10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2014

In it, researchers from Wisconsin compared cornfields with grasslands in terms of which provided better bird habitat. The results suggest that grasslands, often populated by diverse species of grass as well as wildflowers, tend to support more varieties of birds, including declining species like Dickcissels.

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Badgers Wisconsin Birds Research 167

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2018

Others were established to protect specific bird species or subspecies. Horicon NWR (Wisconsin). according to eBird , including: Aransas (368 species); Bosque del Apache (360); Parker River (359); Laguna Atascosa (356); Santa Ana (342); Anahuac (329); Pea Island (326); and Edwin B. Bombay Hook NWR (Delaware). Forsythe (319).

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Wildlife Las Vegas Texas Minnesota 214

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2017

Now that I can travel, I have perversely discovered the charms of really working over one spot of habitat across the seasons and the years; as such I’m on a mission to find 100 species of bird in Socrates Sculpture Park, a bit of Queens between the East River and Vernon Boulevard where artists create open-air displays. Why an asterisk?

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New York New York City Illinois Wisconsin 103

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

Folks want to know what they can see, if it’s worth traveling to Trinidad and Tobago, if they should to to Ecuador for three days or three weeks, or if one should drive to Wisconsin to look for a vireo with white eyes or a blue head. The gray hawks weren’t the only north-south sister species that meet in Costa Rica.

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Costa Rica Birds Owls South America 197

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2013

Since these things are filmed in New Zealand, I would have guessed they’d use a New Zealand bird but hey, the fact that they used the state bird of Wisconsin and even dubbed it over with the actual call totally impressed me.

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New Zealand Wisconsin Birds Minnesota 218

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

Pough “with illustrations in color of every species” by Don Eckelberry, Doubleday, 1946. The National Audubon Society Birds of North America covers all species seen in mainland United States, Canada and Baja California. The press material says it covers over 800 species, so you know I had to do a count.

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North America America Birds California Condor 278

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2013

It is easy to tell when some species become extinct — a Martha or a Lonesome George dies and there are no more, not now, not ever (until science fiction kicks in.) ” that leads to comments like “…my wife and I observed what I could swear is that exact bird two days ago, on a pond in NE Wisconsin!”

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Myanmar Bangladesh Ducks Wisconsin 188

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2011

They are also found in the mountainous interior west as far south as Arizona and New Mexico, as well as in the far northern reaches of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, and New England. Gray Jay is considered a Species of Least Concern by BirdLife International because of its large range and large and stable population.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2013

More than 50,000 Sandhill Cranes stop to feed while migrating during the fall and winter between Wisconsin and Florida. You don’t feed, encourage and celebrate a large, lovely, charismatic species for 17 years, attracting thousands of devotees who travel each year just to admire it, and then turn around and kill it in front of them.

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Tennessee Hunting Hunters Wisconsin 226

Critter News

JANUARY 30, 2009

Wildlife conservationists say the freeze will delay and possibly prevent the removal of gray wolves from the federal endangered species list in Montana, Idaho, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, and also in portions of Washington, Oregon, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2013

Great Gray Owl , Northern Hawk Owl , Snowy Owl – this trinity captures the imagination of most birders with their imposing presence, unique adaptations, and beauty as among the most desired species of bird to see in the world. On the third day, we finally connected with the species I wanted to see the most and just could not miss.

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Minnesota Owls Bald Eagle Hoarding 179

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

TRAVERSE CITY - State officials say they're not pleased with a federal court's ruling overturning the government's decision to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list for the Great Lakes region. The ruling today affects wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. District Court in Washington, D.C.,

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

Why is there no state or federal money available to care for federally protected species? Not only that, but I’d like five dollars every time I have to listen to someone tell me they kept a (fill in species of random animal) until it ‘got wild’ and bit them, and then (fill in horrible form of animal demise).

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 242

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2014

The species you will shake your fist at after reading this post is the Pied Wheatear Oenanthe pleschanka. The species has [drum roll] a mysterious morph that’s funny in a peculiar way and largely restricted to the southwest of Kazakhstan. And isn’t the Kumlien’s Gull an interesting species?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2017

The resulting properties—WPAs—are small ponds, wetlands, and associated grasslands, primarily in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana, but also in Michigan, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Iowa. Key waterfowl species include Redhead , Northern Shoveler , Blue-winged Teal , Mallard , Gadwall , Wood Duck , Canvasback , and Canada Goose.

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Factory Ducks North Dakota Nebraska 116

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2011

I can certainly speak about the Midwest where states like Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, etc. While we continue to decimate our short and tall grass prairies many species reach their inevitable peril. Here in Colorado many species are affected, but perhaps none more than our beautiful Mountain Plovers and Ferruginous Hawks.

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Prairie Dogs Colorado North Dakota Soreing 162

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2011

Wild Turkeys were a species of concern in the 20th Century and several reintroduction programs were tried, including the release of domestic turkeys (that didn’t work so well). There’s a story out of Wisconsin this week of a 5 year old boy that was shot because someone thought he was a turkey.

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Turkey Hunters New Jersey Boston 224

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

The idea of Lost Animals was conceived after the publication of Extinct Birds (2001), a 400-page, four-pound book on 75 extinct species. Passenger Pigeon chick in aviary, 1896, photographer’s identification uncertain, photo now property of the Historical Society of Wisconsin, p. Other species are less known.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 265

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

But getting a grip on gulls can be rewarding, and even within a large group of seemingly drab-colored, dump-loving trash eaters, there are spectacular species, like the dramatic Sabine’s Gull, the nearly mythical Ivory Gull, and easily one of the most sought-after species in North America, the mysterious Ross’s gull. (p.

