10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A few states still have no checklists at all: Nebraska , Minnesota , Iowa , Kentucky , West Virginia , Mississippi , and Alabama. For example, as to checklists, Kentucky ranks 37th in the U.S. Even the nation’s capital has been ignored. out of 51, including Washington, D.C.) and West Virginia ranks 44th.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2016

“I have been caring for raptors for almost 29 years and not even a Bald Eagle can carry off 12 pounds,” wrote Eileen Wicker, the Executive Director of Raptor Rehabilitation of Kentucky. All photos courtesy of Raptor Rehabilitation of Kentucky. Please disregard this for the rubbish it is!”. Click here for more.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2011

For those of you who’ve been following the drama unfolding in Kentucky regarding a sandhill crane hunt, there’s bad news. Kentucky’s wildlife offices have been flooded with protests, whether written, telephoned or emailed. An eight-member commission unanimously approved the hunt proposal in early June.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Breaks Interstate Park, Kentucky. Known as a warbler haven, 30+ species visit this bi-state park near the Kentucky and Virginia southern border. There are guides for historic buildings as well as birding tours. American Kestrel. Photo by © Mike Blevins.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2021

You can own a yak in Kentucky, but not a cheetah in Maine. One’s ability to own an exotic species varies from state to state. For instance, you can own a lion in Alabama, but not in California. You can own a gorilla in Indiana, but not a bear in Michigan. In Mississippi you can own an ocelot, but not a wolverine.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public comment on a proposal to hunt sandhill cranes in Kentucky. Kentucky Dept.

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Critter News

JANUARY 3, 2011

BEST Illinois (best) Maine Michigan Oregon California WORST Mississippi Idaho Hawaii North Dakota Kentucky. New Jersey Illinois Massachusetts Colorado Maine WORST STATES Ohio Hawaii Alabama North Dakota Mississippi Idaho South Dakota (worst) According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the states fell this way.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

The pair shot last year in Kentucky belonged to Operation Migration’s project establishing a migratory flock in the eastern United States; there is also the last true wild flock , which winters in Texas and summers in Canada.) (Image above by AP Photo/Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.).

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2012

The Sandhill Crane hunt in Kentucky is over for the season and only fifty birds were killed. The Courier-Journal , Kentucky’s largest newspaper, excoriated the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources for allowing the hunt to happen in this editorial.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2012

Thus, I was surprised and a little saddened to learn from my Kentucky family that kids in the Bluegrass State go back to school next week. Maybe Kentucky has it right. The summer span of school-free days from late June to early September always seemed to me to be an experience all United States students held in common.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2019

His Best Bird of the Weekend was an easy one though, as he found a Kentucky Warbler in Forest Park on Friday morning, only his fifth sighting of the species in Queens ever and his earliest by four days. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Kentucky Warbler. A beautiful common species of mangrove and other wetland habitats of the lowlands. Hooded Warbler. Not as common as some other species but regular in wet, tangled second growth in and near lowland rainforest. Learn the call note of this skulker and you will find it in any number of foothill rainforest sites.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2014

Assuming that your over-worked eyes are as blurry as mine at the moment, we should get right down to business and talk birds… The best of the many warblers I uncovered at Cobbs Hill this weekend was an entirely improbable Kentucky Warbler.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2014

Though Corey managed to see or hear 135 species this weekend including such good birds as Yellow-bellied Flycatcher , Piping Plover , Yellow-billed Cuckoo , Kentucky Warbler , Bay-breasted Warbler , and a host of others, his Best Bird of the Weekend was a commonly seen bird, albeit a very cooperative one.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2012

Well, the two birds below kind of speak for themselves… Cerulean Warbler at Doodletown Kentucky Warbler along Mine Road … a.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2014

The first was a Kentucky Warbler , first heard but never seen by Cesar Castillo on Friday in Alley Pond Park. Kentucky Warbler. It was only my second Kentucky Warbler ever in Queens and despite its reluctance to come out into the open I was still pleased to see it and to get a recognizable photo. Hooded Warbler.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Some states have no species at all, not even a pigeon, crow, or sparrow: Hawaii , Utah , Nebraska , Oklahoma , Minnesota , Iowa , Wisconsin , Kentucky , West Virginia , Mississippi , Alabama , Connecticut , and Rhode Island. For example, as to checklists, Kentucky ranks 38th in the U.S. Even the nation’s capital has been ignored.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 26, 2008

And the worst: Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arkansas, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, South Dakota, Wyoming You can check out the whole report on their web site. Among the best: California, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Oregon.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2011

As you’ll remember, Kentucky’s Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources unanimously passed its sandhill crane hunting proposal. All eight hunters on the commission think it’s a good idea to shoot cranes in Kentucky. The public comment period on the Kentucky sandhill crane hunting proposal ends AUGUST 1 2011.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2011

Bald Eagle image is by Francois Portmann and is used with permission You know, I’ve been thinking about this whole dustup over hunting cranes in Tennessee and now Kentucky. Now that we’ve almost succeeded in pushing a Sandhill Crane hunt through in Kentucky, the sky’s the limit. I get it now, I really do.

