Critter News

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The Humane Society of the United States, SPCA of East Texas and Humane Society of North Texas worked with the Smith County District Attorney's Office to rescue 50 horses from a Lindale property. 50 surviving horses were rescued. For the full story, go here to KLTV.com.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2019

The striking Golden-cheeked Warbler nests only in the hills of central Texas near Austin but a substantial part of those breeding grounds have leveled in favor of development. One of the fastest growing cities in America, Austin is the capital of Texas and home of the University of Texas. United States Fish & Wildlife Serv.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

The pair shot last year in Kentucky belonged to Operation Migration’s project establishing a migratory flock in the eastern United States; there is also the last true wild flock , which winters in Texas and summers in Canada.) The pair was part of a project aimed at restoring the birds to Louisiana.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2020

One of the reasons Mexico is such a great birding area is that, while it shares all sorts of bird groups with the United States and Canada, it also is home to some of the northernmost representatives of neotropical and genera that do not (or just barely) reach that far north, such as Woodcreepers, Tityras, and Trogons.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

The key point is that Refuge System is perhaps the most important conservation program in the United States. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and they are located in every state as well as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and they are located in every state as well as Puerto Rico, the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

To keep things relatively close to home and reasonably-priced, I have limited myself to birding in the United States, creating my own birding area consisting of all 50 states and the U.S. Northern Gulf Coast of Texas , with stops at Anahuac NWR, Brazoria NWR, and Aransas NWR. territories such as Puerto Rico and the U.S.

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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. As I noted above, half the film takes place in the United States and half in Mexico. ” and then adds, “The border wall is no barrier to birds.”

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

There are not may in the United States – less than 2,000 pairs according to Texas Parks & Wildlife - and most of those are in Texas. It is no wonder that I haven’t seen many Reddish Egrets in my lifetime.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Birding trips to Florida , New Mexico , and Texas are obvious too. Of course, my Profile Page allows me to see this information in yet another way, via a color-coded map that allows me to look globally, by country, by state, and by county. Since virtually all of my birding to the United States, that’s the map I look at most.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2024

Sixteen species that have been recorded in the United States are covered: six Myiarchus flycatchers and ten Kingbird ( Tyrannus ) flycatchers. Lee and Birch have co-authored field identification articles on birds that are not flycatchers, including dowitchers, loons, pipits, and orioles, for Birding and Texas Birds Annual.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2013

Brown-crested Flycatcher ( Myiarchus tyrannulus ) is a widespread bird species of scrub and wooded habitats with a range extending from southern Texas and the southwestern United States, through Central America, and down south all the way to northern Argentina.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

One of the two sub-species of Red Knot occurring in North America, the Rufa subspecies breeds in the Canadian Artic Region and migrates along the east or Atlantic coast of the United States. From North Carolina south to Texas, just under half of beaches are developed.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2021

Because there is no national list of birders, the survey was conducted using eBird membership in the United States, which may or may not be representative of American birders generally. Nationally, most birdwatching occurred in California (9%), followed by New York (6%), Texas (5%), Pennsylvania (5%), Florida (5%), and Ohio (4%).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2011

Found from coast to coast in the United States and southern Canada, the White-breasted Nuthatch is missing only from portions of the Rocky Mountains and from a wide band that stretches from the Gulf of Mexico north through Texas into the Great Plains.

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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. His parents moved where opportunity beckoned, taking him from San Angelo, Texas, to Columbus, New Mexico, then to Dallas, and finally on to California.

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Critter News

APRIL 15, 2010

According to our government, the animal rights and environmental movements are the number one domestic terrorism threat in the United States. What about the nut who flew his plane into the IRS building in Texas? What about militias? White supremacists?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Today’s vagrant could be tomorrow’s resident, a change that is visibly happening with, for example, the Clay-colored Thrush in southern Texas. Authors Alexander Lees & James Gilroy are British ornithologists who have spent time working in the United States. Copyright © 2022 Alexander Lees and James Gilroy.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2012

If I have learned anything from living in the northern half of the United States is that in order to survive winter with my sanity in tact is that I need to eat a lot of kale, take a daily 20 minute walk (no matter how cold) and plan a trip some place warm even if it’s only for 48 hours. But how about you?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

Ontario is larger than Texas, more than 1 million square kilometers of forests, cities, wetlands, tundra, rivers and lakes. It borders the Hudson Bay to the north and four Great Lakes to the south, accessible by car and sometimes feet from the United States over bridges with names like Rainbow, Ambassador, and Seaway Skyway.

