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Birding in Costa Rica, August, 2022- News and Recommendations

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The biggest birding news for Costa Rica was a sighting of an adult Harpy Eagle in northern Costa Rica , near Boca Tapada. Their local guide excitedly confirmed the bird as a Harpy Eagle (only the most dearly wanted species for every birder in Costa Rica), took photos and video, and spread the news. Harpy Eagle!

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Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official)

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I am not used to good news, and am suspicious of them. But let me go back – you do not know the news! The post Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official) appeared first on 10,000 Birds. What could be the big picture here, my suspicious mind keeps asking? mi at its widest point and some 9 km2 / 3.5

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Some Birding News about Birders in Costa Rica

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In Costa Rica, our July birding news usually consists of interesting sightings during the mid-summer tours. Of course, unless you live on Venus, we all know that this year is far from normal and so is the birding news. The post Some Birding News about Birders in Costa Rica appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Checking the news

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The next thing is starting the computer to check the news. And the first news web site is… eBird. And the “regular” news sites? I start my day with a coffee, a strong Turkish coffee without sugar – it is the stuff that makes the chest hair grow, as one UK friend of mine has put it. Oh, who cares!

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Good News for South Georgia Island’s Pipit Population

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While this is happy news for any parents, and wonderful news for any threatened species (these Pipits live only on Antarctica’s South Georgia Island and number only 3,000-4,000 pairs), it’s tremendous news for those trying to eradicate rats from the island. News invasive species rats South Georgia south georgia pipit'

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Birding News from Costa Rica at the Start of the Pandemic

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The post Birding News from Costa Rica at the Start of the Pandemic appeared first on 10,000 Birds. We watch from home but not forever and I can’t wait to see which migrants decide to stop in the vegetation across the street, which birds fly high overhead. It’s four p.m.

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Good News and Bad News for Orangutans

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The good news is that a new population of about 2,000 individuals was discovered in Borneo. The bad news is that the pet trade is decimating the population on Sumatra.

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Critter World News Now on ITunes!

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Migration and More: A Bird News Update

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With fall migration well underway everywhere, it’s a good time to see what’s flying in bird news. Prothonotary Warblers (like the dapper bird above captured for posterity by Corey) should carry frequent-flier cards—a recent Audubon-led study found that one geolocator-toting individual racked up more than 5,000 miles in eight months.

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Big Online Birding News

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Two big bits of online birding news! The American Birding Association has announced the launch of Birding News , which will be their takeover of the functions that have long been provided by Birdingonthe.net. eBird has reached 100,000,000 million records in its amazing database of bird sightings.

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This Week in Bird(ing) News: The Good, the Bad, and the Huh?

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Still craving more penguin news? The bad: Well, this one’s bad news if you’re a bird-mauling cat in England. News Nature News' (Penguins are also being touted as a way to gauge the health of oceans.). Sea World San Diego just welcomed the world’s first “test-tube” penguin. Can prairie grass curb bird strikes?

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This Week in Bird(ing) News: Science, Citizen Science, and Citizen Savagery

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News Bird evolution Common Cuckoo Israel Nature News perching' (Who knew there was such a thing?). Engineers are trying to mimic the mechanics of how birds perch in hopes of improving drones’ ability to land on wires.

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Whooping Crane News

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While the ultralight aircraft leading a flock of young Whooping Cranes to Florida may again take to the skies , that good news is tempered by the effects of the drought in Texas , which has already led to the death of at least one Whooping Crane there. It’s a mixed bag for our most charismatic of North American waders this week.

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A Place to Look For Animal Research News

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I stumbled across this site called FiercePharma that has all kinds of news about the drug industry. Note - this company has a lot of industry news sites on a wide range of topics, so they do more then just drug company news. If you go to the very top, there are tabs for FierceBiotechResearch and other topics.

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Andean Condors On The News

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I just read on the news that about 20 Andean Condors (Vultur gryphus) were poisoned in Chile. The birds were observed crashing into the rocks high in the Andean mountains near a hydroelectric power plant. Other birds were seen crash landing. Another sick condor and two dead ones were found nearby.

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Why is Reuters Putting News Releases From the United Egg Producers on Their Site as "News"?

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Reuters dutifully puts it on their website , which then gets picked up on my Google news page. The United Egg Producers issues a press release claiming that egg prices will rise 25% if animal welfare advocates get their way. All according to a study by some agribusiness related consulting firm.

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Bird News Roundup: Birds of a feather … well, you know the rest

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If a blustery, snowy afternoon isn’t custom-made for catching up on bird news, then I don’t know what is. News big bird black-throated blue warbler burrowing owls cats International Bird Rescue mating penguins pheasants social groups spill' Better to get current on what’s happening with the rest of the bird world. So much win.

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Summer guide to bird taxonomy and systematics news

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So while you’re waiting for that or for low tide, here are a few reads and bits of news on bird taxonomy and systematics that have caught my eye over the past few weeks. A new genus for the American Tree Sparrow.

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Say Hello to Our New Nature News Beat Writer!

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… Meredith Matthews is a long time reader of 10,000 Birds who regularly let Mike and Corey know about cool news stories, blog posts, and other tidbits related to birds that she found. Now Meredith is the Nature News beat writer and her posts appear whenever inspiration strikes her!

