10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2024

Turns out he is a friend of the bride, and from Monterrey in Mexico. The site consists of the revitalised wastewater treatment ponds of an abandoned sugar mill with shrubs and small patches of forest. Even after having slowed down, I arrive at the ceremony with time to spare and in front of Mörarp’s quaint little church I meet Jesus.

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Sweden Birds Porpoises Deer 240

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2021

By the time that day rolled around, I had already seen 29 species in our yard and neighborhood, including a few surprises: an endemic Rufous-backed Robin , which is a rare visitor to my garden; a Violet-crowned Hummingbird , a species which I thought had abandoned our neighborhood years ago, but I now saw spending quality time in the crown of my Jacaranda (..)

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2020 Ducks Birds Abandon 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

It’s the only one in all of Mexico. Wander into a bit of abandoned second-growth forest. (It’s in San Miguel de Allende, and it’s lovely; I must write about it someday.) The nearest Audubon Club chapter? That would also be in San Miguel de Allende. One was in my own neighborhood, so I had already discovered it.

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Birds Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 178

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2021

I would have guessed it would be the first species to abandon this now-disturbed site. In Mexico they call the Ash-throated Flycatcher “Copetón Triste” , or Sad Crested-Bird; it’s mournful call distinguishes it from other nearly-identical flycatchers of the Myiarchus genus. But, thank God, it has not.

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2013 Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 211

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2017

Nesting in tree cavities, and abandoned woodpecker holes in the Cardon Cactus, these birds have adapted quite nicely to the arid Mexican Desert.

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Oregon Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 114

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2011

The vast majority of Baltimore Orioles that breed in North America return to the tropics between Mexico and northern South America for the cold half of the year. They are, for many birders in the eastern part of the continent, one of a short list of quintessential spring birds.

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North Carolina 2011 St. Louis Baltimore 140

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2014

From the American Bird Conservancy : The mayor of Albuquerque and the director of the city’s animal welfare department have been named in a lawsuit alleging that the officials have committed animal cruelty by allowing certain illegal and improper animal management practices to occur related to abandonment of stray cats. They do great work!

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Albuquerque Neutering Trap Neuter Return Stray Cat 240

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2024

Birding in Michoacán, and indeed, in Mexico, is quite a new activity. Unfortunately, this lucrative tourism only occurs from November to March, leaving the region’s entire tourist infrastructure abandoned for the rest of each year. I was participating as a speaker and guide in the Third Bird Festival of Michoacán.

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Lamb Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 246

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2012

The species ranges north well into Canada in the summer months, but in the winter they make for the southern coasts or down to Mexico. They may gather in flocks of hundreds during their fall journey, abandoning their lonely summer habits. So the Hoary Bat is migratory.

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Bats Iceland Stray Fur 217

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

This week marks the 2-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Aerial view of the scale of the clean-up operation 6 January, 2011 The White House oil commission concludes that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the result of systematic management failure at BP, Transocean and Halliburton.

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2010 Louisiana 2012 2011 269

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

But imagine those flocks are verdant green, a color unmatched by any native bird currently in North American (north of Mexico, of course). Barreling into your feeder with reckless abandon and cleaning you right out. Imagine those sun-headed, screeching demons alighting on a stand of cockleburrs or sweetgum or sycamore.

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Parrots Hunters United States North America 267

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

After our brief trip thru the great state of Texas, we were headed back into New Mexico, a state I was quite excited to explore. I have been all around the western states, here and there, but never spent any time in New Mexico. Our next stop was another mutually agreed upon stop, Albuquerque New Mexico.

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Albuquerque New Mexico Mexico Sparrows 156

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2013

The United States built Fort Jefferson on Garden Key between 1846 to 1875 to protect its interests in the Gulf of Mexico, but was later abandoned without ever being fully completed.

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United States Sea Turtles Baltimore Abandon 209

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

Complementing Dunn’s exquisite descriptions are his photographs of 27 species plus the mysterious Nazca hummingbird geoglyph, an abandoned Juan Fernández Firecrown nest, and the aforementioned photo of Sr. This is what the female birds saw when he displayed to them, these arresting blazes of blue and purple. (p. Jonas D’Abronzo.

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Costa Rica Brazil Bolivia Ecuador 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

Had they been able to make the jawbone talk, no doubt its first words would be, “You can’t put a baby bird back in the nest, because the parents will smell your hands and abandon it.”. That’s why I can’t take owls to a lot of my education programs out here in New Mexico.”. Last year scientists in Ethiopia discovered the jawbone of a 2.8

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Porcupines Raccoons Ethiopia 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2015

Whoever is in charge of names in the area had abandoned an unwise relationship with compound names ((meaning Redwinged Starlings were Red-winged Starlings again) and seemed to have shifted the names of lots of species around in the hopes of aligning them with the IOC (goodbye louries).

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Africa South Africa Zimbabwe Penguins 168

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

(The phrase is also used in the Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America and The Shorebird Guide by O’Brien, Crossley, and Karlson, so it hasn’t been totally abandoned.). On the other hand, the identification points accompanying the images appear to be exactly the same in both editions. (As

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North America Birds Alaska America 259