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Week 32: Idaho’s Teton Valley, and a visit to Jackson, Wyoming

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Our little adventure now moves us farther north, into Idaho’s Teton Valley area, and a visit to Jackson, Wyoming. The post Week 32: Idaho’s Teton Valley, and a visit to Jackson, Wyoming appeared first on 10,000 Birds. The running totals on our Little Big Year adventure are as follows: Little Big Year species – 876.

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Little Big Year Week 33: Yellowstone

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Last week we were in the Teton Valley, getting ready to head over to Wyoming, and Yellowstone National Park. After leaving Yellowstone NP, we drove to Cody, Wyoming wanting to visit the Cody Western Museum, as well as hit a couple of bird sites. Our last night in Wyoming was spent at the historic Terry Bison Ranch.

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Wind Farm Company Pleads Guilty to Bird Fatalities

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Photo of a Golden Eagle at a Wyoming wind farm by Dina Cappiello/Associated Press. The case involved the deaths of more than 150 birds, including 14 eagles, at two plants in Wyoming between 2009 and 2013. In what is apparently the first case of its kind, a U.S. The statement from Duke Energy Corp.

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Northern Arapahoes Given Right to Kill Eagles for Religious Purposes

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A federal government decision to allow a Wyoming tribe to kill two bald eagles for a religious ceremony is a victory for American Indian sovereignty as well as for long-suppressed religious freedoms, the tribe says. The Northern Arapaho share the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming with the Eastern Shoshone Tribe.

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Snow-loving bird believed gone from Wyoming found to be resilient to climate change

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10,000 Birds goes eBirding – Part II

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(Inexplicably, eBird does not consider Puerto Rico part of the United States, but if it were properly included , it would do well, with 107 species.).

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eBird Weather: RainCrow Q&A

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A good example is once when I was visiting Wyoming, I found a checklist from a few years earlier that had 750 Horned Larks, 100 Lapland Longspurs, and a Golden Eagle at a nondescript place called “Beef Unit.” As I said, I like including weather observations and appreciate when others do too.

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Animal Legal Defense Fund Ranks States on Animal Protection

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And the worst: Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arkansas, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, South Dakota, Wyoming You can check out the whole report on their web site.

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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This is the title for the person who lives for both literature and nature. Dragan]: What puts Philip Briggs’s Sri Lanka into a class of its own is a special emphasis on nature and wildlife-watching tourism.

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Back from the West!

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The birds weren’t high on the agenda while we were in Wyoming but I still managed to see some. When we left Wyoming we headed west across Idaho making a stop at Craters of the Moon National Monument and spending the night further west still in Boise.

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Learning the Birds: A Book Review

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There is the hike up Slide Mountain (NYS) for Bicknell’s Thrush with the John Burroughs Natural History Society; the thirteen mile solo trek through the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming while on a writers’ residency; the first twitch (for a Fork-tailed Flycatcher in Connecticut, a bird I had seen several days before her); the first Christmas (..)

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Snowy Owls Can Fly!

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It was Shawn’s first of the year, Wyoming student that he is, so we were in no rush to move on. I’m sure you’ve seen 1,000 images remarkably similar to this in the last couple of weeks. We just stood there watching the bird for awhile in the early morning light.

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My Top Ten Birds of 2016

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I saw a very nice male Western Tanager while I was in Wyoming this summer but the relatively drab bird I saw in City Hall Park made the list and the one in Wyoming didn’t. Western Tanager , 27 November, City Hall Park, Manhattan, New York. What gives?

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Books for Animal Lovers; May Edition

4 The Love Of Animals

Pukka tells the story of how Ted met the young yellow lab, recounting the early days of their bonding as they explore Kelly, Wyoming, and the wider world. Pukka: The Pup After Merle This story is told in the charming voice of Ted’s new pup and is illustrated with more than two hundred photos!

