10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2012

While the ultralight aircraft leading a flock of young Whooping Cranes to Florida may again take to the skies , that good news is tempered by the effects of the drought in Texas , which has already led to the death of at least one Whooping Crane there. It’s a mixed bag for our most charismatic of North American waders this week.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2014

The end of July marks the end of the Least Tern’s ( Sterna antillarum ) nesting season in Florida. Young Least Terns , some still begging for food, begin to appear on Florida beaches and will soon continue their flight south eastern South America. But making it to a flying age in Florida is an accomplishment in itself.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2015

The ABA checklist committee has recently added the Egyptian Goose to the official ABA checklist, based on an established population in southeastern Florida. Some rejoice at this news since it provides them with an additional tick. Others, like the Records Committee of the Florida Ornithological Society, are now hiring.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Take the Florida Scrub-Jay. Photo above by Louise Hunt, courtesy of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology) At just about 5,000 individuals, Florida’s only exclusive endemic is Endangered. And with the bird’s oak scrub habitat rapidly disappearing , scientists are searching for ways to preserve the species.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2016

There’s something for everyone in this week’s bird news—gotta get ’em all! In Florida, Snail Kite nests are being threatened by a government-sponsored plan to combat an algae bloom. First off, does your injured bird need a blood transfusion? Now, you can get one, thanks to the world’s first avian blood bank.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2014

The wood stork was listed as endangered in 1984, because the Florida population was dropping at an approximate rate of 5 percent per year. Wood storks primarily breed in Central and South Florida. Historically, the Florida Everglades and the Big Cypress ecosystems supported large breeding colonies. Photo: U.S.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2016

This Bald Eagle, photographed by Corey, was after Blue-winged Teal in Florida, not Atlantic Puffins in Maine. But there’s plenty of better—or at least more interesting—news for birders. Look out below! Did you miss your chance to see Angry Birds in movie theaters? Fear not—the film has just been released on DVD. (In In the U.S.,

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AVMA News

JULY 3, 2023

The Alabama VMA (ALVMA) held its Emerald Coast Veterinary Conference from May 31-June 4 in Miramar Beach, Florida. The association presented awards and seated new officials.

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AVMA News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Several new studies were unveiled at @the_NAVC Veterinary Meeting & Expo this January in Orlando, Florida, including research identifying 30 different bacterial groups in the fecal microbiome of domestic cats and a survey on dog owners’ awareness of osteoarthritis.

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Critter News

JANUARY 9, 2012

This is good news, at least in my opinion. An Alachua County Circuit Court judge has ordered the University of Florida to provide an animal rights activist with records on primates involved in research. Full article in the Gainesville Sun.

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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). In 2021, Florida banned reticulated pythons, forcing Coffee to find homes for the pythons outside of Florida. He had a total of 120 pythons he needed to rehome.

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Animal Person

MAY 27, 2009

Here are a couple recent bits of good news. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Greyhound Matters Florida Gambling Greyhound Racing Massachusetts Michael J. But one area that continues to provide them is the fight against the use of greyhounds as a source of entertainment (and gambling revenue) by forcing them to race.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Animal rights activists are targeting a University of Florida researcher for his role in experiments on primates — even though he says he doesn't personally conduct animal research. Tags: university of florida animal research activism primates. Wonder if that could get activists into trouble under AETA (Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.)

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2013

And they’re making the news, too. First off, Audubon of Florida reports that counts indicate more Roseate Spoonbills are nesting in Florida Bay (between the mainland and the Keys) this year than last year, although those numbers are still lower than in the last decade. Pink-footed Shearwater image by Felonious Jive.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2011

I’m deeply saddened at the news that Klaus Peter has passed away. Klaus was a phenomenal nature photographer based out of Florida and a long-time blog friend. The fact that we never met in person does nothing to diminish my sorrow at his passing. Klaus surely made this corner of the web we share a better place.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 25, 2009

Tags: zoos jaguar florida.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2013

I’m thrilled to be contributing all the little tidbits I find to the Nature News beat. Florida Gulf Coast Eagles. Greetings, 10,000 Birds readers! And there’s little that’s newsier (in the U.S., at least) at the moment than the NCAA men’s Division I basketball tournament! Temple Owls. Louisville Cardinals.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 31, 2012

They have now been returned to the sea off the coast of Florida! What great news! We are excited about this update to a story we brought to you in April. If you remember, SeaWorld Orlando had been caring for two baby hawksbill turtles that were rescued.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2012

The bad news was that it had flown away right before we arrived, but the good news is that it hadn’t traveled far. If pressed, he’ll acknowledge a Gray Kingbird found by Doug Gochfeld at Viera Wetlands – his fifth lifer and tenth ABA-area bird of his Florida trip – as his his Best Bird of the Weekend™ .