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Birds North Carolina North America Science 263

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Cade credited the 1965 Madison [Wisconsin] Peregrine Conference with further alerting him and many others to the plight of Peregrines and other birds of prey. 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. And grow they did.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 173

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. It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience.

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 223

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

As of mid-October 2018, the Collaborative had submitted more than 1,700 checklists and observed 618 species in the United States. The heat map is revealing: Unsurprisingly for a site founded and run by two New Yorkers (one of whom literally wrote the book on birding New York), the Empire State boasts the highest number of species (316).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

For mankind to snatch away a species’ very existence is wrong on so many levels that I can’t begin to explain them. However, despite our best efforts to wipe them off the face of the earth, some of the more vulnerable species have managed to hang on. is going to have to go to Michigan or Wisconsin. Here are some U.S.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 199

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

Critically, NWRs preserve habitat and wildlife, often for endangered species. Horicon NWR (Wisconsin): 434,000; $8.6 Of course, the study does not purport to rank refuges based on visitation-based economic output, as that is just one metric. Bombay Hook NWR (Delaware); 166,000; $5.3 million; 48 jobs. million; 50 jobs. million; 412.

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Wildlife Maryland San Francisco Minnesota 241

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2015

During the 1980s, the Pacific Coast Population swans became the source of eggs for several restoration programs in Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Iowa 2. However, even though this species restoration is often considered a classic conservation success, significant problems for some flocks still exist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq1bx7Ic2FY.

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North America Iowa Wisconsin America 176

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death. 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. The big white one. Do all hunters realize that?

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 240

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

And, Ursula Murray Husted’s “Koan” is a lovely graphic story touched with a wry sense of humor, about a visit to Horicon Marsh, Wisconsin to watch the pelican migration, a simple story that is really not simple because it’s all about flying, disappointment, and surprises.

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New York City Birds Owls Fox 181

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Have a technicolor Lewis’s Woodpecker fly over a funeral in Wisconsin, though, and the birders are revealed when they either let out an audible gasp, tear their phones out of their pockets with fumbling hands to get the word out, or suddenly rush back to their vehicles (to either report the news or fly home for optics).

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Costa Rica Solomon Islands Wisconsin Farming 163

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

It is the 100th Anniversary of the extinction of the species known as the Passenger Pigeon and writers are paying attention. Errol Fuller’s The Passenger Pigeon is a beautifully illustrated, elegantly written “celebration” of the passenger pigeon and the artists who illustrated and photographed the species. It is a hodgepodge.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 159

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Every western dove and flycatcher that turns up along our wind-swept coast came there from somewhere; every alcid that somehow makes it to Wisconsin likewise, but in reverse. Expected, but still lovely native species that liven up our urban spaces. Desperate birds notoriously take desperate measures.

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Feral Cats Wisconsin Feral Cats 165

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2022

The Latin species name of the Kalij Pheasant is leucomelanos , meaning “white” (leukos) and “black” (melanos, both Greek words). As a popular game bird, the Ring-necked Pheasant seems to have such high importance in the US that there are several papers just discussing the species in individual US states.

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Rhode Island Research South Dakota North Dakota 147

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

According to the Newsweek article "Breast on a Plane" just linked-to above, last year Victoria’s Secret would not allow women to breastfeed in their stores in Wisconsin and Massachusetts. Never mind that the bulk of the fat in Starbucks's beverages comes from the milk -- yes, milk ! -- of another species. Never mind all that.

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Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2022

I also tried to explain the significance of federal administrative rulemaking, including as to the Federal Duck Stamp and the listing of endangered species such as the Black-capped Vireo and Hawaiian Goose. 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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Puerto Rico California Condor Virgin Islands Laws 168

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2022

I also tried to explain the significance of federal administrative rulemaking, including as to the Federal Duck Stamp and the listing of endangered species such as the Black-capped Vireo and Hawaiian Goose. 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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Puerto Rico California Condor Virgin Islands Laws 130

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Such are the flavors that imbue this week’s featured tipple, the Sparrow Spiced Cider by Æppeltreow Winery and Cidery of Burlington, Wisconsin (we’ve featured ciders from Æppeltreow’s “Songbird Draft Cider” series twice before, their Kinglet Bitter Draft Cider and Barn Swallow Draft Cider).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

According to Stanley Temple, a professor emeritus of conservation at the University of Wisconsin, “the extinction was part of the motivation for the birth of modern 20th century conservation.” ” In 1900, even before the last Passenger Pigeon’s death in the Cincinnati Zoo, Republican Congressman John F. A newly created U.S.

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Hunting Hunters Gorillas Wolves 109

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2018

as to number of species). Aransas NWR (368 species and 42.7% Horicon NWR (Wisconsin): 98.7%. The list of NWRs from 80-90% is impressive as well: Anahuac NWR in Texas (80.0%), Edwin B. Coast Guard after the lighthouse there was deactivated. They include: Hotspot No. of acres obtained with MCBF money); No. 64 Edwin B.

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Ducks Wildlife Texas Hawaii 203