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. The Service is committed to strengthening and expanding hunting and fishing opportunities,” said Ashe. “The
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 10, 2016
It was odd to realize that with a temperature of 85 degrees F and a breeze, I felt like “fall” had begun in Northwest Florida. Here and there, spits of pale sand became playgrounds for families and dogs, or hunting areas for Great Blue Herons. These river areas of Northwest Florida always strike me as mysterious.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 5, 2015
Another day, another dead lion erupting in the world’s media, another opportunity for me to annoy my few remaining anti-hunting friends. There isn’t too much I could write on the subject that isn’t dealt with much better by David Shiffman, a shark conservationist from Florida. Go read his take. I’ll wait. .
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
We all have them: our favorite places to take friends and family when they visit, the bird-friendly areas we pop in on when we have the chance, the landscapes that entrance us. Every few minutes we saw these bunched families of gallinules, sometimes mixing with the striped heads of the young grebes as well. We opted for the 12:30 p.m.
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2016
On my recent short family vacation to Miami, I was granted a single day to get out and really bird like a madman. Of course, I contacted Carlos Sanchez , alleged south Florida birder extraordinaire, to maximize the returns on what time I could spend. Let me get out of the car before making me look at birds! What is it with this guy?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2018
I love the challenge of “the hunt” and the satisfaction of the find but I also have the ones I want to see the most, my biggest targets if you will. Many are on the Costa Rica list and many of those sprite songbirds are rare vagrants to Costa Rica, especially ones that are expected in Florida. This bird does indeed glow.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
Each species account starts with names–family name at the top of the page, followed below by English name of the species, alpha code, scientific name, local name in Cuba and the standard name as accepted by the Sociedad Española de Ornitología (SEO). There is even room for notes. Except for the extinct Cuban Macaw.) by Nils Navarro.
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