10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2014

Not so in this case, as the filmmakers follow a pair of local men and their families, not only showing their efforts to save the ducks that are so important to their livelihoods, but in their day to day lives.

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Woodchucks Chipmunks Rodents Seals 227

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

Clearly, author Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, the author of 24, soon to be 25, children’s books, is also a birder (and a little research brings up a presentation she gave at Ogeechee Audubon, Georgia with the biographical information and she and her family “love watching birds and wildlife seen near their lagoon on Skidaway Island.”

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New York City Pelicans Birds New York 144

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2014

Okay, they weren’t as fascinating as the birds of prey eating their, or the frankly still weird drawings of nightjars carrying eggs and woodcocks carrying chicks, but still, hornbills were cool because they sealed their mates up in holes in trees and then fed them as they raised the chick.

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Singapore Uganda Malaysia Seals 169

Animal Person

MAY 17, 2009

Let's deconstruct the concept: Do you think that people who have spent their lives harming animals by eating them, just like I did and much of my family still does, deserve a second chance? Like clubbing a seal to death? Is fighting and killing dogs the same thing? Is Vick a special kind of creep for what he did? Like skinning a mink?

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Foie Gras Michael Vick New York Times Seals 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Artists rendition of Inkayacu paracasensis There are 17 living species of penguins, which make up their own Linnean family (Spheniscidae), which is the only family in the order Sphenisciformes. They eat only seafood, including fish, squid, krill and other organisms. Salas-Gismondi, R., Altamirano, A., Shawkey, M., D’Alba, L.,

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Penguins Seals Peru Science 189

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Audubon’s Hog Island Audubon Camp attracts birders of all skills levels every summer and Acadia National Park, Monhegan Island, Machias Seal Island, and Scarborough Marsh are nationally known birding hotspots. I’ve missed this information, especially when I travel to Los Angeles to visit my daughter and her family.

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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 188

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Additionally, you can enjoy a meal at the restaurant or climb to the top of Sweden’s tallest lighthouse, the Långe Jan (Long Jon), for an even more breathtaking view (and possibly catch a glimpse of some seals). The walking trails extend further north and include some wooded areas as well. (Be

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Sweden Denmark Geese Birds 164

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2011

With them were about 40 White-rumped Sandpipers ( Calidris fuscicollis ) , and families of both Semipalmated ( Charadrius semipalmatus ) and Common-ringed Plovers ( Charadrius hiaticula ). A little more than two weeks ago, on the 10th of August, I counted over 150 along the shore of Arctic Bay, where our water lake empties into the ocean.

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Seals Falcons Family Hunting 112

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2014

It has taken us around Western Australia on sealed and unsealed roads and over into the Northern Territory and shown us some amazing birding sights. It has been our home when we have travelled with our tent to various locations over the years and is part of our life and feels like family.

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Birds Australia Kangaroos Protection 167

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

Or, Pygmy leaf-folding frogs, Afrixalus brachycnemis, from Tanzania, tiny climbing frogs who lay their eggs in leaves and then fold the leaves over them for protection, sealing the nest with secretions. There is a large family of frogs, Bufonidae, that includes most of the warty, hoppy creatures we think of as toads.

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Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 182

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Changing tastes in beer, now leaning towards more modern flavors imported from Britain and Germany – as well as the privations of two world wars – only seemed to seal the fate of saison. In the postwar years, the style was hanging on as an arcane regional specialty, brewed by an ever-shrinking number of small producers.

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Vermont Belgium Farming Europe 118

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I should add that the Big Owls taking over NYC social and even hard print media, dominating conversations with my nonbirder friends and family, are not the only owls in the five boroughs, but like a musical, the closer you are to Broadway, the closer you are to fame and fortune (and maybe even a higher quality rodent for dinner, who knows?).

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New York City Birds Owls Fox 181

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2019

Members of the family Caprimulgidae don’t rank very high on any list of visually charismatic birds, so I was surprised to finally find one depicted on this week’s wine, the Bota Box Nighthawk Black Red Wine Blend. Bota Box takes its name from the bota , a Spanish leather wineskin traditionally lined with a goat bladder and sealed with resin.

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Goats Seals 2003 South America 119

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

birds” They are “damaging private property, including chewing of wires, guttering, stripping out seals between roof tiles and window frames, chewing garden plants” I bet you have a good chance of becoming the mayor of Salisbury by taking a hard line against these hooligans.

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Birds Pelicans Falcons Parrots 179

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2011

Having flown to Washington State on a family vacation the first obstacle was easily out of the way, which you knew already if you ever read this blog. Bald Eagles competed with hauled out Harbor Seals for our attention and we were told that the concentration of eagles was due to the salmon not yet running in the rivers.

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Washington Protection Puffins Rhinoceros 169

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

The Islands hold important populations of Monk Seals as well as all the world’s Laysan Ducks and Laysan Finches. Tags: Asides , tsunami • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Once you’re prepared, check out this remarkable post and gallery by Pete at Midway.

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2011 Deer Pro-Test Wildlife 174

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2011

Large areas of the islands are taken over as the breeding grounds of the Western Gull , a large bird that is without question the most ornery member of the family I have ever encountered. And it isn’t just on the ground or an occasional accidental hazard. All taped up and ready to go!

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Breeding Stray Seals Whales 179

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2015

Each year Hog Island offers programs, taught by a stellar staff of naturalists and artists, to groups of all kinds (teenagers, adults, families). As we coasted through the water, staff member Tom Johnson pointed out basking harbor seals and identified birds for the uninitiated (“Female Lesser Scaup at two o’clock!”)

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Puffins Birds Groups West Virginia 249

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2011

In fact, should anything smaller than an elephant seal wander into the territory it will be rewarded not only with copious amounts of warm milky guano but a thorough battering. Should a gull leave that area and wander into the territory of another gull all bets are off.

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Breeding Collecting California Hunting 174

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2013

The National Park is unusual because it offers very few facilities compared to most, but there is a sealed road right into the small car park and a shade shelter with a table and chairs and information about the park. As we wandered along the trail we soon encountered family groups of both White-winged Fairywrens and Variegated Fairywrens.

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Feral Pelicans Ducks Pigs 146

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Picking it would just be sealing the deal – as it’s already on the official seal too. This list has to have a representative of this most Australian of bird families, the honeyeaters. So, for the benefit of my beloved Australia, I present a shortlist of fine Australian birds that could serve as our national bird.

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Australia Chickens Birds Seals 176

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

So you can imagine my great pleasure when it worked out for me to stay in California for two extra days at the end of our family vacation out west. I’m sad to say that once the adrenaline rush of finally seeing a representative of my most-wanted bird family wore off the pain came back and it was pretty harsh. This one did too.

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Whales Whaling Albatross Dolphins 108

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The November 1962 cover of The New Yorker by Anataole Kovarksy brought the fantasy of a turkey on the Great Seal of the United States – a myth wrongly attributed to Ben Franklin’s nonexistent public views on the matter – to life on the printed page. Good birding, happy drinking, and happy Thanksgiving!

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2017 Bald Eagle United States Turkey 151