10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

I’ve been fortunate enough to enjoy outings to two hotspots that aren’t yet on the map: Chestnut Ridge Hawkwatch in Bedford, NY, and Illinois Beach State Park in Zion, Illinois. (The image above is James Currie’s, from Hawk Mountain in Pennsylvania.).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

More than concerned, he is dismayed and alarmed and has been since January 1974, when he first witnessed a Mourning Dove fly into a window and fall to the ground dead on the Southern Illinois University campus. This was his trigger moment, when he decided to find out why birds fly into glass windows and die.

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

However, most states still have less than 100 species, including: Missouri (98, unchanged); Wyoming (97, unchanged); Georgia (94, up from 54); Nevada (93, up from 53); Delaware (88, up from 83); Maine (82, up from 76); South Carolina (82, up from 49); Louisiana (81, up from 73); Alaska (79, up from 34); Maryland (62, unchanged); Illinois (50, up from (..)

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2023

Flight Paths gives us another opportunity to get to know Cochran, and Heisman’s visit to his Illinois house in 2021 (during the Pandemic, so everyone was masked) gives us a final, cheery portrait of a man who embraced birds and adventure. He died August 2022 , and the book is dedicated to him.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

Flower, from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Christopher J. Whelan, from the Illinois Natural History Survey, explained, “The increased utilization of EAB-infested ash trees by woodpeckers and bark-foraging birds observed in our study demonstrates that woodpeckers are able to shift their behavior to actively target EAB.”

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2019

Focusing on an often under-appreciated portion of the continent, the book showcases forty species found in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio – but perhaps not for long.

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Reddit Animals

MAY 14, 2021

submitted by /u/MiekerBeaker [link] [comments].

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Critter News

JANUARY 3, 2011

New Jersey Illinois Massachusetts Colorado Maine WORST STATES Ohio Hawaii Alabama North Dakota Mississippi Idaho South Dakota (worst) According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the states fell this way. BEST Illinois (best) Maine Michigan Oregon California WORST Mississippi Idaho Hawaii North Dakota Kentucky.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2015

In addition to North Carolina, six other states have named the cardinal their state bird, including Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio. A male Northern Cardinal. I’m not the only one who appreciates the Northern Cardinal.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

executive director of the Advanced Science Research Center of the City University of New York, former Harley Jones Van Cleave Professor of Host-Parasite Interactions at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign School of Integrative Biology, former professor and administrator at CUNY, and former editor of The Auk: Ornithological Advances (now called (..)

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

In the 1970′s, they were responsible for the destruction of up to 45% of certain crops.** The initial impetus for Pruett-Jones’ studies was to find out if the Chicago Monk Parakeets posed a threat to Illinois farmers. Urban parakeets in Northern Illinois: A 40-year perspective. Urban Ecosystems , Sept.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

I can’t speak for other locations, but the Illinois birders’ listserv has been pretty dead today. Most birds will probably fare just fine, if the cold snap is as short-lived as predicted. True, few hardy human souls are dedicated/crazy enough to go birding in these conditions (did I mention a windchill of –35?);

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Had birders and hikers heard its ethereal song in deciduous forests of southern Illinois? All we can say is that it saw its chance and took it. Where had the unfortunate bird spent the summer? Was it a young, inexperienced bird that grew up in the wet woods behind some subdivision in Ohio?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2015

Musselman of Quincy Illinois is generally credited with originating the bluebird conservation movement that extended beyond local boundaries. The vegetable food consists chiefly of fruit pulp, only an insignificant portion are from cultivated varieties.” ” Nest Boxes (Bird Houses) from 1912. It was in 1926 that Thomas E.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2020

I dread to imagine what Yellow-billed Cuckoos from Illinois, Missouri, and elsewhere will find when they arrive on these wintering grounds in 2020. All of these habitats are increasingly threatened by deforestation and massive fires fueled by climate change. Common Nighthawks. Droves of this nightjar of summer nights fly over Costa Rica.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2017

In Chicago in the early 2000s a sudden influx of European Goldfinches – possibly due to a rogue deliberate release – resulted in nesting records from Illinois and Wisconsin. New York is no more immune to such stunts than other cities.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2013

One has been seen in New Jersey in 1988 , in Illinois in 1949, and in Ohio in 1954 (Links are PDFs.) – interestingly, all in May.). Though the Large-billed Tern is a bird of freshwater rivers, lakes, and marshes of South America it does wander to North America on very rare occasions.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 27, 2012

Canine athletes are jumping through hoops to capture the gold at Doggy Games in Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Ohio, New York, New Jersey and Texas. Just check out these amazing doggy athletes!

