10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

These large parrots are popular in the pet trade, and that’s a likely source of the population of this species on Trinidad. About one hundred yards away an Anhinga surfaced with a freshly skewered fish. Noisy Yellow-crowned Parrots indicated that it was time to stop the car and get out. Finally, a faraway movement caught my eye.

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Trinidad Birds Parrots Falcons 210

10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2017

Perch are a fresh water species of fish that are native to Europe and N. I used to fish for perch and know them to be a spiky character. The dorsal fin has stiff spines which can pierce a clumsy angler’s palm, but when raised they can be a defensive mechanism to avoid being swallowed.

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Fish Asia America Suffering 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Checking my annual list, I am where I usually am at this time of year: several species short of 200. Still, this way or another, the year is ending with some glorious species, e.g. a rare Greater Spotted Eagle. But through binoculars I noticed small raised crests and supercilia joining on hindneck – Woodlarks ! The search is on.

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Moldova Birds Serbia Greece 120

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

Sometimes, they even have the same species… I’m looking at you, House Wren ! While this low-density species may be declining across its wide range, BirdLife International still considers it of Least Concern. Encountering this stunner, one of the largest passerines in South America, raises a number of questions.

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Colombia South America Argentina Ecuador 196

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2020

The Trinidad Motmot is the only endemic species on the island. The fishing birds have it easy here. In addition to the species mentioned before, it is easy to have incredible looks at Red-crowned Woodpeckers , Barred Antshrikes , and Rufous-vented Chachalacas as they frequently are attracted to the fruit feeders.

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Trinidad Parrots Species Hunting 170

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2013

There aren’t many solutions proferred—the article is really about consciousness-raising—but it’s well worth a read. Fearing that a natural disaster, introduced species, or disease could wipe this fragile population out, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service). **And Photo of the Nihoa Millerbird by S.

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Cambodia Slaughter Slaughtered Cyprus 144

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

It was here that I discovered my first White Ibis, my first Eastern Towhee, my first Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher , and while these species may be “common” to me now they filled me with wonder then. A Green Heron stood stock-still as we passed, blending in with the raised oyster beds recently exposed by the retreating tidal waters.

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Virginia Branding 2013 Blackbirds 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2015

I thought so too when I first went out, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how many species I do encounter every day! They are partially covered with Sea Oats and other vegetation, providing habitat for beach mice, shorebirds, and other species. Why bother?” My walk on one particular Thursday provides the perfect example.

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Florida Birds Mice Breeding 157

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Paging through a fieldguide, it’s always with a sense of dismay and sadness that I come across reference to an extinct species. Madagascar, however, has had more than its fair share of extinct or lost species and Madagascar Pochard was firmly on this list. Then in 1991, a fisherman on the lake caught a male in his fishing net.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The aquarium said it hoped Homer would help raise awareness about the plight of his species. Dangers include fishermen deliberately blinding the animals to protect fishing equipment. I'm not posting this because of the rescue (which is a good thing), but because of HOW this turtle was blinded. From the BBC.

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Turtles Greece Rescue Raised 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

The Yellow Bittern is a tiny heron, substantially smaller than the Butoroides (Green and Striated) species and slimmer too. It likes plenty of cover as one would imagine of a bittern species and especially favours Pandanus. It likes plenty of cover as one would imagine of a bittern species and especially favours Pandanus.

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Singapore Indonesia Asia Guinea 170

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2011

But still, there is variation in variation and how rapid climate change occurs can matter, as demonstrated in a paper just published in Science: The Influence of Late Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity on Species Endemism. Similar things happen to both fish and birds.

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Penguins Birds Cooking Fish 204

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2012

But how birds use these different senses, like the diversity in bill size and shape, varies almost as much from species to species. Chickens come in at around 24, pigeons have around 40-50 and some duck species may have a whopping 400. And again, there is great variation amongst different species.

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Birds Mammals Mozambique New Zealand 220

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

As a wildlife rehabilitator who has dealt with both the US Fish and Wildlife and our state’s Parks and Wildlife for over twenty years, I half-jokingly asked him what I thought was a “duh” question: “How frustrating is it to deal with governmental regulations concerning wildlife?”. How it raised its chicks? Or how gracefully it flew?

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Collecting Wildlife Rehabilitation Solomon Islands Texas 240

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Motomco’s Material Safety Data Sheet for “Hawk” warns that the product “is extremely toxic to fish, birds, and other wildlife” and that “dogs and predatory and scavenging mammals and birds might be poisoned if they feed upon animals that have eaten this bait.” Motomco also makes “Jaguar” and “Tomcat,” complete with cat icons, of course.

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Mountain Lions Rats Rodents Lions 264

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. Modifying the art rules to include additional and appropriate bird species is an ideal way to raise that possibility. 1) Action : U.S. Leave the duck stamp alone!

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Ducks Hunters Hunting Wildlife 100

Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

New England Reptile Distributers just released a video explaining a terrible incident involving the FWC (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission). He had a legal permit to own them (Conditional Species Permit), and had legally microchipped them according to FWC guidelines. Chris Coffee did not commit any criminal acts.

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Pythons illegal Florida Killing 40

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

In 1974, Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge was established to protect the delta and its diversity of fish and wildlife habitats. A beautiful series of raised boardwalks have been constructed, allowing year round access to the area, thru the marsh area, all the way out nearly a half mile into the tidal flats.

