10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

I felt especially thankful for the cooler air while boarding a touring boat at the Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserv e along the coast of Alabama. I can explore outside without sweat dripping from my nose, or wear a T-shirt without worrying that my forearms will scorch in the noon-day sun.

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Alabama Pelicans Science Fish 154

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2021

During migration, they occur in more places, I bet that golden-hooded bird with a rainforest mixed flock was on its way to Virginia or Alabama or wooded swamp in some other part of its ancient range that used to bear witness to the double knocks of Ivory-billeds. Typically, in Costa Rica, this swamp beauty is a bird of wetlands and mangroves.

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Costa Rica West Virginia Baltimore Virginia 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A few states still have no checklists at all: Nebraska , Minnesota , Iowa , Kentucky , West Virginia , Mississippi , and Alabama. The Collective added six new states in the past three years, but none have eclipsed the century mark: Wisconsin ( 74 ), Utah (55), Hawaii (38), Oklahoma (18), Rhode Island (9), and Connecticut (5).

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West Virginia United States Puerto Rico Minnesota 195

Critter News

MAY 14, 2011

Excellent news! From Forbes.com. The financially troubled VictoryLand in Shorter is ending live dog racing, officials said Tuesday. Chief Operating Officer Lewis Benefield said electronic bingo games subsidized live greyhound racing for many years, and live races are no longer feasible now that bingo is shut down.

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Greyhounds Alabama Game Dogs 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

A little more than halfway through 2014, a year Marybeth had decided would be devoted to finishing in the top fifty eBirders in Louisiana AND Alabama, there is a terrible accident and time must be put aside for Lynn’s healing and recovery. But, in Chapter Three the book takes on more shape.

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2019

In addition to spotting exciting new species in Florida, including the rare Snail Kite, travel across the country brought me into contact with birds in Oregon, California, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Alabama, and more. Not so much.

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Bald Eagle Alabama Kansas Wisconsin 145

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

A jay born and raised in New York State may winter in Alabama, Kentucky, West Virginia, or Tennessee, depending on its taste in barbecue. Most fascinatingly, a bird that migrated one year, even hauling its tail feathers all the way down to Alabama, may choose to hang out in New York all winter next year, or vice-versa.

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Alabama West Virginia New York City New York 104

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Since I live so close to the state line, it’s only natural that I do some of my birding along the Alabama coastline. I did a little research, and came across good birding reports on Gulf Park, so to Gulf Park I went. Turns out, Gulf Park is huge. To bird, my husband and I focused on walking the Hugh S.

Alabama 150

Alabama Bald Eagle North Carolina Woodpeckers 150

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2018

I would wake up in darkness, gather my camera and binoculars and drive to Alabama for a birding tour along a river. Originally, I had big plans for the October Big Day. I would tick off migrating songbirds, from tanagers to vireos and everything in between.

Florida 113

Florida Alabama Kansas Pelicans 113

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2012

Researchers at Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama conducting a two-year study focusing on the diets of Tiger Sharks in the Gulf of Mexico have made an alarming discovery: not only are these sharks eating the expected fish and other assorted marine organisms, but they’re also eating land-based songbirds!

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Sharks Alabama Tigers Mexico 157

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

I was so horrified I didn’t even ask why.” “A bat in a bucket floating on a piece of watermelon,” wrote Michelle Whitfield English in Alabama. .” “A nestling American Robin in a bucket of water,” wrote Jane Neville, now in Florida. Soaked and ice cold!

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Transported Wildlife Rehabilitation Bats Opossums 278

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2013

Even though it doesn’t show on the NatureServe range map above, Golden-crowned Sparrow vagrants have been recorded eastward to Ontario and Nova Scotia, Michigan, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey; also south to Alabama, Texas, Louisiana and Florida 1.

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Sparrows Alabama North America New Jersey 160

Critter News

JANUARY 3, 2011

New Jersey Illinois Massachusetts Colorado Maine WORST STATES Ohio Hawaii Alabama North Dakota Mississippi Idaho South Dakota (worst) According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the states fell this way. According to this Technorati article , the Humane Society rated the states on their animal protection laws.

