10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2019

A giant alligator lolled near a pond, herons and egrets stalked the shallow mudflats for prey, Black Skimmers flew low over the surface of the water to scoop up tiny fish. And I never forget to look for alligators. The highlight for me in the inland wetlands remains a Marbled Godwit , my first. The best part?

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Wildlife Alligators Raccoons Deer 150

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2013

An alligator makes an aggressive but half-hearted lunge for a group of dabbling Blue-winged and Green-winged Teals. Nearly every species of heron and egret in North America forage only feet away, some of them in their dazzling breeding displays. A lone Merlin watches the proceedings as a Sora darts by underneath our feet.

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Factory North America Alligators Trafficking 249

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2012

And while finding snails is not difficult for a long legged bird that is not afraid to wade into alligator-infested marshes it is difficult to extract the yummy snail meat from its protective shell. That is, they eat snails of the genus Pomacea to the exclusion of all else, provided the snails are available.

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Alligators Meat Florida Collecting 171

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2014

Herons and raptors and rails and gulls and ducks and cranes and jays and owls and alligators are all awaiting me – and you – at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. I can’t wait until Space Coast! You are going, right?

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Wildlife Tampa Alligators 2012 199

Animal Person

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It saddens me, and I find it extremely disturbing, that a five-year old child is giddy, and his parents (and the journalists on this program) are so pleased that he killed a 35-40-year old alligator. Let's deconstruct a few details: The young boy shot the alligator, who had been trapped , in the head and killed him.

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Alligators Pit Bulls Killing Slaughtered 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Mom became especially enraptured with the baby alligators we spotted – less than a foot long, they basked in the grass next to their mothers, or crawled atop her back and tail for extra protection. Baby alligators. I so badly wanted to spot their chicken-like forms. Cute right?

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Alligators Sharks Turtles Chickens 113

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2013

I want to see Limpkins and Snail Kites and American Alligators and Yellow-throated Warblers and Painted Buntings and this list could go on for quite some time. In under a month I will looking at lots of great birds at the 17th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. I can’t wait – two years between visits is too long.

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Florida Alligators Wildlife 2008 211

10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2012

My best wild bird of Legoland had to be some kind of heron hunting among the turtles and young alligators in a cypress swamp.

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Florida Alligators Birds Turtles 199

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2024

Rose-breasted Grosbeak Wilson’s Warbler Painted Buntings Another spot to check is the South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center is focused on educating visitors about the animals that live on the Gulf Coast, including a nice variety of alligators.

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Texas Alabama Alligators Nashville 245

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2013

in a tiny stretch of semi-continuous tropical hardwood hammock and scrub stretching from the Alligator Farm just south of Florida City west to Mosier Hammock in the Long Pine Key area of Everglades National Park — an area that only encompasses a few square miles. What is their pattern of occurrence in the sunshine state?

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Florida United States Texas Alligators 218

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

The Golden Eagles at Alligator River NWR were soaring elsewhere. The Iceland Gull at Wanchese was a no-show. The Yellow-crowned Night-Heron on the Nags Head causeway was tucked away. The Little Gulls at Jeanette’s Pier were out to sea. I ended up stuck at 198 for the time being, but it was so bad.

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North Carolina Alligators Geese Owls 191

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

Having evolved alongside such incredible predators in Africa such as Nile Crocodile, various big cats, large snakes, and monitor lizards, this goose would seem well equipped to handle the relatively few large predators of southeast Florida such as the American Alligator and the Bobcat.

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Florida Miami Bolivia Alligators 232

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2021

That’s quite the list of charismatic and unique wildlife to add to your potential list of sightings.

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Guyana Otters South America Colombia 279

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2014

I just made sure not to stand too close to any alligators when my back was to Jeff by the time I was done going through the many virtues that Green Herons possess. Does this man look like he has been lobbied? Clearly the answer is yes. Three-and-a-half out of four! Lobbied, pestered, really, what’s the difference?

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Florida Alligators Wildlife Species 157

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Well known to tourists who visit the trail by the thousands every year to see their first wild alligators, the site is generally passed off by the serious birder as having little potential of seeing something truly special — just close views of herons, egrets, and ibis.

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Wildlife Alligators Miami Florida 163

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Brown water limits visibility, but I know that a ton of fish species call this river home, not to mention the alligators. These river areas of Northwest Florida always strike me as mysterious. The surface was so calm that it reflected perfectly the foliage above, in form if not in color.

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Bald Eagle Florida Alligators Pelicans 154

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The University of Florida’s mascot is an alligator, but a Red-tailed Hawk is a good emblem for any transition from one phase of life to the next. Red-tailed Hawk in Flight. As I watched, a Red-tailed Hawk sailed high over the crowd, chased by a smaller but feistier American Crow.

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Alligators Florida Birds Species 113

4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Fishing With Alligator Snappers. Truly an interesting show, be sure to tune in, and enjoy the sneak peeks below. The premiere miniseries event airs Sunday, February 12, 2012, 8 p.m. – Bobcat Prey. As Mark Twain once said, the Mississippi River is a “wonderful book with a new story to tell every day.”

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Mississippi Bald Eagle Alligators Wolves 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

Turns out, Monday brought more than a little rain, and we got soaked as we explored the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge and the Currituck National Wildlife Refuge along the ocean. Yes, I had officially graduated from the Duke Nicholas School of the Environment, and I was not going to let a little rain keep me from birding!

