10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

The scope is worldwide; of the 24 birds depicted, five are from the Americas; five from Eurasia; three from New Zealand; two from Australasia; three from Africa; one from Africa and Asia; one from Antarctica; two worldwide, and two from Asia, introduced worldwide. © 2023 Tony Angell; © 2023 Mark E.

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Chicago Barn Owls Penguins New Zealand 172

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APRIL 13, 2021

The survey was commissioned by National Flyway Council (NFC), which implements the North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP), which, in turn, aims to maintain abundant waterfowl populations in North America. Report to the National Flyway Council from the Minnesota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and University of Minnesota.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Greg Lawrence is a long-time friend of 10,000 Birds and a birding machine in the Rochester, New York, area. He is currently a Fish and Wildlife Technician with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Research Foundation for SUNY. 1999, Holt et al.

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Ethics Owls New York North America 137

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The Mourning Dove ( Zenaida macroura) is among the most abundant and widespread terrestrial birds endemic to North and Middle America. It’s a good thing too, because it is the leading gamebird in North America in terms of total harvest and the widespread distribution of hunting effort. Click on photos for full sized images.

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Hunters Hunting North America Game 173

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Vagrancy in Birds is organized into two major parts: (1) A detailed, 62-page synthesis of research and theory and (2) “Family Accounts,” 259 pages covering bird families from Struthionidae/Ostriches) to Thraupidae/Tanagers and allies (Clements is the taxonomic authority). Copyright © 2022 Alexander Lees and James Gilroy.

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 255

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The first is that the illustrations by Dale Dyer are based, and largely seem to be the same, as the illustrations for his previous guide Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama (co-authored with Andrew Vallely, PUP, 2018). Doing this work takes time!

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 205

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2020

Over and again, Kroodsma admits to things to which neither he, nor any other researchers, yet have answers – including areas where diligent amateurs can, he says, make discoveries. Good field guides to bird sounds are certainly available, particularly Nathan Pieplow’s for eastern and western North America.) Boston, New York.

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Virginia Boston North America 2020 235

10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2012

Some of the heavyweights of New York’s birding scene were there and it was intimidating to some degree to ask where exactly the shearwaters and storm-petrels they were calling out were. And though I now have five more years of birding under my belt I still feel like a novice when it comes to seawatching. a better seawatcher.

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New York North America Albatross 2007 173

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

One of the two sub-species of Red Knot occurring in North America, the Rufa subspecies breeds in the Canadian Artic Region and migrates along the east or Atlantic coast of the United States. migration corridors from Argentina in the Southern tip of South America to Canada. Birds in Delaware Bay. Photo: Gregory Breese-USFWS.

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Endangered Species Protection Delaware Species 160

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

billion a year between 1997 and 2005, totaling nearly $35 billion, according to researchers at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. Bernard Burlew New York, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: While I am grateful for Nicholas D. Unfortunately, that is unlikely to happen any time soon.

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New York Times New York Factory Farming Factory Farm 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

East of Ontario cone crops are generally poor in the Atlantic Provinces, New York State, New Hampshire and other northern New England States. Red Crossbills comprise at least 10 “call types” in North America. However, the types are usually impossible to identify without recordings of their flight calls.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 17, 2007

9): Gail Collins writes: “Human-ape conversation was a very hot topic back in the late 1960s, when researchers first taught a chimpanzee named Washoe to use sign language. The Great Ape Trust is the only place in America where this kind of research still goes on.” To the Editor: Re “An Ape Types in Iowa” (column, Aug.

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New York Times New York Apes Georgia 40

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

In 2009, I traveled from New York City to the tropical rainforest of Ecuador. An enlarged version was published in 1997, with color photographs and more coverage of South America. The text still focuses on Central and South America, though the Caribbean is also considered to be part of the Neotropics.

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South America Ecuador America Reptiles 144

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

But research has shown that some plovers even use the super-sensitive soles of their feet to detect movement beneath the substrate. Consider Estero Lagoon for example… In North America there are nine regular plover species, ten if you include the more vagrant Common Ringed Plover. These Blasts From The Past What is a Phoebe?

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Florida South Africa 2011 Africa 184

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2013

The bad news is I then celebrated too hard, fell down, and broke my wrist. Since it’s really hard to type in a splint, here is a blast from the past: specifically from the beginning of this long, strange trip, my cross-country journey from New York to Montana: I have to confess, I had forgotten all about the Eurasian Tree Sparrow.

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Sparrows St. Louis Kansas City Kansas 164

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. Chestnut-fronted Macaws Ara severa. And that’s just in the lowlands!

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 254

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

These guides are sequels, updates, and complements to Wheeler’s previous classic books, Raptors of Eastern North America and Raptors of Western North America (PUP, 2003), now out-of-print and fetching prices in three figures on used-book sites. Hawks of North America, 2nd ed. But, they are not comprehensive treatments.

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Birds North America Mississippi Bald Eagle 186

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

She does, and her narrative serves as a role model for how to write about birds simply and knowledgeably; informing birds’ family stories with scientific facts and research findings. Photos of birds from northeastern areas predominate, not surprisingly since photographer Marie Read lives and works in upstate New York.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Originally from India and the vicinity, it is believed that they had already undergone two major expansions – through Asia Minor in the 1600s, and then across Europe in the 1900s – when they first appeared in North America. Renato Mar 13th, 2011 at 8:36 am Nice post, the Collared Doves also make it to South America.

