10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2012

Throughout most of North America, European Starling is a four letter word. There are groups dedicated to species like Eastern Bluebirds and Purple Martins and with extensive writings on how to keep starlings at bay and even recommendations on how to legally trap and kill them should they drive away North American birds.

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North America Europe America Livestock 152

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2017

Most birders are enamored both of raptors and Pete Dunne, which is why Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America is a book any birder would love ( Carrie certainly did.) No wonder we had such an excellent response to our triple-tiered Birds of Prey giveaway. Thanks to everyone who participated.

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North America Falcons Birds Eagles 101

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2013

The Turkey Vulture ( Cathartes aura ) is probably one of the most misunderstood birds in North America. Because of their extra olfactory powers, many other carrion eating birds like hawks eagles and other vultures follow Turkey Vultures to kills. link] References: 1 Birds of North America Online.

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Turkey North America Killing Eagles 157

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It involves plate tectonics; and the separation of North America from South America and their eventual reconnection; and the end of the Cretaceous Era thanks to a big asteroid, and the movements of animals, including humans, in response to all of those things. With abundant roadkill (1.3

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Guyana South America Washington DC 240

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

But they don’t live in North America. I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. This is approximated by the size of the animal, but really, this has to be adjusted for depending on modality of killing. Unless we put them there. Which would be even worse.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 255

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The Brown Pelican occurs in both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America and northern South America. They nearly disappeared from North America between the late 1950s and early 1970s because of pesticides entering the food chain. Brown Pelicans in non-breeding plumage.

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Pelicans North America Peru Fish 157

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2017

This is the first identification guide that I know of that covers Mexico (technically North America but rarely included in North American raptor guides) and Central America. Like Peterson’s Hawks of North America, 2nd edition (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), which Clark co-authored with Brain K. klak-klak, keeear!,

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Mexico America North America Falcons 162

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2014

.” Blackbirds, among other species, are also killed every year for consuming sunflower seeds mostly in Minnesota and the Dakotas. Therefore the actual numbers of birds killed are grossly underestimated. References: 1 Birds of North America Online. See Birdchick’s post here.

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Blackbirds California 2014 2013 187

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

The Cherokee nation called them “Peace Eagles” owing to the fact that they never killed a living thing – and also that they tended to show up in numbers after battled when peace treaties were being signed, though admittedly that may have been for a slightly more macabre reason. Here’s the kicker though.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 180

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2016

During some seasons, millions of male pheasants are killed. Partners in Flight estimates that the global breeding population is around 50 million; 30% of which can be found in North America and Canada. Since then their range has spread across the United States and southern Canada, and they remain a sought-after game species.

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South Dakota Hawaii United States North America 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Yet Birkhead credits British ornithologist Edmund Selous with sparking the world’s interest in watching rather than killing birds, despite the fact that Bailey’s “interest in bird-watching predates his,” as he admits in a footnote (p. The difference seems to be that Selous had previously killed birds and she had not.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 219

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Indeed, the Chukar was and is being widely introduced to many parts of North America (not necessarily always for birding purposes), where it is regularly found out West but pops up here and there in the East as well. Chukars of North America can tell you a lot about the mind-set of birders roaming that particular continent.

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Kazakhstan Tennessee North America Sparrows 174

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2015

It can’t have escaped your notice lately that the blog has been overrun with articles about North America’s pseudo-warblers (or wood warblers, as some people, apparently unaware the name is taken by a proper European species, call them), and, even worse, no small amount of poetry. And they are always a pleasure to see.

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Africa Feral Ethiopia Tanzania 174

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It is estimated that Snowy Owl populations in North America have declined by 52% since the 1960s (Berlanga et al. Snowy Owls are at risk of getting killed via collisions, incidental poisoning from rodenticides, and even illegal hunting (Stone et al. In The Birds of North America (P. 1999, Holt et al. Kerlinger, P.,

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Ethics Owls New York North America 142

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2012

Cliff Swallows migrate to North America from their wintering grounds in South America to nest in large colonies, sometimes numbering in the thousands. Because I am a local Audubon board member, I was recently contacted by a bird lover who witnessed Cliff Swallow nests being destroyed at the marina where they dock their boat.

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San Diego illegal California South America 165

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

In North America we only have three regularly occurring ibis, the aforementioned White Ibis and the two species of the genus Plegadis , White-faced Ibis and the far reaching Glossy Ibis , a species we share with every continent save Antarctica making it one of the world’s most cosmopolitan bird species.

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Birds North America Charlotte New Jersey 211

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The second edition of the National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, 2nd Edition has one of the longest book names in bird bookdom: National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, 2nd Edition: Now Covering More Than 1,000 Species With the Most-Detailed Information Found in a Single Volume.

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North America America Birds Family 177

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2012

When I see a band I imagine something slipping beneath it and trapping the bird, I’ve seen photos of birds with so many bands it looks like they’re wearing stockings, and then there’s the awful story of Violet , whose band eventually killed her. And to prove it, there’s The Queen. This filled me with both glee and dismay.

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Rabbits New Jersey Neglecting North America 237

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

While not in New Guinea and the tropical Pacific, he helped establish natural history-based undergraduate student programs that integrate indigenous communities with wildlands conservation in threatened landscapes of western North America and Central America.”