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NBC News 4 Covers the Killing of Snowy Owls at JFK Airport – Updated!

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But, when you receive such a call, and your supervisor agrees that you can have the rest of the day off from work as personal time, you end up showing a Snowy Owl for a very nice reporter and on then you end up on the news for NBC’s New York City affiliate. … News Floyd Bennett Field Snowy Owl' 1 Commerce Plaza.

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Happy Animal News

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AP News: Beloved monarch butterflies now listed as endangered

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Critter News Content to be Featured on AnimalRightsZone.com

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Starting tomorrow, Critter News content will be featured on AnimalRightsZone.com. But, some of our posts will show up on the new site as well. Note - we'll still be here. Joining us will be Animal Person , Creature Talk , and Animal Ethics.

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Good News for the Alamagordo Chimps!

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The Alamagordo chimps will be allowed to remain in New Mexico for about two years while the NIH studies the issue of their transference. I received an alert from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. This gives animal rights activists some time to prepare further defense of the animals. Good way to end 2010.

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Nate Makes the News!

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home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Nate Makes the News! Nate Makes the News! 4 Responses to “Nate Makes the News!&# Nate will make the News every day once he takes over from Obama after his second term.

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A Big Day, Some Bad News, and a Brazilian Surprise

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This past week in birding news was nothing if not exciting. Almost 16,000 birders, participating in the second annual Global Big Day on May 14th, ticked some 6,284 species worldwide. Let’s see Noah Strycker do that!).

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Angel Paz and Maria Make the Youngstown News

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Is it any wonder that Angel Paz and the most famous Giant Antpitta ever, Maria , make news all over the world? Here is an article from the Youngstown News about them both.

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Pokemon Go Is for the Birds—and Other Avian News

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There’s something for everyone in this week’s bird news—gotta get ’em all! Snail Kites photo by Corey. First off, does your injured bird need a blood transfusion? Now, you can get one, thanks to the world’s first avian blood bank.

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Good news for the Wood Stork

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I was happy to read that the wood stork ( Mycteria Americana ), a bird near and dear to me, was down-sited from the status of endangered to threatened species. On June 25, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the U.S.

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This Week in Bird News: Junk Food Junkies, Snacks on a String, and More

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But there’s plenty of better—or at least more interesting—news for birders. In what appears to be good news for the Gunnison Sage Grouse (depending on which environmentalists you ask), a federal proposal suggests new protections. ., at least—international markets, you’ll have to wait a bit longer.)

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Some Good News In NJ Farm Animals Case

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“Although the court noted that these practices are controversial and that downed animals ‘suffer greatly,’ it found the record on appeal insufficient to warrant striking the regulations at this time,” explains an article from the Environmental News Service.

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This Week in Bird News: Hawaiian Edition

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In the popular imagination, Hawaii is a tropical paradise. (No, No, not a magical place— you’re thinking of Tahiti, Agent Coulson.) But it’s not always so wonderful for native flora and fauna. Take birds. The endemics that have inhabited the islands from time immemorial are threatened.

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Good News for Greyhounds

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Here are a couple recent bits of good news. But one area that continues to provide them is the fight against the use of greyhounds as a source of entertainment (and gambling revenue) by forcing them to race. You may recall that Massachusetts voters let their opinions about dog racing be heard when they voted to ban racing in their state.

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Derby winner Medina Spirit collapses, dies in California | AP News

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Lame News Story!

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So, I click on this story because the link says no pets were lost on the US Airways flight that went down in the Hudson. Great, right? Makes it sound like they were rescued right? Well, no pets were lost because there were no pets on the flight in the first place.

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Any News is Good News?

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The winner of this year’s Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for worst opening sentence to an imaginary novel is about birds and windmills. Sure, it is not a scientific treatise, but anything that brings attention to this issue is good, right?

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AP News: Report: Ghostly monkey among 224 new Mekong region species

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Good News?

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New York City killed less Canada Geese this year than any year since they started rounding the geese up and slaughtering them. The cullings have happened every year since the 2009 emergency landing of a US Airways plane in the Hudson River after the plane struck geese and was disabled.

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It’s 11 O’Clock. Do You Know Where Your Red-eyed Vireos Are?

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I haven’t watched nightly news in a while, actually, never really watched it as a kid either. However, I remember it, even if not for any of the news items. What I do remember is Irv Weinstein, Buffalo’s favorite news guy. If it weren’t for the news reminding me, I could have lost you!”

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This Week in Bird(ing) News: Orange Is the New Beak, and a Dead Parrot (No Joke!)

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obsessing over World Cup matches), here’s some bird news to peruse: Loss of suitable habitat , instead of insecticides, seems to be the culprit in declining numbers of grassland birds. Ill-timed mowing … which a petition aims to stop in New York’s Hudson Valley. News Bell Miner Birds Eurasian Blackbird kenya Zebra Finches'

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Shocking News!

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The ABA Bird of the Year for 2012 will not be Green Heron. I’m not allowed to say what it is until 20 March but, really, does it matter if it isn’t the finest of North America’s avifauna ?

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AP News: Search on for humpback whale entangled in debris off Hawaii

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AP News: Elephants dying from eating plastic waste in Sri Lankan dump

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