10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Spoonbills and ibises are stocky, colorful wading birds with distinctive bills: downcurved and pointed in the case of ibises, flat and paddle shaped in the spoonbills (above is my shot of Roseate Spoonbills ( Platalea ajaja ) near a breeding colony in Louisiana). Roseate Spoonbill ( Platalea ajaja ) in Louisiana © David J.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

In 1938, they were reduced to only 18 birds in the Aransas-Wood Buffalo flock and only 11 remaining in the non-migratory Louisiana flock. By 1950, the Louisiana flock was gone. Since there were only two birds in captivity when the Louisiana flock became extinct, its likely that the genetics of the non-migratory flock are lost forever.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Well, a team from Louisiana State University managed to pull that off on 14 October, seeing an astounding 354 species in one day in Peru. How would you like to see a lot of bird species in a day? Like, more species than anyone else anywhere has ever seen in a day?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2021

It was also to be expected that the first passerine to turn up would be the Louisiana Waterthrush. These were two different Louisiana Waterthrushes , but with the same posing preference… dark and distant! The Laughing Gul l that turned up later that same day, however, was quite a surprise.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

Though he added Louisiana Waterthrush , Blue-gray Gnatcatcher , and Yellow-throated Warbler to his year list, Corey most enjoyed watching a Northern Mockingbird doing singing in the Rockaways. Corey enjoyed getting out on birding outings both mornings of the weekend, and was out in nature with his family both afternoons.

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Squirrels Louisiana Birds Family 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2014

Though Corey spent most of the day on Sunday birding Sandy Hook in New Jersey, seeing 73 species of birds, including four new species for him for the year, his Best Bird of the Weekend was the Forest Park waterhole in Queens, where he spotted his first Louisiana Waterthrush of the year. The wood-warblers are back! How about you?

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Critter News

MARCH 5, 2009

The Humane Society of the United States released the video scenes Wednesday, saying that’s only part of the documentation of what it claimed were 338 violations of federal law and policy at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Laboratory. It is the nation’s largest primate research lab that studies chimpanzees.

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Wayne Pacelle Louisiana Humane Society Of The United States Animal Abuse 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2011

Now HBO Documentary Films presents Saving Pelican 895 , the story of the effort to save the 895th surviving oiled pelican in Louisiana, showing how conservationists, government agencies and wildlife activists joined forces to preserve this life and so many others.

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Pelicans Louisiana 2010 Suffering 196

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MAY 5, 2012

Please forgive the repetition…but somehow I think that repeat images of wood-warblers will be rather easily forgiven.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2012

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was his first Louisiana Waterthrush of the year. The gang of Common Grackles plundering my feeder deserve a nod for their brassy, cacophonous splendor. Also of note were the Long-tailed Ducks on Lake Ontario, holding on when the other cold-waterfowl seem to have fled.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2013

Even though it doesn’t show on the NatureServe range map above, Golden-crowned Sparrow vagrants have been recorded eastward to Ontario and Nova Scotia, Michigan, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey; also south to Alabama, Texas, Louisiana and Florida 1.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Because of its large contiguous stand of bottomland hardwood forest, Bayou Cocodrie National Wildlife Refuge was designated as critical habitat and serves as a corridor for the Louisiana black bear between Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge and Red River Wildlife Management Area. The refuge is already open to sport fishing.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In 2023, it did so with the following allocations: Cat Island NWR (Louisiana): $1,466,000 to acquire 548 acres. Although the size of any individual project may be modest, the MBCC dutifully approves projects twice a year, each and every year, and it adds up over time. Clarks River NWR (Kentucky): $6,621,000 to acquire 2,482 acres.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2013

Participating teams include the E-Birders from Cornell University, the Tigrisomas from Louisiana State University, the Forest Falcons from Great Britain, the Zululanders from South Africa, Team Tramuntana from Spain, and the Ararajubas from Brazil.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2011

Lewis and Clark explored large swaths of the Louisiana Purchase for the United States and I can think of no higher honor for their efforts than having two such becoming birds named for intrepid explorers. But the focus here is on the one bird, Nucifraga columbiana , and a charming and entertaining creature it is.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2012

The Louisiana Waterthrush announces itself with loud chip notes and a clear song. In New York, as is the case across most of the area where the “eastern” wood-warblers migrate, there are four species that are almost always the first to appear. Yellow-rumped Warblers can’t be missed with their sheer numbers.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2014

Louisiana Waterthrush are a wonderful early migrant that announce themselves with their clear song. April birding often consists of sifting through a flock of Butterbutts trying to find another species. I feel like they never get their due as beautiful in their own right.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2016

First, wildlife officials in Louisiana announced the first successful wild Whooping Crane nest in that state since 1939. It’s a bang-up breeding year for super-endangered birds! Now, it’s Spoon-billed Sandpipers’ turn.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2011

3 rd word, first syllable: what do Kirtland’s Warbler, Louisiana Waterthrush, Palm Warbler, American Pipit (and maybe others) ­­­­­have in common? You could be hearing this too if you are in eastern US, as far west as, say, parts of Texas and going north to approximately the Canadian border.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2018

This is where I saw my first Louisiana Waterthrush and Swainson’s Warbler. Louisiana Waterthrush. (I have seen it dry after recent extreme droughts.) You may have to stalk the single parking spot at this location; but the habitat makes it worth the effort to hover or walk. Photo by © William H.

