10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2014

New studies find that: when birds migrate from the Arctic to South America, fragments of mosses, fungi, and other “diaspores” hitch a ride (and a similar phenomenon may have spread acacia trees from Hawaii to an island in the Indian Ocean); caterpillars which feed on many different types of plants are more attractive meals for birds than caterpillars (..)

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APRIL 18, 2013

Conservation American Bird Conservancy cats Hawaii petrels' Scientists might find it more challenging to seek out evidence of which bird species, particularly non-Arctic, island-bound species, are NOT preyed upon by birds. That would be news.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2011

The honeycreepers of Hawaii now have a family tree, with researchers from the Smithsonian having used DNA to map the entire family. Good news for an endangered family of birds!

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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.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

It does occur in Hawaii, which is where I saw it, but everyone knows birding in Hawaii doesn’t count. Whereas American birders may be familiar with Sooty and Bridled Terns as stormwashed vagrants to their shores, and might get the Aleutian Tern on a pilgrimage to Alaska, the Grey-backed Tern is a much more rarely seen bird.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

And, then there are the extinct birds of Hawaii, four of which are represented here— Kaua‘i ‘O‘o, `O`u, Po?ouli, ouli, and Mamo (also known as Hawaii Mamo). Hawaii, photographer may be Ahulan, his assistant, p. Yangtze River Dolphin in captivity, 1988, Wuhan, China, p. Mamo, held by Ted Wolstenholme, 1892.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For the most part the Black-footed Albatross is an all-American bird, with 97% of their population breeding in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (in the District of Hawaii), and a few others breeding in islands owned by Mexico and Japan. The Black-footed Albatross.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2012

Hawaii’s state bird, the endangered goose known as the Nene , has recovered from a population of a mere 30 birds in 1952 to over 2,000 today. The problem is that they seem to find the area around Lihue Airport irresistible so they have to be moved. Clearly there aren’t too many Nene but more habitat is needed.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Fish and Wildlife Service has taken two dozen critically endangered Millerbirds Acrocephalus familiaris from their home island of Nihoa in the northwestern Hawaii and moved them to Laysan about 650 miles to the north.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2012

You can encounter them from Hawaii across to French Polynesia and Fiji. Whereas the Whimbrel winters across the coasts of southern North America and is a very familiar sight there, Bristle-thighed Curlews migrate over vast distances across the Pacific Ocean to specifically winter on tropical islands.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Go to French Frigate Shoals, in the far north of Hawaii, and you’ll find a chunk of rock no larger than medium city train station. It is the ultimate fate of those islands, and all the islands of Hawaii too, to erode award be replaced by newer islands. They rise, only to fall beneath the waves again.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

It ranges from Hawaii to Japan, and I really don’t know much about it, save that I only ever got to see some nearly fledged chicks. Black-footed Albatrosses One of Hawaii’s three species of albatross, this one isn’t likely to mistaken for much else. Pretty neat bird though. These guys get around!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2011

Along with Nihoa Island this is the only place this species occurs in Hawaii. It does breed on La Perouse Pinnacle, a scar of rock in the centre of the atoll that is the last chunk of the island that once stood there.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

While his poem was about the dubious nature of boundaries kept in check by surly New England yankees, the sentiment holds true in Hawaii, at least. “Good fences make good neighbors,” wrote poet Robert Frost. Specifically, the state’s Big Island, where a new fence was just completed in the hopes of protecting an endangered bird.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Collective added six new states in the past three years, but none have eclipsed the century mark: Wisconsin ( 74 ), Utah (55), Hawaii (38), Oklahoma (18), Rhode Island (9), and Connecticut (5). A few states still have no checklists at all: Nebraska , Minnesota , Iowa , Kentucky , West Virginia , Mississippi , and Alabama.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

This incredibly widespread species ranges around the Northern Hemisphere (and much of the Southern as well), and is found in locations as disparate as the Arctic tundra, Hawaii, Cuba, and the Galapagos – as well as many places in between.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2014

In a nod to Dr. Evil, a utility company in Hawaii is using lasers to keep birds from its wires and poles. The last-of-its-kind bird that may have inspired the animated movie Rio is an ex-parrot. The first bird feathers may have been for showiness more than transportation. News Bell Miner Birds Eurasian Blackbird kenya Zebra Finches'

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Hawaii Oo ( Moho nobilis ), depicted by John Gerrard Keulemans in 1893. Like the Australasian honeyeaters (family Meliphagidae), the Hawaiian honeyeaters had complex, tube-like, brush-tipped tongues and long, curved bills, enabling them to feed on nectar (illustrations included in the paper linked above). Christopher Taylor has more.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2015

Found in all fifty states except for Hawaii, the robin is also the state bird of not just Connecticut, but Michigan and Wisconsin as well. Few birds are as ubiquitous in the United States as the American Robin.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2018

The number of wild geese has increased dramatically: in 1960, there were an estimated 30 birds on a single island, Hawaii, but the current estimate is 2,855 on Kauai, Molokai, Maui, and Hawaii. Populations on Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii are stable or increasing, while the population on Molokai is fluctuating.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

