10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2018
As the Caribbean’s emerald waters fell away below our seaplane, I had no idea what to expect from my visit to the Dry Tortugas, 70 miles west of Key West, Florida. Featured image – Photo in “Bird-lore” by the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals).
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. are considered a distinct population segment, which is protected by the ESA and the Migratory Bird Treaty act. Wood storks primarily breed in Central and South Florida. 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.,
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.
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 marine protected area status was designated in 2013.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2014
Some articles speculate that the nests offer protection against the cold. 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).
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. For only $450,000, we could buy almost all of the habitat neded to protect Ecuador's remaining frogs.
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