10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

…a City Council committee voted 5-0 to recommend a new law that in essence licenses the care and feeding of free-roaming cats as part of a larger effort to reduce their numbers. Cats are domesticated animals that are not indigenous wildlife in North America. What would success look like? In Copperas Cove, Texas.

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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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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

As the story goes, way back in the late 19th Century and organization called the American Acclimitazation Society was working hard to introduce every one of the 600 species of birds mentioned in Shakespeare’s plays to North America.

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JULY 5, 2022

And, then there are the pick-up-dead-birds initiatives in major cities in North America–New York City’s Project Safe Flight, Chicago’s Chicago Bird Collision Monitors, Toronto’s Bird Collision Monitoring Patrols, Washington, D.C.’s ’s Lights Out DC, to name a few. It’s not a bad idea.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

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. Allocation of Wildlife by Law – Public participation is essential in development of wildlife management policies.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Finally a Feeder Watcher Recent Forest Park Birding Unpacking My 2009 Year List New Year, New Bird Exodus: The Migration of Saw-whet Owls in North America About the Author Rick Rick Wright studied French, German, philosophy, and biology at the University of Nebraska. at Princeton University in 1990.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

But my impression is that there is less support for changing the name of every bird with an honorific name, if only because not all namesakes are terrible, and it seems like a lot of disruption to change so many names (about 140 in North America). Some see political correctness run amuck.

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JUNE 7, 2012

Charles Pease shot the bird in northeastern Ohio, and gave it to his father-in-law, Jared Kirtland, one of those 19th century men who was a master multitasker–physician, horticulturist, legislator, zoologist. Kirtland, in turn, gave the skin to Dr. Spencer F.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

plus a chapter on “Vagrant landbirds from North America.” There are 28 chapters—“Waders,” “Large Waterside Birds,” “Owls and nightjars,” “Birds of prey” (pulling together vultures, hawks and falcons), “Aerial feeders” (swifts, swallows, martins), etc.—plus

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

As I mentioned last week, my wife, son, and daughter-in-law spent much of the month of October in Europe. Visiting the continent after the end of most of the autumn migration meant that the number of bird species I could see in northern France, Switzerland, southern Germany, and Austria was much reduced.

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DECEMBER 20, 2014

Since Kitsissunnguit has been preserved by law since 1988, the birds live in perfect harmony with nature and birdwatchers get a unique peephole into the birds life in their natural settings. Destinations Arctic Tern Greenland North America'

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Note that the West Indies are generally considered part of North America and are part of the Atlantic flyway. For example, the Endangered Species Act and Migratory Bird Treaty Act—America’s most important avian conservation laws—apply in both territories. Both territories are also part of the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2018

These unwanted orphans of German brewing were mainly left to fend for themselves in the oncoming dissolution of regional specialties as the nation unified its government – and its brewing laws. Chilean Flamingoes. In case you were wondering, Merriam-Webster lists both “flamingos” and “flamingoes” as correct plurals.

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MARCH 21, 2011

But after repeated good experiences with birders as individuals, Mr Jordan has consented to allow the bird to be made public before it leaves.

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New York Woodpeckers Jordan 2011 200

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

A Sage Thrasher – a vagrant from western North America and only one of a handful of New York State records – was found on the other side of the Hudson River over in Columbia County in early November. Luckily, something unusual did show up not too far from home – and with just less than two months to go in 2020.

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MARCH 2, 2023

But once you passed ‘the Pale,” you were outside the authority and safety of English law, and subject to all the savageries of rural Ireland. ‘Beyond the pale’ then became a colloquial phrase meaning ‘outside the limits of acceptable behavior or judgment.’

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MAY 25, 2019

Reschedule that visit to the in-laws, cancel the company picnic and drop everything else because GBD is in the house! Although many a birder in the temperate zone of North America does take GBD seriously, for birding communities in some Latin American countries, this day has become the most important birding day of the year.

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Costa Rica Species 2019 Owls 199

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DECEMBER 28, 2015

In a fairly birdless year that involved no travel outside of northeastern North America, Mike’s Best Bird of the Year had to be the Common Nighthawk observed randomly soaring over the Bronx. Mike is at the point where he is barely a birder anymore. Seriously, we might need to do an intervention soon.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

In 1850, the Passenger Pigeon ( Ectopistes migratorius ) was the most abundant bird in North America and possibly the world. Lacey of Iowa introduced the nation’s first wildlife-protection law, which banned the interstate shipping of unlawfully killed game. A newly created U.S.

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