10,000 Birds
AUGUST 29, 2014
Slang, code, and abbreviations: linguistic shorthand which can make speakers (and writers) incomprehensible to those outside their own group. To civilians who may have been puzzled by the wildlife crowd’s tossed-off references to peefas, modos or mice cubes, here is a beginner’s guide to Rehabberspeak.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 27, 2015
We were at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge, of course, which is not only home to Falcated Duck, but many other birds. We were just minding our own business, completely innocently, when this group of birds came along. But this post is not about Falcated Duck. We couldn’t believe it. Do you see?
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10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2014
Fish and Wildlife Service is down-listing the wood stork from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Fish and Wildlife Service, I was involved in various aspects of the species habitat protection largely on the regulatory arena. On June 25, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the U.S.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 23, 2019
In just a few clicks I can determine that my 442nd Mallard sighting was a group of 50 at Steigerwald Lake NWR on October 25, 2019, that the checklist was started at 9:46 a.m 10,000 Birds also has an eBird profile and since I as a beat writer in 2016, I have been a part of that group. For example, I’ve seen Bald Eagles in 15 states.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2013
A friend of mine told me, she has been seeing small groups of Swallow-tailed Kites ( Elanoides furficatus ) in the general area; in south Florida. Similar observation have been made in Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico where up to 47,000 migrating Mississippi Kites are counted every season as they fly south. Project NG94-025.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2011
Feeding birds is generally regarded as a harmless past-time, a wholesome way for people to share nature and enjoy wildlife with the family. Sometimes people find themselves the victims of ill-informed home owners associations that have a phobic view of wildlife. How do you know when you are a little too involved with feeding birds?
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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