10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. 9-mile route that takes you down the prairie uplands and salt marshes that make up much of the Bolivar Sanctuary.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 220

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Number 8 – Brown Pelican. During my favorite birding event of the year, the annual Big Sit at Fort Tilden in Queens in October , we had hit a lull and were desperately trying to scrape up a few more species when Matthieu spotted a pelican and all was right with the Big Sit once again. I loved that I was seeing them at all!

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2019 Barbados Uganda Costa Rica 141

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2015

On the sheltered side of several jetties I came across small groups of up to seven Hoary-headed Grebes bobbing along. By the time I reached the Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary the light was starting to fail at the end of what had been a lovely day of walking. Australian Pelican. Hoary-headed Grebes. Feeding frenzy.

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Sanctuary Pelicans Shelters 2006 150

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Long story made some what short,” wrote Heather Merritt, with Birds in Flight Sanctuary in Warren, Ohio. “We I’ve really been wracking my brain because for me releasing is very traumatic,” said Cara Petricca, with Bluebird Farm Animal Sanctuary in Cheshire, MA. But I did one Brown Pelican release that was memorable.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 229

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. Zealandia Karori Sanctuary. Ra’s al-Khor Wildlife Sanctuary. Zealandia Karori Sanctuary. Ra’s al-Khor Wildlife Sanctuary.

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2017 Australia Sanctuary Woodpeckers 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Zealandia Karori Sanctuary. Ra’s al-Khor Wildlife Sanctuary. Zealandia Karori Sanctuary. Ra’s al-Khor Wildlife Sanctuary. Ra’s al-Khor Wildlife Sanctuary–Flamingo Hide. American White Pelican – Pelecanus erythrorhynchos. Brown Pelican – Pelecanus occidentalis.

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2017 Australia Sanctuary Woodpeckers 100