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FEBRUARY 14, 2010

In this week’s podcast ending February 13, 2010: **Britain’s Ministry of Defense defends its use of pigs as subjects in explosives testing; **an elephant expert argues for the closing of the elephant exhibit at the Toronto Zoo; **the State of Hawaii seeks to toughen penalties for dog fighting; **Animal rights groups protest the Canadian seal hunt in (..)

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2009 Elephants Hawaii Protesting 100

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APRIL 18, 2011

Reports in 2009 from Nassau County may put the total number of birds as high as 50. But this year I observed a pair copulating in Hillcrest, and in 2009 I observed young birds in the Queens flock, so they probably are breeding somewhere. The flock sighted around Queens over the past several years has 12-17 birds. Are they dying out?

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New York City Los Angeles New York South America 247

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Machi getting fitted with transmitter in 2009. Suggestions to start a campaign to protect shorebirds from hunters as they migrate through the Caribbean would be appreciated in the comments. Let’s make Machi’s death mean something! Image courtesy of Barton Paxton. Hat-tip to Donna Schulman for the information about Machi.

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Hunters Barbados South Carolina Hunting 266

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MARCH 29, 2014

2009 – 15 March. Here are my arrival dates for my first Eastern Phoebes of the year for the last nine years: 2014 – 29 March. 2013 – 24 March. 2012 – 15 March. 2011 – 19 March. 2010 – 31 March. 2008 – 21 March. 2007 – 26 March. 2006 – 03 March. What about you?

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2014 2006 2007 2008 230

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MARCH 6, 2014

Brian Stoneman (1946-2009) was a friend of mine and a top class birder. He grew up in the London East End and spoke hardly understandable cockney.

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Turkey 2006 Europe Pelicans 240

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JUNE 16, 2013

One proposal, citing a 2009 paper, suggests that North America’s three rosy-finch species be lumped into Leucosticte tephrocotis. Photo above by Matt MacGillivray). Lumping Rosy-Finches? Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch ( Leucosticte tephrocotis ) by Corey Finger.

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North America Sparrows 2009 America 237

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MARCH 10, 2015

You see, back in 2009, I put up a blog post called “ First Robin of Spring.” And, here on 10,000 Birds, we have already had our first comment on an old blog post talking about “stamping” the first robin of spring. Who stamps on robins? What kind of blog is this? Not to worry, not to worry.

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Iowa Nebraska Indiana Michigan 257

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JUNE 1, 2012

Kazakhstan, May 2009 During the two days spent out in the steppe in Kazakhstan I couldn’t help but notice the sheer number of flowers that dotted the grassy steppe. It seemed that anywhere one looked some kind of flower, whether it was an iris, a tulip, or something else, was blooming.

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Sri Lanka Kazakhstan Portugal 2009 243

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JUNE 22, 2011

My last encounter with a Hooded Crow was in May of 2009 in the Tien Shan Mountains of Kazakhstan. .* After all, Hooded Crows are a bird of eastern and northern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East and are not known as long distance migrants. But the more I thought about it the more I wanted to see a Hooded Crow again.

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New York Kazakhstan New York City North America 263

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APRIL 30, 2017

Birds of Borneo (2009): based on taxonomic order from 2008, with some changes due to practical reasons, review here. In the book from 1993 they are at the beginning of the songbirds, in 2009 three quarters towards the end, in 2014 almost on the last pages and in the most recent 2016 guide they are right in the middle. Phillipps, Q. &

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Brunei 2009 2014 2016 204

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Since 2009, International Bird Rescue has released over 1,100 California Brown Pelicans with blue bands from their wildlife hospitals! I follow my friend, Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator for International Bird Rescue, Cheryl Reynolds to the release site where we document the event.

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Bird Rescue Pelicans Rescue California 244

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Their were 1,805 pairs of Kirtland’s Warblers found in Michigan this year, second only to 2009′s 1,813. The population has stabilized with neither increases nor decreases of greater than five percent since 2007. A couple dozen pairs also nest in neighboring states and provinces.

