mississippi, and Vermont. Indeed, eBird is the only way I track my observations and the app is the only way I enter checklists from the field.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. My own best bird was Caspian Tern , right on time along Lake Ontario. While pondering that, also share your best bird of the weekend! Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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2011 Mississippi ALA Sparrows 157

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Though I have been birding for a few years now, I had only birded west of the Mississippi once before my recent trip to Austin, Texas. Given how far west I found myself, I was hoping for at least a handful of new birds. I didn’t realize how many new species I would see within the city itself!

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Austin Texas Birds Non Human 110

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The next two shots give the answer: a close-up of a stunningly beautiful Scissor-tailed Flycatcher and a long shot of hundreds of Mississippi Kites in flight. The experiences of children observing birds, touched on in the U.S. ” and then adds, “The border wall is no barrier to birds.”

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Advocacy Mexico United States Texas 267

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 18, 2011

Years of experience told the team that if a chick isn’t around other cranes during its early months, the possibility of imprinting on a human increases, making it difficult to return the chick to the wild when ready. While caring for the adult crane, SeaWorld’s team rescued a newly hatched sandhill crane chick.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2014

Nonetheless, by straddling the border between the birds from the south and those from the north (and receiving a great deal of western birds in winter as well), Miami-Dade and Monroe collectively have one of the highest county lists east of the Mississippi River. There has also never been a land bridge to any islands in the Caribbean.

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Florida Miami United States Stray 171

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The Refuge has also become a place where people can experience and learn about wildlife and the places they call home, whether through self-guided discovery or by participating in one of our many educational programs. The Service proposes opening the following refuges to sport fishing for the first time: North Dakota.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2012

But the default kite for this part of the country, as well as parts of the southern plains as well, is the Mississippi Kite , Ictinia mississippiensis , unparallelled aerial acrobat and merciless devourer of katydids. This is a bird that does not mess around.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Paddling around the Veliko Ratno Island Reserve in almost downtown Belgrade was such a liberating experience of getting close to nature while not having to travel far or invest much. In order to understand the nature of the river, which created my experiences and advice such as they are, think of the lower Mississippi.).

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Birds Experience Experiments Botswana 223

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

His fascination with birds and nature began at the age of four or five, and he now works full time in conservation of Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River birds and ecosystems. The experience also inspired my column this month at 10,000 Birds, so check that out when you’re done: Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds.) [.]

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2012

Now, he’s sharing some information sure to improve your experience of American historical sites… When I’m not writing about sports teams and bird logos , birding ephemera , or stumbling into first state records , I’m helping protect Civil War-related national parks with the non-profit National Parks Conservation Association in DC.

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Birds Mississippi Vermont Texas 172

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The experience was marvelous — but it also weighed heavily on me. It was the first of many that day, and I was totally enamored of their gaudy plumage and beautiful, meadowlark-like songs, often delivered in a kind of hovering display flight above the prairie grasses where they live. That’s one of my photos above.

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Species Science Los Angeles 2000 175

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

However, few realize that this flat, densely populated county boasts one of the highest list totals of any county east of the Mississippi. For others, it is simply a launching point to Everglades National Park or the Florida Keys. It was truly heart-warming to see the local birding community participate with so much enthusiasm and fervor.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2011

Kirby Adams had a magical experience with his Best Bird of the Year and he blogged about it on his blog, Sharp Tern. While I had heard Yellow Rails in North Dakota in 2010, to see this Ohio Review Species fly, not once but twice, right in front of me was an incredible experience.

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2011 Birds Ohio North Dakota 161

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Written in the tradition of the classic Hawks in Flight , but very much a product of the experiences of its birder authors, this is a groundbreaking book that offers a new way of identifying migratory birds at sea to all of us who observe the waters of eastern North America with expectation and excitement.

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Ducks Groups Species North America 231

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2017

The food was better than decent, which exceeds our experience of Panamanian cuisine at most other locations. Radisson Summit Hotel and Golf Panama really serves a superior birding experience, just by nature of the amazing forest surrounding it. Mississippi Kite. Make sure you can do the same. BIRDING NOTES. Summit Ponds.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Maybe it was a version of the Mississippi River, maybe it was a version of the Warren River, likely both. Non-bird watchers without binoculars and experience are notoriously bad sources of information. Atop the ridge, where no one will ever build cabins because it is too high up, is a grove of white pines. More alarm calling.

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Humane Eagles Investigation Research 206

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2012

So, this pair (I assume there are two, though I only saw one today) of eagles has a territory including small dogs and stray children, baby coyotes, crows, but mainly squirrels and marmots right around its nest, and a major river backed up by a large dam about a mile or two away (the Mississippi) and several lakes.

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