10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Created by Congress in 1965, the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) was a bipartisan commitment to safeguard natural areas, water resources and our cultural heritage, and to provide recreation opportunities to all Americans. Photographs represent LWCF funded locations (click for large views). Future generations deserve nothing less.”

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2013

Broward County has one of the highest densities of Burrowing Owls in Florida. The Florida sub-species of Burrowing Owl is now classified as a threatened species in Florida and it is one of the rarest sub-species of Burrowing Owls. This is unfortunately an all too common problem for these owls in Florida.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Over the last weekend, I was at Lake Kissimmee in Florida, observing Snail Kites at an area kites were not present or rare just a few years ago. The threat of extinction of such iconic Florida bird prompted State and Federal agencies to find solutions to stop and reverse the declining trend. Kites now nest there and are fairly common.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Even though it doesn’t show on the NatureServe range map above, Golden-crowned Sparrow vagrants have been recorded eastward to Ontario and Nova Scotia, Michigan, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey; also south to Alabama, Texas, Louisiana and Florida 1. Resources: 1 Birds of North America Online.

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JULY 8, 2013

Yes, the earth has gone around the sun twice since the uproar from birders and other lovers of wildlife managed to convince the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency to table the idea of hunting Sandhill Cranes in Tennessee for two years. Tennessee started a festival around the event, just for wildlife watchers.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

When I arrived at the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance office in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, a high-tempo, tap-tap-tapping immediately arrested my attention. Bird territories vary in size depending on the bird species and available resources.

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JANUARY 27, 2015

Like my two previous visits I spent one day that I didn’t have to lead any field trips doing a run through central Florida looking for some of the specialty species of the region. From 1993 to 2004, biologists released 289 captive-raised whooping cranes into central Florida. That number has continued to shrink.

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APRIL 5, 2011

I’ve also included a few resources for those of you that might be inclined to invest in birding resources for your kids. Also Audubon Guides has some of the very best apps for family birding excursions (check out their Ultimate Nature Series, an excellent resource for regional birding in the United States). BIRD FEEDERS.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

The STK families will be departing the panhandle of Florida, with flights possibly hugging the Gulf coastline. Super Hot-spot: Little Crawl Key, FL – Atlantic Flyway. Fall count to date: 608. Swallow-tailed Kite. Photo by © Michael Todd. Mississippi Kite. Photo by © Mike Blevins. Super Hot-spot: Corpus Christi, TX – Central Flyway.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

As a result, animals like the Florida panther and diminishing habitats like the prairie grasslands stand a fighting chance. Wildlife watchers and birders share a passionate commitment to wildlife, but they often diverge from hunters on which habitat, resources and Refuge priorities should be funded and emphasized.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I know he's a conservationist, therefore I know he will advocate for "managing" the "resources" that are sentient nonhumans. And of course that premise is only possible because the animals (and everything else on the planet) are our "resources." That depends largely on us, our priorities, and our allocation of resources.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

PETA claims the captured killer whales are treated like slaves, forced to live in tanks and perform daily at its parks in San Diego, California and Orlando, Florida. Sea World's lawyer, Theodore Shaw, called the lawsuit a waste of the court's time and resources.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Much of what Price has to say is about lawn art in general, and the oscillations in fashion from the obviously artificial (the regimented gardens of Versailles) to the falsely “natural” (Brown through Olmstead) and how both, when in vogue, express the control of natural resources that great wealth can bring.

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MARCH 4, 2013

He now wakes up to the choruses of Northern Cardinals and Northern Mockingbirds in sunny Vero Beach, Florida. These birds exploit the scarce and often ephemeral food resources. Alfredo Begazo grew up with Peruvian Meadowlarks and Marvelous Spatuletails, and was used to waking up to the morning choruses of Pacific Doves in Lima, Peru.

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JUNE 17, 2015

The Sacramento River NWR was established 1989 by the authority provided under the Endangered Species Act, Emergency Wetlands Resources Act, and the Fish and Wildlife Act. 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.”

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2013

The legs can act a a fulcrum when the Black-neck Stilt feeds, like the bird below, which I observed in the Florida Everglades. Books and resources used in search of the term “bubble-gum pink legs”: The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of North America , by David Sibley. Random House, 2003.

