10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2021
“This beautiful and singular bird, although a constant resident in the southern extremities of the peninsula of Florida, seldom extends its journeys in an eastern direction beyond the State of North Carolina.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2014
The unhappy duo pictured at left, a Common Grackle and a Brown Anole, were discovered in the back of a grocery store complex in Florida. The Barn Swallow at right was rescued by Rebecca Dmytryk of Wildlife Emergency Services in Moss Landing, California, and transferred to Native Songbird Care and Conservation in Sebastopol.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 20, 2013
The trap had been set in the woods right next to my house. The states which have essentially banned leghold traps are Florida, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts, California, and Washington. The name and town of the owner were engraved on a metal tag. I’d released birds there. I knew the wildlife.
Animal Person
MAY 27, 2009
You may recall that Massachusetts voters let their opinions about dog racing be heard when they voted to ban racing in their state. But for me, the number of adopted dogs doesn't make up for the fact that we have no right to breed dogs to use them as gambling chips. Here are a couple recent bits of good news. Mooney Rhode Island.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 10, 2011
Many winter in Florida, admittedly something of a freak state when it comes to overwintering passerines, but a few Orioles can be found up the coast as far north as North Carolina, and the odd bird finds its way into the Piedmont, the part of the state, well inland mind you, where I live. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2012
Sitta canadensis isn’t just irrupting out of its far northern home but exploding southward, with reports in every southern state except for Florida, including birds on the outer banks of North Carolina, on Grand Isle, Louisiana, in a suburb of Atlanta, and on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Bird bloggers from Wisconsin to Massachusetts.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2012
Species accounts are sequential, one running right after the other. Here is an example: I think I saw a Red-tailed Pennant, Brachymesia Furcata, two weeks ago in the Florida Keys; that’s my photo above. For Massachusetts, there is A Field Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Massachusetts, 2nd edition.
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