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Michigan 2007 2009 169

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DECEMBER 30, 2014

But I did chase one back in 2009 that I dipped on. The first, back in 2009, was when I was in Honduras. No, I will persevere and see each of these birds at my next opportunity. Otherwise, they will become true nemesis birds. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher – I haven’t made a ton of effort to find one of these.

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Costa Rica Hungary Honduras Woodpeckers 243

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MARCH 28, 2015

2009 – 15 March. If you are interested, here are the dates of my first phoebe from each of the last ten years. 2015 – 28 March. 2014 – 29 March. 2013 – 24 March. 2012 – 15 March. 2011 – 19 March. 2010 – 31 March. 2008 – 21 March. 2007 – 26 March. 2006 – 03 March. Great, I’m your first phoebe of 2015.

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2015 2006 2014 2007 198

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DECEMBER 26, 2021

In 2009 when the Semi-palmated Plover came to Broome for its first visit it was initially thought that it may have been a Ringed Plover , but it was finally identified as a Semi-palmated Plover.

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Australia 2009 Rights Birds 254

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APRIL 28, 2011

“National Geographic has assumed management of day-to-day operations for Scienceblogs.com, expanding a relationship with Seed Media Group that started when National Geographic took on ad sales responsibility for Scienceblogs.com in 2009.&# That is the entire text of the statement National Geographic put out.

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2009 Science Groups 168

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NOVEMBER 24, 2013

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. wind-energy company has admitted that its farms have killed birds, and has settled with prosecutors. These fatalities violate U.S.

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Farming Wyoming Eagles Killing 202

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

When my book “ Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings ” came out in 2009, one of my favorite reviews was by Corey Finger of 10,000 Birds. At that point I didn’t know about 10,000 Birds; I had been a wildlife rehabilitator and mother for years, with no time to surf the net for amazing birding sites.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wounded Birds 2009 244

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JANUARY 13, 2012

That Cattle Egret I found in Somerset County, August 2009? My personal favorites are three photos of the 2009 Cape May Ivory Gull. Development, conservation, and climate change have affected bird distribution in good ways (a record 282 Bald Eagles found on the January 2009 official count!) No wonder people were excited by it.)

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New Jersey 2009 Bald Eagle New York City 237

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MARCH 5, 2015

In the northern Backa region of Serbia, in the mid-1970s there were more than 37,000 active nests of Rooks, while in 2009 there were less than 8500, indicating a loss of more than 76% over a time span of 35 years ( source ). The smallest rookery in Pancevacki Rit had a mere 4 nests, the largest 102 – on average, 31.5 nests per colony.

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Experience Experiments Science Serbia 260

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AUGUST 2, 2011

Edwin Rist, a 22-year-old from the United States, stole 299 bird skins from the Natural History Museum at Tring (in England) in 2009 and had been sentenced to a 12-month suspended sentence has now been ordered to pay a fine of £125,150, which is the amount that he had made from the sale of the skins.

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United States 2009 Birds 160

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MARCH 10, 2012

… This post was originally published on 24 May 2009, but we hate to keep posts this good buried in the archives ! … If you liked these images make sure to head on over to 10,000 Clicks , the 10,000 Birds photo-galleries page, and see our growing collection of galleries. ……… a.

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Jamaica Collecting 2009 Breeding 204

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APRIL 5, 2012

Suzie Gilbert first came to our attention here at 10,000 Birds when she published Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings in 2009. She is also the author of Hawk Hill which was published in 1996.

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2009 North America Bird Rescue Rescue 157

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Therefore, you can observe them in their hundreds and thousands if you spend the last hour of the day observing the flight corridor and distinguishing distant black Pygmy Cormorant dots from other equally distant and black Rook and Jackdaw dots, all of them melting into tree crowns as the sunset thickens.

