10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2017

When the news broke about a possible border wall through Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge in Texas, I decided to make plans to visit before it got bisected by a concrete barrier. After all, each refuge has been set aside to permanently protect birds and other wildlife. Indeed, The U.S. However, prototypes have been built.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

February had brought zipping breezes and cloudy skies to this part of coastal Texas, but the birds didn’t seem to mind. Encompassing over 30,000 acres, the refuge protects birds of course, but also butterflies, mammals, and more. Have time along the Texas-Louisiana coast? What made my eyes widen?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2018

For example, Santa Ana NWR in Texas has been in the news because the Trump Administration proposed building part of the border wall directly through it. (It The list of NWRs from 80-90% is impressive as well: Anahuac NWR in Texas (80.0%), Edwin B. Aransas NWR (Texas): 42.7%. Laguna Atascosa NWR (Texas): 86.3%.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Sunshine State isn’t known for its massive snow drifts, nor for the massive flocks of Snow Geese that grace states like Texas and New Mexico every winter. Every year they migrate down to this Gulf Coast protected area, giving me the opportunity to observed Redheads, Hooded Mergansers, scaups, Ring-necked Ducks , and more.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2022

Some, according to her, consider it a form of slavery; a 1982 book in my library, The Birdwatcher’s Companion cites “the sentimentalist element of the wildlife protection movement” as deeming falconry to be comparable to cockfighting.).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2019

The endangered Golden-cheeked Warbler breeds only in Texas Hill Country near Austin and San Antonio, but much of its nesting grounds have cleared in favor of subdivisions. For example, a developer could set aside land for protection within the project (“on-site mitigation”). That would theoretically result in “no net loss” of habitat.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2017

It seems that Donald Trump, Scott Pruitt, and his band of misfits, believe that we no longer need protection of our waterways and our environment. As stated in a recent New York Times article.

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Critter News

JANUARY 7, 2009

When you add the roughly 335,000 square-mile-area in the Pacific that is now protected from virtually all fishing to the nearly 700,000 square miles he closed to bottom trawling, the most destructive kind of fishing gear, this president has given future generations an ocean gift nearly the size of Texas and Alaska combined.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Henry Philemon Attwater was born in Brighton, England and spent his early adult years in Canada, but the state of Texas – which he first visited at 30 and made his permanent home at 35 – has embraced him.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Finally some good-ish news for the Gunnison Sage Grouse : The boomers of the Rocky Mountain states have finally been granted “threatened species” protection. The United Nations released its new list of protected species as well, adding the Great Bustard along with the Polar Bear and other species.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Both Vu and the company were ordered to pay $40,000 to the Texas Park and Wildlife Foundation and a $5,000 fine and put on eighteen months probation after being found guilty in federal court. ” Birds are protected and can’t be shot at will, even in Texas. How bad was Vu and company?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2017

and it breeds in the scrublands of Texas, Oklahoma, and northern Mexico. The comment period closed in February 2017, and not all commenters were fully convinced, including Audubon Texas. Of course, regardless of the outcome, the vireo would, like other bird species, be protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

She runs Birds of Texas Rehabilitation Center in Austin County, Texas. If he were a Minnesota dentist, or a Texas veterinarian, or a beauty contestant posing with this trophy, would his argument for justifying this death be any different? But, he continued, some – but not all – of the researchers drove him nuts.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2018

By protecting 25 free-flowing Alaskan rivers in their natural state, we are almost doubling the size of our Wild and Scenic Rivers System. ANILCA created, consolidated, expanded, or otherwise protected numerous units of federal public land systems, including: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Three months of non-stop morning sickness left me drained, and I cancelled planned trips to Texas and New York, where I would have added a plethora of birds to my year list. With my new job, I feel privileged to work towards protecting vulnerable species each and very day. I did not fall into that category.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

Individually, many NWRs protect crucial bird habitat. For example, essentially the entire population of the endangered Whooping Crane winters at Aransas NWR in Texas. Because many NWRs were established to protect migrating birds, they lie along one of the four primary flyways. It’s not just for the birds.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2017

Not only is the Trump administration going about removing our hard fought environmental protections, they are destroying our reputation around the globe. With the administration’s plans to remove many regulations put in place to protect our environment, what can we expect in our future? What affect would that have on wildlife?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. The marine protected area status was designated in 2013.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2019

” So, it is established: this is a film about migrant birds and the people who work to protect them in south Texas and northern Mexico. ” and then adds, “The border wall is no barrier to birds.” And, “the border wall” is a character in that story.

