10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 10, 2020
In Costa Rica, a lot of those birds fly right overhead. At the moment, night excursions to Poas are limited by pandemic driving restrictions but I can still surmise about the species flying overhead. This fall, I have had the fortune of listening to both species calling at the same time from the back balcony. Common Nighthawks.
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2018
Moth plates from Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America (left plate) and Southeastern North America (two right plates). There are over 11,000 species of moths in North America. I have a hard enough time with the 1,103 bird species on the ABA Checklist. Let that sink in.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 26, 2015
Shouldn’t I be much more worried about people in a catastrophe the size of the F5 that hit Joplin, Missouri? The next spring she reported that her first class was doing very well and were able to rapidly identify nearly 200 species. They did the right thing. But this also struck me in other ways. That blew my mind.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2018
We saw sparrows–a total of 14 species–and we saw many other great prairie birds, and we often saw them perched on posts. The Little Missouri National Grassland in western North Dakota covers over 1 million acres and is the largest grassland in the United States. back to the birds.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 8, 2013
When I was a young birder in Missouri, my home-town CBC saw me return again and again – with my dad and a core group of other local birders – to the same part of the count circle. Even so, I managed nearly 50 species even without many with webbed feet as the landbirds came through.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2015
That’s right, the overwhelming benefits to the environment and the economy are generated by non-consumptive uses of the refuges like wildlife photography, environmental education, wildlife observation and interpretation, not hunting and fishing. 31 to provide inviolate sanctuary for migratory birds.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
The species is said to have never been common, a description I’ve always thought is applied too liberally to long-gone species almost as a convenient declaration of helplessness or shrug of the shoulders toss off in the face of its eventual demise. Bachman’s Warbler was named for the renowned southern naturalist, Rev.
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