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OCTOBER 30, 2016

Nature lovers, on the other hand, find time for wildlife watching every weekend. At least one weekend a year, bats–particularly the vampiric kind–command more attention than birds, at least from most people. Just be sure to choose a Halloween costume that doesn’t obscure your vision too much!

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JANUARY 11, 2016

On New Year’s Day 2016, our last day in California before heading back to New York, I was pleased for the chance to get out for a few hours in the morning to jump start the year list. San Joaquin is renowned among wildlife photographers for the up close opportunities with shorebirds and ducks.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

Do a little research into this topic this weekend and report back… I’ll be up to my neck in both work and chilly rain, neither of which presage a good weekend of wildlife watching. Corey, however, is more intrepid than I am, so he’s likely to drum up some birding business in the NYC area. How about you?

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AUGUST 11, 2016

As a birder, this 72 minute documentary film about the Duck Stamp Contest didn’t accomplish what I was hoping it might – get people excited about the Duck Stamp, or at least wildlife conservation. The film follows several contestants on their journey to win what is described as the “Olympics of Wildlife Art.”

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JANUARY 3, 2023

An impressive combination of research and artwork, combined with a pragmatic organization aimed towards quick identification, and education, Baby Bird Identification extends the frontiers of bird identification guides and is an important contribution to wildlife rehabilitation literature.

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JANUARY 24, 2016

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was any of the three R ed-cockaded Woodpeckers he saw in the pine woods of Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area in central Florida on Friday during the “Central Florida Specialties” trip for the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. Such a rare bird is always a good sighting!

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MARCH 12, 2017

I saw my first migratory Eastern Phoebe of 2017 this morning, 12 March, at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, thus kicking off spring for myself over a week early. 2016 – 18 March. It’s also the earliest I’ve had over the last ten years. Below are my first dates for the last ten years if you are really interested in such things….

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

A logical and outstanding successor to The Genius of Birds (2016), Ackerman’s award-winning book about bird cognition, The Bird Way explores the diversity of bird behavior, the norm and the extremes, with an emphasis on cutting-edge research and findings that explode assumptions.

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DECEMBER 14, 2015

The 2016 Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival will be 20-25 January 2016 and I can’t wait! Without further ado, here they are… 21 January 6:45AM-11:30AM – Salt Lake Wildlife Management Area: I’ve never been there before but the habitat looks interesting.

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MARCH 12, 2019

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) declared the Golden-cheeked Warbler “ endangered ” under the Endangered Species Act. Nevertheless, in 2016, FWS denied the petition , finding the Golden-cheeked Warbler “has not been recovered, and due to ongoing, widespread destruction of its habitat, the species continues to be in danger of extinction.”

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APRIL 17, 2016

Instead, like every spring, Corey was charmed by the Tree Swallows defending their nest boxes at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge when he visited there Sunday morning. But somehow Little Blue Herons , Brown Thrasher , and Forster’s Terns just didn’t do it. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Nevertheless, only the most important news I did follow, those about the decision-making process on future sales of elephants and their ivory at a global wildlife summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, the first such meeting since 2013. Turn your eyes to the European Union which could have stopped it in 2016, but chose not to.

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MARCH 17, 2016

This might be the perfect weekend to visit a local National Wildlife Refuge ! No matter where you live, you have been caught between astronomical and meteorological seasons. The equinox approaches, but until then, we in the Northern Hemisphere live in a twilight between meteorological Spring and astronomical Winter.

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APRIL 13, 2021

The methodology section is detailed, but the highlights are that the survey was conducted online, and more than 33,000 birders completed at least part of the survey, which was conducted in 2016-2017, long before the COVID-19 pandemic. (I To a layperson such as myself, the methodology appears fairly rigorous. Citation: Patton, Stephanie.

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

The Lodge at Pico Bonito is an inviting, idyllic place for relaxation as well as for enjoying wildlife. Cuery y Salado Preserve protects a coastal mangrove system full of wildlife from monkeys to trogons. We first visited Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge. In case you are wondering, Cristalino Lodge was his other top choice.

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APRIL 23, 2020

Bhanu Singh is one of India’s leading wildlife photographers whose images and articles are regularly published in national and international publications. Small reserves such as the Khijadiya and the Thol Lake Wildlife Sanctuaries in Gujarat are mostly well described. Published in February 2020, this is the first edition.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

10,000 Birds also has an eBird profile and since I as a beat writer in 2016, I have been a part of that group. And I will continue my quest to see all of my Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for Birding too. Predictably, the states I have lived in (California and Oregon) have the most species, as does nearby Washington.

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APRIL 7, 2016

Jason’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds tackled the importance of the National Wildlife Refuge System. Fish & Wildlife Service released “ Birding in the United States: A Demographic and Economic Analysis.” These figures are from Jeff Gordon’s introduction in the February 2016 issue of Birding.) In 2013, the U.S.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

A fourth Appendix chapter, “Future Splits and Taxonomic Changes” explains which 2016 American Ornithologists Union taxonomic order changes the authors were able to incorporate, and not incorporate into the guide, which was on its way to publication. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, November 2016, 448 pages, 4.5

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) that the coastal subspecies was actually a subspecies. As a result, FWS denied the petition to delist in August 2016. Initially identified as a candidate for listing in 1982, it was ultimately listed as “threatened” in 1993. A critical aspect of the listing was a finding by the U.S.

