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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 12, 2016
The Mountain Bluebird is one of the most striking birds in the United States, and is the state bird of both Nevada and Idaho. Though not officially adopted until 1967, the Nevada Federation of Women’s Clubs voted for the Mountain Bluebird all the way back in 1930 and 1931.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 7, 2011
Plastic pipes that have been used to mark mining claims in Nevada are death traps for birds. So, if you are in Nevada, pull some pipe! A state law now allows anyone who finds the pipes to pull them from the ground.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2013
I’ve never really been to Nevada—just a layover in the Las Vegas airport, where I was amused to see slot machines at the gates. Either way, I’m extremely excited to be attending my first birding festival, and very grateful to the organizers for covering the expenses. So I’m quite interested in exploring a new territory.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 10, 2020
will be much more cloudy than the sky in the photo above, taken at Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada. Though it is January, often the coldest month for those of us in the northeastern United States, this weekend is forecast to be exceptionally mild.It
Critter News
DECEMBER 12, 2011
Bureau of Land Management's internal review of a wild horse roundup in Nevada found some mustangs were whipped in the face, kicked in the head, dragged by a rope around the neck, and repeatedly shocked with electrical prods, but the agency concluded none of the mistreatment rose to the level of being inhumane.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 30, 2011
Pigeons are, perhaps, the most loathed of birds. And now Clark County commissioner Chris Giunchigliani has proposed making it illegal to feed pigeons in unincorporated areas of the county, which includes Las Vegas. The law seems virtually unenforceable but could cause problems for those who have bird feeders that pigeons take advantage of.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 29, 2019
Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a surprise Swamp Sparrow at the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve in Nevada. Luckily, we spied a large flock of turkeys from the highway between Syracuse and Binghamton.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2013
All of these things can be found in Las Vegas, Nevada. He steered me right and there it was, my first life bird in Nevada! Trips Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve Las Vegas Nevada' All-you-can-eat Buffets. Sewage ponds. That is, all of them can be found in Las Vegas except the last one on the list. One lifer down and one to go.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2021
(Inexplicably, eBird does not consider Puerto Rico part of the United States, but if it were properly included , it would do well, with 107 species.).
10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2013
The festival is now in its 16 th year in the quaint-yet-vibrant town of Fallon, Nevada (about an hour east of Reno), and it draws on the wide array of birds that flock to the area during spring migration. The town is actually nicknamed “The Oasis of Nevada.”) Birding Destinations Trips Nevada'
Critter News
JANUARY 4, 2012
Federal wildlife managers are fighting in court to take the unprecedented step of castrating 200 wild stallions in Nevada, in an effort to control surging populations of wild horses across the West. It's a proposal for population control. Read the whole story here.
10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2013
Nothing, however, prepared me for the fauna that awaited last weekend at the Spring Wings festival in Fallon, Nevada. But the wilds of Nevada revealed rattlesnakes, lizards (OK, the lizards didn’t seem that dangerous), and more than one mama cow who stared us down when our vehicles got too close to a calf. Not yet, knock on wood.)
Critter News
MAY 28, 2009
From the site: In the early morning hours of May 18th, four incendiary devices were planted at Scientific Resources International, a supplier of non-humyn primates for use in vivisection labs all over northern Nevada. Here is one little blurb I found out about them from the University of Wisconsin: Scientific Resources International, Ltd.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 22, 2014
These beautiful birds are now reduced in numbers or distribution throughout their range and considered to be declining in Utah, Nevada, and Oregon. They are listed as a Species of Special Concern in Utah, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, and as Threatened in California.
10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2013
……… Birds Black-throated Sparrow Nevada Red Rock Canyon sparrows' . … I hope you liked these shots of Black-throated Sparrows. If you want to see more great images of birds check out our big and growing page of photo galleries, 10,000 Clicks !
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
A week ago today, the federal government proposed a “threatened” listing for the Greater Sage Grouse in Nevada and California , as part of a larger study considering whether the species as a whole should be listed. I am a great lover of these gallinaceous birds, though my encounters with them have been but brief.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2019
The population in Arizona, Utah, and Nevada was designated as such in 1996 , before the first release from Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona. In fact, the proposed northwest population would not even be the first “nonessential experimental” population of California Condor.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
A few days ago, I received and then flipped through a bird guide of the Sierra Nevada (my way of coping with currently not being able to do birding trips outside of China, given the Covid policy of the Chinese government). This Grey-headed Bullfinch is waiting for a birdwatcher. Maybe I am the man he and his wife are waiting for.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2017
They frequent the dry, hot desert areas, which includes Arizona, Nevada and central mainland Mexico. The birds living on the Baja are fulltime, breeding residents, while many of the birds will range as far north as central California, and Utah.
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2013
I’ll be reporting more in the next few days about the coolness that is the Spring Wings Bird Festival , held every year in Fallon, Nevada. Did I mention the writer’s cramp I came close to getting, from scrambling to list everything I saw/heard?