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North Carolina Alligators Wildlife Woodpeckers 202

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2019

The first attracts lots of local tourists, because of the many alligators that live in its waters. Fortunately, only a few kilometers west of the urban center there are two mangrove estuaries: Barra de Santana, and Barra de Pichi. Bathing there is definitely discouraged! Barra de Pichi has fewer gators.

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Mexico Alligators ALA 2019 155

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Alligators may have drawn the loudest cheers on the boat – especially from the two elementary school boys on the bench behind me – but we remained drawn to the small Pied-billed Grebes and Common Gallinules. We opted for the 12:30 p.m. Both Black and Turkey Vultures swooped overhead, occasionally upstaged by a shrieking Osprey.

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Alligators Turkey Hunting Raised 130

4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

And the most unusual pets (alligator and silkworms) belonged to John Quincy Adams. It’s said the George Washington and the parrot didn’t get along! Bonus Facts! Dogs are the most popular presidential pet. Kennedy and Calvin Coolidge owned the most pets. Five Famous First Pets originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on February 22, 2010.

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Pets Ponies Horses Washington 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2011

I mean come on, it’s not like it’s an Alligator or anything. This was nothing like that, of course, but don’t tell that to the guy driving the Cadillac three cars back. There were places along the 5 mile loop where he had to be. Any Reddish Egret induced layover is not acceptable.

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Florida South Carolina Alligators Wounded 154

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2017

While I enjoyed the view of alligators and Double-crested Cormorants from the nearby fishing pier, I quickly walked away to distance myself from the blasting country music. Mac Lake is the park’s focal point, a long body of water set in cattails and other reeds. Tricolored Heron looking for lunch.

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Alligators Florida Deer Birds 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 19, 2009

Are the kids cooking monkey, cat, dog, alligator or turtle? For me, the focus on culture and tradition is basically an excuse for "anything goes" when it comes to animals. But I bet anything doesn't go. I wonder how much they learn about the animals other cultures eat. (In

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Cooking Chickens Factory Monkeys 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

Houston Audubon instituted a ‘no hunting’ policy and by July 1995, there were 50 heron nests on the island, protected from mammalian predators by the large alligators in the waterways. Claybottom Pond was part of a land parcel donated to Houston Audubon in 1994 and at that time no birds were nesting on the island in its center.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 260

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 14, 2019

To me, that means that when we meet with people, especially clients, we should think of ourselves as rabbits with big ears and a small mouth, rather than alligators with small ears and a huge mouth. Establishing a rapport, building trust and winning business is more about listening than speaking. .

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Rabbits Alligators Rights Research 95

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 27, 2017

Similarly, “cute” email marketing techniques (like asking people if they’ve been eaten by an alligator when they don’t respond) have become hackneyed and overused. In fact, it’s likely that they’ll associate names in the subject line with spam and ignore the email entirely.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Elephants, whales, hippopotamuses, giraffes, and alligators use low-frequency sounds to communicate over long distances, often miles; and bats, dolphins, whales, frogs, and various rodents use high-frequency sounds to find food, communicate with others, and navigate.

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Emotional Animal Whaling Whales 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2024

We traveled along Alligator Alley. This is a great spot for alligators, which we saw that day. Back in March, in Southwestern Florida, my husband (non-birder and good sport) and I drove to Big Cypress National Preserve. There are always lots of birds to see on the way, especially waders. We decided to stop at H. Williams Wayside Park.

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Alligators Woodpeckers Turkey Florida 232

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

Anhinga sat on exposed logs, near slowly swimming alligators. I kept my ears perked up to catch errant song in the distance, but as soon as we approached they fell silent. The path may have been fun to follow, but full of birds it was not. We had better luck by the lake itself.

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Florida Alligators Wounded Mississippi 235

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

I am, of course, referring to Alligator mississippiensis , more commonly known as the American Alligator , or, colloquially, as gators. Though alligator attacks are rare they do happen. According to Wikipedia : Alligators are capable of killing humans, but are generally wary enough not to see them as a potential prey.

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Alligators Reptiles New York City Florida 179

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

These guys could eat alligators for lunch. Today the interests of tourists are met by an artificial sea pool near the city centre, and the muddy beach is left mostly for the birds. Swimming in this part of the world is a bad idea.

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Alligators Guinea Australia 2012 179

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2018

Alligator on nest. ADM’s proximity to existing water and wildlife management areas, its location far from existing transit lines and public services, and the plans for the 20 year expansion of the Graham Companies properties are all certain to spur the rapid, westward growth of the County.

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Miami Las Vegas Alligators Minnesota 180

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2011

I then had a year in Florida – beware the alligators and hurricanes! I had spent several holidays with my family in the USA in the 1980′s and then worked in Maine during the summer of 1985-beware the poison ivy and the snapping turtles!

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South Africa United States Alligators Austin 162

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2018

Alligator River NWR–Wildlife Drive. El Centenario Tidal Flats. 01 Jan 2018. Chestnut-sided Warbler – Setophaga pensylvanica. El Tapir hummingbird garden. 01 Jan 2018. Black-throated Blue Warbler – Setophaga caerulescens. 05 Apr 2018. Palm Warbler – Setophaga palmarum. Clifford Park. 01 Jan 2018. Lakeview Drive Ponds.

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2018 Australia Los Angeles Albatross 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2018

Alligator River NWR–Wildlife Drive. Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve. 06 Apr 2018. Louisiana Waterthrush – Parkesia motacilla. Nags Head Woods Ecological Preserve. 06 Apr 2018. Black-throated Blue Warbler – Setophaga caerulescens. 05 Apr 2018. Ringed Teal – Callonetta leucophrys. 04 Apr 2018.

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2018 Australia Los Angeles Albatross 105