10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2022

I met Jonathan because his mother-in-law lives here in Morelia, and when he visits her, we sometimes find a space to bird together. With 85 species in 6 hours, I’d like to think it was well repaid. Snowy Plovers also breed half an hour north of my home, so we have those in common. That’s me on the right. Feast your eyes.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2021

No matter where you are in the country you can put in the address of the wildlife emergency, narrow your search to the species and problem, and contact numbers will pop up. AHNow’s database includes wildlife rehabilitators, rescues and hotlines, as well as veterinarians who treat wildlife.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Animal Raccoons 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2023

Late April / early May is the best birding season in the south of Europe and wherever you go, you will have 50% to 100% more species than in any other season. In India, no one goes at mid-day because of the heat and the law. The Usual Standard – a few hours of morning birding.

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India Birds Africa Serbia 185

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2017

Please give a warm welcome to Jason Crotty, who will be writing about “General Birding and the Law” on the second Tuesday of each month. A Bay Area native, he started birding while working at a large law firm in San Francisco, but birds less frequently now that there’s a toddler around so he writes instead.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2022

Late April / early May is the best birding season in the south of Europe and wherever you go, you will have 50% to 100% more species than in any other season. In India, no one goes at mid-day because of the heat and the law. The Usual Standard – a few hours of morning birding.

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India Birds Africa Game 242

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2021

All sorts of exotic and beautiful species may be seen. This would sound attractive even to me, except for one fact: almost all of those exotic and beautiful species are common down here in central Mexico. Southeastern Arizona is unusual, precisely because its species mix is as much Mexican as it is American.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2024

This is where you find a birding phenomenon that makes the annoyances of regular road checkpoints with either military officers or local law enforcement, whizzing scooters, and bumpy roads worth the effort. Scissor-tailed Kites – while not threatened now – are a vulnerable species.

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Senegal South Dakota Gambia Birds 207

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2021

So, as I cracked open a can of Parula Pilsner this week, I decided to have a look back at my own history with this species. Since the trippy can art by Boston artist Ian Tartasky is a bit too visually ambiguous for a solid call between Northern and Tropical Parula, we can just pretend it’s whatever species we want.

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Jamaica New York Boston Peru 171

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Not all the birds, of course, but many of the distinctive and conspicuous species. Yes, you read that correctly – it was seemingly reversing the laws of gravity. T&T has five recorded species of woodcreeper, all resident. The fifth and final woodcreeper species was the most difficult for me to get a view of.

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Trinidad Laws Family Hunting 187

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2015

This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. Thanks to groups like Alley Cat Allies, outdoor and feral cats have become above the law. They would be made up of people who are sick and tired of government-protected species being slaughtered by domestic cats.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Wildlife Rehabilitation 259

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2021

You can’t say the same about migration: you can’t say that every book about birds is necessarily about migration, for the simple reason that only about 4,000 bird species migrate (with some 1,800 of those traveling long distances). (Well, purely physical attributes play a part, too: they’re pretty good looking.).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2020

Black-chested Sparrow is one of Paso Ancho’s flagship species. The owl’s calls also attracted the presence of a Yellow-green Vireo , following the First Law of Birding: that, no matter how long you wait to see a species, once you do (three weeks previous), you will see it everywhere thereafter. .

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Sparrows Cooking Squirrels Owls 168

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2015

Corey saw 115 species of bird on Saturday alone so he had lots of to choose from in picking his Best Bird of the Weekend. My own take was much more modest, but I managed to find a few fancy warblers in Cobbs Hill Park for my mother-in-law, foremost among them the dazzling Blackburnian Warbler. Are new migrants flooding your area?

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2015 Laws Birds Experience 160

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Before the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA), there was the Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966. endangered species was issued on March 11, 1967, under the earlier law, and those listings were ultimately grandfathered into the ESA. The first list of U.S. Here’s the notice in the Federal Register.).

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California Condor Endangered Species Bald Eagle Parrots 103

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

Change in Law. I wish for a federal law prohibiting domestic and feral cats from roaming free outdoors. Violation of the law would be punishable by substantial fines, plus the cat owners would be required to perform community service at a local wildlife rehabilitation facility. “I’d That’s easy!” wrote Veronica in California.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 251

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2012

The bird was not identified to species, which is kind of frustrating. This serves as a reminder that there are always jerks out there willing to break the law to fulfill demand from other jerks who don’t understand that wild birds should be left in the wild.

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Los Angeles Taiwan Laws Birds 170

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2022

I was surprised that this species is named for its vocalization – which sounds like laughter. For example, the Diamond Dove is the world’s second-smallest species of the columbidae order ( source ). The Latin species name haematonotus (“blood-backed”) sounds a bit more exciting but not necessarily more accurate.

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Australia Birds Parrots Ostriches 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2017

Scientists ponder the feasibility of genetically engineering chickens to lay the eggs of endangered bird species. The law of unintended consequences has tragic effects at a zoo in England, as rat poison ends up killing the Rainbow Lorikeets it was intended to protect. So crazy it just might work?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Over the last weekend, my wife and I made a whirl-wind trip from Mexico, up to the Pacific Northwest, the Seattle area, where we stayed with the in-laws. They have a nice large back yard, complete with a variety of bird feeders, and a fence that backs right up to a Green Belt.

