10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Northern Ohio for the Biggest Week in American Birding, with visits to Magee Marsh and Ottawa NWR. I mention these trips because, along with other trips and experiences closer to home, they inform my research into my future birding travel. Northern Gulf Coast of Texas , with stops at Anahuac NWR, Brazoria NWR, and Aransas NWR.

San Francisco 100

San Francisco Portland United States Puerto Rico 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary was an amazing and unexpected treat, but that’s because I failed to do my research. It’s only 15 minutes north of High Island, though in neighboring Chambers County (High Island is part of Galveston County, good to know if you’re going to be researching eBird checklists). Wood Thrush!

Houston 203

Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 203

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

Once a body of research was established and the bird was declared endangered, it took many more years of experimentation, political maneuvering, conflicts with the National Guard, and some tragic fires to establish what is now acclaimed as a model conservation project. Now there are volunteer guides, tours and a local festival.

Michigan 223

Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 223

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 26, 2011

Red Star has been part of almost every major national relief effort since 1916 from the Great Ohio Flood of 1937 to Hurricane Katrina to Mount St. Helens and 9/11. Further severe weather is predicted in the days and weeks to come. You can help make a difference by visiting American Humane Association at www.americanhumane.org.

Missouri 100

Missouri Rescue Memphis Alabama 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2018

Seabrooke Leckie has an educational background in zoology and is a freelance writer and naturalist who has worked on field research contracts in many areas of North America and who, if you look at her Flickr site, has talents for both illustration and photography. The indexes in both books thoroughly index scientific and common names.

North America 100

North America America Oklahoma Missouri 100

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Research indicates that sows do just fine in individual housing. Bryan Black President National Pork Producers Council Canal Winchester, Ohio, Oct. To the Editor: “ Standing, Stretching, Turning Around ” (editorial, Oct. 9) does little to advance the debate on farm animal housing. Editorial rhetoric won’t help.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Gestation Farm Animal 40

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Andy Avram is a lifelong resident of northeastern Ohio, just east of Cleveland. Your author watching a Hawfinch instead of the castle Now it was time to research the trip. This passion eventually lead into his chosen career field where for the past few years have been happily employed as a naturalist at a county park district.

Salamander 137

Salamander Germany Birds Blackbirds 137

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

These Blasts From The Past No Owls at Croton Point I Hate Connecticut… Birding Kazakhstan: Morning of Day 1 in Astana Ottawa By Way of Ohio The Snow Bunting That Almost Killed Me, or, Hyperbole in Bird Blog Post Titles is Fun! Germany had lost one of its most promising ornithological researchers, and one of its most active birders.

2011 157

2011 Cyprus Deer Species 157

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

billion a year between 1997 and 2005, totaling nearly $35 billion, according to researchers at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. Jules L Garel Columbus, Ohio, July 31, 2008 In the past decade, for instance, we have doled out more than $3 billion in direct subsidies to large-scale livestock producers.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

So, while waiting for evolution to produce new birds for our life lists is inadvisable, we sometimes catch a break and every few years get a new species or two when some genetic research or study of breeding distribution presents enough evidence to split what was once considered a single species into a few new ones.

Ohio 113

Ohio India Hawaii United States 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Avery’s trip through Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York holds more promise. The imaginary scenario is clearly taken from eyewitness accounts, but sources are not footnoted. This is not that kind of book, as Fuller makes clear from the beginning.

2014 159

2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 159

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

The majority of wildcats live today in Africa, and virtually none of them have provided the DNA from which supposed histories of domestication have been constructed by researchers. Cats migrate out of the parks and live in areas where the researchers found the cats to be both fatter and less diseased.

Feral Cats 253

Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 253

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2011

While in Ohio for the Midwest Birding Symposium Christopher , Susan , and I made our way to Metzger Marsh one day to see if there were any good birds out by the lake. Kudos to him for all the research he did to make people more aware of birding. Wait, what? Why would someone be famous now because of a big year thirteen years ago?

New York City 157

New York City New York New Hampshire Research Center 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. A Great Backyard Bird Count Miracle Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2011) What is the International Bird Rescue Research Center Anyway? Or These Blasts From The Past What’s In A Name?

2011 241

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 241

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2022

This turned out to be nice for one researcher who thus could do the research for her Ph.D. Interestingly, in her work, the researcher found that the birds live in small groups dominated by a single male. A bit surprisingly (at least to me), the Kalij Pheasant has been introduced and established as a gamebird in Hawaii.

Rhode Island 147

Rhode Island Research South Dakota North Dakota 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

In A Feathered River Across the Sky , Joel Greenberg quotes the experience of the residents of Columbus, Ohio in 1855: “Now everyone was out of the houses and stores, looking apprehensively at the growing cloud, which was blotting out the rays of the sun. We know what those large flocks were like. Children screamed and ran for home.

Mauritius 101

Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 101