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Trumpeter Swans: Don’t Shoot Them

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Only several dozen of these swans wintered in the region (the region being, approximately, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming) and for some reason they were almost all at this river in this year, and on this day, they were right there in view. My sister told me they were Trumpeter Swans ( Cygnus buccinator ). All of them. Or almost so.

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10,000 Birds goes eBirding

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Many of the states with more than 100 species are home to contributors and/or have destination birding locations and/or are popular places generally. Some are all three ( e.g. , New York, California, and Florida).

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The Popular Barn Swallow

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Chicks in nest in Wyoming. From pictures I saw, I thought a nest built using mud and looking like bricks neatly stacked was rather unique. But, seeing a actual barn swallow nest would imply either going to central Argentina or travel to northern latitudes during the breeding season. Photo: Alfredo Begazo.

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448 Great Things to do in Nature

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Ken Keffer was born and raised in Wyoming. As editor of Birds & Blooms magazine, she is able to share her love of backyard nature with others. stacy loves gardening (especially growing veggies) and she is a master gardener in Milwaukee where she teaches youth gardening in the community.

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The “Birds” in the Brush

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One species, the Wyoming ground squirrel, spends only about three hours a day above the surface of the earth, and that only on days during the four months of the year when they are not hibernating. Almost the only universal thing that can be said about the ground squirrels is that they live on, and in, the ground.

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The Why of Ferrets

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Then, in Meeteese, Wyoming, the Hogg family’s ranch dog Shep found something. The way Randy figures it, a desperate or curious ferret discovered a bowl of dog chow, and set to eating kibbles; then Shep discovered the ferret.

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The five most unique birds in the world

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The Oilbird today lives only in South America, but fossils of similar species are known from Wyoming. It’s a bat-like cave-dwelling, echolocating, fruit-eating nocturnal species capable of hovering on three-foot wings.

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Tell Congress To Fully Fund The Land And Water Conservation Fund

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The landscape known as the Crown of the Continent extends from northern Idaho and Wyoming through Montana to the Canadian border, linking the Greater Yellowstone and Salmon-Selway ecosystems and including Grand Teton, Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks.

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Canis Lupus

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Here is a New York Times story about gray wolves, who are no longer on the protected list in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. If you haven't read Barry Holstun Lopez 's 1978 book Of Wolves and Men , you should do so. It changed my life.

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Little Big Year – Week 34: We visit Colorado and Texas

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With Wyoming and South Dakota in our rear view mirror, we look toward Colorado, and a hot spot I have been anxious to visit. Trinidad Colorado is located just a few miles north of the Colorado – New Mexico border, and home to the Trinidad Reservoir.

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A Colorful Finch in Colorful Colorado

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Their range of breeding is literally only very southern Wyoming to very northern New Mexico. Try hiking a Colorado 14,000 foot mountain and your chances of having these guys at your feet rise exponentially. Most REAL montane species like this finch are declining in overall population. Thus, Colorado encapsulates most of their breeding range.

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Bird Litigation:  Guilty Plea Under Migratory Bird Treaty Act

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District Court for the District of Wyoming in April 2022. Broadly summarizing, the information alleges that ESI violated the MBTA and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act by failing to secure permits for several of its facilities in Wyoming. The information is 17 pages and it details the facts underlying the charges.

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Polyandry and Polygynandry on the Tundra

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Shawn Billerman is a graduate student at the University of Wyoming studying birds, though his degree will likely use fancier words than that. He is a New Yorker, a great birder, and a nice guy. You may remember him spotting a shrike in Brooklyn from the passenger seat of Corey’s car back in December.

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

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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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The Amazing Exploding Dove Meets Montana

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And of Wyoming. Here – in a state so far removed from their native land that the entire city of Missoula doesn’t even have an Indian restaurant – they are now hunkered down amidst lingering snow to make more Eurasian Collared-doves. They appear regularly on our Christmas Bird Counts and number in the hundreds.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

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However, 12 states, namely, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming and Wisconsin [Imagine, The Dairy State doesn't protect a woman's right to nurse!],

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