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Animal Legal Defense Fund Animal Protection North Dakota Protection 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2017

Neil is a graduate student at the University of Alabama, where he studies avian ecology. Doing this allows you to (1) hear nocturnal migrants, (2) drink wine, (3) enjoy the company of friends, and (4) educate people about birds and maybe even get someone hooked on birding.

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Alabama Sacramento Florida California 107

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Some states have no species at all, not even a pigeon, crow, or sparrow: Hawaii , Utah , Nebraska , Oklahoma , Minnesota , Iowa , Wisconsin , Kentucky , West Virginia , Mississippi , Alabama , Connecticut , and Rhode Island. Even the nation’s capital has been ignored.

Rhode Island 114

Rhode Island United States West Virginia Puerto Rico 114

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

For reasons no one fully understands, much of Mississippi, Alabama, and inland Georgia lack Painted Buntings during the breeding season, a gap of several hundred miles. You can see the two disjunct populations mapped in this animated occurrence model from eBird.

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Mississippi Mexico Alabama North Carolina 267

Critter News

DECEMBER 26, 2008

And the worst: Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arkansas, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, South Dakota, Wyoming You can check out the whole report on their web site. Among the best: California, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Oregon.

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Animal Legal Defense Fund Animal Protection South Dakota ALDF 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2013

For those wishing to see this interesting subspecies in Florida, it is tolerably common within its small range in the state, with reliable sites including Alabama Jacks on Card Sound Road and the Guy Bradley Trail at Flamingo, Everglades National Park.

Florida 184

Florida Miami Breeders Tampa 184

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

We also meet more fascinating people: some familiar names like pelagic leaders Brian Patteson and Kate Sutherland, some names that we should know, like Theunis Piersma, the Dutch ornithologist who has done pioneering research on Bar-tailed Godwits, Red Knots and other shorebirds (and who we first meet studying Spoon-billed Sandpipers on the Yellow (..)

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Cyprus Slaughtered Slaughter Research 249

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 26, 2011

In addition to the deployments in Missouri and Tennessee, American Humane Association has been providing emergency grants to states across the South and Midwest that have been hit by severe weather, including Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina.

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Missouri Rescue Memphis Alabama 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2016

I was working at the Coastal Wildlife Rescue Center here in Alabama, and he had either been blown in during a storm or caught a ride on a ship. “Finally I got some fingerless padded baseball gloves.”. “I I was bitten by a juvenile Masked Booby ,” says Michele Walker-Harmon. “I No need for stitches, but it took awhile to heal.”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wounded Wildlife Opossums 163

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

Oil on the beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama I covered the spill for several months for a special TV series on the Gulf Disaster. There is no point rehashing the gruesome details of the largest accidental marine oil spill in our history. There is, however, value in pausing to reflect and remember what happened two years ago.

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2010 Louisiana 2012 2011 230

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Over the winter, the universe lost four whooping cranes to what appears to be recreational shooting: three gunned down together in Georgia on December 30, 2010, and another in Alabama on January 28, 2011. There are 400 whooping cranes left in the wild, 100 of them in the eastern population.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 241

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

He’s participating in Alabama Audubon’s first Black Belt Birding Festival , an event that brings him life birds and encounters with black history as he walks through Birmingham and then Selma.

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Emotional Birds Nepal Minneapolis 222

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Travel ten hours from Ohio to Missouri or Alabama, which I have done, and you won’t find all that much variation in the species you can see. And since Mexico’s topography has been compared to a crumpled-up sheet of paper, most places offer many biomes within a short distance.

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Mexico Costa Rica Alabama Missouri 213

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The Wilson’s Plovers with their stout crab cracking beaks and hunched demeanor, they have less distance to fly but it’s still no small feat to zip from Alabama to Costa Rica. Just fly from there to here to rumble around the mud flats of the Nicoya Gulf?

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Costa Rica 2018 West Virginia Birds 164

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2017

.” Meanwhile, Ryan Zinke, the newly appointed Secretary of the Interior announced that the Department will offer 73 million acres offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida for oil and gas exploration and development.

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Cleveland Oklahoma Alabama United States 127