10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Passenger Pigeon chick in aviary, 1896, photographer’s identification uncertain, photo now property of the Historical Society of Wisconsin, p. Laughing Owl, 1909, New Zealand, photo taken by Cuthbert and Oliver Parr, pp. Their photos are the only known ones taken of the owl in the wild. And, they are fascinating.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2014

And here’s the kicker finish to this paragraph: this “vittata”-morph is not just a conventional morph, as in the Skuas/Jaegers, the Screech-Owls or Cuculus – cuckoos. In a small town named Albion, in the south of Wisconsin, there is a small cemetary where a man is buried that you may know well.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

There are owls in New York City. Big owls: Barred Owls on Riverside Drive and down the path from Harlem Meer, a Great Horned Owl in Central Park’s Ramble. The NYC owls have little to do with the book in front of me except that it too is about birds and people. But–is that it?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

Recently it has also been documented as breeding in Wisconsin, Ontario, and the Upper Michigan Peninsula, but those birds are few and not always accessible. So if you want to see a Kirtland’s Warbler, you go to Michigan in May or June. One of the strange things about the Kirtland’s Warbler story is the participation of Nathan Leopold, Jr.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Bird bloggers from Wisconsin to Massachusetts. The usual understanding of why irruptions of birds – from Red-breasted Nuthatches to Snowy Owls – occurs is that there is a shortage of food. Birders are delighted by Snowy Owls. Remember that friend of mine that saw 17 breeding pairs of Snowy Owls in a single valley?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

With the proposed hunting seasons on sandhill cranes being discussed in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin, we must not forget the whooping crane, which travels and winters in the big sandhill crane flocks. photo by Cyndi Routledge Here it is then, another angle on the proposed sandhill crane seasons in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2022

For example, I wrote about litigation involving the California Condor , Barred and Spotted Owls , Golden-cheeked Warbler , California Gnatcatcher , and Greater Sage-Grouse , among others. And I wrote several posts about the unsuccessful efforts of the Trump Administration to alter the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2022

For example, I wrote about litigation involving the California Condor , Barred and Spotted Owls , Golden-cheeked Warbler , California Gnatcatcher , and Greater Sage-Grouse , among others. And I wrote several posts about the unsuccessful efforts of the Trump Administration to alter the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA).

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