Collecting 159

Collecting Papua New Guinea Science Birds 159

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

” This leads to obvious conflicts with the NAMWC prohibition against the frivolous killing and waste of wildlife. Nelson, a Professor of environmental philosophy and ethics at Oregon State University, points out that recreational hunting was only one of several important factors that led to improved conservation in North America.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 238

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

If this was America, we might not be concerned because starlings are an invasive species, at least in North America. So, here we go… Fighting in Iraq has been affecting starlings. Although the birds had just completed a migration of more than 2,500km, they still had the energy to evade the danger.

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Science Iraq Research Birds 151

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2012

The largest flying land birds in North America, they appear like folded umbrellas at first, their wing feathers draped blanket-like, enveloping bodies that naturally weigh about 20 pounds at maturity. Their hallmark: They don’t kill. Their size doesn’t escape you. You think of turkey dressed in black.

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California Condor California Idaho North America 207

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2015

Will H5N2 Kill Wild Birds? We have seen H5N2 become an important virus for domestic poultry, suddenly, starting in Asia, moving to Europe, then to North America with wild migratory birds as the likely vector. They also have made progress in developing H5N1 fowlpox vaccine. So, what about wild birds?

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Mississippi Fowl Turkey Minnesota 175

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

The 6 th edition of the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America , for example, includes “extinct” and “probably extinct” species in a chapter, mixed in with accidentals.) Other species are less known. These are not the words of a scientist.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 267

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2012

This post is old news to those who pay attention to what I say on Facebook but I am still pleased as punch to point out that I have finally reached the 500-bird milestone in the American Birding Association area (basically North America north of Mexico). How did I finally reach this lofty peak?

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San Marino Los Angeles Birds Laws 105

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

Other areas of New York City where the parakeets were seen in 1970 included the upper East side of Manhattan, Great Kills, Staten Island, Ellis Island and the area around the Statue of Liberty. According to a December 1970 article in the New York Times , there was a flock of 9 to 12 birds in Fort Tilden.

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Chicago New York City New York Illinois 200

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Cats are domesticated animals that are not indigenous wildlife in North America. Free-roaming cats will hunt and kill birds, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish, resulting in wildlife mortality.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 208

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

In the end, I concluded that while Binford was right about avoiding misconceptions, it is in fact much much easier to imagine early human ancestors taking down Bambi, than chasing off a pride of giant saber-toothed lions who have themselves recently killed Bambi. Photo by Mikebaird.

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Humane Lions Buffalo Hunting 165

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2017

3) It is a sequel to Good Birders Don’t Wear White: 50 Tips From North America’s Top Birders , the popular 2007 collection of essays. White and Jeffrey A. Gordon, illustrated by Robert A. Braunfield, just published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. (3) How can you tell the difference, besides the additional word in the title?

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2017 Costa Rica 2007 Hunters 139

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

history; they killed a young boy just to prove they could commit the perfect crime and were the models for the murderers in Hitchcock’s film Rope. One of the strange things about the Kirtland’s Warbler story is the participation of Nathan Leopold, Jr. Leopold and his friend Richard Loeb are two of the most infamous murderers in U.S.

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 228

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

For example, I was going to add “no tail” to the list of features above, what all frogs share, when I remembered that there are indeed a small family of Tailed frogs, four species in New Zealand and two in North America (though, the tails are quite tiny).

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Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 184

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2012

American Crow carrying a road-killed bird Some birds die anonymously on their long trek – unmourned, unloved, and unknown. No other predator that I know of in North America kills and sometimes leaves its prey entirely intact, uneaten. But even more dangerous are cars.

Feral Cats 184

Feral Cats Cats Killing North America 184

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

It was the same day George Floyd was killed. His decision to use his new celebrity (he was probably at one point the most well-known birder in North America) to speak for and participate in the issues in which he believes brings him to a place he’s avoided his whole life, the deep South. I remember that day.

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Emotional Birds Minneapolis Nepal 223

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

It is also familiar at inland sites in winter, especially reservoirs and refuse tips, and breeds in the relatively-Northerly regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Herring Gull The Herring hull is everybody’s idea of a seagull, being present throughout the year at coastal cliffs, beaches, harbors and towns.

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2011 Cyprus Deer Species 157

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Fuller has not preached about the evils of the human practices that killed and dislocated the Passenger Pigeon; he hasn’t moaned and groaned or sentimentalized. In both countries, birds have been killed for reasons of food, commerce, and sport. It wasn’t just the mass killings in so many ways.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 160

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2018

There’s always a chance that we could ingest something bad for us, something that might even kill us – a peril we face anytime we swallow anything, in fact. I suspect this will be the first and last time we’ll see a beer featuring this species, an introduced Old-World songbird best known in North America from its St.

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Collecting St. Louis Dogs Sparrows 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

At least 350 bird species in North America go to South or Central America in the fall and return in the spring. I.e., will a lack of, or reduced, winter kill-offs of parasites affect these birds? Climate change is the biggest threat to migratory birds this century.

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Maryland Birds Penguins Wildlife 221