10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Rufous Hummingbird ( Selasphorus rufus ) wintering in Louisiana © David J. Ringer Hummingbirds are one of the most distinctive and immediately recognizable groups of birds on earth. This group (the traditional order Apodiformes) is related to the weird , wonderful owlet-nightjars. Check out this Crimson Topaz. And this one.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

The following points stood out to me: “Metaves,&# a collection of disparate and puzzling birds recently grouped by the position of a few molecules in one nuclear gene, is probably not an actual clade. This group includes the Suliformes , Pelecaniformes (as newly redefined), storks, tubenoses, penguins, loons , and perhaps tropicbirds.

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Critter News

MARCH 18, 2010

These chimps are currently at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Center. Jeff Rowell, NIRC director, in an e-mail Wednesday} "said the nine remaining animals are being housed as a family group at the center with access to indoor-outdoor caging. Videos showed mistreatment of the lab animals. Interesting.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 25, 2009

The others are the University of Michigan and University of Louisiana/New Iberia. sponsored by SAEN {Stop Animal Exploitation Now}, an Ohio-based animal research watchdog group. A protest will be held today at the UCD Quad (1 Shields Ave.),

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Other wintering passerines that have arrived include American Redstarts , Northern Waterthrushes down in the mangroves, Louisiana Waterthrushes (as one might expect, sticking to rushing highland streams and rivers), tons of Yellow Warblers , Yellow-bellied Flycatchers , and Baltimore and Orchard Orioles among others.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2012

The air was thick and clammy, and mosquitoes were biting along Louisiana’s Mermentau River last Thursday morning, the final day of the Audubon Christmas Bird Count. A lone Black-bellied Plover quietly worked the flats amid hundreds of other shorebirds. See Fain and Houde 2007 and Baker et al.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 12, 2009

I posted on this blog about quitting because of the New Iberia scandal in Louisiana in which the Humane Society found primates being abused. I had to stay in that group because she must be challenged. I almost quit a book club a year ago because one of the members is a proponent of medical research. The other women wouldn't.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

But, the numbers are quite large, and the birds organized in groupings that, for the most part, make it an easy process to figure out which Antwren (or Woodcreeper or Seedeater) is which. of Louisiana State University is a long-time member and currently Acting Chair of the SACC. Common and scientific names are also based on the SACC.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2012

We counted over 250 individuals in a 30 minute period.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 22, 2008

Common-sense, rational reforms reflect the emerging consensus of mainstream animal protection groups like the Humane Society of the United States and millions of Americans who care about animals. I was astonished by how many displayed behaviors that overlap with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and other trauma-related disorders.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

In 1903, the distinguished Elliott Coues declared , “This is a definite and perfectly natural group, which will be immediately recognized by the foregoing characters, one of which, complete webbing of hallux, is not elsewhere observed among birds.&# He could not say the same today. almost everything about flamingos and grebes).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

It happened during a Christmas Bird Count in Louisiana in 1984. These numbers are clearly very rough estimates and, as was pointed out on the discussion on the Facebook eBird discussion group page, 76 million would be over 60% of the known population of the species of Brown-headed Cowbird. Now that would be something!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

But when you think about it, climate change might be more important to the people who read 10,000 Birds than a lot of other groups of people. The photograph is taken in Louisiana showing a storm surge, and is from NOAA. We should be expecting sea level rise. This is the time for Congress to show leadership for U.S.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2021

The roadmap out of lockdown here in the UK has allowed us to meet up in small groups to indulge in outdoor activities, so birders have been gathering in loose flocks to greet the migrants as they head north.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

The specific geographic area covered is “east of the western boundaries of Ontario, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana”; the eastern United States and Canada is known for its diversity of odonates. Family and genus sections all begin with descriptions of what features the group has in common and how individuals differ.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2019

This is a member of the wren group that Mexicans call matracas , because their noisy calls sound like the large spinning wooden noisemakers that Mexicans make and call by that name. The matraca group, which also includes the Cactus Wren of the American Southwest, consists of larger, highly social wrens.

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Critter News

MARCH 7, 2009

This has been a very difficult decision for me, because I have such good friends in the group. I thought I could stay with the group because she does give me fodder for the blog. Then I read more about what's happening at the New Iberia Research Center in Louisiana. Here's my email to my closest friends in the group.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The goals of these national right wing groups seek the handover of federal land to private ownership. Ken Ivory, when he was president of the American Lands Council, famously said of privatizing federal lands, “It’s like having your hands on the lever of a modern-day Louisiana Purchase.”. As Utah State Rep.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Lassen Volcanic NP–Lost Creek Group Campground. Louisiana Waterthrush – Parkesia motacilla. Arizona Woodpecker – Picoides arizonae. Cave Creek Canyon–South Fork. 01 Aug 2017. White-headed Woodpecker – Picoides albolarvatus. 29 Jul 2017. Black-backed Woodpecker – Picoides arcticus. Bloomingdale Bog.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2017

The Pacific is divided through the Behring Strait, leaving St Lawrence and The Aleutian Islands to the east and embracing all the south Pacific island groups into the Australasian Realm. Louisiana Waterthrush – Parkesia motacilla. Alphabetic Taxonomic. Great Tinamou – Tinamus major. 13 Jan 2017. casa botania. 20 Jan 2017.

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