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Critter News

JANUARY 6, 2009

Barack Obama has picked Tom Vilsack, former Governor of Iowa, to be the next Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). He’s certainly not the best choice; however, I think Vilsack may be a choice holding forth a reasonable hope of significant change.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in. Baicich, Margaret A.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Well, that’s just not really our style, so at the very last minute, we rented a high gas mileage car, thru a few things in a cooler, and our birding gear and headed for south Texas. We left Tucson on Monday, and drove to Alpine, Texas for our first night. That lovely little owl represented bird number 34 for the run thru Texas!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

We birders north of Mexico used to have a parrot to call our own, a sun-faced, spike tailed jewel called the Carolina Parakeet that traversed the southeastern United States preceded by the adrenaline inducing ear piercing squeals that haunt the fever dreams of any birder lucky enough to have made the journey to the Neotropics.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2017

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), contain many of the nation’s most renowned birding locations, including Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico, Laguna Atascosa NWR in Texas, and J.N. Ding” Darling NWR in Florida. What are WPAs and why should birders care about them?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. These are some of the many species that breed on Marion and Prince Edward Islands which are targeted by the mice population.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2011

Ferruginous Hawks are, at the moment, fairly common amidst their habitat of the short-grass prairies that stretch across the entire western Great Plains from southern Alberta through parts of west Texas and California. The large range they occupy is what is keeping their population afloat, however, declining.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

…It is estimated that the number of free-roaming cats in the United States may be equal to that of owned cats, approximately 70 million. In Copperas Cove, Texas. There is a petition to reverse the anti-feral cat policy.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

If the home birding patch is in Canada or the United States of America, it’s not really that far. Get on the plane anywhere from North Carolina to Texas or Florida and we are talking three to four hours. All birders should say yes because the small country where I live is easier to visit than a lot of people think.

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Costa Rica Falcons Birds North Carolina 119

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

Happily, there is absolutely no evidence, scientific or anecdotal, to support Monk Parakeets as agricultural pests in the United States. 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

MAY 19, 2011

Brian Bielfelt is a birding biologist who has birded and lived all over the United States but currently calls Texas home. Clay was the driving force behind the Triathlon Hawks and put the whole weekend together. He knows his stuff and, with the exception of the occasional Red-winged Blackbird call, is rarely fooled by a bird.

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New Jersey Bald Eagle Birds United States 161

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

For the United States, there is also a state list. The writers at 10,000 Birds span the globe, but I am particularly interested in the lists for the United States, as that is my “beat.” As of mid-October 2018, the Collaborative had submitted more than 1,700 checklists and observed 618 species in the United States.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

I'm a citizen of the United States (as well as some of its subdivisions, such as Texas and Fort Worth). By the way, one answers questions and solves problems. One does not answer problems. Note 2 from KBJ: Kant denied moral status to nonhuman animals.

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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. I’m sure there are states that I missed, but you get the idea.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2018

The Southeastern guide goes a bit more west, to eastern Oklahoma and Texas, so its northern borders lie at the north boundaries of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Organization and Content. The guides are organized taxonomically and laid out in the traditional Peterson manner—illustrations on the right, text of the left.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2019

I recently traveled to Texas and made a trip to Hagerman NWR (an “Honorable Mention”), which is north of Dallas. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) manages the wildlife aspects of the unit while another federal agency (in this case the U.S. 31 in the United States. I have been to 22 of 35.) FWS has a bird checklist.).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The Louisiana Black Bear (shown above) was listed as threatened within its historic range (defined as southern Mississippi, Louisiana, and east Texas) under the Endangered Species Act on January 7, 1992 (57 FR 588), due to extensive habitat loss and modification, as well as human-related mortality.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Sitta canadensis isn’t just irrupting out of its far northern home but exploding southward, with reports in every southern state except for Florida, including birds on the outer banks of North Carolina, on Grand Isle, Louisiana, in a suburb of Atlanta, and on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Bird bloggers from Wisconsin to Massachusetts.

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