2009 America Campaign 
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
This practice is a throwback to more than a century ago when gunners hunted shorebirds throughout the Americas. But the toll the “shooting swamps&# take on the shorebirds of the Americas is huge and the practice must be stopped. Machi getting fitted with transmitter in 2009. Image courtesy of Barton Paxton.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2013
Some make stopovers along Florida’s coast, others fly straight from stopovers in the northern states to the coast of South America. As shorebirds look for suitable sites to spend up to 9 months in their wintering grounds, biologists with the Pan-American Shorebird Banding Program also start preparing for a new banding campaign.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
” In North America it is more often called chasing, though the British usage is starting to catch on there, especially among younger birders 1. Oddly enough, the Common Redpoll ( Acanthis flammea ), my first ever twitch back in the winter of 2009, was spotted within a mile or so from the Snow Bunting on the same road in McArthur.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 28, 2012
I first met Robert Gallardo on my first trip to the neotropics, a wonderful experience at the first Mesoamerican Bird Festival in Honduras in 2009. It is the second largest country in Central America and nearly everywhere one goes there are great birds to see. Indiegogo- An on-line funding campaign has been set up using their services.
4 The Love Of Animals
AUGUST 13, 2009
“Doing More for Pets&# Rescue Stories Contest Puts Focus on Pet Adoption and Goal of Finding Homes for 300,000 Deserving Pets by the End of 2009. America has the chance to vote for the most remarkable story, and the winner will be announced in November at the National Dog Show presented by Purina in the Philadelphia area.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
If you wrote to Tennessee in the 10,000 Birds campaign this winter, you can cut and paste your letter, changing “Tennessee&# to “Kentucky.&# The sandhill crane has the lowest recruitment rate (average number of young birds joining a population each season) of any bird now hunted in North America. to a high of 11%.
Animal Person
AUGUST 6, 2009
In writing my new book Hoodwinked (Random House, Nov 2009 publication date), I recently visited Central America. Memories are short in the US, but not in Central America. One is Lanny Davis, an influential lobbyist who was a personal lawyer for President Bill Clinton and also campaigned for Hillary. 1) DemocracyNow!
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