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Protection Serbia 2004 Legislation 279

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JANUARY 11, 2023

I began recording my bird sightings with photographs in late 2009, and since then I have seen (or at least heard) a fair proportion of species recorded within my home country of Trinidad & Tobago. How can one, in what is barely the second week of the first month of the year – even think of suggesting a Bird of the Year?

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Birds Trinidad 2020 2009 264

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MARCH 21, 2012

Lago de Yojoa, Honduras, February 2009 Let’s say that you are a serious birder on your first trip to the neotropics and are hoping to see as many species as possible. … This post was originally published on 08 March 2009, but we hate to keep posts this good buried in the archives ! ……… a.

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Honduras Birds 2009 North America 225

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APRIL 10, 2015

Birdsbesafe was invented in 2009, has a website filled with testimonials, and has received high praise from St. Bells don’t work; cat bibs sometimes do, but cat owners rarely use them – saying they’re “too restrictive.” The same cannot be said about Birdsbesafe, which allows the cat as much movement as it wants.

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Cats Butcher Pets Battery 260

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

I haven’t seen him since our trip to Honduras in 2009–pre-Desi! I love watching that, sending them back up into the sky with a kiss on the top of their flat little heads. Delighted to say that as you read this I’ll be hanging with Corey at the Midwest Birding Symposium. And as I write this, I cannot wait to see him!!

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Honduras Kittens 2009 2013 243

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NOVEMBER 6, 2011

In late 2009 there was huge excitement in Broome when a Plover was observed at the famous Poo Ponds and was initially presumed to be a Ringed Plover , which is extremely rare, but not unheard of in Australia. Semipalmated Plover in Broome… am I mad!?

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Australia Asia 2009 Fish 239

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

Is this the same individual that tracked south through Britain and France in Autumn 2009? It’s been interesting to note that a solitary Sandhill Crane first seen in Finland in recent days migrating with Common Cranes has now provided Estonia with its first record of Sandhill.

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France Estonia Ireland Finland 258

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APRIL 15, 2012

Copan, Honduras, February 2009 A word of warning: this is going to be a rather long post so go grab a snack and make yourself comfortable before you start reading. This post was first published in April of 2009 but an outing like this is too cool to keep hidden in the archives ! … a.

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Honduras 2009 Falcons Guatemala 217

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The author, Chris Mason-Parker, has lived in Seychelles since 2009, where he is an active member of the conservation community. He is the author of Underwater Guide to Seychelles (2015), Underwater Eden (2019) and Reef Fishes of Seychelles (2021).

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Seychelles Wildlife Tortoises Reptiles 264

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

We spent two months in Portland, Victoria in late 2009 with Grant’s work and whenever we could we were birding. Due to the fact that we will still be camping and birding when this goes online I thought I could share some photos of a well-known marsupial in the southern parts of Australia.

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Koalas Marsupials Portland 2009 172

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DECEMBER 22, 2013

As for chasing Black Guillemots in New York, well, the first one that I could have legitimately chased turned up in December of 2009 out east on Long Island. Since 2009 there really hasn’t been a guillemot that was twitchable until two Fridays ago when one turned up at Shinnecock Inlet.

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New York 2009 Birds Farming 160

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AUGUST 3, 2024

My true road to Damascus came on the 28 th of January 2009, in another African park: Pilanesberg, South Africa. The true Aha-Erlebnis , the conversion from watcher to birder still lay in the future. But the seed now lay dormant in the soil.

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South Africa 2002 Angola Africa 246

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OCTOBER 25, 2013

I saw the Queens Ash-throated Flycatcher in 2009, but someone else had identified that and I just went along for the ride. So you can see why I long for the reassuring black-and-white tyrant who cheerfully sallies out to take on crow, hawk, eagle, or birder, and sits in full sun.

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Montana 2009 Eagles Birds 216

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DECEMBER 8, 2011

Ringer “For a decade or more, we’ve known from genetic data that many primarily South American genera placed traditionally in the Emberizidae are actually tanagers,” the proposal says, citing 16 different molecular and morphological studies to support the transfers.

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2003 Sparrows South America Family 257