10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

While at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival I could not resist making the drive north to Daytona Beach one day to witness the awesome gull fly-in from the dump to the beach. In winter, Laughing Gulls should have black legs and bill and in alternate, or breeding plumage, those parts, while staying dark, get a nice deep red color.

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Florida Panama Wildlife 2014 196

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

Oil begins to wash up on the beaches throughout May and June of 2010 May 6, 2010 Oil washes ashore on the Chandeleur Islands off the Louisiana coast, an important nesting and breeding area for many bird species. June 2, 2010 BP apparently bans workers from showing dead or dying wildlife and from talking to the press.

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2010 Louisiana 2012 2011 238

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Worried by the lack of appropriate action by the authorities (as described in the previous post ), this year I invited two more wildlife protection organisations to take part in the annual census of Pygmy Cormorants in Belgrade. It is estimated that the total European population is 28,000 to 39,000 breeding pairs.

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Serbia Protection Europe 2007 184

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

And, though I think you can argue that the Bronx Zoo, with its numerous buildings and landscaped wildlife areas is not purely ‘natural space,’ I have wonderful memories of traipsing through its wooded areas when I was a girl. (I I didn’t grow up in the Bronx, but my best friend did.). It’s a very mixed chapter.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 152

10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

Also, these human-occupied area are probably full of toxins and other impediments to normal use by wildlife. ” Here’s the information I have on it: With 2012 breaking records as America’s hottest year ever, America’s migratory birds face unique challenges because of their long journeys and need for multiple habitats.

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Maryland Penguins Birds Wildlife 225

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Kirtland’s Warbler is a classic niche species; they breed in only very specific conditions, which occur in only a very specific area. That is a big difference compared to the 2,000+ singing males detected in 2012, well above the recovery goal for this species set by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. this species breeds.

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Albatross Endangered Species Bald Eagle Alaska 208

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The story of the cahow, a “Lazurus species” that was thought to be extinct for over 300 years and then discovered to be breeding on a tiny remote island in Bermuda, is part of modern birding legend. In 1951, there were 18 breeding pairs of cahows discovered on three tiny islands. photo of Elizabeth Gehrman: Ingrid Skousgard, 2012.

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Rats Breeding Birds 2012 169

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

A lovely looking and distinctive sounding bird (so they say, I sadly have not seen one…yet), the Kirtland’s Warbler can only be found during its breeding season in Jack Pine forests 5 to 20 years old in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Fish and Wildlife Service endangered species list. Jackson, 2012. photo by Lynn C.

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 233

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Up to the mid-20th century, Pygmy Cormorants were a common breeding species of wetlands around Belgrade… until the wetlands were drained and the birds were lost, at one moment – from the whole of Serbia. Their mortality was huge, but I realised how huge only when we did the December 2012 census to find only 1300 PCs.

Serbia 195

Serbia Legislation Protection Europe 195

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The guide covers the all–1194 species in the Species Accounts, including 959 native breeding species, 219 Nearctic migrants, 8 breeding visiting species, and 5 introduced species. Of the native breeding species, 112 are endemic or “very nearly endemic.” (Can Can you guess which of the species cited above are endemic?

America 214

America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 214

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

What I didn’t know was how this relationship actually works: the mechanics of Red Knot migration, the reduced digestive systems necessary for their long flighta, the need to fatten up quickly so they can fly to the Arctic and breed, how they compete with other shorebirds and gulls and, it turns out, humans, for horseshoe crab eggs.

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Delaware New Jersey Eggs Research 180

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 7, 2012

The first of the series premiers June 10th, 2012. Then travel to the Rockies, for a ringside seat as male bighorn sheep go head-to-head in a bloody battle for breeding rights. We are so excited about this new mini-series from National Geographic! Untamed Americas: Deserts. Premieres Sunday, June 10, 10 p.m.

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America Sheep Penguins South America 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) And, to make things even more confusing, why did Ian’s 2012 ffrench guide list the motmot under its old name, Blue-crowned Motmot? . I was confused.

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Trinidad South America Birds 2011 198

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2012

The boys knew what Owls looked like, they saw Screech Owls (and Barred and Great Horned Owls) at a local wildlife park, and we photographed Burrowing Owl families every year at Brian Piccolo Park. I have decided that the bird is an Alpine Chough, a red-billed blackbird that breeds in the Swiss Alps. Enchanted Lion Books, 2012.

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Switzerland Birds Owls Lions 216

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

As 2013 draws to a close we here at 10,000 Birds thought that it would be a great idea if we, like we did in 2010 , 2011 , and 2012 , shared our Best Birds of the Year. My fiance and I drove nearly two hours to the Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area in rural Indiana to watch them come in for the evening.

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2013 Costa Rica Birds India 167

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

As 2012 draws to a close we here at 10,000 Birds thought that it would be a great idea if we, like we did in 2010 and 2011 , shared our Best Birds of the Year. Secretive, silent and undetectable outside of its breeding season, found only in the U.S. Felonious Jive really likes a ravishing returning rarity – a Falcated Duck.

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2012 Guatemala Birds Florida 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. Kentucky Dept.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 249

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

These are extremely large stick structures (some articles compare the largest ones to the size of a car) that are usually populated by multiple breeding pairs in separate chambers. Document WEC257 of the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida / IFAS, [link]. ** Pruett-Jones, Stephen, et al.

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Chicago New York City Illinois New York 203

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2013

I knew I would not be seeing the bird in its rosy-breasted breeding plumage, but somehow seeing the bird in all its forms helped crystallize its appearance in my head. or birds that look very different in their breeding and non-breeding plumages (Shorebirds! I studied it. Sadly, I still did not see the bird.

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Ireland 2013 Breeders United Kingdom 172

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2017

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is considering changing the status of the endangered Black-capped Vireo : it has proposed delisting it entirely. and it breeds in the scrublands of Texas, Oklahoma, and northern Mexico. In 2012, a petition to delist was filed by ranching and agriculture groups and conservative legal organizations.

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Endangered Species Species Texas Oklahoma 131

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2018

Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”), the agency that implements ESA as to birds. The Bald Eagle is one of the true American conservation success stories: the iconic national bird was listed in 1967 when there were less than 500 breeding pairs in the lower 48. Fish and Wildlife Service. Nor is “DPS” defined by ESA.

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Bald Eagle Eagles Endangered Species 2017 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Because Loons’ coastal wintering habitats can be severely impacted by oil spills and other human activities, this information has important implications for wildlife managers. Breeding and wintering locations of Common Loons in western Maine (Rangeley and Moosehead Lakes region), USA, that received PTTs in 2011 and 2012.*.

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Humane Eagles Investigation North America 209

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

But for those seeking wildlife there is plenty to see without ever leaving the city, and most itineries at least allow one day of birdwatching within and immediately around this coastal resort city. Dawn of 2012 from the beach at Cairns Esplanade. A lot of stuff can be identified without even picking up your binoculars.

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Alligators Guinea Australia 2012 167