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APRIL 10, 2016

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a cooperative Blue-gray Gnatcatcher at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge that contentedly foraged while Corey digiscoped. Fortunately, Conesus Lake holds all manner of superb waterfowl, including more Common Loons in breeding plumage than I’ve ever seen at one time. That’s a win in my book.

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JULY 17, 2016

Corey enjoyed visits on both Saturday and Sunday mornings to the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge where he searched through the shorebirds diligently. While I heard an Eastern Towhee singing for days, the bird didn’t appear until I was nearly ready to leave.

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MAY 15, 2016

Of the 26 species of warblers and 110+ species of bird he saw this weekend none caught his fancy quite like an extraordinarily Chestnut-sided Warbler which foraged within scant feet for several minutes at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Corey was pleased, pleased, pleased to meet that wood-warbler, his Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you?

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JANUARY 29, 2016

federal government has nearly secured all of its National Wildlife Refuges from the hands of armed militants, we can all get back to celebrating our Constitutional right to go birding. Now that the U.S. This is, in fact, a universal right, so everyone should chase some birds this weekend for freedom!

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

But, there is the excellent Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Northern Central America: Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras by Jesse Fagan and Oliver Komar, with illustrations by Robert Dean and Peter Burke, published in 2016. Some features to consider: Birds of Central America is a big book. The older field guides don’t.

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MARCH 17, 2019

I saw my first migratory Eastern Phoebe of 2019 this morning at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. 2016 – 18 March. Actually, I saw my first five phoebes there, perhaps the most I ever saw in one location for my first of the season. For me, it is now officially spring! 2019 – 17 March. 2018 – 30 March. 2017 – 12 March.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

For the past several years I have been taking advantage of our many National Wildlife Refuges (NWR) here in Northern California. This leads me to my third twitch for the celebrated Falcated Duck ( Anas falcata ) at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge in January of 2012. This was a no-brainer. I found it within 30 minutes.

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APRIL 21, 2016

In 2015 a Federal Duck Stamp Task Force was convened under the auspices of the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) consisting of seventeen individuals. Issue 4: Access to many National Wildlife Refuges is restricted or extremely limited for waterfowl hunting and wildlife viewing even when lands are acquired by MBCF dollars.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Her charity became so notorious that some friends and I paid a quick visit to her block on New Year’s Day, 2016 for our nicely staked-out, first-of-year Black Vultures. I didn’t notice any denuded cadavers lying on the homeowner’s porch, so I assume she was just feeding the birds cat food.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Since 2016, writers at 10,000 Birds have been contributing checklists to a joint eBird account called the “10,000 Birds Collaborative.” For example, my list of the Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for birding includes locations in Utah ( Bear River MBR ), Minnesota ( Minnesota Valley NWR ), and Wisconsin ( Horicon NWR ).

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AUGUST 5, 2018

In Western Australia there has been a project running for several years now to beautify grain silos and several have now been painted with native wildlife. The artwork in Albany and Newdegate has only just been done this year, but the Ravensthorpe artwork was completed in 2016 and we were able to visit it earlier this year.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

WildGuides, Princeton University Press, summer 2016. I wish they had provided more background on how this guide came about and what each of their contributions was. Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland. by Rob Hume, Robert Still, Andy Swash, Hugh Harrop & David Tipling. 560pages, 6.3

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JUNE 6, 2019

In 2016, the Shanghai Wildlife Protection Management Station started the search for one, though progress has been slow. However, Shanghai also has its resident birds, and these seem to be a good topic for the first post from Shanghai. I would like to introduce two candidates, a bulbul and a parrotbill.

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MAY 9, 2017

Controversies about federal public lands, including the 2016 occupation of Malheur NWR in Oregon and proposed bills in Congress to dispose of certain land, has focused attention on the value of federal lands to birds and birders.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The current ABA Area also excludes parts of our iconic systems of federal lands, including the National Park System ( e.g. , Virgin Islands NP ), the National Wildlife Refuge System ( e.g. , Culebra , Laguna Cartagena , and Vieques NWRs), and the National Forest System ( e.g. , El Yunque NF ). Fish & Wildlife Service. Conclusion.

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MAY 23, 2023

Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation conducted in 2016, there were approximately 45 million birdwatchers in the United States. Nonetheless, birding has consistently remained a popular and widespread hobby in the United States. According to the U.S.

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JULY 4, 2016

Here are some of the New York State birds that 10,000 Birds readers think of as memorable, and the great stories about how and when they saw them: Winston Poon selected Northern Waterthrush, which he saw at Rockefeller State Preserve on May 16, 2016.

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