10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2024

A Griffon Vulture ditches in the sea off Gibraltar and struggles to keep its head above the water Since 2003, Ruppell’s Vultures Gyps ruepelli , have been showing up with the Griffons. In my early days, some fifty years ago, the number of Griffons that I would see in a season can today be counted in a single flock!

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Africa Morocco Senegal 2003 246

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

This first map is data from 2002 through 2003. Click on photos for full sized images. The following maps I created on eBird show the dramatic growth in the spread of the Eurasian Collared-Dove from 2002 to 2014.

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Breeders 2002 North America Bahamas 233

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

The species was lost for over a hundred years before being rediscovered in 2003. This week it emerged that the island is important for another rare New Zealand bird, the critically endangered New Zealand Petrel. Since its rediscovery conservationists have been trying to find the islands that it breeds on in order to protect it.

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New Zealand Rats Cooking 2003 180

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

From 2003-2010, the ABA averaged about $1.9M As revenues declined, expenses did not decline as quickly, resulting in operating losses and the deterioration of what had been a fairly healthy balance sheet. The end result is an organization in debt and with substantially less revenue than it had in the 2000s. The details are below. # # #.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Since I first started hand-coding 10,000 Birds using Microsoft Frontpage in 2003 , we’ve seen all manner of technology (e.g., In case you hadn’t noticed, blogging, both publishing and perusing , has transformed dramatically over the years. rss ) and trends (e.g., blog carnivals ) come and go.

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2003 Neglecting Abandon Abandoning 179

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2014

Other bloggers were writing about birds and nature back in 2003, some even before then, and many of us found a communal spirit sparked by comments and crosslinks that carried into the world we wrote about. The former condition obviously improved rapidly over time as luminous new blogs populated our starry skies.

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2003 Reptiles 2000 2008 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2013

Random House, 2003. Books and resources used in search of the term “bubble-gum pink legs”: The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of North America , by David Sibley. Pete Dunne’s Essential Field Guide Companion , by Pete Dunne. The New Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Western Region , by Lillian and Donald Stokes. HMH, 2013.

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North America America 2011 Jordan 249

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2011

This was back in 2003 so it is hard to say where those numbers fall now. The link above will elaborate that our federal government turned down the option to include this species on the Endangered Species Act a few years ago. At that point the estimated population was between 11,000-14,000 birds.

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Prairie Dogs Colorado North Dakota Soreing 200

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2013

2003 , PDF). Genetic studies, however, indicate that it is closely related to Bubo (Sibley and Ahlquist 1990) and in fact is nested within the genus (Wink and Heidrich 1999). Banks et al.

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Owls Indonesia 2002 North Carolina 215

Critter News

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Four animal welfare groups brought suit against the circus back in 2003. A decision will soon come in a DC courtroom. The charges state that “Ringling Bros.

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Ringling Brothers Ringling Bros Elephants Circus Elephant 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Davis and Martin Renner in 2003, appropriately titled Penguin s (Yale Univ. According to his bio, Birds of Paradise, and Bowerbird are his favorite birds after Albatross and Penguin, so I’m wondering if there are Around the World books for these bird families in the near future?

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Penguins Georgia Albatross New Zealand 279

Critter News

JULY 24, 2009

In or about March 2003, PEACE, after consulting with VICK about the losing female pit bull's condition, executed the losing dog by wetting the dog down with water and electrocuting the animal. This is just speculative at this point, but it sounds like he is leaning towards letting him play again. And then there's this: 83.

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Pit Bulls 2003 2007 Game 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2011

The weather over the last few years has not been wet enough to have them visit from the north and the last time we saw one in the area was in November 2003. On my birthday we had some “firsts for the year&# but I had mentioned it would be rather nice to find a Comb-crested Jacana.

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Cattle 2003 Birds Geese 160

Critter News

JULY 13, 2009

The consumption of wild animals, which slowed amid the SARS epidemic in 2003, has once again gained popularity, a WWF survey has found. Up to 20 percent of these are now considered threatened. Eating wild animals is also a traditional practice in southern China.

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China Wildlife Tigers Endangered Species 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

© 2003 text H. Lee Jones, © 2003 illustrations Dana Gardner E. The illustration by Dana Gardner for the 2003 Belize guide is more color blocked, less subtle, a totally different style. Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, artwork by Dale Dyer, p.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 246

Critter News

APRIL 24, 2012

But the disease has dealt a crippling blow to the industry in the past, especially when foreign countries refused to import American beef when mad cow was first uncovered in 2003. Department of Agriculturetests about 40,000 cows a year in its effort to catch the disease.

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Cows California Meat Industry Nebraska 100

Critter News

JANUARY 25, 2010

The booklet has been sponsored by the World Health Organization.

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Sri Lanka Animal Research Research Animal 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2012

Press, 2003). I don’t know if anyone has ever calculated birds per square mile, but I’m betting that New Jersey would be at the top of the list. If you want to find birds in New Jersey, you need A Guide to Bird Finding in New Jersey, Revised and Expanded (Rutgers Univ.

