10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

On my way back to the RV Park, I was able to photograph my first Gold-crowned Sparrows , since my trip to Kodiak Alaska, 3 years ago. We don’t get great gas mileage any way, but that just killed us. Down in the water, I added Common Goldeneyes, Common Mergansers, Canada Geese , and yes, don’t laugh…my first Mallards of the year.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

In the 19th- and early 20th-centuries, shorebirds were killed outright for their meat, a trade that only ended with the passage of federal legislation (which still excepts game birds such as woodcock and snipe). They apparently meet the criteria for inclusion in that they are regular migrants or annual visitors to specific areas of Alaska.

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North America America 2006 Delaware 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

A number of years ago I was granted the privilege of flying into the Kuparuk Oil Field, above the Arctic Circle in the remote regions of the North Slope Borough in Alaska. The newest find of this extremely scarce bird was a male, and was “collected” (an innocent-sounding euphemism for “killed”) for the American Museum of Natural History.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. This represents 6% of the estimated mid-continental spring population of 322,700 birds for the same two decades. Tennessee found that out in January. But is this for real?

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Critter News

MAY 7, 2012

An unidentified German actor has been stopped by Berlin’s administrative court, following his announcement that he planned to strangle two puppies with cable wires on stage to protest against the slaughter of sled dogs in Alaska and hunting dogs in Spain, with their death being accompanied by a funeral march music and loud gong.

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Protesters Protest Protesting Puppies 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

When news later reached our little town (likely through a newspaper) that the bird-killing chemical was to be banned, my environmental activism was born. Eleven million gallons of oil suffocated 1,300 miles of shoreline in my beloved Alaska. Fast forward to the next decade and humans were at it again.

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Defenders Of Wildlife Bald Eagle Texas Protest 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2021

and Canada, including some species as far north as Alaska, an increase over the 500 species covered in the first edition. I imagine part of the allure of studying mushrooms is the tension between identifying the ones that will kill you (or at the very least give you a tummy ache) and the ones that will make your pizza or salad zing.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

While it makes a passing attempt to say not all scientists are like these monstrous fiends (or truly arrogant, as she dubs them) it mostly focuses on these monstrous fiends simply to prove that scientists in wildlife conservation can be monstrous fiends, particularly compared to the environment-loving oil industry of Alaska.

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Collecting Papua New Guinea Science Guinea 206

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2022

It seems that at Nanhui, somebody is trying to kill even more than 2 bird(s) (species) with one stone (to be more accurate, not a single stone but a massive amount of concrete). On the other hand, for every disturbed Nanhui, there are probably at least 10 coastal places in China that are completely undisturbed, so it all evens out.

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Cattle Portugal Buffalo Alaska 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

She seamlessly interweaves memories of her bryologist father (he collected mosses), statistics on building-killed birds and the Audubon volunteers who collect them, details of modern taxidermist techniques seen on a visit to a Pennsylvania taxidermist, and the sight of hundreds of bird study skins at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates.

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New York City Fox Owls California Condor 255

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Their total population, from the Baja Peninsula to Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, is estimated at somewhere between 1 million and 3.5 From National Geographic News : Cassin’s auklets are tiny diving seabirds that look like puffballs. They feed on animal plankton and build their nests by burrowing in the dirt on offshore islands.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2018

Jason broke new ground in Alaska, adding Marbled Murrulet and bringing the Upper 1 to 1. 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Still all mainland though. Any trips to the islands planned, I wonder? Costanera Sur, Promenade.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Holt also travels up to Utqiavik, Alaska every June, and has been for over 30 years, to study Snowy Owls and Brown Lemmings. They are also threatened by cultural beliefs that lead to killing them because they’re seen as harbingers of death and bad luck. They are also hunted.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2023

In Alaska, they were found to mimic 30 different species ( source ). The captor monkey killed the bird … by biting off its head” Eurasian Woodcocks are much more likely to be killed by humans than by snub-nosed monkeys. In fact, websites such as this one seem to offer package tours just to kill woodcocks.

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