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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

APRIL 13, 2012

It took a long stake-out — happily by other birders, who I spotted just in time — to find a single Louisiana Waterthrush , after the previous day’s count of five. Nor was there any evidence of the old favorite I secretly yearned for, the Black-throated Blue Warbler.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2011

3 rd word, 1 st syllable … what do Kirtland’s Warbler, Louisiana Waterthrush, Palm Warbler, American Pipit (and maybe others) ­­­­­have in common? … Here are the clues, and their answers: 1 st two words … I’m listening to a local birdsong right now, eastern US north to Canada, common, suburban … Tufted Titmouse … “Peter, Peter”.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2012

The air was thick and clammy, and mosquitoes were biting along Louisiana’s Mermentau River last Thursday morning, the final day of the Audubon Christmas Bird Count. A lone Black-bellied Plover quietly worked the flats amid hundreds of other shorebirds.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2011

The main wintering area for Ross’s Goose ( Chen rossii ) is presently in the Central Valley of California, though increasing numbers winter in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Texas, and the north-central highlands of Mexico 1. Map courtesy of Terry Sohl at South Dakota Birds and Birding.

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Critter News

APRIL 16, 2009

They are at least admitting there are problems with standard operating procedures at New Iberia Research Center. Officials claim to be taking steps to correct certain problems. This web page also has a video with a tour of the facility, conducted by center staff.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

It happened during a Christmas Bird Count in Louisiana in 1984. Honestly though, I was hoping for a number like one hundred. Now that would be something! The most of any species ever reported is 76,000,000 Brown-headed Cowbirds. The same count had 15,000,000 Red-winged Blackbirds and 10,000,000 Common Grackles. Other fun numbers I dug up?

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Critter News

MAY 4, 2010

This Louisiana Senator is just a slave to these oil interests and I'm sick of her. Tags: louisiana oil drilling 2010 oil spill endangered species. She's calling for MORE frigging oil drilling in spite of the catastrophe in the Gulf. I'd like to shove her face in a vat of oil and not bring her up for a long, long time.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2013

Are Brown-crested Flycatchers following this same migration route undetected, or are they flying across the gulf (such as from the Yucatan) into southern Florida as some have postulated?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2017

This line of thought was started in me today with the horrifying news about the Monroe Museum of Natural History’s ultimatum from the University of Louisiana. Curators are considered less important than designers trying to pull in the punters.

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Critter News

MAY 25, 2010

Charges have been filed against seven members of Greenpeace who boarded an offshore drilling support ship in a Louisiana port and painted anti-drilling slogans in crude oil on the vessel’s side on Monday afternoon. Tags: louisiana animal enterprise terrorism act Stupid British Petroleum 2010 oil spill.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Sitta canadensis isn’t just irrupting out of its far northern home but exploding southward, with reports in every southern state except for Florida, including birds on the outer banks of North Carolina, on Grand Isle, Louisiana, in a suburb of Atlanta, and on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Bird bloggers from Wisconsin to Massachusetts.

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Critter News

MAY 4, 2010

Tags: louisiana 2010 oil spill Gulf of Mexico endangered species.

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Louisiana Endangered Species Wildlife 2010 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2022

We saw our first Louisiana Waterthrushes of the season. So I now have a third site for this exciting bird. The Black-chinned Sparrow , a special bird that I can expect to see only at Las Mesas. did indeed turn up. I was shocked to see a Red-faced Warbler so early. Ricardo was shocked to see his first Red-faced Warble r.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Barnes Park will usually yield sightings of Louisiana Waterthrush , Red-eyed Vireo , and Yellow-throated Warbler during this time period. Autumn migration gets off to an inauspicious start in Miami-Dade with the appearance of a small selection of passerines at local migrant traps at mid-July. A visit to A.D.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2020

Shorebird migration is a dramatic start to a lengthy fall migration in South Florida, which stretches for the most part from mid-July through the end of November.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Hurricane Nate looked set to disrupt my first visit to Louisiana. Reports predicted that we would make landfall in New Orleans at around the same time.

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