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APRIL 14, 2015

This common bird is also the state bird for Arkansas, Texas (another avian hot spot), Tennessee, and Mississippi, so Florida even misses points for originality. Why not choose an iconic bird that could use a little extra protection? The brilliantly blue and endemic Florida Scrub Jay? The striking Snail Kite?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2019

Such migration hotspots include the famed Magee Marsh area in Ohio, Point Pelee in southern Ontario, Cape May, New Jersey, and what might be the best area, sites on the Texas coast. To find even one Cerulean Warbler, most birders need to spend a few days birding major migration hotspots or visit a known breeding site in June.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Instead, they are summer visitors, moving up to Colorado in the warm months to breed before returning to wintering grounds in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. Hopefully greater focus on Lark Buntings and other grassland species will promote additional conservation measures and protect them from further population problems.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Red-billed Curassow ( Crax blumenbachii ), a large, ground-dwelling bird belonging to the same family as the more familiar Plain Chachalaca of southern Texas, was never a very widespread species. This is a short series that brings attention to these incredible birds, and my various adventures to try and see them.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Protecting your pet in your home starts with putting down the toilet lid, securing the garbage, and putting away stray things that they can mistake for food. Protecting your cat or dog from exposed wires, especially chewing, is simple if you make a point to keep your electrical wires off the floor. Tuck wires out of sight.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2012

Now, he’s sharing some information sure to improve your experience of American historical sites… When I’m not writing about sports teams and bird logos , birding ephemera , or stumbling into first state records , I’m helping protect Civil War-related national parks with the non-profit National Parks Conservation Association in DC.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The wife of the Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens said {November 18} that she would create a refuge for wild horses, after the federal agency that manages them said it might have to kill some to control the herds and protect the Western range. Here's hoping it works out.

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Critter News

JANUARY 6, 2009

I’m glad that Obama didn’t select Charles Stenholm, a former Texas congressman with a long history of defending animal abuse, who had sought the position with support from the factory farming industry. As Iowa’s Governor, Tom Vilsack took steps to protect animals, including vetoing a bill that allowed dove hunting.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Galveston FeatherFest 2011 Galveston FeatherFest 2011 By Mike • March 16, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share Texas has been on my mind quite a bit lately, as has spring migration. Really… you too?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2017

In being an organic farm that also protects mature lowland rainforest, this is one heck of a birdy place (and the food’s not bad either- actually it’s unique and wonderful)! Not to mention, identifying more than 160 species in one day this year will probably also keep me there in 2018.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Units are located along both sides of the river and serve to protect and provide a wide variety of riparian habitats for birds, fish, and other wildlife.” The refuge was established in 1958 to protect and enhance habitat for migratory birds. The refuge is already open to upland game hunting and sport fishing.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Nonprofit pet protection groups would manage the program and be responsible for ensuring that cat caretakers take the required steps. In Copperas Cove, Texas. There is a petition to reverse the anti-feral cat policy.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

When this native of Mesoamerica and South America is spied in the wild, usually in some corner of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, it elicits admiring oohs and ahs. When a Muscovy is seen anywhere else, the result is rarely as positive: “What kind of duck is that and what happened to its face?!?&# Such is the lot of the Manky Muscovy.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2015

The Texas A and M Soltis Center : I was very pleased that we could once again bird this excellent site. This research station protects a large area of intact foothill rainforest connected to the bigger Arenal-Monteverde forest block. The Bicolored Hawk we saw on the road between Luna Nueva and the Soltis Center.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 6, 2012

This season Cesar will visit to Fort Hood, Texas, where he takes a handful of four-legged army brats back to boot camp. After Dog Whisperer, Philly Undercover, the new six-part series in which the PSPCA’s undercover police team works to eliminate dogfighting and protect all animals from abuse and neglect, premieres.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

Some articles speculate that the nests offer protection against the cold. The question is why these natives of rural areas in southern South America (east of the Andes) have been so spectacularly successful in establishing their colonies.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. There is evidence that a unique Canadian prairie population of lesser sandhill cranes is being selectively wiped out, since they migrate over the most heavily hunted areas of Texas. The proposal from U.S.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. The leopards place their kill in a tree, protecting it from poaching by other predators. So, the best way to find a leopard is to find the kill.

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