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What is the State Bird of Nevada?

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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.

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In Nevada? Pull Some Pipe!

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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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Looking Forward to Birding Fallon, Nevada

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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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Nevada Board Rejects Proposal To Ban Coyote Killing Contests

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Rare Sierra Nevada red foxes survive massive Dixie fire that burned habitat

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A 55-foot-long Triassic sea monster found in Nevada

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Here Lies Beast: A walk through Nevada's pet cemeteries

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Rare Nevada wildflowers were wiped out by squirrels, U.S. agencies say

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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of January 2020?

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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

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BLM Admits Horse Roundups Have Involved Mistreatment

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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.

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Pigeon Feeding Ban Proposed in Clark County, Nevada

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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.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of 2019)

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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.

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Birding The City of Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve

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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.

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10,000 Birds goes eBirding – Part II

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(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.).

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Birding Fallon: Well Worth the Trip

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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'

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Yikes! Feds Want to Castrate Wild Mustangs!

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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.

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There’s More to Birding than Birds

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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.)

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ALF Activists Burn Company That Sells Animals for Research

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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.

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Swainson’s Hawks in Plumas County

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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.

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Black-throated Sparrow at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area

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……… 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 !

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Sage Grouse — The Other Kind of Listing

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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.

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What is a “Nonessential Experimental” California Condor?

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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.

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Birding Baxi Forest, Sichuan, China

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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.

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The wonderful Phainopepla

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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.

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I Just Flew Back from the Spring Wings Festival …

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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?

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"No More Homeless Pets" Conference Scheduled for October

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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.

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Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

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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).

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My 2013 Birding Year in Review (With My Top Ten Birding Moments!)

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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?

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Birding Santiago de Chile – Trip Report

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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.

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Don’t underestimate the underdog in a cross-species super-fight

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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.

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Carrie’s 2014 Year List

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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.

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Indigo Boys

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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!

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White-breasted Nuthatch is four species, study says

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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.

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Large-billed Terns at the Trincity Sewage Ponds

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” 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.

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Birds of Tierra Caliente

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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.

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10,000 Birds goes eBirding

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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 (..)

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Black-backed Woodpeckers and Forest Fires in California and the West

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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.

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Why Hawkwatching is So Awesome

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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.

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Have There Been Any Positive Aspects of the Malheur NWR Occupation?

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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 ?

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On Not Chasing Grace’s Warbler

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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.

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Laws Guide to Drawing Birds

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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.

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Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania: A Review by an Atlas Novice

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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).

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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A Book Review

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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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