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Critter News

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Among the best: California, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Oregon. The ALDF has released a report on how different states' animal protection laws stack up.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 21, 2012

Best Friends Pet Care is a leading national pet care company and offers boarding, daycare, grooming and training at 42 locations across 18 states, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2013

The Magic Hedge is renowned as one of the premier warbler watching sites in Illinois. Airline logistics and politics have kept me from Chicago for a while, so a trip there in the latter half of April was eagerly anticipated.

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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

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Did it nest in some remnant riparian zone in the west or did it swoop between forest patches in southern Illinois? If I could put some tent caterpillars out there in the backyard, I would! I wish I could ask it where it came from. Did it stop off in Mexico, Honduras, or Florida? Fly over the lights of cities in the east?

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Animal Person

JUNE 23, 2010

They're from a legal farm in Illinois, so the law isn't the reason. Here's my first problem with this: The number of lions in the wild is not affected by the farming operation in Illinois. I was curious about why it's so terrible to eat lions. It's probably going to come down to culture , I thought. Lions aren't food in our culture.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2013

King Rail and chick in Illinois cc-by Andy Reago. The birds’ mitochondrial DNA shows that, despite rails’ propensity for long-distance travel, the freshwater and saltwater populations are not two ends of a spectrum but rather maintain their distinctiveness despite the occurrence of hybridization in brackish environments.

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MARCH 11, 2013

But how many people know what a Blackhawk is?

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 22, 2011

About the Author: Monarch Landing is a Chicago senior living community located near the city in Naperville, Illinois. So you can see why a pet-friendly retirement community makes tons of sense for anyone who owns a pet or simply enjoys the company of animals. Anything to the contrary would be … unnatural.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2013

Maria and I, first-year graduate students in Zac Cheviron’s lab at the University of Illinois, Urbana-. My labmate Maria Stager and I have entered a contest for a $10,000 research grant from Endnote. To win, we need your votes! Champaign, are studying the genetic basis of morphological and physiological adaptations in birds.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2007

In DeKalb, Illinois, that monster is Cavel International, the only remaining plant in the U.S. Cavel, a Belgian company, kills horses in Illinois for export to Europe. In response to citizen outrage over horses being slaughtered in Illinois, the Illinois legislature decided to tie off the loophole for good by passing House Bill 1711.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Since 2000, Chris Long has been a store associate at a Home Depot in Illinois. Considering our canine companions when designing a landscaping plan is a perfect way to make our pets a true part of the family. He also contributes to the Home Depot blog, and writes on topics which include home automation and CFL light bulbs.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2021

of Illinois News Bureau, Nov. I’m looking forward to using the guide in the near future, assuming the snow melts and we can venture into the woods, fields, gullies, and marshes. They’re more than a pizza topping! * “North American checklist identifies the fungus among us,” by Diana Yates, Univ. 28, 2018, [link].

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Ridgway, born in 1850 in Mr. Carmel, Illinois, was a boy many of us would recognize; all he wanted to do was bird. The Feathery Tribe is both a biography of Robert Ridgway, the Smithsonian Institute’s first curator of birds, and a study of the historical and intellectual events which gave birth and form to ornithology. And, draw birds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Located between the Mississippi River and Illinois River, the refuge encompasses 9,225 acres of riverine and floodplain habitat scattered around the confluence of the rivers. The refuge is designated as a Globally Important Bird Area (IBA) 4. Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge : Add big game hunting.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

I’ll never forget an orphaned Northern Cardinal nestling that I really fussed over a few years back,” said Arden Zich of Fox Valley Wildlife Center in Elburn, Illinois. “We It’s a theme.”. “I’ll Discovering that this bird had personality for days was a gift; having to say goodbye was painful and bittersweet.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 18, 2007

Since a number of "Animal Ethics" readers reside in the northern Illinois area, I thought I would call your attention to an exciting lecture that is taking place on Northern Illinois University's campus. This Earth Day, Sunday, April 22, at 6:00 p.m., Jenni, Ph.D.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 4, 2007

Years later, after he had gone off to teach at Northern Illinois University and I had gone off to teach at the University of Texas at Arlington, we discovered that we had a shared interest in animal rights. We went to graduate school together at the University of Arizona. I didn't like Mylan at the time, and I'm sure he didn't like me.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

He held appointments as Assistant Professor of German at the University of Illinois, Reader in Art and Archaeology at Princeton, and Associate Professor of Medieval Studies at Fordham. About the Author Rick Rick Wright studied French, German, philosophy, and biology at the University of Nebraska. at Princeton University in 1990.

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