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New Jersey 2009 Bald Eagle New York City 250

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2020

There were similar FWS studies using similar methodologies with similar findings in 2003 , 2007 , and 2013. Based on these numbers, FWS estimated that birder spending on equipment and travel generated nearly $96 billion in total industry output, 782,000 jobs, and $17 billion in tax revenue. That’s a lot of birding.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2020

Published in the Canoeist, UK, July 2003. …or a croc was swimming right under the bottom of the kayak…. Contemplating the food chain and my position in it, I kept my big mouth shut. Cover: 20 years younger version of me. Date: January 24th, 2001 (08:30-11:00h). Habitats: riparian woodland (mostly Combretum sp.),

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Botswana Africa 2001 Fish 260

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Since its inception in 2003, The SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund has granted $7 million USD to more than 500 projects in the U.S. Fewer than 15,000 white rhinos remain in the wild, and approximately 200 live in zoological facilities across North America.

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Tampa White Rhinos Rhinos Rhinoceros 100

Animal Person

APRIL 21, 2009

New York Times. More >> Places. Kazakhstan. New York City. More >> Year. The number next to each changes with the popularity of the terms (for each blog). Click on Project Treadstone above and see what happens!You You can search Animal Person's content (posted on AR Zone) using the search box on the right, under the AR Zone badge.

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Animal Rights Project Treadstone Rights Responsible Policies 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2019

A study conducted at Sultanpur (Abdul Jamil Urfi, Thangarasu Meganathan and Abdul Kalam) between 2003 and 2005 noted that the the clutch size was bigger in early nests. The predators have plenty of opportunities beyond the heronry with countless ducks, waders and galliformes.

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2003 India Breeders 2005 113

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

The Fund was created in 2003 by the Anheuser-Busch Adventure Parks and is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable foundation dedicated to supporting environmental and wildlife conservation initiatives.

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White Rhinos Rhinos Tampa 2008 100

Critter News

APRIL 17, 2012

Ketamine has long been used for operating on animals throughout the world, but when it came in vogue as a party drug in the late 1990s, Russia's response was to ban the substance entirely in 2003. It was technically legalized but in reality rejected.

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Laws Russia Vet Tethering 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Baicich worked for the American Birding Association from 1991 to 2003 as editor and Director of Conservation and Public Policy. The three authors of Feeding Wild Birds in America are all well-known naturalists, writers, and editors.

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America Squirrels Industry Birds 250

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2016

There were similar FWS studies using similar methodologies with similar findings in 2007 and 2003. The report even stated that it was using a “conservative definition” of “birder,” suggesting that there were perhaps more than 47 million birders generating even greater economic impact.

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Wildlife Portland 2002 2003 189

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

2012), and (4) Waterfowl of Eastern North America, 2nd ed. 2020, all also published by Firefly); children’s books and books on bird feeding.

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North America Birds Owls Canada 246

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2017

In May 2003, Kroodsma, an internationally known expert on birdsong, spent ten weeks, riding four thousand-plus miles from Virginia to Oregon. For those of us who aspire to both but have, as yet, achieved neither, a good stopgap alternative is Donald Kroodsma’s quirky and pretty wonderful new book, Listening to a Continent Sing.

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Cleveland Oregon Missouri 2003 124

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Purple Swamphen /Pukeko ( Porphyrio porphyrio melanotus ) ( Jamieson & Craig 1987 ) Acorn Woodpecker ( Melanerpes formicivorus ) cooperative breeders with up to 6 co-breeding males, 3 females in the same nest, and numerous non-breeding helpers (work by Koenig, Stacey, Mumme and Pitelka and references therein) The New Zealand honeyeater-like bird, (..)

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2011 Breeders Deer Breeding 235

Animal Person

APRIL 11, 2009

In 2003, police in Warwickshire, England, opened a garden shed and found a whimpering, cowering dog. I received this steadily for a month or two and still find it heartwarming. And for all of you naysayers, it was verified by Snopes. * It had been locked in the shed and abandoned. It was dirty and malnourished, and had clearly been abused.

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Greyhounds Guinea Pigs Stray Puppy Rabbits 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Press in 2003. Compañy, published in 2000 and covering 354 species and 21 endemics; (b) the Spanish-language translation, Aves de Cuba , updated by Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Neotropical Conservation Initiative in 2011 to cover 369 bird species and 26 endemics; (3) Birds of the West Indies by Herbert A. Raffaele, James, Wiley, Orlando H.

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Cuba Birds 2000 United States 244

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

These guides are sequels, updates, and complements to Wheeler’s previous classic books, Raptors of Eastern North America and Raptors of Western North America (PUP, 2003), now out-of-print and fetching prices in three figures on used-book sites.

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North America Mississippi Bald Eagle Falcons 203

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The rise of the Cornell Lab is reflected in its budget, which was approximately $10 million in 2003 and $30 million in 2018. Although some of these organizations existed five decades ago, increased resources and the internet have greatly expanded their scope and reach. Perhaps most significant is the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

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UCLA Los Angeles North America 2003 138

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2018

I mentioned above that Steve Howell is a prolific writer.

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North America Birds 2012 America 189

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

He has studied bird sound since 2003, and his Earbirding website (co-owned with Andrew Spencer) has blog posts dating back to 2009. I find it comforting that author Nathan Pieplow says he is not the best ‘earbirder’ in the world, and that this book is one of the resources he has developed to help him learn bird sound.

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North America America Sparrows Birds 189

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Here are the posts from December 2003.'

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