10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2014

kept a special eye out for Bald Eagles ? There has been a Black-billed Cuckoo repeatedly reported from Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge since May and it had studiously avoided Corey until Sunday morning, when he heard it calling in the South Garden. Quick show of hands… how many of you in the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2012

Around thirty miles from Missoula in the Bitterroot Valley lies the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge. Many more of the same waterfowl we’d already seen turned up on additional ponds, but we also spotted nesting Bald Eagles and Great Blue Herons , and a small flock of Snow Geese. Fish and Wildlife Service a.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Faithful 10,000 Birds readers will remember Suzie as our wildlife rehabilitation beat writer. Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. And birders!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

The 18th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival is less than a month away and while we don’t have snow down yet here in New York City I am pretty sick of cold weather and could use some warmth and Florida sunshine! This Bald Eagle was a sight worth seeing! John’s National Wildlife Refuge” trip.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2016

Injured wildlife are not the most cooperative of patients. Wildlife rehabilitators have an arsenal of equipment and techniques we use to protect ourselves. 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. Yeah right!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Birding at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival is really pretty darn cool… Great Horned Owl on nest Bald Eagle on nest Sorry for such a short post – the next one will be longer, I promise! 10,000 Birds is a Scrub Jay-level sponsor of the 15th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival.

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Bald Eagle Florida Birds Eagles 191

10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2013

As it turns out, summer camp was going full force, so no one could leave and pick up the ham and fruit-eating baby eagles. No other wildlife rehabilitators could respond to the call, and Lisa was two hours away. Paul led me across the yard to the edge of the woods and pointed to the baby eagle, pictured at left. I asked him.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2014

Fish and Wildlife Service is down-listing the wood stork from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Fish and Wildlife Service, I was involved in various aspects of the species habitat protection largely on the regulatory arena. On June 25, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

On a sandbar in the center of the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, hundreds of ducks swirled around each other or lay down to take cover against the punishing wind. Gadwalls mixed with Green-winged Teals in the shallows , while Northern Harriers and Bald Eagles searched for prey from the skies above. What made my eyes widen?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2021

Blue T**s on a Teasel by Scottish wildlife artist Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935). However, closer inspection of the fine print revealed this wine is actually from Chile, where t**s – or any members of the family Paridae , for that matter – don’t even exist.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2018

As one of our country’s most biodiverse rivers, this entire habitat is considered ‘high priority’ in the Wildlife Action Plan of the state Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. Bald Eagle. It’s a good day when the opportunity to see them improves by 616 acres! Magnolia Warbler. Photo by © Michael Todd. Indigo Bunting.

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Georgia Bald Eagle Tennessee 2018 214

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2011

I was lucky enough to get off work early the other day and thought I would head out toward Battle Creek Wildlife Area and try to get some better photos of the Harlan’s Red-tailed Hawk I’ve seen on Dersch Road. My eye followed this young eagle as it circled its way to the ground, just over a small rise and out of sight.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2016

Wildlife lovers and rehabilitators, as always, tried to intervene. “I I have been caring for raptors for almost 29 years and not even a Bald Eagle can carry off 12 pounds,” wrote Eileen Wicker, the Executive Director of Raptor Rehabilitation of Kentucky. “I The frightening responses went like this: “Just shoot ‘em.”

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Pets Barn Owls Kentucky Bald Eagle 240

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

The 17th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival will take place from the twenty-second of January until the twenty-seventh of January in 2014. … 10,000 Birds is a Scrub-Jay level sponsor of the 17th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. Will you be there? I sure as heck will!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Nisqually Wildlife Refuge. At one point, standing in the middle of one of the first dikes, I was able to spot 17 Bald Eagles , a Peregrine Falcon , two American Kestrels , and Northern Harrier. The last weekend of January found me in the frosty Pacific Northwest, meeting some long over due work and family obligations.

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Wildlife Seattle Bald Eagle Geese 134

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

It’s that coastline, however, that called me to Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge, an oasis drawing migrating waterfowl like a magnet. Large flocks of ibis flew directly across the road, and Northern Harriers, Bald Eagles, and Red-tailed Hawks patrolled the skies.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2015

This year was my third year helping to lead trips at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. He waved me down and I braced myself, expecting him to point out any of the several Bald Eagles I had already spotted. 10,000 Birds is a Scrub Jay-level sponsor of the 18th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. ……….

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Cattle Bald Eagle Florida Endangered Species 250

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2018

Urban parks in downtown historic squares, a riverfront with cobblestone streets, and multiple wildlife refuges and state parks called like the Sirens. Bald Eagle. Featured image – Bald Eagle. I’d recently relocated to Savannah (Chatham County) to teach, and spent every weekend out in my new environment. Wilson).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

Bald Eagles ,” I said encouragingly/defensively/lamely. The mission of wildlife rehabilitators is to return injured birds to the sky, or the sea, or wherever it is they came from. said Bau-Hien. You’ve never seen one before?”. “We We had one in our bathroom a couple of months ago,” said Skye. How could you not?

