10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2022

But there was one more thing I evaluated, the human infrastructure, the potential guides among the national park employees. This was the first geological site protected in the Djerdap area, formed along a fault by incision of the Boljetinska River into the sedimentary rocks. Horned) Lark and the Woodchat Shrike.

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Serbia Birds Woodpeckers Romania 242

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2018

Perhaps it’s fitting that Sooty should choose to nest with all its family on one of the most inaccessible national parks (for humans) in the world. Between February and September, Bush Key is ‘closed’ to human traffic. Sooty Tern. Photo by © Toby Hudson. For the latter, check the Garden Key’s north dock.). (For Brown Noddy.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

The finders of an adult Barred Owl brought to Kathryn Dudeck in Georgia thought he had a wing fracture, so they wrapped the entire bird in the plastic protective wrap used by landscape companies and taped it up. “Almost restores your faith in humanity!” “Yes, there was an American Kestrel inside!” ” I wrote.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2019

” So, it is established: this is a film about migrant birds and the people who work to protect them in south Texas and northern Mexico. And, it shows us the birds in brief, non-captioned close-ups of songbirds and owls and soaring overhead pans of migrating hawks and waders.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2017

In keeping with high diversity in other aspects of the avian kingdom, including falcons and excluding owls, this small country has a raptor list that tops fifty species. While there’s a lot of protected habitat, with so many other raptors and birds to compete with, each species has a pretty small population.

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Critter News

MARCH 28, 2010

It's in response to the pathetic CITES conference which basically screwed marine animal protection. The Christian Science Monitor rightly points out that citizens and consumers need to get involved in endangered species protection, because at the CITES level, it's all about money and international politics.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

He said the federal government’s and Alaska’s state rules were, for the most part, okay; they were consistent and generally made sense for the safety of both humans and wildlife, and in many respects, coincided with his own views of protecting the native environment. How it is being affected by human intrusions?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Larry starts us off right with an owl that makes birders drool: I was able to see and photograph many great birds in 2014 but my Best Bird of the Year would have to be the Great Gray Owl , the largest Strix in North America. Larry’s BBOTY – Great Gray Owl. Larry’s BBOTY – Great Gray Owl.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Essay #158, “Things Birders Do: Big Years,” starts with the writer’s observation of a Barn Owl and then defines a Big Year, surprisingly celebrating it as opportunities for solitary introspection. It’s spelled this way, all caps, because that is the official name.).

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Here are some of the questions that were running through my mind as I read Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl : (a) Is ornithological research always this dangerous? (b) The fish owl is Jonathan Slaght’s grail and also, more prosaically, his dissertation topic.

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Owls Russia Fish Research 135

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or I may have to quit blogging… Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Wicked, right?

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2011 Deer New York Owls 151

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It was already dark in mid-October when we arrived to the Costa Rican birding mecca of Rancho Naturalista to have dinner on the veranda but then were interrupted with a call: There’s a Mottled Owl at the other side! You can imagine the rest: everyone jumped from the table to look for the owl. Acorn Woodpeckers by Niklas Aronsson.

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Costa Rica Woodpeckers Farming Owls 158

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

As I explained to my nephews when they were younger, “The Burrowing Owls don’t think we’re their friends. People on one side of the rope, owls on the other.” Substitute Snowy Owl here if you’d like the modern version). We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

There are are presently thought to be five species of kiwi with a possible sixth extinct species, all of which have suffered varying degrees of range contraction since the arrival of humans. They are commonest where they are intensively protected and managed, but these places are often remote and hard to visit. The proposal from U.S.

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New Zealand 2011 Deer New York 145

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Some people love books like that. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

Leucism “is a condition characterized by reduced pigmentation in animals and humans.&# Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled.

