10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

million deer killed by cars in 2017-18, plus many smaller mammals), caracaras, famously omnivorous and unfussy eaters, may find the North to their liking. Knopf, New York, $30 (U.S.); $40 (Canada). (The Northern crested caracara, below, was photographed in Skycomish, Washington, 45 miles east of Seattle, in 2014.)

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Guyana South America Washington DC 232

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2021

Maggie Ciarcia, a solo wildlife rehabilitator in Carmel, NY specializing in small mammals and game birds, received a notice from New York State Electric and Gas that tree trimming was scheduled for her neighborhood and someone would contact her. But back to power companies.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Game Laws 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2015

Firstly, if you check the wonderful photo galleries here at 10000 Birds, you will find some excellent shots of the female Mountain Bluebird that Corey took in New York, of all places! Lassen Volcanic National Park is also home to approximately 57 species of mammals ranging in size from the tiny shrew to the North American black bear.

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United States Mammals Squirrels New York 171

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2020

Such is the case with this week’s beer, Penguins in Space by the Kings County Brewers Collective of Brooklyn, New York.

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Penguins Collecting Walruses New York 164

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

I spent this weekend at my parents’ house in my hometown of Saugerties, New York, which is nestled nicely between the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson River.

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Salamander Chipmunks Reptiles Cooking 174

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Are there butterfly or mammal big years? (If I don’t think there is another passion that has anything like it, books that trace an individual’s (or a couple’s, or several birders’) quest to find as many birds as possible over a 12-month period within a prescribed geographical area.

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Birds Los Angeles Massachusetts New York City 204

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2013

In New York and Chicago, they’ve been pretty mundane—a White-tailed Deer here, an Eastern Cottontail rabbit there. Birding Lizards Mammals Reptiles Trips animals' And of course, way too many chipmunks and squirrels and raccoons and turtles to count. How about you?

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Nevada Coyotes Rattlesnake Chicago 174

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

He is also a sculptor and a naturalist and has combined his observations with his art in past titles, notably House of Owls (2015), In the Company of Crows and Raven s (2005), and Marine Birds and Mammals of Puget Sound (1982). Mark Hauber is currently (just appointed!)

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Chicago Barn Owls Penguins New Zealand 171

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

Queens, New York, May 2010 At one time there was an airport in northern Queens called Flushing Airport. Unfortunately, developers are hungrily eying the 70-acre parcel despite some local opposition and the fact that it is a wetland that provides excellent habitat to a variety of birds (to say nothing of mammals, insects, etc).

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New York City New York Birds Homelessness 152

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2016

After sixteen days touring the interior west and west coast of the United States with my family I am back in New York City. And, let me tell you, it was an amazing trip with gorgeous scenery, lots of cool mammals, and, of course, a whole big bunch of birds!

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Idaho Colorado Wyoming San Francisco 103

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

Will Raup is a birder from upstate New York who helped Corey learn a lot about birds when Corey was first starting out as a birder. The Cattle Egret is native to Africa, where it is a familiar sight among herds of large mammals. I’d like to introduce you to a diminutive heron, the Cattle Egret Bubuclus ibis.

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Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 170

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 10, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ One in 4 Mammals Threatened With Extinction, Group Finds ” (news article, Oct. 7): Man’s activity, whether through global warming, overhunting or clearing of habitat, has led to the loss of species at a rate that would have been unimaginable 100 years ago.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 8, 2008

During training with active sonar, we protect marine mammals by employing rigorous protective measures. Those sailors and marines will succeed because of the intense training they have undergone—training that included use of active sonar to find enemy submarines.

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New York Times New York United States Whales 40

Animal Person

APRIL 21, 2009

New York Times. New York City. More >> Animals. More >> Category. More >> Players. More >> Places. Kazakhstan. More >> Year.

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Animal Rights Project Treadstone Rights Responsible Policies 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2012

Not having a smart phone, I called a friend in New York and had him Google up some wildlife rehabilitators’ numbers, but they were all out of service. Muir, thankfully, was not the least interested in the smaller mammal, and only a little confused about why our walk had been interupted. It turns out, helping a bat is hard.

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Bats Wildlife Rehabilitation Missouri Montana 132

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Or maybe something closer to home like the American Bird Conservancy or a wildlife rescue organization like the Marine Mammal Center or International Bird Rescue. Maybe a worldwide organization like the Wildlife Conservation Network , BirdLife International or the Peregrine Fund ?

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Extremist Oregon Wildlife illegal 148

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. Initially, I wasn’t that excited about seeing mammals. I’m sure there are states that I missed, but you get the idea.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 251

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Animal Care and Animal Planet Co-Host the Annual ANIMAL CARE Gala Fundraiser on Thursday, October 22, 2009 at PACHA New York. Animal Care & Control of New York City is pleased to announce their second annual fundraising gala, which will be co-hosted by the popular cable network Animal Planet.

