Family Missouri Species 
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2018
We saw sparrows–a total of 14 species–and we saw many other great prairie birds, and we often saw them perched on posts. The Little Missouri National Grassland in western North Dakota covers over 1 million acres and is the largest grassland in the United States. back to the birds.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2015
The Refuge is now home to nearly 200 species of birds, over 50 species of mammals, 25 species of reptiles and amphibians, and a wide variety of insects, fish and plants. The refuge offers opportunities for hiking and biking trails, canoeing and kayaking on Swan Lake, bank fishing, and family friendly programs and events.”
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10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2018
There are over 11,000 species of moths in North America. I have a hard enough time with the 1,103 bird species on the ABA Checklist. The Southeastern guide doesn’t; I imagine this was to save space in a book with 300 additional species. This is the first thing we learn in the Introduction of each guide. Let that sink in.
10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2019
So, for example, Essay #15, “Individual Variation,” uses Herring Gulls to introduce the concept that one species, even one species at a specific age, can vary widely in appearance. The Checklist is more than a taxonomic listing of species and chapter number and title; it also contains useful notes on each bird family.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2012
Although designed as a field guide, it is a hefty book, 376 pages long, covering 336 species. 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. Yes, 675 photographs.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 8, 2013
When I was a young birder in Missouri, my home-town CBC saw me return again and again – with my dad and a core group of other local birders – to the same part of the count circle. My schedule – as a young semi-professional with a family – is hardly set in stone. Flash forward to today.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 29, 2017
Louis, Missouri as an annual special release. Perhaps the brewery also wanted to avoid any unhappy associations between beer and flies (there’s a reason beer steins have those funny flip-top lids), though I find the tyrant flycatchers the beeriest of all avian families, with the Olive-sided Flycatcher’s pushy “Quick! Three beers!”
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