10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Many of us picture owls in the sky, silently soaring, or perched atop tree branches or light poles as they sleep or keep an eye out for prey. However, on my first trip to Aruba I scanned the ground for a very special type of small owl, known for its terrestrial antics.

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Prairie Dogs Tortoises Owls South America 101

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2021

But there are ways to prevent this situation, and to prevent the constant springtime problem of wildlife being orphaned… like these Barred Owls , above left, and Red-Shouldered Hawks , all of whom were delivered as eggs to Christine’s Critters in Weston, CT, thanks to two different private homeowners’ felling of trees. 5) Display attitude.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Game Laws 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

But “Hawk”’s active ingredient, a deadly second-generation anticoagulant, bromadialone, has been implicated in the deaths of Red-tailed Hawks, Red-shouldered Hawks, Cooper’s Hawks, and other raptors : American Kestrels, Barn Owls, Golden Eagles, Great Horned Owls, and Turkey Vultures. Thanks for your concern for wildlife, Syngenta.).

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Mountain Lions Rats Rodents Lions 265

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2014

By the early 1980s, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was aware that poison control centers were reporting 12,000 to 15,000 calls annually regarding children under the age of 6 ingesting rat poison, and rodenticides were documented as causing large numbers of secondary poisoning in wildlife.

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Rats Barn Owls Rodents San Francisco 246

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

I am sure that they have a great future in Nanhui as Chinese President Xi Jinping has just stated that “humankind should protect nature and preserve the environment like protecting our eyes in a bid to push for a new pattern of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.” ” ( source ). ” How unfair.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 193

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2019

” So, it is established: this is a film about migrant birds and the people who work to protect them in south Texas and northern Mexico. And, it shows us the birds in brief, non-captioned close-ups of songbirds and owls and soaring overhead pans of migrating hawks and waders.

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Advocacy Mexico United States Texas 268

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Initially, I wasn’t that excited about seeing mammals. The leopards place their kill in a tree, protecting it from poaching by other predators. The Big Five–lion, leopard, African buffalo, elephant, and rhinoceros–are impressive, but my heart lies with the patterned mammals, giraffes and zebras.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 254

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2012

Think about the difference between birds and mammals. You’re a mammal, so you might be tempted to use yourself as an example mammal, but humans are actually kind of bad examples of mammals, so perhaps we’ll use a well studied hoofed animal instead. All the nurturing has to come from mom.

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Mammals Eggs Abandon Abandoning 166

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2016

Wildlife rehabilitators have an arsenal of equipment and techniques we use to protect ourselves. I went into a cage of young Great Horned Owls one night carrying thawed rats,” said Linda Hufford. “I I was wearing the lead x-ray apron and heavy raptor gloves, so I thought I was protected. I knew he was going to be trouble.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wounded Wildlife Opossums 173

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

Even in protected areas of north-east India, prey densities are very low. Only in protected areas in southern and central India (e.g. Previous posts about the same tour: Melghat Tiger Reserve: The Search for the Rarest Owl of India. If interested, there are a few more places left. Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Gaur Morning.

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Tigers Dogs India Snow Leopard 243

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Although this park was logged in the past, as a national park it is one of the few forests in Ghana that is really protected. . All these forests are in “protected” forest reserves, however at some, logging permits are reportedly being issued for harvesting of these forests. What makes Ghana so special?

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 196

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2020

Yet, with larger protected areas things get more complicated. Hence, it was a bit of an annoyance to be forced to hire a general nature guide who knows mostly mammals. After several drives with such nature guides, we were finally lucky to book Manoj, who not only knows birds, but is especially good with owls and nightjars.

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India Lions 2020 Groups 251

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2014

I want him (I am not a sexist – simply, have never met a lady guide, although I have some among my FB friends) to know mammals and trees, too, but also local history and who and when made that hilltop citadel that we drove by. Knowing birds and where to find them is only the first step. Bhola Mawaskar is a man of his word.

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Birds Botswana Free Range Leopards 217

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2017

Some of you have been counting on federal funding or habitat protection that now looks shaky; some of you have mates who never made it back from migration; some of you just can’t catch enough fish. Tragically, McSweeney’s doesn’t have quite enough hard-core birders in the audience to appreciate this. But I thought you guys would!

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Bald Eagle Belize Iowa Eggs 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

The refuge, which was created to protect the now extinct Dusky Seaside Sparrow , is not normally open to the public, which helps keep the rails and other wildlife from being unduly bothered by the public. For me, at least, it was a life mammal! Though it was distant it was still a welcome sight.

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Florida Wildlife Groups 2012 159

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Much of Wingate’s professional life revolved around his grand plan to create a “living museum” of pre-colonial Bermuda flora and fauna on Nonsuch Island, a habitat where the cahows would be protected and supported. Ultimately, the story always comes back to the cahows, whose population grows slowly.

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Birds Rats Breeding 2012 170

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond. To that end, the principals have created a terrific site called Conserving the Future: Refuges and the Next Generation to elicit votes and comments. Wicked, right?

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Danum Valley is a conservancy that protects a large area of lowland rainforest in Sabah in northeastern Borneo. We did see more mammals though, including a Greater Mousedeer (exactly what it sounds like), a Maroon Langur, and in the night walk a stunning Banded Palm Civet (and flying frogs!). Oh, there were Buffy Fish-owls.

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Lemurs Family Rhinoceros Fish 159

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?

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255