10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2022

The thing is, you can’t reach the birding stratosphere without shirking off all earthly attachments, and doing nothing but travelling the country looking for “just one more species” I, in contrast, have a day job, and a family. Yes, Virginia, that is a large number of Sinaloa Martins.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2015

My travels with family to the coast of Virginia have already yielded a bevy of birds I usually only see once a year. Summer often means vacation. Vacations mean travel. Travel means new ecosystems. New ecosystems mean new birds. See why I love summer?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2014

Proving that cruelty knows no bounds, some (language unsuitable for a family blog) in Virginia Beach is shooting blow darts at birds. Meanwhile, an Oregon farmer caught a beating from a neighbor irritated by his loud “bird cannons.” (Who Who knew there was such a thing?).

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Israel Science Hawaii South America 196

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

So many people devoted serious time this weekend to acquiring gifts for family, friends, and strategic acquaintances. He’d heard reports of Virginia Rail being present there in winter but was amazed when one responded to a recording! Hopefully, each of you found time to give yourselves the gift of a decent bird sighting or two.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2021

They’ve graced us with appearance on this week’s featured beer, a Vienna lager by the Devils Backbone Brewing Company of Lexington, Virginia – and this style is such a perfect beer for fall it’d be a shame not to see them once more before they disappear for good until next spring.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2014

When birders way out on the east end of Long Island reported breeding Least Bitterns at Arshamomaque Preserve in the town of Southold, my interest was momentarily piqued but I figured that I wouldn’t have time to go looking for them what with work and family obligations. The last one were breeders also, at Massapequa Preserve. ).

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Virginia Breeders Fish New York 181

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

El Temascal does not (to the best of my knowledge) host the Ovenbird , Northern Waterthrush , Lucy’s , or Virginia’s Warblers , although I do see these species elsewhere each winter. Of course, one never limits oneself to a single taxonomic family.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2021

They were, he reminisces, “sometimes distanced, sometimes brought closer by the 50 years between us.”. He ends this lovely book, in an Afterword, warning of various environmental dangers to seabirds, and his writerly tone here is perfect: serious, but not hysterical or preachy, with a gleam of hope evident.

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West Virginia Rats Albatross Georgia 210

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

This photograph of a family working on feathers while the father looks on is from the National Child Labor Committee Photograph series taken by Lewis Hine. Only–Virginia Woolf was not in Surrey on December 14th, 1918. I know, because I have Volume One of The Diary of Virginia Woolf on my bookshelf.

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Virginia Portland Industry New York City 119

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

I don’t want to be too hasty in my response,” wrote Gay in Virginia. Monte in California agreed: “I’d like some time just to watch healthy wild families.”. I want all of the above,” wrote Gay in Virginia. Let me ponder it while I’m picking up two gulls and an egret.”. Charitable Things. wrote Maryjane in Pennsylvania.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

Although this bad behavior may run in the overall eagle Family.) Yes, Virginia, there really was a Santa Claus who got pelted with snowballs at the Vet. Just throw a rock on the Internet and you’ll hit a post about some slacker Bald Eagle making off with someone else’s catch. They are literally kleptos !

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Bald Eagle Eagles Philadelphia United States 113

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

A recent episode of the American Birding Podcast featured an interview with Virginia Rose (Founder and President) and Freya McGregor (Coordinator) of the non-profit Birdability. My impression is that it is a fairly safe area and families are a common sight on weekends, as are school groups.

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Portland Oregon Laws Virginia 196

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2018

I am sure that was the reason I was not able to spot the Virginia Rail, with its two babies that had just previously been spotted by a Bob, resident birder. Today, I saw a handful of Mallards , two Common Mergansers, and a Wood Duck Family. This Western Wood Pewee was going back and forth with a mouth full of bugs as well.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan The Motley Fool, an online financial and investment advice company, decided quickly in early March to close its Alexandria, Virginia, headquarters and have all employees work remotely. Lee Burbage, a human resources lead, says the company is fortunate to able to operate virtually, so the downside of doing so is minimal.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 21, 2012

It honors dogs of all breeds — from working dogs to family pets — and encourage pet owners to do something special for their dog. Canine guests must be on leash and accompanied by a human companion. Founded in 2004, National Dog Day is observed annually on August 26. For a complete list, visit www.bestfriendspetcare.com.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

Marybeth learns as she birds, embraces listing goals as a means of engaging with community, unabashedly enjoys a little competition, struggles to balance her absolute joy in birding with unexpected, life-and-death family obligations. The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year.

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2018

This is the third year that my family and some our close friends did a vacation together. To get there we would need to get out of New York, through New Jersey into Delaware, and then on through Maryland and Virginia until finally reaching our destination. Two years ago it was Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2013

This Virginia’s Warbler was my most unexpected new bird in Queens. We had a family picnic at Fort Tilden less than two weeks after my last set of predictions and a single Purple Martin was flying low over the fields with Barn Swallows and Tree Swallows. This was a pair of relatively uncooperative birds at St.

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2012 New York City Jamaica 2013 158

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2011

As our hardcore group of birding attendees- will dwindle at some point, other groups perhaps more interested in the actors or a segment of more family oriented viewers will then take over from us. People will notice as the film racks up dollars. Advertisers will notice. “Hold it,” you stammer. “How will that help birders?