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New York City Animal Adoptable New York 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2013

A text message that let me know about a mega-rarity in New York ! New York State’s first Grace’s Warbler. December was a weird month in that the first half of it was spent in New York without Desi, my two-year-old son, who was in California, and the second half was spent in California.

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2012 Czech Republic Hedgehogs Hungary 142

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2013

The Channel Islands have all sorts of species and subspecies that are endemic to the islands, including mammals, reptiles, plants, and of course birds, many of which are nonmigratory. I can’t finish this post without mentioning marine mammals. In summer and fall, the waters around the Channel Islands can teem with Blue Whales.

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California Birds Sea Lions Whales 160

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2012

There is a reason why birds (and mammals and large, predatory sharks) like alcids, albatrosses, penguins, and other seabirds are restricted to the poles or areas of cold water upwellings — tropical waters lack the ability to hold onto as much oxygen as colder water.

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Florida Cuba 2012 Bahamas 209

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The first thing I learned was that most animal-plant interaction did not involve mammals, or even birds. European Starling in New York City trying to bum a cigarette (photo by Corey, from HERE ) But I digress. Insects ruled. We spent most of the rest of the semester dealing with grasshoppers.

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2001 New York City Birds Research 142

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2012

Lest you think that I am overstating the likelihood of the raccoon being rabid please take into consideration that signs like the one below hang near every entrance to the park and rabid raccoons have been found not only in Central Park but all over New York City of late.

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Raccoons New York City New York Squirrels 160

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

In 2009, I traveled from New York City to the tropical rainforest of Ecuador. Reading between the lines, beyond the degrees and publications, his commitment to education, the birding community, and the birds (and mammals and reptiles and insects and plants, etc.) is remarkable.

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South America Ecuador Reptiles America 143

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

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. The mosaic of wetlands, open water, bottomland forests and prairies provides habitat for numerous mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish and nearly three hundred bird species.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 142

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

A little longer than its predecessor (by eight pages to be exact), the East Coast guide is your handy dandy, pocket-sized, all-in-one guide to the seabirds, marine mammals, sea turtles, fish, and other creatures you are likely to encounter on pelagics or whale watching trips, from Bar Harbor, Maine to Ponce de Leon Inlet, Florida.

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Pennsylvania Texas Whales Whaling 158

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

House Sparrows were introduced to New York City in 1852 and later in other areas. There may be more birds and mammals per square kilometer in South Africa. There are few areas of the world where they have been introduced and not survived (Greenland and Cape Verde are examples of this bird’s local demise).

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Killing South Africa Nebraska Collecting 189

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Articles on the Bermuda petrel have appeared in scientific journals and popular birding magazines, and Wingate has been the subject of articles in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and has received the Linnaean Society’s of New York prestigious Eisenmann medal.

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Birds Rats Breeding 2012 164

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet. That’s right – birds eating clay. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 254

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2014

Happily, there were gulls and terns about to entertain me (and the kids) while we scanned and scanned and scanned and scanned and scanned and scanned for any sign of our hoped-for marine mammals. … Trips dolphins New York City pelagic' Common Tern. Great Black-backed Gull. Then my favorite part of the trip happened.

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Whales Whaling Dolphins New York City 155

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

It is early April as I write this, and migration is beginning to trickle through to New York City. I’ve numbered these chapter descriptions because just rereading them feels overwhelming and I need some structure (the chapters in the book are interspersed with the case study chapters described above).

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 244

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

And, Fuller should know; he has spent his career producing books about extinct birds and mammals, including the recent Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record, from his home in England. Avery’s trip through Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York holds more promise.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 159

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2017

Despite the golf course, this place host all manner of birds and mammals. In fact, we saw two species of monkey, our only sloths, lots of coatis, and my rarest ever mammal sighting—a Jaguarundi —right on site. Better get moving… we expect you in New York in a couple of months. The view from our window at Radisson Summit.

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Panama 2017 Monkeys Family 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

To a birder, migration means that you can live in Minnesota, New York, Paris or Moscow and see exotic tropical birds such as Piranga olivacea and Icterus galbula on a regular basis without buying a plane ticket. Did birds repeatedly evolve migration because they ‘need’ to migrate more than, say, mammals?

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Research Humane Compassion New York 187

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2014

Imagine me there raring to see more exciting Asian avifauna while the rest of the group screeches to a halt to spend 45 minutes admiring birds I see all the time in New York. BONUS MAMMAL SPECIES LIST. I’m chagrined to note that this is one of the rarest species I saw during my trip. 9 Little Grebe. 4 in Starling Inlet.

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2014 Eagles Asia Groups 207

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2022

While this already stretches credulity, the saying continues to state that seeing one mammal is better than seeing ten pheasants (Bella from Alpinebirding indeed confirmed that this saying exists and has not just come to me in a dream. New Jersey. Examples: California. Connecticut. North Dakota. Rhode Island. South Dakota. Washington.

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Rhode Island Research South Dakota North Dakota 147