Critter News
AUGUST 30, 2009
Join Best Friends Animal Society for the annual No More Homeless Pets National Conference, October 23-25, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. From a Best Friends email. Each year, five million healthy, adoptable homeless pets are still being put down. This is the conference for people who want to make a difference.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 30, 2018
Desert NWR (Nevada). Aransas NWR (Texas). Bear River MBR (Utah). Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually NWR (Washington). Bombay Hook NWR (Delaware). Bosque del Apache NWR (New Mexico). Chinteague NWR (Virginia). Forsythe NWR (New Jersey). Harris Neck NWR (Georgia). Horicon NWR (Wisconsin). Ding Darling NWR (Florida). John Heinz NWR (Pennsylvania).
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 31, 2013
I didn’t travel much this year, with a June family trip to California and Nevada and a four-day trip in July to Trinidad and Tobago being my only opportunities to get birds not in the northeastern United States. My first trip to Nevada since I became a birder was pretty awesome. But what were my top ten birding moments of 2013?
10,000 Birds
MAY 18, 2013
Finally we went past the Yerba Loca (National Park) entrance and then to the first road split which goes to Sierra Nevada Valley, to the right and to Farellones town to the left. From here we drove back down to take the road to Sierra Nevada Valley. We could see the towers and wires for the chair lifts in many places. Moutain Caracara.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2017
The plucky underdog is always the British favourite though I do worry about Conor McGregor’s Western Palearctic complexion in the Nevada desert. I would have wagered that the Willet would have outreached the heavier coot, but would have lost the bet.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 10, 2014
Rock Pigeon Jan 1 – Las Vegas, Nevada. One more thing – I don’t know whether 2014 will bring any new bird tattoos, but if it does, you guys will be the first to know. Anyway, here we go: 1. Dark-eyed Junco Jan 3 – Missoula, MT. American Crow Jan 3 – Missoula, MT. Mallard Jan 4 – Missoula, MT.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2012
Indigo Buntings breed from southern Canada across the eastern and central United States, and as far west as Nevada. How willing were these birds to pose? Well, check out the next shot!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 12, 2012
They identified the populations as follows: Eastern clade; Pacific clade; Eastern Sierra Nevada clade; and Rocky Mountain, Great Basin, and Mexico clade. Interestingly, the Eastern and Pacific clades are more closely related to each other than to the two populations in between them geographically.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2013
” That small minded perspective is difficult to overcome despite Clare’s continued insistence on the excellence of Poo Ponds and my own small contribution from my visits to Florida’s Viera Wetlands and Nevada’s City of Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve.
10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2019
I am originally from California, so it is easy for me to deal with a geography defined by a low coastal mountain range, a central valley, and a much higher inland range (in California, the Sierra Nevada). But for the past 25 years, I have lived in Mexico’s state of Michoacán.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
However, most states have less than 100 species, including: Missouri (98); Wyoming (97); Delaware (83); Massachusetts (81); Maine (76); Louisiana (73); Maryland (62); Idaho (57); Georgia (54); Nevada (53); South Carolina (49); Vermont (34); Alaska (34); New Hampshire (31); Indiana (27); Kansas (23); Tennessee (17); Ohio (16); South Dakota (14); Montana (..)
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2014
The report, Nourished by Wildfire: The Ecological Benefits of the Rim Fire and the Threat of Salvage Logging , explains how fires are essential for maintaining biological diversity in the Sierra Nevada ecosystem 4. It is a short, very informative, nine page report that I urge you to read.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
There are whole regions of the country from the Great Lakes west to Nevada where official hawkwatching is essentially non-existent, due to lack of migration density, so If you live in one of the places it is possible to see this magical migration you need to grab that opportunity.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
Those holdouts were convinced by Michele Fiore, a Republican Assemblywoman from Nevada, to turn themselves in. It began on January 2nd and ended on February 11th with the last four holdouts surrendering to the FBI. What has been the Republican response to this illegal occupation ?
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 6, 2012
The southwestern US is still undiscovered country for me – barring one trip to San Diego and a handfull of layovers in Las Vegas, I’ve never been – and I had imagined a Grace’s Warbler darting out of a treetop in Nevada or New Mexico to add a flash of color to my first real exploration of the region.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 10, 2012
His work on the color-coded “Sierra Birds: A Hiker’s Guide” and the follow-up “The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada” are testaments to his position as an artist, but his most recent book firmly establishes him as a teacher of art as well. Enter John Muir Laws.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2013
The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Nevada (Univ. of Nevada Press, 2007) features a cover by David Sibley. So, if you want to read about West Nile Virus, you have your choice of reading about the disease as it affects the American Crow, American Kestrel, and down the list to Tufted Titmouse. of New Mexico Press, 2005).
10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2019
Floyd has also written the ABA Field Guide to the Birds of Colorado (2014), the Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America (2008), and co-authored the Atlas Of The Breeding Birds Of Nevada (2007), plus numerous articles–over 125–in popular magazines and scholarly journals. He received a B.A.
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