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West Virginia Chickens Missouri Penguins 233

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2013

We had a wonderful family vacation in Germany and the Czech Republic during which I managed to do a bit of birding. Whether it was the Virginia’s Warbler , the Cave Swallows , the Northern Lapwings , or the Painted Bunting I was there. My contributions included Killdeer , Barred Warbler , and Song Thrush. Peregrine Falcon.

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2012 Czech Republic Hedgehogs Hungary 144

Critter News

MARCH 14, 2009

She has had two for the past ten years, one she bought and had shipped from a breeder in Utah, the other from a breeder in Virginia. But I can't help wishing she'd go to a shelter and save a cat that needs a family and a home. My division director loves Norwegian Forest Cats. In February she had to put one down because of illness.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan On the first Friday in March this year, Jeb Ory led an employee appreciation celebration at the Arlington, Virginia, headquarters of Phone2Action, a provider of advocacy software that enables organizations to create grassroots marketing campaigns. When managers do check in on team members, it should be done carefully.

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Advocacy Arlington Phoenix Tennessee 91

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Virginia Rails look “rotound in profile but their bodes are narrow, to slip through dense marsh growth.” It is the perfect reference source for the family on a trip or living in New England. Each entry includes one or two photographs, common name, scientific name, major identification points, size, and range maps where appropriate.

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Massachusetts Rhode Island North America Reptiles 210

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

To put a finer point on not knowing what will make us happy, college freshman at the University of Virginia were randomly assigned3 into two dormitories. We spend time daydreaming about things that are important to us — like upcoming vacations with friends and family. Hawaii is a reward they’ll remember forever.

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Science Hawaii Chicago 2017 76

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2015

Each year Hog Island offers programs, taught by a stellar staff of naturalists and artists, to groups of all kinds (teenagers, adults, families). Actually, I was bested by an entire group of teenagers, all gathered – along with 36 adults – on Hog Island , Audubon’s famous camp off the coast of Maine.

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Puffins Birds Groups West Virginia 259

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I managed to get some video of this greedy thrasher before a family walked down the path, and you can view it here. They were everywhere–crying out, scaring off lizards and Canyon Towhees, skulking, and out in the open, gorging on Prickly Pear, like the bird above.

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Arizona Lovebirds Phoenix New Jersey 103

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

410)) to info on habitat and range (“In the Rockies and other arid mountains of the interior Southwest, Virginia’s Warbler prefers scrubby brush interspersed with pinyon-juniper and yellow pine” (p. In the back of the book, we find a lengthy section on “Bird Families,” a glossary, an index.

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North America America California Condor Birds 279

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

So, the Eastern Kingbird ”is one of the Tyrant Flycatchers, Tyrannidae –America’s largest bird family–365 different species.” And, unlike a field guide, Birds & Words is the kind of bird book you could give to a non-birding family member and still enjoy yourself, guilt-free.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

We were driving up to northwestern Michigan from our homes in Ohio (me) and West ByGod Virginia (Geoff) in search of a bird species that would be a lifer for both of us: the Bohemian Waxwing. Tags: Bird Behavior , buntings , features , michigan • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Snow Bunting?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2020

The “ Explores” are only part of the book, and there is much else of value in it, even for the reader who cannot quit his job, sell all his worldly possessions, leave his home and family, and take to the byroads armed only with a parabolic microphone. Illustrations in this review are taken from Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist.

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Virginia Boston North America 2020 248

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2019

But come spring, an even luckier few may even find a fellow survivor of their own kind with whom to start a family, unwittingly causing contentious debates among birders about the countability of established feral populations in the process. What’s in a name?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2019

This past Saturday afternoon I was out on the beach in the Rockaways with my family. The young tern was banded near Chincoteague, Virginia, on 17 July of this year when it was still too young to fly. I couldn’t get the numbers off of the metal bands that both birds are wearing. Not bad for a young bird!

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New York Virginia Breeding Family 139

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2019

That fallacious family name seems to have encouraged all manner of knaves, dunderheads, and miscreants when time came to label species. Virginia’s Warbler –which never turns up in Virginia–can be the Big-eyed Warbler. Well, no more!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2018

The Northeast goes as north as southern Ontario, Quebec, and North Brunswick, west to the western borders of Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri, and south to the southern borders or Missouri, Kentucky, and Virginia. But, then there are families like the Royal Silkworm Moths,which are larger, much much larger. Photographic Illustrations.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

According to Dr. Spock: Most families have become more conscious about the fat content of meats, and many are choosing the lower-fat cuts. My emphasis] There are other reasons why families are looking more favorably at plant-based choices. Boepple (Emily Gillette's attorney), Gillette refused, saying, "No, thank you.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 6, 2010

Puppy Bumpers manufactured in Virginia at STEPS, Inc., Because they specialize in Pediatric Oncology, Puppy Bumpers gives a portion of all the sales to ASK, an organization that gives support to families of children with cancer. a company for people with disabilities.

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Puppies 2010 Virginia Dogs 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

She has lived in Maine, California, France, New York, and currently makes her home in Virginia Beach Always bringing her camera along, Erika is building her life-list by trying to check off at least one new species each week in her field guide. They were there, but I couldn’t see them.

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