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MARCH 25, 2015

The Blue-winged Teal ( Anas discors ) is not that common in California except along the coast, so I was pretty excited to discover several pair and a few non-paired individuals of the species at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge on the day I had reserved photo blind #2. Click on photos for full sized images. v=V0_Yi28mT0o.

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JUNE 19, 2024

It’s like finding the crown jewel of wildlife sightings. Range: Most of Canada, Alaska, All of the contiguous United States, and Northern Mexico. When you think “Alaska wildlife,” the Bald Eagle probably flies right into your mind. It’s like a wildlife documentary, but you’re the star viewer. Wingspan: 5.9

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Nisqually Wildlife Refuge. Out on the flooded fields, there were large concentrations of Canada Geese, Northern Pintails, Shovelers, Mallards, Gadwalls, American Wigeon , and much to my surprise, a few Green-winged Teal were still around. This is not to say that there wasn’t a little birding time snuck in here and there.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2024

She lives and birds in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with some trips farther afield. I don’t like to encourage wildlife to beg for food and I decided to ignore it. By Leslie Kinrys Leslie Kinrys has loved birds since her father put a House Sparrow fledgling in her young hands. A crumb of bread had fallen on the table.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

under the 1969 Endangered Species Conservation Act and later transferred to the 1973 Endangered Species Act; then protected with other birds of prey under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act through agreement with Mexico, but not Canada, in 1972 1. Peregrine Falcon at Delevan National Wildlife Refuge. state and territory, infusing nearly $1.74

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

More precisely I wanted to learn how to draw wildlife. Born in 1937 in Hong Kong of British missionary parents, James Fenwick Lansdowne arrived in Canada in 1940 and was educated in Victoria, British Columbia. As for myself, I have yet to see a wildlife artist who can bring his subjects to life as Lansdowne could. tridactylus).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2024

Award-winning free-lance science journalist Nicola Jones , most noted for her work on climate change and environmental issues, ventured into the book world with a picture book on the wildlife rehabilitation efforts for one of North America’s most endangered bird species, the Northern Spotted Owl.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

But if you want herons and ducks and shorebirds and geese and egrets and swans and rails the best bet is the famed Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge along State Route 2 in Oak Harbor, Ohio. When in northwest Ohio there are many options from which to choose a birding site. It is well worth the visit!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2021

Additionally, I have written about Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs), which are important but underappreciated parts of the National Wildlife Refuge System. Horicon NWR covers the northern part of the marsh and the remainder is a state wildlife area. So my criteria were as much about birding locations as they were about birds.

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

There were plenty of birds on the water to keep me entertained, with close to 60 Greylag geese, 50 Canada Geese, 80 Wigeon, 250 Coots, plus a good assortment of Tufted Ducks, Gadwall, Shoveler and Mallard. One count I undertake every year is the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust’s Big Farmland Bird Count.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2016

The best place I could come up with that was within a short drive of my in-laws’ place in Yorba Linda was the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary in nearby Irvine, only a quick twenty-minute drive away. The goose flies out early with a flock of Canada Geese so if you want to see it get there at or shortly after dawn!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Cinnamon Teal ( Anas cyanoptera ) pair by Larry Jordan (click on photos for full sized images) Winter is the time to visit the National Wildlife Refuges in California. Fish and Wildlife Service; they serve as resting and feeding areas for nearly half the migratory birds on the Pacific Flyway.” million, according to 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. A second pond held not only more of the same, but some American Coots and Canada Geese. Fish and Wildlife Service a. Most welcome. I’m ready to declare it now – spring is here. Welcome back waterfowl, indeed.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

west coast, Pacific Northwest, and western Canada. I dearly hope the second half of 2021 brings you good news, and that we can all soon get back to sharing abundant water-loving wildlife. So I also send my sympathy to 10,000 Birds’ readers along the U.S. The post A Lake Reborn… sort of appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

Fish and Wildlife service estimates that there are 16 million “active birders” in the United States, though that figure is likely orders of magnitude too high. and 80,000 in Canada ) as a rough proxy for active birders, only about 2.5% Indeed, even if you consider eBird users ( 525,000 in the U.S. have joined the ABA.

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APRIL 7, 2020

Local farmers view it as a threat to domesticated wildlife. The Falcon Thief is the sometimes exciting, sometimes horrifying story of Jeffrey Lendrum, an African-born adventurer who has been arrested multiple times for raptor egg and chick poaching and smuggling in southern Africa, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Brazil. ” [loc.3014,

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2024

A Grey Wagtail on the river Black Bourn Micklemere is a wetland reserve belonging to the Suffolk Wildlife Trust, and was my next location.

