10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2021

In an effort to better understand the “human dimension” of its conservation efforts, several surveys were conducted, including the National Birdwatching Survey (NBS). In other words, the researchers sought to determine attributes important to birders, and how those attributes rank relative to each other. Citation: Patton, Stephanie.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Blakiston’s Fish Owl (image by Robert tdc/Wikimedia Commons) . In the hardcore “news” department, scientists from the United States and Russia have managed a successful study of the foraging and nesting habits of Blakiston’s Fish Owl , the largest owl on the planet and one of the rarest. ” side.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

One strange thing about Chongming is the inevitable presence of people fishing. Not professionally – these people come in SUVs and probably never recapture their gas money from the fish they catch (though come to think of it, neither do I with my bird photos). of catching extremely small fish. How efficient.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. It is still volcanically active with researchers periodically discovering new flows. Which makes it a haven for seabirds….and

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2016

In a world that’s often full of tragedy, every now and then some good news comes along to restore one’s faith in humanity. Fish & Wildlife Service) seem to be faring especially well, with some 85% of populations stabilizing or increasing. Continental U.S. Continental U.S. The average increase was a whopping 624%!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

Survival rates of chicks increase when there are helpers present – and if in captivity this is not an option, humans can also take the place of helpers ( source ). Fish & Wildlife Service has a web page for this species – but it contains absolutely no information. ” ( source ).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Not sure why they spend time in Shanghai in winter when they could come here though, but then again, I usually do not understand most of the behavior of humans either. Yes, we have them in Shanghai as well. Blue-throated Bee-eaters build nests on sticks sticking out of the water.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2017

Much like every beautiful sandy beach, the human encroachment is substantial. The State of Oregon, in 1975 listed the bird as Threatened, and the Oregon Fish and Wildlife reaffirmed that status in 1989 under the Oregon Endangered Species Act. There is little doubt about the serious nature of the threat to this bird.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Fortunately for the honor of the species, the researchers found that kleptoparasitism was practiced at a low rate (4% of observations) while much more often, drongos captured insects disturbed by other species (41% of observations). And there is a video here.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

Fish and Wildlife Service endangered species list. Once a body of research was established and the bird was declared endangered, it took many more years of experimentation, political maneuvering, conflicts with the National Guard, and some tragic fires to establish what is now acclaimed as a model conservation project.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2017

At dawn, my feet hit one of the protected beaches with Wendy Allen, the manager of the North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, one of the science and outreach organizations working within Hobcaw. Today, the vast tract of land is protected, managed for science and conservation.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2018

There are many species that captivate those looking at them: Burrowing Owls , Barn Owls , a variety of fishing-owls, Stygian Owl , Elf Owl , the list goes on and on. Their tendency to show up in wide open areas means they are often visible from a long way and their beach-going habits make them ideal for humans to view.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

“National Geographic has produced many dozens of films where expert cameramen and scientists researched and filmed sharks while diving among them in open waters,” said Geoff Daniels, senior vice president for Nat Geo WILD. Does floating listlessly or actively swimming make humans a more attractive target? Bodily fluids.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

On a second visit I spotted a fishing boat going east along the channel followed by over a hundred gulls and terns, including over 40 Black Terns. Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary was an amazing and unexpected treat, but that’s because I failed to do my research. They did flush eventually, but not because of humans.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2011

We’re pleased to share his thoughtful perspective and plea for your consideration… Dear Friends and Lovers of Birds, On Friday, October 14th, to my knowledge, the first feature film with the subject being Birding ever made, with any intent to portray birders as human beings, will be released. How will it help Birds?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

As you read the below timeline and see the below images, don’t ever forget the perils that walk hand-in-hand with human greed. October 3, 2011 Reports seep of an LSU paper that details traces of hydrocarbon poisoning in populations of Gulf Killifish, a possible precursor to a collapse of fish populations.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. required to determine those catch limits.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

They eat only seafood, including fish, squid, krill and other organisms. However, we now know that human ancestors became upright first, and were bipedal for millions of years before they started to use tools extensively, and then another million years went by before their brains started to evolve a significantly larger size.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2017

