10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2015
The Refuge is now home to nearly 200 species of birds, over 50 species of mammals, 25 species of reptiles and amphibians, and a wide variety of insects, fish and plants. Units are located along both sides of the river and serve to protect and provide a wide variety of riparian habitats for birds, fish, and other wildlife.”
10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2019
The waterfowl flock was made up of two very unique looking species: the Fulvous and Black-belled Whistling Ducks. Encompassing over 30,000 acres, the refuge protects birds of course, but also butterflies, mammals, and more. After noting as many species as possible, I high-tailed it back to the car. What made my eyes widen?
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
A distinct subspecies of Greater Prairie Chicken that once numbered a million strong and called coastal grasslands from Louisiana to the Mexican border home, it was more than decimated by development in its native habitat, with less than 50 birds left in the wild in 1996.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2014
There is another area of the Queens County CBC where a team will also likely see Monk Parakeets , Myipsitta monachus , but I am seriously determined to count that bird for my area, Coastal Flushing, a section of northeast Queens, New York, that includes Whitestone, home of one of the loudest invasive bird species in the U.S. And cell towers.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2020
That’s pretty amazing–Bolivia has more bird species than India! The source of this ranking, BirdLife International, lists Bolivia as currently having 1,439 bird species, including 18 breeding endemics. The guide covers 1,433 species, the number of birds documented at the end of 2014, the cutoff point for the book.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2011
Frigatebirds (Fregatidae) Five species of frigatebird ply the planet’s tropical skies and seas. Immature Magnificent Frigatebird ( Fregata magnificens ), Grand Isle, Louisiana © David J. Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. The proposal from U.S.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
It is the 100th Anniversary of the extinction of the species known as the Passenger Pigeon and writers are paying attention. “Winter Sports in Northern Louisiana: Shooting Wild Pigeons.” Amazingly, with all the historical eyewitness accounts of the species, there are things we do not know for sure.
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