10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2012

Just before Thanksgiving, 2010, a driver spotted a Red-tailed hawk sitting on a dead rabbit in the middle of the road. She wasn’t about to leave her rabbit, and the driver figured something was wrong, so he picked her up. The grand old bird became a surrogate mother, and raised them herself. And to prove it, there’s The Queen.

Rabbits 237

Rabbits New Jersey Neglecting North America 237

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. Endangered Species List, giving it free reign to wander and populate North America in ever increasing numbers, including a nest on the ledge of the U.S.

Falcons 179

Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 179

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Fish and Wildlife Service. On the short list of wins for wildlife during the Bush II era, Short-tailed Albatross were officially listed as Endangered in 2000. Most birders are familiar with this story; back in the day, the pesticide DDT was in widespread use all over North America. Somebody won a Nobel Prize.

Albatross 204

Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 204