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APRIL 5, 2012

There are other resources that do this better, he says, and, in fact, spends 10 pages recommending field and advanced bird guides, web sites, magazines, and listservs. I would like to add Badbirdz Reloaded , a companion site on Florida migration, run by Angel and Mariel Abreu.

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APRIL 17, 2012

June 4, 2010 Oil washes up on barrier islands and beaches from Louisiana to Florida. December 15, 2010 The US Federal Government seeks to sue BP and other corporations for unlimited liability and pursue them to cover all the costs of the clean-up, including damages to natural resources.

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JUNE 3, 2014

I was not offered any historical perspective, such as that apparently even the great nineteenth century taxonomists with their immense Victorian vocabularies lacked the resources to properly name the birds of Peru. led by Rich Hoyer); Surbound Expeditions (Florida, led by Alfredo Begazo); and Field Guides (Texas, led by Rose Ann Rowlett).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. 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.

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MAY 7, 2019

But, it’s more than that, because each essay also includes “a big idea, a method or technique or resource, about bird study in our age” (p. How to Know the Birds talks about 200 commonly found birds in North America (including one extinct bird, the Passenger Pigeon) in 200 brief essays, each exactly one page long.

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APRIL 28, 2024

Warblers, thrushes, buntings, and other migrants move across the Gulf of Mexico in an extremely stressful, marathon flight from the Yucatan Peninsula to the Gulf Coast of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida before spreading throughout the flyways and heading north.

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MARCH 10, 2011

Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. Who knew a colony lived so far in South Florida! 10 Responses to “Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of March 2011?&#

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

The concluding chapter offers a mix of resource materials and finding aids. I would love to learn more about how Navarro put this field guide together, and I hope he is able to make additional visits to the United States (I know he spoke at the Fairchild Birding Festival in Florida last month) to talk about his work.

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MARCH 6, 2011

Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. liz Mar 7th, 2011 at 6:18 am Fleeing the snow and cold of NY, we visited Florida and I got a lifer – a snail kite.

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JANUARY 1, 2013

As much as we have been rejoicing about seeing Razorbills in Florida and Evening Grosbeaks in Brooklyn (well, some people saw them, not me), we know that there is a reason this happens, and it ain’t a good one. The essays vary widely in tone, reflecting the backgrounds of their authors–academics, professional writers and memoirists.

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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 ).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

There’s the one about the pigeon that represents a young nation’s disgraceful squandering of its seemingly unlimited resources. Florida in 1951. The one about the parakeet that represents the loss, before we even knew it, of an element of our wild places that seems so outlandishly foreign as to be unimaginable now.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. A MacGillivray’s Warbler was found in southern Florida on Saturday, the day I flew in to Ft. link] Donna S. Lauderdale. I got the bird.

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MAY 3, 2012

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. Rambur’s Forktail (a damselfly I also just saw in southern Florida), can do it for almost 7 hours, while Eastern Forktail needs only 40 minutes. This is my pitch for Odonate Love Week on 10,000 Birds.)

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10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2024

One paper – describing research conveniently done at the university campus of Chittagong University, presumably close to the canteen – looks at resource partitioning between this bee-eater and another one, the chestnut-headed bee-eater. And apparently elsewhere: Mississipi , … … Texas … … and Florida.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2020

Find your state via this link , and here are California , Texas , New York , and Florida.). The LWCF fund is authorized to accrue $900 million annually from several sources, though historically nearly all revenue has come from oil and gas leasing in the Outer Continental Shelf. The Great American Outdoors Act would also create a new $9.5

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2018

Though the water is to be drawn from the Upper Florida Aquifer, drawdown in that source is a matter of continuing concern and study. While there are still some 32 permits needed to break ground, it appears the River of Grass will have a new noisy, smelly, stressful, and resource-draining neighbor who’s anything BUT a dream.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

And, whereas the raptor guide was an entry in a field overwhelming with guides and expert advice, waterfowl is a wide-open field, practically begging for a comprehensive identification resource. Introduction: The guide opens with a lengthy Introduction that lays out the rationale for utilizing the “Crossley approach.”

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