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Puffins Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eggs 274

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2011

Bald Eagles competed with hauled out Harbor Seals for our attention and we were told that the concentration of eagles was due to the salmon not yet running in the rivers. Once the salmon started heading upstream the eagles would disperse and go after them. And quite a view it was!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Fish and Wildlife Service. On the short list of wins for wildlife during the Bush II era, Short-tailed Albatross were officially listed as Endangered in 2000. But within a couple of decades, it’s effects on both wildlife and humanity became apparent. It was thought of as a wonder-chemical, with no ill effects.

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Albatross Endangered Species Bald Eagle Alaska 253

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2018

I think most of you know how important our National Wildlife Refuge system is to me. After all, I have written several posts on wildlife conservation and the Wildlife Conservation Pass that my co-founder Ingrid Taylar and I have been encouraging for years. I will close with a video from Colusa National Wildlife Refuge.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

A vast congregation of Bald Eagles kept watch over a herd of cattle about to calve, up to seven in a single tree — no doubt awaiting delicious placentas. Images courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Birding Mission valley Prairie falcon raptors'

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2011

You are about to climb up onto the dike at Higbee Beach Wildlife Management Area and witness the morning flight. The whole area is alive with movement and chip notes but you can’t take the time to figure out what it is you are hearing and barely seeing because you have an even more difficult birding challenge ahead of you.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Daily birding in my own hometown added to the joy of seeing common species in uncommon circumstances, like a Bald Eagle perched on a Destin sand dune. Marks National Wildlife Refuge replenished by naturalist spirit, but remained all I could manage. Not so much. And the third trimester?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2019

Of what he did see, a pair of Bald Eagles at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge was the highlight, a species that didn’t used to be around in June in Queens at all. So, Bald Eagles as his Best Bird of the Weekend. Corey only birded for a bit on Saturday afternoon and didn’t see much that was terribly exciting.

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2019 Bald Eagle Jamaica Eagles 124

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Saturday morning, 30 August 2014, was a perfect time for shorebirding at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge’s East Pond. When I finally took myself away from the dowitchers I scanned north and spotted a young Bald Eagle feeding on a duck. It’s amazing what contortionists they are. There will be a gallery post soon!

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Jamaica Bald Eagle Eagles South America 257

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2013

The only time that the joyous chaos of the coot flock is wielded in one common goal is when the resident Bald Eagles take flight and every single individual skitters away a short distance, as if the difference between free coot and eagle food is about 20 feet of waterspace. Even so, the eagles went hungry while we were there.

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Critter News

MARCH 19, 2012

A federal government decision to allow a Wyoming tribe to kill two bald eagles for a religious ceremony is a victory for American Indian sovereignty as well as for long-suppressed religious freedoms, the tribe says.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Just before I left for Italy, I took a trip to the Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge for a healthy dose of migration. Most exciting, there are already hints that Northern Hawk Owls may be on the move (although of course, one stray does not an irruption make.)

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Bald Eagles are Getting Spoiled… Help Save Migratory Birds! Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. Sabrina Didn’t Make the American Idol Top 12?!? Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. The proposal from U.S.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Birds, mammals and other wildlife, humans and landscapes are all rendered magnificently. Davis points out in his book published earlier this year, The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird. On the other hand, Davis is, of course, a big fan of the Bald Eagle, as Audubon was not.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2011

We also spotted Raven , Bald Eagle , Black-billed Magpie , and the inevitable Canada Goose. Alas, my hoped-for Tundra Swan did not materialize despite the proximity of Swan River National Wildlife Refuge. Mammals were mostly represented by Mule Deer and a handful of debatable Elk.

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Mules Bald Eagle ALA Turkey 178

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2019

For example, I’ve seen Bald Eagles in 15 states. And I will continue my quest to see all of my Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for Birding too. On the other end of the spectrum, I’ve only had one checklist for both Mountain Plover and Northern Goshawk , among many others. Of course, you can use the data in many ways.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Most are still endangered, but some are not, including one of the great conservation success stories, the Bald Eagle. Fish and Wildlife Service’s ECOS (Environmental Conservation Online System), an online gateway to mountains of information about endangered species. Bald Eagle – Haliaeetus t.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The show covers an entire year along the Mississippi, and shows the many challenges that the wildlife in the area deal with. You will see everything from bald eagles, wolves and deer, to wild turtles, baby ducklings and other animals. Who knew our country was so diverse in just one region?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2018

Not only did I pick up my life Golden Eagle on New Year’s Day, but now the Philadelphia Eagles are going to the Super Bowl. Maybe my perspective is biased, but if you’re feeling left out, you should be making 2018 your Year of the Eagle as well. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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