10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

In Abraham Lincoln’s day, Prairie Chickens were an incredibly abundant part of the Illinois prairie landscape. Today in Illinois, 68 males survive. Destroy the native prairies and lose Henslow’s Sparrows , Bobolinks , Upland Sandpipers , and Greater Prairie Chickens.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2021

However, most states still have less than 100 species, including: Missouri (98, unchanged); Wyoming (97, unchanged); Georgia (94, up from 54); Nevada (93, up from 53); Delaware (88, up from 83); Maine (82, up from 76); South Carolina (82, up from 49); Louisiana (81, up from 73); Alaska (79, up from 34); Maryland (62, unchanged); Illinois (50, up from (..)

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2020

The authors are Bianca Lopez ( The New School ), Emily Minor ( University of Illinois at Chicago ), and Andrew Crooks ( George Mason University ), and the article is “ Insights into human-wildlife interactions in cities from bird sightings recorded online.”. The photos are from Millennium Park.).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

I’ve been fortunate enough to enjoy outings to two hotspots that aren’t yet on the map: Chestnut Ridge Hawkwatch in Bedford, NY, and Illinois Beach State Park in Zion, Illinois. (The image above is James Currie’s, from Hawk Mountain in Pennsylvania.).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

More than concerned, he is dismayed and alarmed and has been since January 1974, when he first witnessed a Mourning Dove fly into a window and fall to the ground dead on the Southern Illinois University campus. This was his trigger moment, when he decided to find out why birds fly into glass windows and die.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2019

Focusing on an often under-appreciated portion of the continent, the book showcases forty species found in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio – but perhaps not for long.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Forever Home Feline Ranch – Springfield, Illinois. The last day for toy and treat donations is December 14. The six shelters chosen this year are: Bobbi and the Strays – Glendale, New York. Castaway Critters – Blairsville, Georgia. Foundation of Animal Protection – Fuzesabony, Hungary. Cat Shelter – Cumberland, Maine.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2021

The Trump Administration interpretation of the MBTA was also the subject of lawsuits, one by non-profit groups such as National Audubon Society and the American Bird Conservancy , and another by a group of eight states (New York, California, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Oregon).

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 27, 2012

Canine athletes are jumping through hoops to capture the gold at Doggy Games in Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Ohio, New York, New Jersey and Texas. Just check out these amazing doggy athletes!

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Critter News

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Among the best: California, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Oregon. The ALDF has released a report on how different states' animal protection laws stack up.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2015

In addition to North Carolina, six other states have named the cardinal their state bird, including Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio. A male Northern Cardinal. I’m not the only one who appreciates the Northern Cardinal.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 21, 2012

Best Friends Pet Care is a leading national pet care company and offers boarding, daycare, grooming and training at 42 locations across 18 states, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

Flower, from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Christopher J. Whelan, from the Illinois Natural History Survey, explained, “The increased utilization of EAB-infested ash trees by woodpeckers and bark-foraging birds observed in our study demonstrates that woodpeckers are able to shift their behavior to actively target EAB.”

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Woodpeckers Species Birds Illinois 109

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Of course, if you are an average birder in, say, Illinois or Alberta, you probably haven’t lost too much sleep over this group, in spite of its difficulty. Small, grayish, with indistinct wing bars and eye rings. Why they can’t all agree on a single species and lump themselves, I’ll never know.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2014

But the turkey vultures would certainly leave the places we saw them – Montana, North Dakota, Illinois and Indiana, Pennsylvania and Ohio and eventually New York – and head south. The only bird we saw in every state was the Turkey Vulture. No vast kettles, yet, only ones and twos.

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Critter News

JANUARY 30, 2009

Wildlife conservationists say the freeze will delay and possibly prevent the removal of gray wolves from the federal endangered species list in Montana, Idaho, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, and also in portions of Washington, Oregon, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Another researcher, from the University of Illinois, asserts that the bugs need to be worked out of these systems before they’re cleared for widespread use. The article cites avian radar proponents in the Netherlands and Israel who suggest that this technology can be quite effective at reducing the risk of birdstrikes.