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MAY 23, 2023

They maintain a checklist of bird species recorded in the ABA area, which includes the United States, Canada, and certain territories. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation conducted in 2016, there were approximately 45 million birdwatchers in the United States.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2017

Birders are familiar with the National Wildlife Refuge System, which consists of more than 550 units distributed through all fifty states. National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs), which are managed by the U.S. FWS calls WPAs the “Prairie Jewels of the National Wildlife Refuge System.”. Ding” Darling NWR in Florida.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The first stop, Summer Lake Wildlife Refuge in central Oregon is without a doubt one of the most important stop overs for migrating birds on the west coats, no matter the species. The first weekend had me visiting my hometown of Lakeview Oregon, and the many different areas that I ran around in as a kid.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it sometimes takes a “village” of rehabbers to save threatened wildlife. What turned out to be an epic journey began in Nova Scotia, one of Canada’s Atlantic provinces. Pilots ‘n Paws Canada stepped up to the plate and volunteered to fly the little birds to Quebec.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2020

Lately (in the last month or so) he’s been through the Dakotas, Montana, and Canada, up to the Northwest Territories. In his blog, Birds and Nature North America, the peripatetic Bruce Beehler professes to cover not just what the title says, but also American culture, American history, and “stories of back-roads travel and camping.”

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AUGUST 4, 2015

Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in. Margaret A.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This refuge came up as #4 on a recent list of the top 25 National Wildlife Refuges that were featured in a great story here by 10000 Birds own Jason Crotty. While most major estuaries in Washington state have been filled, dredged, or developed, Nisqually River’s has been set aside for wildlife.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2015

We were at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge, of course, which is not only home to Falcated Duck, but many other birds. Birds Colusa National Wildlife Refuge Greater White-fronted Goose hybrids I Am Birder Snow Goose Snow X Greater White-fronted Goose' But this post is not about Falcated Duck. These birds look are abominations.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Canada has more than the US. This morning’s news had this: During this year’s open of waterfowl season, the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center admitted more trumpeter swans for bullet wounds than ever before. Of course there were other Trumpeter Swans out there, but not many. There are a lot in the Mississippi Flyway these days.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

(Image above by AP Photo/Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.). The pair shot last year in Kentucky belonged to Operation Migration’s project establishing a migratory flock in the eastern United States; there is also the last true wild flock , which winters in Texas and summers in Canada.)

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Henry Philemon Attwater was born in Brighton, England and spent his early adult years in Canada, but the state of Texas – which he first visited at 30 and made his permanent home at 35 – has embraced him. Competition with invasive fire ants for insect food is a major source of mortality for young Attwater’s Prairie Chickens.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Canada Goose family. Canada Jays. Now it’s been returned to its original moniker – the Canada Jay. For a disturbing summation of the damage done to our national parks, monuments, and wildlife refuges in one short year, consider this infographic of political maneuvering by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke…. As the first U.S.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2018

You may have read about them in the Wall Street Journal , the BBC Wildlife Magazine , or perhaps watched them on BBC, who filmed them here twice, for the Planet Earth II in 2015 and for the One Planet in 2018. Have you heard of a small town in Serbia graced by the presence of its 700 communally roosting Long-eared Owls ?

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APRIL 5, 2022

” are the big questions at the heart of Vagrancy in Birds by Alexander Lees and James Gilroy, an impressive, fascinating book about what ornithologists and wildlife biologists have found out about avian vagrancy so far and their theories explaining this phenomenon. ” and its companion question, “Why is this bird here?”

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

To the extent there is one, the primary animating principle appears to be that the ABA Area includes all of the United States and Canada. This makes sense: why should political subdivisions within a nation apply to a national birding organization?

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DECEMBER 18, 2016

The nature reserve is really well managed by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust with numerous hides and wheelchair access to much of the reserve. The nature reserve is constantly evolving and although part of it is a former sand quarry it has been carefully developed to encourage wildlife. Well done Yorkshire Wildlife Trust!

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OCTOBER 5, 2012

On August 21st, Maryjane Angelo of Skye’s Spirit Wildlife Rehabilitation in Pennsylvania received a call from a man who said his nephew was standing in the middle of a rural road, guarding a Bald Eagle. People who say they have found an eagle have rarely found an eagle. Maryjane’s was the only released fledgling they’d ever recovered.

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OCTOBER 27, 2014

Example two is from Canada, Ontario to be exact. As we have mentioned many times here on 10,000 Birds, cats belong indoors because it is better for them, better for wildlife, and better for people. The truth is that feral cat colonies normalize the idea of outdoor cats and actually encourage cat-dumping.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

and Canada. And I will continue my quest to see all of my Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for Birding too. According to eBird , I have been an eBirder since December 23, 2009, so today is my 10th eBird anniversary. During the decade, I submitted 1,219 checklists and observed 555 bird species, all in the U.S.

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