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Seattle Birds Mexico Laws 141

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

Some access issues are addressed by federal law. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed by Congress and signed into law by President George H.W. The refuge is a popular birding location and approximately 230 species have been observed by about 1,400 birders who have submitted nearly 8,000 checklists. Bush in 1990.

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Portland Oregon Laws Experience 201

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2019

More than 5,000 bird species in the world make some kind of seasonal movement. The harshest law of all, one more draconian than any human legislature could enact, is the law of unintended consequences. On our North American continent, tens of millions of birds are flying northward on peak spring nights.

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Ohio Bats Legislature Ducks 201

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2018

The Northern Spotted Owl is a “ threatened ” species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act and it was famously the subject of extensive and protracted litigation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, mostly relating to forestry management plans in the Pacific Northwest. The environmental groups appealed to the U.S.

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Owls Endangered Species Oregon Friends Of Animals 123

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

This particular species is not native to New Zealand (similar to its status in North America). In areas where starlings are introduced, the laws for keeping them as pets are relaxed. A European Starling in New Zealand made the news this week. The woman in the video found it as a chick at a few days old and hand reared it.

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New Zealand North America Laws Humane 167

10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2017

Global Big Day 2017 is in the books, with 15,954 participants submitting 40,698 checklists to eBird accounting for 6,068 species … so far. The rapid u-turn and speeding back to Shane’s position probably broke several laws but Corey didn’t care: he got his shearwater! What a weekend for birders all over the world.

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2017 Laws Birds Experience 101

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

In the relatively brief period, my group had something on the order of 450 species. This Red-chested Sunbird was among the most common species we encountered throughout the trip, and one of the most mid-bending. From my friends who have visited African before, it is evidently a shy species that is very difficult to see well.

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Uganda Africa Squirrels Tanzania 166

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2019

At the same time, at the western bank of the Volga River corpses piled ever higher… or so starts the plot of the Jean-Jacques Annaud’s movie Enemy at the Gates, with Jude Law as young Zaytsev. I do count, write and eBird all crow species I encounter, but, I admit, without much excitement. Yet, something was wrong with that picture.

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Protection Elephants Owls Laws 160

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2014

As bird lovers, we’re happy that laws exist to protect birds, and that people are especially looking after protected species. But sometimes, what’s best for the birds and what’s best for the humans collide. In the United States, a few of those conundrums are making news.

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San Francisco Oakland Massachusetts United States 166

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

And, John Laws widely praised The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds (2012) is mysteriously missing. The index lists bird species by whole name, which is less than satisfactory. Bird species are not capitalized. 118-119) was split into two species in 2016–California Scrub-Jay and Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay. (I

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Birds Eggs Laws Woodpeckers 157

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2017

In Wales people who slept in late – and female servants, who probably never slept in late in their lives – used to be beaten with holly branches for luck, although modern assault laws have largely ended the practice. And in Ireland, well… In Ireland they killed Wrens. And tied them to the top of sticks. Or does it?

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Ireland New Zealand Hunting Cooking 133

Critter News

OCTOBER 9, 2010

A coordinated international law enforcement operation has led to the arrest of 25 individuals suspected of taking part in the illicit trade of tigers, one of the world's most endangered species. Tags: wildlife smuggling tigers interpol asia endangered species. From the PR Newswire.

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International Fund For Animal Welfare Tigers IFAW Nepal 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The majority are clearly Mallards , followed by Garganeys , with one and possibly more Green-winged Teals , also Ferruginous Ducks … Surprises among them are one Common Shelduck , a species that most likely breeds some 15 mi from here (and my first shelduck of the year) and an even greater surprise: two Eurasian Wigeons.

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Serbia Protection Eagles Ducks 175

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2019

In Cranes , the reader meets, for the first time, Roy Ducannon, a Canadian RCMP sergeant who has a cool but respectful relationship with his brother-in-law, Jejeune. Each title in the series is the collective noun for a bird species, which becomes a central theme of the story.

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Humane 2018 Laws Science 141

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

It’s about putting the Federal Government back into the confines of the law.”. It’s imperative that local, state, and federal law enforcement ensure the safety of our land managers. In this video LaVoy Finicum, deceased spokesman for the occupiers, states “It’s not about losing, it’s about gaining.

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Extremist Oregon Wildlife illegal 156

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2015

Serbia has a large number of pigeon fanciers and a long history of lack of law enforcement in the field of wildlife crime ( Newsweek on poaching in the Balkans ). Take the Saker for example: with 52 to 64 breeding pairs ten years ago, Serbia held 13 per cent of the European population of this Globally Threatened species ( source ).

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Switzerland Serbia Feral Falcons 200

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2014

This June my brother-in-law and I took off to Kangiq (Cape Crauford), the western edge of of the mouth of Admiralty Inlet to Lancaster Sound. One of the most common species on our trip, the charming, and striking, Black Guillemot. I don’t get there every year, but I managed to spend one day there again this year.

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Polar Bears Seals Bears Laws 193

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2011

We’ll see… But there is one more thing to do for Wood-Warbler Week, and that is to figure out what wood-warbler is represented in the Wood-Warbler Week logo, which was created by my wonderful sister-in-law, Stephanie Chung. What species is shown? Below is the logo. Leave your best guess in the comments.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

One of the major challenges in combating the bushmeat trade is identifying the source species for the meat and products. How is anyone to know if it came from a species that is protected under national or international law? Tags: wildlife crime wildlife trafficking endangered species.

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