He is currently a Fish and Wildlife Technician with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Research Foundation for SUNY. Greg Lawrence is a long-time friend of 10,000 Birds and a birding machine in the Rochester, New York, area.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Ackerman’s new book is about owls and owl research–the knowledge recently and currently being discovered through DNA analysis, new-tech tracking and monitoring, and old-fashioned fieldwork under the auspices of organizations like the Global Owl Project and the Owl Research Institute.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

What I didn’t know was how this relationship actually works: the mechanics of Red Knot migration, the reduced digestive systems necessary for their long flighta, the need to fatten up quickly so they can fly to the Arctic and breed, how they compete with other shorebirds and gulls and, it turns out, humans, for horseshoe crab eggs.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2016

In 2015 a Federal Duck Stamp Task Force was convened under the auspices of the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) consisting of seventeen individuals. ” The Task Group issued its final report on September 15, 2015. Issue 2: Revenue from sales of Duck Stamp has declined and is insufficient to meet conservation goals.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

2 Responses to “Terrifying Truth about Crow Intelligence&# Jochen Mar 9th, 2011 at 6:09 am Their intelligence goes even further, and researchers have shown that Ravens master a feat that even 6 to 7 year old (human) children usually can’t accomplish: they can analyze what someone else knows / can know and act accordingly.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. by Marc Bekoff.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It’s all about the improbable intersection of human beings and Emperor Penguins, and if I can’t make it to an Emperor Penguin colony (highly unlikely), reading this book has been the next best thing. It’s part memoir, part travelogue, part scientific narrative, part prologue to making an argument for Antarctic conservation.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The trip was probably reasonably well planned and it would have been known to these travelers that game birds, as well as deer and fish, were abundant in the region they were traveling to. Bringing animals that would require feed and water at that early stage would have been unwise. Which would be weird.

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Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

Environmentalists recognize the meat industry as extremely ecodestructive – including fish, dairy, eggs, feed crops with their massive use of water & topsoil and toxic runoff killing rivers and oceans, and the killing of billions of free-living animals to protect farmed animals and feed crops.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Here are some of the questions that were running through my mind as I read Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl : (a) Is ornithological research always this dangerous? (b) The fish owl is Jonathan Slaght’s grail and also, more prosaically, his dissertation topic. F to -0.4°

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

For decades researchers have made annual trips out to the Tortugas to catch Sooty Terns, attach tiny silver bands to their legs with unique identification numbers, and then set them free again. The park is home to not one, not two, but large three colonies of breeding seabirds: the Brown Noddy , Magnificent Frigatebird , and Sooty Tern.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2022

buteo … Weakly distinct morphologically, more so vocally and strongly so genetically; evidently much hybridization in recent past, and species boundaries likely to be redrawn with further research, but present arrangement, although unlikely to be supported by the scoring system used herein, appears appropriate in the interim.”

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

How far is the closest human settlement? Well yes, but all of the planet’s tall mountains are relatively close to some form of human habitation. Some rain-forests could rightfully be termed remote but again, human habitation is actually relatively closer than what one might think.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2018

Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed downlisting it from “endangered” to “threatened.”. Specifically, the notice summarizes the long history of Hawaiian Goose conservation, including written recovery plans in 1983 and 2004 , implementation of those plans, and research, including a population viability analysis.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Crested Serpent-eagle is not a vulture, but that does not keep me from mentioning a recent Economist article here, “The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people” And while this article is behind a paywall, the original research paper is not. It deserves a lot better than being caught and locked in a cage.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2017

Mothers tend to bring smaller tidbits of fish, according to the Birds of North America database (BNA), so I’m thinking that this is the mom.). And, then, a parent landed with a Big Fish. Big Greedy Chick grabbed the Big Fish eagerly. I know I shouldn’t, these are not humans, but I do.). Or, maybe brunch.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

But I only rehabbed birds, so I had to do research and call my mammal rehabber friends. And don’t forget, I’m the one coming out of solitude and ready to rejoin humanity in March of 2020. He said, “Figure it out. Read Carl Hiaasen.”. Your last post for 10,000 birds was in 2017.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. Kentucky Dept.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Non-human beings have traditionally thought of on a basically immoral level…they lack any intrinsic values, are incapable of thoughts and emotions, and are only worth how good of a coat they make or how good they taste. I look forward to more research being done in this field. But I digress.

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