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Montana 2011 New York Bahamas 133

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Many Happy Returns to the Owl Research Institute Prepping For Spring Spring in East Harbour Regional Park.Or He caught the itch, so to speak, when he arrived at Sapsucker Woods in Ithaca, New York, and he refined his birding skills with the Lab of Ornithologys Spring Field Ornithology course. Get yours today! Wicked, right?

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Cyprus 2011 Deer New York 145

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

Clue: El Yunque is featured on one of the coins in the America the Beautiful Quarters program.). They start out in New York City, climbing a skyscraper to see a Peregrine Falcon, the world’s fastest-moving bird, diving at almost 200 miles an hour after a pigeon.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 228

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

But Northern Cardinal, Catbird, and White-throated Sparrow do not appear until the 270s, during a visit to Central Park while on business trip to New York City. I mention these trips because, along with other trips and experiences closer to home, they inform my research into my future birding travel. 10, Mountain Quail at No.

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San Francisco Portland United States Puerto Rico 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2011

As the owner of what has been called ( by me ) western New York’s leading test prep organization , I have to meticulously analyze every aspect of these crucial college entrance exams. Consequently, I give you the IATB SAT … The SAT undoubtedly deserves the title of America’s most terrifying test.

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Birds Costa Rica Colorado ALA 165

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

His second book on migration is a tale of many birds and many research studies all connected by the theme of migration and by his thoughtful narrative voice. Even if you have read about these research projects, Weidensaul’s accounts offer fresh angles and updated information. is through the personal and the specific.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 245

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

It is also familiar at inland sites in winter, especially reservoirs and refuse tips, and breeds in the relatively-Northerly regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. This clearly showed Mayr’s grandeur: very shortly before he passed away at the age of 100, he saw one of his most important research hypotheses proven wrong.

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2011 Cyprus Species Deer 157

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Cone crops are good to excellent (poor on white pine) in central Ontario and Laurentian Mountains in southern Quebec with heavy crops extending east through the Adirondack Mountains of New York and northern New England States. Red Crossbills comprise at least 10 “types” in North America.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

For birders, it’s the extremely large book, shelved in a place where it can’t crush the field guides, used to research the history of a bird in their area. Corey did just this in this 2011 posting about Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus in New York State. of New Mexico Press, 2005).

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 222

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

It is now more important than ever to draw on the diverse group of refuge advocates around the country to safeguard America’s wildlife heritage 1. Birders, photographers and wildlife watchers, through this financial avenue, could have a voice in Refuge diversity as well as in innovative research, education and habitat programs.

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Wildlife Hunters Ducks Hunting 194

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

And, I started daydreaming about encountering something a little different, maybe a Horned Frog, Ceratophrys cornuta, a large, squat green and brown frog of South America, with a wide mouth large enough to eat other frogs as well as reptiles. Like Blue Dasher dragonflies, this is what I tended to see at small vegetative ponds in mid-summer.

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Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 182

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Nils Navarro Pacheco is described in the book’s bio as a wildlife artist and illustrator, with employment experience as a herpes taxonomist and curator, and current passions for conservation and helping young wildlife artists in the Caribbean and Latin America. This New York Times article summarizes the current status of travel to Cuba.

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Cuba Birds United States 2000 225

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. His employers were magnanimous in granting him time to research what was to be his magnum opus, published over the course of 20 years – the four-part Birds of the Belgian Congo.

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Congo Africa South Africa Madagascar 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

The skins were invaluable tools for ornithological, ecological, environmental research. government’s resistance to his refugee work, he finds himself drawn to a very different world, and starts researching the heist and the world of classic fly tying, first on the Internet, then in person. And, well researched.

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Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 102

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2022

(Famously, the Blackburnian was the spark bird for notable birder Phoebe Snetsinger; it was also the spark bird for my friend Marylee,) Without warblers, migrant hotspots like the Ramble in New York City’s Central Park would be empty in May. He has been birding since he was a kid, led birding trips across the U.S.

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United States North America Species 2013 206

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2011

Bicknell’s Thrush is a bird that is important to me because I grew up in New York’s Catskill Mountains, one of the places that it breeds. Will anyone ever break Sandy Komito’s record of 745 birds in North America area in one year? Kudos to him for all the research he did to make people more aware of birding.

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New York City New York New Hampshire Research Center 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

While studying, he also worked on various conservation/research projects (parrots, wagtails, vultures, and anything else that flew) and ringed thousands of birds. Dawn Fine Mar 16th, 2011 at 9:58 am Kim~Please forgive me Jochen Mar 16th, 2011 at 11:33 am @Dale: It’s “Jochen the guy who is desperate for a trip to North America&#.

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 204

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Scientists all over the world are sounding the alarm about ecological disruptions already in motion, and birders in North America are already seeing changes in the distribution of species, from the 61 percent of bird species wintering farther north to expanding ranges of birds like Mississippi Kite and Great-tailed Grackle.

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Species Science Los Angeles Birds 173

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Still, I can’t help thinking that there is some parallel between the mass slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon in 19th-century North America and the mass slaughter of songbirds in southern European countries today. Avery’s trip through Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York holds more promise.

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