10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Fish & Wildlife Service). Further, a new scientific study suggests that these crows may have an advantage over other avians—like their cousins, the New Caledonian Crows , they are revealed to be tool users. And if you’re lucky enough to be on the island of Hawaii next weekend (Sept.

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Hawaii Branding Birds Science 156

Reddit Animals

JANUARY 26, 2024

I am the creator of 'Petrushka Nature' a YouTube channel producing wildlife-related content with a strong use of classical music. Highly professional video editing (my profession is video editing actually so I am able to create something really powerful with the tools I know how to handle). You can watch it here : [link]. .

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Argentina Wildlife Animal 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2020

I am a birder, who began photographing birds as an identification tool. Even though some say good wildlife photography should not contain manmade elements, I like everything about this photo. I have often wondered how certain photographers manage to take endless pictures of wildlife before a totally black background.

Mexico 174

Mexico Sparrows South America Collecting 174

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2019

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) recently proposed reintroducing California Condors in the Pacific Northwest. One management tool used by FWS is reintroduction of an endangered species into its former range. In 1806, Lewis and Clark saw condors near the Columbia River, which makes up much of the Washington-Oregon border.

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California Condor California Endangered Species Oregon 233

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Sales of duck stamps have funded the preservation of wetlands and other wildlife habitat, which in turn has supported an increase in waterfowl populations. Eventually, the pigeons, as it were, may come home to roost and the waterfowl and other wildlife, as well as hunters and bird watchers, will be sitting ducks.

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Ducks Hunters Hunting Wildlife 223

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

While drones have the potential be a great tool in the world of wildlife conservation, they can also pose a serious problem for the animals they’re trying to protect. In 2014, the National Park Service banned drone use in all 58 national parks in order to protect wildlife and precious ecological landmarks.

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Birds Protection Idaho Bears 188

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2015

Language as a tool for projection is, I expect, a theme that will crop up again and again in this series. Images courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. As Macdonald herself amply proves, this is classic projection, another case of the human seeing in the nonhuman only what we want to see. Birds Goshawk names Northern Goshawk'

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Falcons Eagles Meat Geese 260

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

Tell me, what happens if we rip away hunting when hunting protects more wildlife land in Africa than national parks? There is a reason we talk about wildlife and habitat conservation, not wildlife and habitat preservation. Booking were down by half in some wildlife tourist sites. Ah, you’ve blocked me. I mean it.

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Lions Hunting Sierra Leone Buffalo 218

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Osborn Chelsea Green Publishing, a company committed to “publishing as a tool for social change and ecological stewardship,” has done an excellent job designing and packaging Feather Trails. Author Sophie A. Osborn, photo by Lisa Koitzsch, © Sophie A.

California Condor 190

California Condor Falcons California Birds 190

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2012

An iPhone 4S is an amazing tool for birders, as Sharon Stiteler has already let readers of 10,000 Birds know. An even better example to try out the video capabilities of the iPhone was on a recent visit to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. How many species do you hear singing? What species?

Chicago 160

Chicago Birds Jamaica Wildlife 160

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

National parks like Rocky Mountain, the Grand Canyon, and the Great Smoky Mountains, as well as national wildlife refuges, national forests, rivers and lakes, community parks, trails, and ball fields in every one of our 50 states were set aside for Americans to enjoy thanks to federal funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF).

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Legislation Montana America Wyoming 174

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The genus name Falco is said to derive from the Latin falx , meaning a sickle, the talon-like farm tool used to harvest grain, making it a fitting name for any malt beverage. As an American-style IPA, Falco is one of its more straightforward products.

India 123

India Falcons Austin Farming 123

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2014

I find them a moderately useful tool for sorting out my priorities. I have been to 11 countries to watch wildlife that this species lives in. Looking over my list, it seems I’m a fairly shallow wildlife watcher interested in spectacle. Now I get to work with it to try and save it. Bucket lists are interesting things.

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Sharks Leopards Whales Whaling 177

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2014

The multitude of tools and ways you can enter/view your personal data is quite impressive, and it only continues to grow…although it might be on a subconscious level, embracing eBird more can be another kick in the butt to get out in the field. Also, don’t underestimate the value ecotourism has for wildlife in many places.

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Birds Portland Oregon 2015 212

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Managing forested habitat within their range is potentially the best tool for helping Golden-wings; many existing and potential nest sites no doubt lie on private property. They have suffered from competition with Blue-winged Warblers (including hybridizing), forest succession, and parasitism by Brown-headed Cowbirds.

United States 160

United States Protection Endangered Species North America 160

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2012

Randy opens up the scanner box, a black plastic object that looks a lot like a cheap tool chest. Russell National Wildlife Refuge. Not Ferret 492, though. She’s getting back down to business. A more accommodating ferret.