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JUNE 7, 2015

But the Kentucky Warbler singing away at Doodletown won the honors this weekend even though it wouldn’t cooperate for pictures worth sharing. The one above was spotted in Queens last year.

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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. I’m not the only one who appreciates the Northern Cardinal.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2017

Among the many first-of-the-year birds he saw his Best Bird of the Weekend was a Kentucky Warbler that he really had to work for in Alley Pond Park. Corey really enjoyed spring migration this weekend as he birded across Queens on both Saturday and Sunday morning. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2019

Crow, a Scottish chemist-physician who settled in Frankfort, Kentucky in the 1820s. It certainly doesn’t take an advertising genius from Madison Avenue to market an old Kentucky bourbon made by a Scotsman named Crow with a corvid, which is precisely what Old Crow has done for decades. ” So, it ain’t Pappy van Winkle.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Not only is it useful to be able to understand instantly when a fellow birder tells you that the Pine Siskin is at the top of the London plane or the Kentucky Warbler is skulking in the bushes just to the west of the big catalpa; it’s also helpful to understand the world the birds inhabit.

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OCTOBER 1, 2013

But I had been returning from an engagement in Paducah, Kentucky, where I had given a talk on Resources for Birding on the Internet at the fall meeting of the Kentucky Ornithological Society.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

Out of over 30 respondents, almost everyone wanted money for better facilities, paid staff, on-call veterinarians, emergency vehicles, food, and protected land – from Terry and Lindsay in California to Cindy in Michigan, from Sally in Kentucky to Mickie in South Dakota, and Lisa and Lia in New York. wrote Laura, on Long Island.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 25, 2009

CheMyong Ko, a team member of the University of Kentucky in Lexington says “The next step for us is to generate a true disease model&#. The team of scientists are hopeful that the creation of fluorescent puppies will help aid further research in human diseases. Unfortunately, cloing is not efficient, (just 1.7

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

A jay born and raised in New York State may winter in Alabama, Kentucky, West Virginia, or Tennessee, depending on its taste in barbecue. That last bit is my own interpretation of the data.) Some stop as short as Pennsylvania. And many – more than 80% – never leave their nesting grounds at all.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Eileen Wicker of Raptor Rehabilitation of Kentucky has an unreleasable Turkey Vulture who has a thing for hats. “I couldn’t tell for sure,” wrote Maureen Eiger, who discovered the potential perp. “I I didn’t know if he was after the pen, or just reading his chart.”. Hats are a big draw. Anything for a hat,” she said.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2011

Singing Kentucky Warbler ! Maybe, just maybe, an individual Kentucky Warbler with a weird song had been reported from that exact spot on the listservs and maybe, just maybe, my decision of park for our outing and paths for our stroll weren’t random? Oh, no real reason except, yes!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2019

With ease… The Kentucky Warbler has no particular affinity with bluegrass. Not only do these species lack any special attachment to the areas in question, but Wilson earns extra demerits for mixing states and cities with a decidedly unscientific sloppiness. How can we rectify these errors?

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Animal Person

MARCH 20, 2010

Meanwhile, most eat them, wear them and "love" the Kentucky Derby, yet don't approve of dog racing. I'm fairly confident that I don't know anyone who won't say that they don't approve of animal cruelty. Everyone claims to like animals and want the best for them and be against cruelty. Many will say they "love" animals. It boggles the mind.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2011

Corey’s BBOTW was a singing Kentucky Warbler at Rockefeller State Park Preserve in Westchester County on a family outing… nice find! However, an Osprey won my admiration with impressive aerial acrobatics. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2013

I encourage you to head on over to her blog to learn more, or, if you already know that the idea of a Sandhill Crane hunt is a bad idea, head on over to the Kentucky Coalition for Sandhill Cranes page dedicated to stopping the hunt in Tennessee and TAKE ACTION ! This time around, Vickie Henderson is once again sounding the alarm.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

With the proposed hunting seasons on sandhill cranes being discussed in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin, we must not forget the whooping crane, which travels and winters in the big sandhill crane flocks. photo by Cyndi Routledge Here it is then, another angle on the proposed sandhill crane seasons in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2014

Kentucky or Prairie would be the only possibilities. .” “Can you post a begging video? Sure, here you go:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ8QwaHZtY0&feature=youtu.be. v=dZ8QwaHZtY0&feature=youtu.be. “You don’t have many breeding warblers down there, do you? I have no idea what those would look like.”

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