10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2013

By the time this post goes live I’ll be boarding an airplane to sunny Florida to begin the festivities. The birding in North Carolina, for reasons both of my own making and the vagaries of southern “winter” weather, has been a bit slow. Wow, is it Space Coast time already?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2015

You do, however, see them in January in places like Florida and North Carolina. Images courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Is this a glitch, then, or part of a larger trend of later, lost-er, more lingering kingbirds? Obviously, one year cannot tell us.

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MAY 19, 2015

Turns out, Monday brought more than a little rain, and we got soaked as we explored the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge and the Currituck National Wildlife Refuge along the ocean. Our last and final stop was the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, one of my favorite birding spots. ” Magnificent Frigatebird.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Fish and Wildlife Service has listed the “Rufa” population of Red Knot ( Calidris canutus rufa ) as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Red Knots have already lost more than 80 percent of their coastal habitat in Florida, New Jersey, and New York. Birds in Delaware Bay. Photo: Gregory Breese-USFWS.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

I haven’t even been to all of the best national wildlife refuges for birding. They include: Southern Florida , with stops at places such as J. I’ve also been on pelagic birding trips on both coasts, out of Half Moon Bay and Monterey, California; Newport, Oregon; and Hatteras, North Carolina. Geography is destiny.

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MARCH 10, 2011

These Blasts From The Past In Search of Dupont’s Lark The Western Scrub-Jay, A Bright Corvid In Many Respects Ecuadorian Hillstar Oreotrochilus chimborazo Winter Robins The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida About the Author Nate Nate Swick is a birder. He writes about birds and birding at The Drinking Bird. The proposal from U.S.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

California (297) is next, followed by Florida (227), Oregon (209), and New Jersey (199). After those five, there are relative handful with over 100 species: North Carolina (172), Michigan (159), Arizona (155), Washington (144), North Dakota (141!), Some are all three ( e.g. , New York, California, and Florida).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2013

There are few places in Florida – heck, in the United States – that are as fun to hang out at as this water treatment facility. I turned, as I do from time to time, to the butterflies, particularly those species that I can’t see in North Carolina. Fortunately this is a hardly a disappointing turn of events.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

I am really excited to say I’ll be heading down to Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival in Titusville, Florida, next month as a correspondent for 10,000 Birds. It won’t be my first trip to Florida. I can’t wait to reacquaint myself with Florida Scrub-Jays and Sandhill Cranes.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

By their very name, most would assume you can’t spot Snow Geese in Florida. Marks National Wildlife refuge in search of water birds – ducks and mergansers in particular. The post Snow Geese in Florida appeared first on 10,000 Birds. 2020 was that year for me! 2020 was that year for me! I arrived at St.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

Not long ago, I posted a list of the 25 best National Wildlife Refuges for birding. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has published a list of NWRs that have been created or expanded with Duck Stamp funds. Ding Darling NWR (Florida): 7.4%. Pea Island NWR (North Carolina): 99.2%. Marks NWR (Florida): 42.5%.

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