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica Deer 151

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

I was especially interested in “To Hide From God,” the chapter on songbird slaughter and protection in Cyprus. 212) who trap, follow, and analyze the migration paths of Snowy Owls, a project founded in 2013, the magic year of the Snowy Owl irruption. Author Scott Weidensaul and a Snow Owl.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

It was declared a National Park (Monumento Natural) in 1981 to protect the nesting of up to 25,000 flamingos and many other water-foul and birds that depend on this fragile ecosystem, the Puna. It was about 7:30 am and there was no sign of human life at the office so we decided to drive further toward the next gps point. Burrowing Owl.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet. That’s right – birds eating clay. Wicked, right?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. For all of recorded history, humans have classified other living things by their physical characteristics. The proposal from U.S. Wicked, right?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2013

But then we get a few heroes who do everything right, who go far out of their way to help an injured wild creature, and who restore … well, maybe not our complete faith in humanity, but at least our confidence that we won’t end up in jail for the rest of our lives. Leaving the injured owl in her car’s grill. She was afraid of it.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2015

She has a captive-bred education bird named Xena, a Eurasian Eagle Owl. We would close the flight around 10 PM to protect them from predators, then we’d get up at four in the morning to open the door again. For a while I was afraid they were too friendly and might turn to humans if they needed food, but I’ve seen no sign of that.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

In the only state in the Central Flyway that protects cranes from hunting. Her writing is based on keen observation of animal and human behavior, and she likes to interweave solid natural history information with larger philosophical themes to challenge and inspire the reader. Sandhill Hunt: They’re Voting Now.Or I think not!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

There are also a number of Takahe , one of which, named Greg, has learnt that humans equal food, and will hang around the day visitors in the hope of a snack. Greg the Naughty Takahe ( Porphyrio hochstetteri ) Tags: Destinations , new zealand • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Get yours today! The proposal from U.S.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

However, the Stresemann’s Bristlefront is one of those birds that is simply enigmatic and rare and recently discovered, with many aspects of its life history unknown to humanity. Duncan Wright would really like to see anything in Brazil but he would especially like to see a Kinglet Calyptura. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 204

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Nice. ((** all names have been changed to protect identities and have been substituted with (almost) randomly chosen substitutes suitable for a family of Alpine Accentors.)) Dale Forbes Mar 16th, 2011 at 8:37 am Hi Laurent, that is a fascinating example of humans responding to difficult environmental challenges. Wicked, right?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

March 14, 2011 Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Jon Gassett, Commissioner One Sportsman’s Lane Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 Dear Mr. Gassett, I am a writer, naturalist and artist with a special interest in human/bird interactions. Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009? RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2012

You’re a mammal, so you might be tempted to use yourself as an example mammal, but humans are actually kind of bad examples of mammals, so perhaps we’ll use a well studied hoofed animal instead. Think about the difference between birds and mammals. All the nurturing has to come from mom.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

Maybe those should be protected too? Given that the Black Kite is politely described as an “opportunistic hunter” – which includes the fact that they are more likely to scavenge than most other raptors – the name choice of the company protecting the world’s cyber ecosystem is a bit weird.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The adults presumably have already learned that humans are not usually good news even if not named Donald Trump. I once asked my then-girlfriend whether this color was in any way protected for use by the postal service only – as the color yellow is to some extent associated with the German mail service.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

Snowy Owl, Long Island, NYS. This was a special Snowy Owl encounter in a year of many Snowy Owls. It was, indeed, a Snowy Owl. I drove to the other end of the lot and watched the owl fly back to its meal, smack in the middle of the empty lot. How often does one have a Snowy Owl all to one’s self?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

So the human equivalent of frog in a bowl might be. So assaying exploratory tendency in humans. Humans can probably just find their own little place to thrive. food selection from some kind of mystery buffet? Makes sense really. Perhaps who you gravitate toward at parties- new people or old friends? The proposal from U.S.

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Cats 2011 Costa Rica Deer 148

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

We relocated it to a native tree, so it was better camouflaged and protected. This is what wikipedia has to say about Stoke’s Sea Snake: “Although aggressive with a venomous bite, there are no reported human fatalities attributed to Stokes’ seasnake.&# Get yours today! However, I must critizise this post of yours.

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2011 Australia Deer New York 144

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. Among humans, there is a tendency to dress very young humans up in the most colorful way possible. Humanity is not very human.

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