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Animal Person

JUNE 23, 2010

They're from a legal farm in Illinois, so the law isn't the reason. Here's my first problem with this: The number of lions in the wild is not affected by the farming operation in Illinois. I was curious about why it's so terrible to eat lions. It's probably going to come down to culture , I thought. Lions aren't food in our culture.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

In the 1970′s, they were responsible for the destruction of up to 45% of certain crops.** The initial impetus for Pruett-Jones’ studies was to find out if the Chicago Monk Parakeets posed a threat to Illinois farmers. Urban parakeets in Northern Illinois: A 40-year perspective. Urban Ecosystems , Sept.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

As an Illinois state senator, he backed at least a dozen animal protection laws, including those to strengthen the penalties for animal cruelty, to help animal shelters, to promote spaying and neutering, and to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2014

I can’t speak for other locations, but the Illinois birders’ listserv has been pretty dead today. Most birds will probably fare just fine, if the cold snap is as short-lived as predicted. True, few hardy human souls are dedicated/crazy enough to go birding in these conditions (did I mention a windchill of –35?);

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Here in New York State Snowy Owls have been reported in more than ten counties, with most of those counties having birds being seen in multiple locations.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Had birders and hikers heard its ethereal song in deciduous forests of southern Illinois? All we can say is that it saw its chance and took it. Where had the unfortunate bird spent the summer? Was it a young, inexperienced bird that grew up in the wet woods behind some subdivision in Ohio?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2020

The Trump Administration interpretation of the MBTA is already the subject of multiple lawsuits, one by non-profit groups such as National Audubon Society and the American Bird Conservancy , and another by a group of eight states (New York, California, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Oregon).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2017

In Chicago in the early 2000s a sudden influx of European Goldfinches – possibly due to a rogue deliberate release – resulted in nesting records from Illinois and Wisconsin. New York is no more immune to such stunts than other cities.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2022

As a popular game bird, the Ring-necked Pheasant seems to have such high importance in the US that there are several papers just discussing the species in individual US states. Examples: California. Connecticut. New Jersey. North Dakota. Rhode Island. South Dakota. Washington. Wisconsin.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2013

One has been seen in New Jersey in 1988 , in Illinois in 1949, and in Ohio in 1954 (Links are PDFs.) – interestingly, all in May.). Though the Large-billed Tern is a bird of freshwater rivers, lakes, and marshes of South America it does wander to North America on very rare occasions.

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Trinidad Birds Species South America 92

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2020

I dread to imagine what Yellow-billed Cuckoos from Illinois, Missouri, and elsewhere will find when they arrive on these wintering grounds in 2020. All of these habitats are increasingly threatened by deforestation and massive fires fueled by climate change. Common Nighthawks. Droves of this nightjar of summer nights fly over Costa Rica.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 22, 2011

About the Author: Monarch Landing is a Chicago senior living community located near the city in Naperville, Illinois. So you can see why a pet-friendly retirement community makes tons of sense for anyone who owns a pet or simply enjoys the company of animals. Anything to the contrary would be … unnatural.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2015

Musselman of Quincy Illinois is generally credited with originating the bluebird conservation movement that extended beyond local boundaries. The vegetable food consists chiefly of fruit pulp, only an insignificant portion are from cultivated varieties.” ” Nest Boxes (Bird Houses) from 1912. It was in 1926 that Thomas E.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Even some states that technically have checklists barely qualify: the great state of Illinois has just a single checklist with two species (from an airport). Despite the absence of species, many of these are excellent birding states and/or have birding festivals ( e.g., the Biggest Week in American Birding in Ohio).

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Since 2000, Chris Long has been a store associate at a Home Depot in Illinois. Considering our canine companions when designing a landscaping plan is a perfect way to make our pets a true part of the family. He also contributes to the Home Depot blog, and writes on topics which include home automation and CFL light bulbs.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2007

In DeKalb, Illinois, that monster is Cavel International, the only remaining plant in the U.S. Cavel, a Belgian company, kills horses in Illinois for export to Europe. In response to citizen outrage over horses being slaughtered in Illinois, the Illinois legislature decided to tie off the loophole for good by passing House Bill 1711.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2013

The Magic Hedge is renowned as one of the premier warbler watching sites in Illinois. Airline logistics and politics have kept me from Chicago for a while, so a trip there in the latter half of April was eagerly anticipated.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Did it nest in some remnant riparian zone in the west or did it swoop between forest patches in southern Illinois? If I could put some tent caterpillars out there in the backyard, I would! I wish I could ask it where it came from. Did it stop off in Mexico, Honduras, or Florida? Fly over the lights of cities in the east?

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Costa Rica Birds Baltimore Species 66

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

You find them in the south from Florida to Texas and down into Mexico, occasionally as far north as the Carolinas in the east and up the Mississippi River as far north as Illinois. It is one of several species in the Mallard -complex of ducks, along with American Black Duck , Mexican Duck , and quite a few others.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2013

King Rail and chick in Illinois cc-by Andy Reago. The birds’ mitochondrial DNA shows that, despite rails’ propensity for long-distance travel, the freshwater and saltwater populations are not two ends of a spectrum but rather maintain their distinctiveness despite the occurrence of hybridization in brackish environments.

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