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2012 Birds Medical Owls 162

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

She was a Library Journal book reviewer for 15 years, reviewing over 100 titles, and has also reviewed birding books for the Queens County Bird Club’s News & Notes , which she formerly edited.

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Critter News

JUNE 19, 2010

From ShortNews.com.literally, short, short news! Like forest creatures trying to escape a fire, marine animals such as dolphins, sharks, mullets, crabs, rays and fish are congregating in surprisingly shallow waters off the Florida coast line as they flee the encroaching oil spill.

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Critter News

MARCH 7, 2012

A new report in the Staug News of St. Augustine, Florida doesn’t mince any words when it comes to what’s afoot in the Stanwood area. Stanwood is right near where we live in Seattle and, sadly, home to Pigs Peace Animal Sanctuary which rescues all kinds of animals. I can only imagine how they feel. From the Sky Valley Chronicle.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Not only is this earth-shaking, pants-wetting news for the numerous hardcore state and county listers that reside in California, this courageous decision has implications for the entire nation. Will Florida follow California ? This is a Pin-tailed Whydah in Carbon Canyon Regional Park in Yorba Linda, California.

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California Los Angeles 2013 Eggs 190

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2016

The good news is that I was helping lead the Central Florida Specialties trip the next day and Noah had signed up for it which meant I would have another chance to show him a Carolina Wren , which is, to belabor the obvious, not a bird that is normally considered a central Florida specialty.

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North Dakota Birds Florida Wildlife 116

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. The cats were eradicated by 1991, which left the mice population to go unchecked.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 261

Critter News

APRIL 21, 2009

Authorities are looking in the deaths of 21 polo horses from Argentina. So far they have ruled out disease and are even looking into the possibility that they were deliberately killed.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2016

federal government’s Operation Migration program, which has used ultralight aircraft to teach migration routes to the endangered cranes, has flown its last group of Whoopers from Wisconsin to Florida. Over 15 years, the program sought to boost the cranes’ numbers and enable them to someday flourish without intervention.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

In Queens, I periodically read local news articles describing how Con Edison is trying gentle means of persuasion to get the birds to move—spikes, sprays, sound machines, mechanical owls. Florida’s Introduced Birds: Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus). They are not popular with power companies. and Sam Logue.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2019

There had been reports of a couple of real rarities up in Florida ( pronounced Flor-ee-da) Canyon, just to the north of Madera Canyon, so I was up at o-dark thirty the very next day after getting the owls. By 7:30, two of the owls starting calling back and forth across the small ravine, and I had my 1300th bird!

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Here's the good news: This is a very readable explanation of how animals in the Hundred Heartbeat Club (there are 100 or fewer individuals in the wild today) got to be in the club. I know he's a conservationist, therefore I know he will advocate for "managing" the "resources" that are sentient nonhumans.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

On April 20th 2010, the world received news that eleven men working on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig died in an explosion on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. June 4, 2010 Oil washes up on barrier islands and beaches from Louisiana to Florida. BP officials reacted to this alarming news by demanding that it be kept secret.

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Critter News

APRIL 25, 2010

A six-year donates his life savings to help sick sea turtles at the Florida Aquarium. Tags: nice story florida. It was only $53.50 (the kid's only six!), but I hope it's the first step to a long life of love and compassion for all living things.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

• Explore These Related Posts Birding Lodges – Part 2 – Punta Cana Resort & Club The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida Veraguan Mango – Panama’s ex-endemic Finding Island Scrub-jays Snail Kites, Limpkins and Escargot.Or Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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Portugal 2011 Deer Birds 169

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

• Explore These Related Posts Birding Lodges – Part 1 – Paradise in Portugal The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida Veraguan Mango – Panama’s ex-endemic Finding Island Scrub-jays Snail Kites, Limpkins and Escargot.Or Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2016

You won’t find Painted Buntings in Canada—Corey photographed these in Florida, where they are common feeder birds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

6 Responses to “Manky Muscovy Ducks&# Deborah Carney Mar 2nd, 2011 at 3:05 am We have some photos of these that were living behind a hotel in Florida. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. I’ll dig them out and email them to you. They were so ugly I had to look them up at the hotel and found out what they were.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 20, 2009

*An agreement in principle on new rules for animal testing has been reached by the European Union; *Ten laboratory chimpanzees retire to a Florida sanctuary; *A Spanish province begins a discussion on banning bullfights; *A record number of manatee deaths are recorded in the State of Florida; *The last known dancing bear is rescued in India.

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