10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
Long-time readers of this blog probably also know Tai Haku, the scuba-diving, tree-planting, bird photographing nature blogger at Earth, Wind, and Water. For a successful relocation, check out Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man who Brought it Back from Extinction.)
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
A lot of folks, including this very blog, are using this as an occasion to memorialize not just the Passenger Pigeon but the extinct birds of the Holocene as a group. we are hosting Extinction Week here on 10,000 Birds from 7 September to 13 September. … Birding Extinction Week Great Auk' Good, I say.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2023
National Wildlife Refuges protect critical habitat and provide some of the best birding locations in the United States. billion in PILT payments to 49 States (all but Rhode Island), the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. Since these payments began in 1977, the Department has distributed nearly $10.8
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
I recently asked whether Puerto Rico should be part of the American Birding Association’s ABA Area. Both Puerto Rico and the USVI have active birding communities that are currently excluded from full membership in the ABA family. Although different territories, they are nearby and share many of the same birds.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2013
To try to manage the invasive Brown Tree Snake on Guam, which has forced many of Guam’s bird species to extinction and as a way to try to keep the snakes from Hawaii. This article is fascinating.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2014
What do the eight birds above have in common? Guam Flycatcher. Eight more birds. Most people oppose large-scale, indiscriminate, hunting of birds but it still happens all over the world. Writing about extinct birds is invariably depressing, especially for a birder. There are many birds that I will never see.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
We’ve only recently begun to completely piece it together, using fossils and scientific analysis, but what is shows is that, once upon a time, the rail family was one of the most, if not the most, species rich family of birds in the world. Featured image is a Guam Rail, a Pacific species of rail extinct in the wild.
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