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Fox Washington Geese Sparrows 130

Critter News

DECEMBER 12, 2009

Another animal dies at the Calgary Zoo and more questions are being raised about their practices. The Calgary Zoo is again under scrutiny as details emerged Friday about how a capybara, a species of giant South American rodent, died after becoming caught in a hydraulic door last weekend as it was being moved from one area to another.

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Zoos Animal Welfare Welfare Elephants 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

It was decreed a national symbol of Honduras on 28 June 1993 by the National Congress of Honduras as a way to raise awareness of the varied avifauna of Honduras. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. The proposal from U.S.

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Honduras 2011 Deer Birds 152

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2012

Predators that rely on lemmings, like the Snowy Owl , took advantage of the bounty and had great breeding success, raising large broods which, after the lemming population crashes, dispersed far and wide. This Gyrfalcon rests and watches near an area frequented by several hare … A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

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Rabbits Breeding Litter Raised 214

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The very first thing we notice about this large member of the Galliformes is that there is a wild version and a domestic version, and although the two are rather different, they are both given the same species name, Meleagris gallopavo. This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 206

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

That is why it is such amazingly awesome news that the British Birdwatching Fair raised £242,000 to help conserve a species that could become the first recorded bird extinction in mainland Africa. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. The proposal from U.S.

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Ethiopia 2011 Deer New York 145

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Over a decade from 1993 to 2004, conservationists released 289 captive-raised Whooping Cranes into Osceola, Lake and Polk counties in Central Florida. I contacted Marty Folk from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and asked him if he had any clues. Now who might these two individuals be?

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Florida Buffalo Louisiana 2004 230

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2015

The lighthouse at the point itself has been a nest-site to a pair of Eastern Ospreys for many years and they fish in the waters around the point. It is a beautiful location with bright red cliffs and a wide variety of shorebirds during our summer months, though not in the large numbers that you may observe in other places around Broome.

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Birds 2014 Australia Breeding 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Fish and Wildlife Service desperately needs your feedback as they craft a new vision for our National Wildlife Refuge System. I’m extremely grateful to Paul for taking the initiative in raising awareness of this NWR campaign. More important, they WANT your feedback!

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Shark Attack Experiment: LIVE will feature a team of free-divers and conservationists putting their safety on the line to separate myth from reality and dispel negative myths about sharks while raising public awareness about shark species which are being driven to extinction.

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Sharks Experience Experiments South Africa 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. Fish and Wildlife Service endangered species list. The warbler is on the road to being delisted from the Endangered Species List. Forest Service.

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 234

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

The one bird I did not see here, however, was the Bateleur Eagle … One highlight in the area is the Saddle-billed Stork , likely to be the tallest species in the stork family. The African Spoonbill is one of the six global spoonbill species, and the main African one (there are also some Eurasian Spoonbills in Africa).

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Ostriches Parrots Birds Eggs 147

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

I tried to get a better idea of what exactly the definition of cuckoo-dove is but am still not very clear about it – Wikipedia only offers the rather formal definition “any of several species of bird in the genera Macropygia , Reinwardtoena, and Turacoena of the pigeon family.” But I may well be wrong.

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Birds Geese Fish Industry 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

The chapter “Horseshoe Crabs” illustrates why this is THE keystone species of the Delaware Bay. Lawrence Niles was chief of New Jersey’s Endangered and Nongame Species Program for fifteen years and now works for the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey, a sponsor of this book.

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Delaware New Jersey Research Eggs 181

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Like any birder visiting a new place, I had a target species list I was hoping to seek out during the one day I had available between business commitments. The climatic changes set in motion by the Industrial Revolution are now proceeding at a pace far greater than many species and ecosystems can adapt to naturally. Black Rosy-Finch.

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Species Science Los Angeles Birds 176

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

Birders often venture into various habitats, such as forests, wetlands, grasslands, or coastal areas, to encounter different bird species. The primary objective of birding is to identify bird species based on their physical characteristics, behavior, and vocalizations.

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United States North America Birds America 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

” Writing about owls means writing about roughly 250 species (I counted 245 on the 2022 Clements spreadsheet, but I might have missed a few, and we all know that each classification system is different). These are behaviors that are most likely to vary across species and topics that make for compelling stories.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 217

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2023

Black-winged Stilt near and on the highway There are still over forty species of birds to be found along the highway across Roebuck Plains, but the tall vegetation can be problematic. There are several Swamp Harriers that upset the birds and then you do find there are more species present than are initially visible.

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Pelicans Australia Fish 2019 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2017

Is Belgrade the New Berlin is a question recently raised in Vogue by Marry Holland. I am a birder and I can claim that out of Serbia’s total of 350+ bird species, highly urbanised inner city areas of Belgrade hold almost 100 birds, while the outskirts have more than 200 species. km / 1 mi to the fish farm entrance.

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Birds 2017 Eagles Otters 208

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

For mankind to snatch away a species’ very existence is wrong on so many levels that I can’t begin to explain them. However, despite our best efforts to wipe them off the face of the earth, some of the more vulnerable species have managed to hang on. Fish and Wildlife Service. this species breeds.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 209