Florida, Protection and Research

The “Rufa” Red Knot is now protected under the Endangered Species Act

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Red Knots have already lost more than 80 percent of their coastal habitat in Florida, New Jersey, and New York. Where suitable habitat exists, sea level rise is expected to increase efforts to stabilize the shore and protect coastal development with hard structures, such as sea walls and jetties. Birds in Delaware Bay.

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An American Avocet in Rookery Bay

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2016

While on a tour of Rookery Bay near the Florida Everglades, I was reminded of this lovely personality trait once more. Unlike many other estuaries in this part of Florida, Rookery Bay is protected by the Estuarine Research Reserve system, and remains almost entirely undeveloped.

Florida

Florida Mexico Protection Pelicans

Flock to Marion

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.

South Africa

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Returning to Old Haunts

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

For three weeks in June, I traveled up and then down the eastern seaboard visiting ecological research sites. From Florida to Maine and back again I toured urban forests, marshes, estuaries, and more, stopping along the way to visit family and friends. A view of low-tide.

Virginia

Virginia Branding 2013 Blackbirds

Of Nesting Spoonbills, Nestling Flamingos, Left-the-Nest Shearwaters, and Mystery Gulls

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2013

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. What do all these birds have in common? They’re (at least partially) pink.

Michigan

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Everglades Long-Legged Birds Feed Their Young To Alligators, Everything is Good.

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2016

It turns out that there is an example of this with wading birds in the Florida Everglades. This example is important because it appears that the protector species, not just the protected species, gains a benefit, the latter having been documented many times before.

Alligators

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Units are located along both sides of the river and serve to protect and provide a wide variety of riparian habitats for birds, fish, and other wildlife.” It encompasses over 70,000 acres spread out between Wakulla, Jefferson, and Taylor counties, and includes about 43 miles along the Gulf Coast of northwest Florida.” v=sk_5pt9OTLA.

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Birding Lodges – Part 2 – Punta Cana Resort & Club

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

Universities like Harvard, Columbia and Cornell regularly use the research facility. • 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

Dominican Republic

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The Wildlife Conservation Stamp: An Additional Income Stream for Our National Wildlife Refuges

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Many of these refuges and associated Conservation Areas, which have the potential to protect more than 1 million acres of vital wildlife habitat, have been forged through creative partnerships with sportsmen, conservation groups and private landowners. It would be a separate but parallel and symbiotic addition to Refuge budgets.

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Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Hopefully, one of the consequences of increased nature tourism in Cuba will be a heightened awareness of the fragility of these birds’ existence and increased support for their study and protection. The concluding chapter offers a mix of resource materials and finding aids. We still can’t just buy a plane ticket and go.

Cuba

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Hornbills of Sabah

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Fortunately, Singapore is not Florida, where Mr. DeSantis would probably have the two birds described in a paper culled (though the paper talks about “aberrant” behavior, which is a phrase Mr. DeSantis would probably feel comfortable with). They have been found nesting in two of these boxes, producing five chicks in three years ( source ).

Rhinoceros

Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting

Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. But I only rehabbed birds, so I had to do research and call my mammal rehabber friends. Are you still rehabbing birds?

Wildlife Rehabilitation

Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife

Peterson Field Guide to North American Bird Nests: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

So, browse through the whole section of the bird family you’re researching to make sure you haven’t missed anything. (To The account omits the important information that Burrowing Owls in Florida, and probably those in the Caribbean, “usually excavate their own burrows” (Birds of the World*).

Eggs

Eggs Birds United States Sparrows

Waterfowl of North America, Europe & Asia: An Identification Guide

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2016

It’s heavily illustrated with both drawings (72 Colour Plates, 920 drawings) and photographs (over 650), and employs extensive references to and from each section, which makes research relatively easy. Plate 29, Mallard and Mexican Duck. Cackling Goose, 2 of the 3 pages of photos.

North America

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Birding Shanghai in December 2023

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2024

The website then hastens to add that “Unfortunately, there isn’t much scientific research on the poop of the upland buzzard” I bet some ornithology students do not find this particularly unfortunate. Some ornithological research is surprisingly simple.

Birds

Birds Research Science Europe

A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2023

The visitors along the boardwalk at Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Florida were taking photos nonstop, we only had a few minutes before the wetlands closed, oohing and aaahing. Congress and Senate who recognized the need to protect the birds. A great-great nephew of Senator McLean, Greeley spent three years researching and writing this book.

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Connecticut Washington Legislation Hunting

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The “Rufa” Red Knot is now protected under the Endangered Species Act

An American Avocet in Rookery Bay

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Returning to Old Haunts

Of Nesting Spoonbills, Nestling Flamingos, Left-the-Nest Shearwaters, and Mystery Gulls

Everglades Long-Legged Birds Feed Their Young To Alligators, Everything is Good.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

Birding Lodges – Part 2 – Punta Cana Resort & Club

The Wildlife Conservation Stamp: An Additional Income Stream for Our National Wildlife Refuges

Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Book Review

Hornbills of Sabah

Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

Peterson Field Guide to North American Bird Nests: A Field Guide Review

Waterfowl of North America, Europe & Asia: An Identification Guide

Birding Shanghai in December 2023

A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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