Ferrets 174

Ferrets Prairie Dogs Coyotes Kittens 174

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

Harnessing the power of money is therefore a very important tool for conservation then. Not the solution to every problem, but a powerful tool for many problems. Regular readers of this site might be able to think of a much discussed example, that of birding on National Wildlife Refuges versus hunting.

Rhinos 171

Rhinos Hunting New Zealand Science 171

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

In this new book, she puts everything she has learned in over 30 years of wildlife photography down in writing. I was happy to see that the Resources section in the back of the book covers web sites and books on birds, photography techniques and computer tools programs not covered in the book (like Photoshop), and nature photography forums.

Birds 199

Birds Ethics 2019 Experience 199

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2012

Yet I realize banding is a very valuable tool, and gives us information we could not otherwise gather. And to prove it, there’s The Queen. Just before Thanksgiving, 2010, a driver spotted a Red-tailed hawk sitting on a dead rabbit in the middle of the road.

Rabbits 248

Rabbits New Jersey Neglecting North America 248

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Shark finning is the practice of removing fins from live sharks with sharp tools, and then tossing the shark back into the ocean. However, watching these shows on DIRECT.TV from home often does not give weight to the real struggles and dangers that many sharks face, including the barbaric practice of shark finning.

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Sharks Asia Endangered Species Hunters 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Over the last several weeks I have putting in the work to the Queens County Christmas Bird Count because I want it to be known as a good count, because I want to use it as a tool to involve new birders in Queens, and because I want to beat Brooklyn. But before I get into all of that I should first get into the history of the count.

Birds 163

Birds New York City New York New Jersey 163

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Quentin won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition (junior section) with the first-ever photograph of a nesting Chest-nutheaded Thrush. It offers lessons to other nature authors and publishers on how we can improve the field guide as an educational tool that encourages an ecological, conservation approach to bird travel.

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Brunei Birds Asia China 179

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Eckelberry, cofounder of the Asa Wright Nature Center and noted wildlife artist, did portraits of local birds.) O’Neill, the original illustrator and funded by the Asa Wright Nature Center. O’Neill illustrated the identification plates in the first edition and Don R. Principal artists are O’Neill, John Anderton, Dale Dyer, and John Schmitt.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 205

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2017

Swanson Wildlife Health Center received an adult male Red-tailed Hawk that had been found on Cornell University’s campus. A few days later the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology contacted the Wildlife Health Center to ask if they’d received any red-tails recently. Last Saturday, the Janet L. Their fears were confirmed.

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Feral Cats Suffering Montana 2006 109

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2012

Of course, evolution* demands that a tool not only do its job, but do it efficiently. Skimmer by Steve Hillebrand, courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service a. Here, an author and editor are less effective than millenia of natural selection. But if you appreciate skimmers from a distance, you may nevertheless want it.

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Denver Birds 2000 Collecting 170

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

Safflower is a great tool when dealing with grackles at the feeder. [.] Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled.

2011 197

2011 Birds Woodpeckers Blackbirds 197

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2013

My post last week where I defended game hunting as a conservation tool has, unaccountably, encountered a certain amount of push back. I, personally, deeply believe that wild places and wildlife have an existence value that should be respected. I hear you. I really do. It’s hardly an unreasonable request. Conservation'

Tigers 178

Tigers Hunting Game Protection 178

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Faraaz Abdool is a freelance conservation and wildlife photographer and writer who specializes in birds and the issues they face worldwide. Blind patience, perhaps the most understated tool of a birder’s arsenal. The post All I Want for Christmas is a Curlew Sandpiper appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Trinidad 2002 Fish Pelicans 308

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2020

The LWCF is generally considered a key land acquisition tool for both the federal government and states, and it has broad support in the conservation community. In other words, despite receiving little publicity, the LWCF has financed the vast majority of federal land acquisition for conservation.

Oregon 279

Oregon Arizona Research Washington 279

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Plus, a ruler. To find information, you have a fairly complete Table of Contents in the front of the book (it would be totally complete with listings of all those scattered family group accounts and the Sparrow Chart) and an Index of scientific and common names in the back.

Eggs 244

Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 244

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2017

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is considering changing the status of the endangered Black-capped Vireo : it has proposed delisting it entirely. And the expansion of prescribed fire as a wildlife management tool has improved and maintained breeding habitat. The Black-capped Vireo is the smallest vireo in the U.S.

Endangered Species 136

Endangered Species Species Texas Oklahoma 136

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

As it turns out, a useful tool for the amateur phenologist is a dog. Yes, it’s vital to leash your dog and teach him to be respectful of wildlife, but if you can manage that, he will make a phenologist out of you.

Bald Eagle 158

Bald Eagle Montana Owls Dogs 158

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A mid-book extension of the introductory section on Aging and Sexing Waterfowl, this is a unique tool that advanced birders will love. The 10-page section aptly named “Age, sex, and identification of ducks using in-hand upperwing patterns” is a guide to just that, utilizing images from two Washington State museum collections.

Ducks 124

Ducks North America Geese Hunters 124