10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2015

This common bird is also the state bird for Arkansas, Texas (another avian hot spot), Tennessee, and Mississippi, so Florida even misses points for originality. The brilliantly blue and endemic Florida Scrub Jay? The striking Snail Kite? Florida went with the Northern Mockingbird , found in all lower 48 states.

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Florida Arkansas Legislature Mississippi 171

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2013

near Little Rock, Arkansas, an oil spill has polluted a lake. For starters, for some reason, hundreds of dead waterfowl have turned up in a Chinese river. Insert your Peking Duck jokes here.) And here in the U.S., Some ducks have succumbed to the oil, while others have been rushed to rehab facilities.

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Ostriches Penguins Ducks Arkansas 143

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

Critter News

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

A stray cat rescued by the Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, Socks lived in the governor’s mansion in Arkansas and later moved with the family to the White House. Former First Cat Socks, one of the world’s most famous felines, died Friday at the age of 20 after battling throat cancer since November.

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Cats Stray Cat Arkansas Cat Rescue 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2013

At Varner Unit, home of Arkansas’s death row for men, we see a typical sight – a stark shot of a chain link fence. It’s the third shot that intrigues me most, though. But in one of the gaps of the fence, a House Sparrow perches, stretching briefly.

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Arkansas Memphis Sparrows Geese 103

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2018

Other states, such as North Dakota and Arkansas, were also gray, but those seemed less troublesome, since I have never visited either state. But I had spent years in Ann Arbor attending law school at the University of Michigan, albeit before I started birding. But displaying information with a map does not treat all states the same.

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Puerto Rico District of Columbia Michigan North Dakota 124

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Even some states that technically have checklists barely qualify: the great state of Illinois has just a single checklist with two species (from an airport). Despite the absence of species, many of these are excellent birding states and/or have birding festivals ( e.g., the Biggest Week in American Birding in Ohio).

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Rhode Island United States West Virginia Puerto Rico 115

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2019

By my reckoning, 500 miles up the Mississippi River as the steamboat goes only gets you as far as the Mississippi-Louisiana-Arkansas tripoint. But as the crow flies, Kentucky’s southern border with Tennessee is just about within reach.

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Mississippi Kentucky Tennessee Arkansas 120

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

However, 12 states, namely, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming and Wisconsin [Imagine, The Dairy State doesn't protect a woman's right to nurse!]

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Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2013

Just look at the recent spill in Arkansas. Then there is, as history shows, the certainty that there will be oil spills from the Keystone XL Pipeline across sensitive areas of the United States.

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Obama 2008 United States North America 262

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2023

Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (New Jersey) Malheur National Wildlife Refuge (Oregon) Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge (Texas) Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge (Georgia) San Juan Islands National Wildlife Refuge (Washington) White River National Wildlife Refuge (Arkansas) Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (Virginia/North Carolina) (..)

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United States Michigan Texas Virginia 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Winter Hits New York City Desert Finch in Arkansas (!?!?!) • Explore These Related Posts March by Goethe Stalking a Kiwi Icon Polygynandry and the Alpine Accentor Duck Migration Finally Saw-Whet.Or These Blasts From The Past First Robin of Spring Yard Birds in Saugerties Handling Birds: Yea or Nay?

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2011 Jordan Deer New York 225

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2018

The Southeastern guide goes a bit more west, to eastern Oklahoma and Texas, so its northern borders lie at the north boundaries of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Organization and Content. The guides are organized taxonomically and laid out in the traditional Peterson manner—illustrations on the right, text of the left.

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North America America Oklahoma Missouri 101

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

The specific geographic area covered is “east of the western boundaries of Ontario, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana”; the eastern United States and Canada is known for its diversity of odonates. Although designed as a field guide, it is a hefty book, 376 pages long, covering 336 species.

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United States Costa Rica Massachusetts North America 248

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2018

The collaborative profile has been boosted by 2 new American states, adding Tennessee and Arkansas to the coloured patches across the map of the USA. They came from 8 countries and the year list has reached 1750. The life list, now into its 3rd year stands at 3424. Alphabetic Taxonomic. Common Ostrich – Struthio camelus. 23 May 2018.

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2018 Australia Los Angeles Albatross 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2019

They are: Senators John Boozman (R-Arkansas) and Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico); and Representatives Rob Wittman , (R-Virginia) and Mike Thompson (D-California). Membership of the MBCC is set by law: the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Administrator of the EPA, two U.S. Senators, and two U.S. Representatives.

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Maryland 2017 Texas Arkansas 180