27, 2015 Christian Gutierrez, Raymond Justice, and Carter Mesker went on a camping trip to Ka’ena Point Natural Area Reserve on Oahu, Hawaii. Ka’ena Point is also a breeding ground for the Federally protected Laysan albatross, where 45 nests were being carefully monitored by the non-profit Pacific Rim Conservation.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Personally, I think that they should have had to go to the back of the line and not cut in front of Alaska and Hawaii. Finally, in 1953, Ohio was formally admitted into the union retroactively to 1803. PRO – Canton, Ohio is home to the Professional Football Hall of Fame.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

Kilauea Point NWR (Hawaii): 1,148,000; $34.3 Forsythe NWR (New Jersey): 306,000; $6.0 million; 50 jobs. Horicon NWR (Wisconsin): 434,000; $8.6 million; 104 jobs. John Heinz NWR (Pennsylvania): 358,000; $4.6 million; 35 jobs. million; 293 jobs. Laguna Atascosa NWR (Texas): 485,000; $12.1 million; 412. million; 45.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Going birding in Hawaii? As if submitting bird lists straight into the relative permanence and safety of the cloud wasn’t cool enough, we can also visit the main eBird site to find out what has been seen like almost anywhere. Check it out! How about Thailand? There might be some good recent gen. on the latest locations for sneaky Blue Pittas.

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Critter News

JANUARY 3, 2011

New Jersey Illinois Massachusetts Colorado Maine WORST STATES Ohio Hawaii Alabama North Dakota Mississippi Idaho South Dakota (worst) According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the states fell this way. BEST Illinois (best) Maine Michigan Oregon California WORST Mississippi Idaho Hawaii North Dakota Kentucky.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2011

Here I’ll finish off what I started, looking at the lives of these amazing birds, using the pictures I took working on Tern Island in French Frigate Shoals, Hawaii. I got rather carried away showing all the plumages you can see around a breeding colony, which means I had to split my post on the species into two.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2016

Something of the same sort may be in the works for Hawaii, with scientists considering unprecedented measures for the best of reasons. In the meantime, you might want to book a trip to Hawaii to see ‘i’wi while you still can. The law of unintended consequences, etc.) island chain was mosquito-free until 1826.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2011

This particular example of flexibility comes from Tern Island, in French Frigate Shoals to the north of Hawaii. But birds have a certain amount of flexibility buil in as well, which is very apparent in some of the smarter birds, like crows and parrots, but can still be present in other birds too.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

Today’s topic comes from Tracy Anderson in Hawaii: what was the strangest container (or method of transport) in which you have received wildlife? Normally I rant about environmental dangers and describe heartwarming/mind-boggling/headscratching wild bird rescues.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

A highly imprecise reward is a day at the spa or a dinner for two or a trip to Hawaii. In a terrific paper on the subject, Scott Jeffrey compared the motivational qualities of two similar rewards – a trip to Hawaii and a $5,000 trip to Hawaii. Incentives. Good incentives rely on high degrees of precision to generate motivation.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

They stretch from the middle of the Pacific Ocean ( Midway Atoll NWR in Hawaii) in the west to the Atlantic coast ( Acadia NP in Maine) in the east. Federal Lands are Vital to Birds Federal lands are vast and diverse, from the far north ( Arctic NWR in Alaska) to the Caribbean ( Virgin Islands NP in the U.S. Virgin Islands).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Some states have no species at all, not even a pigeon, crow, or sparrow: Hawaii , Utah , Nebraska , Oklahoma , Minnesota , Iowa , Wisconsin , Kentucky , West Virginia , Mississippi , Alabama , Connecticut , and Rhode Island. West Virginia ranks 44th, Hawaii ranks 45th, and Rhode Island ranks 48th. And so on….

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2011

Sandwich Terns are neither named for the tasty combination of two slices of bread and assorted fillings nor for the Sandwich Islands, now known as Hawaii. Finally, and most absurdly, all four of us were back out on those mudflats making a beeline for that bird as fast as we could get out there! Sandwich Tern !

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2012

So while we are dealing with Hawaii and all, let’s change how one rule is applied! I’ve republished the full initial statement with Alvaro’s kind permission in order to elicit the kind of nuanced discussion 10,000 Birds readers are so good at: Listing is just a game, but one that many take seriously.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

In this week’s podcast ending February 13, 2010: **Britain’s Ministry of Defense defends its use of pigs as subjects in explosives testing; **an elephant expert argues for the closing of the elephant exhibit at the Toronto Zoo; **the State of Hawaii seeks to toughen penalties for dog fighting; **Animal rights groups protest the Canadian seal hunt in (..)

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DECEMBER 26, 2008

And the worst: Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arkansas, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, South Dakota, Wyoming You can check out the whole report on their web site. Among the best: California, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Oregon.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2021

He analogized the change to adding Hawaii to the ABA Area, which is puzzling since that modest change was preceded by years of debate, a membership referendum (in 2012), and a formal vote (in 2016). There are surely costs to change.

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