10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2013

gundlachii ), currently embargoed by the United States, is widely considered a distinct species. anthracinus subtilis ), on the other hand, was a formerly distinct species now absorbed back to the Common core. But how many people know what a Blackhawk is? The Cuban Black Hawk ( B. The Mangrove Black Hawk ( B.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2013

Phaetusa simplex is the only species in its genus and it seems very unlikely that it will be confused with another tern species. One has been seen in New Jersey in 1988 , in Illinois in 1949, and in Ohio in 1954 (Links are PDFs.) – interestingly, all in May.). And that is when I saw my first Large-billed Tern !

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2019

No, the problem with “empids” is that they all look exactly alike… all 15 species! Why they can’t all agree on a single species and lump themselves, I’ll never know. All because you do not live in central Mexico, where most of these species spend the winter, all jumbled together. Indistinguishably.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

It is one of several species in the Mallard -complex of ducks, along with American Black Duck , Mexican Duck , and quite a few others. You find them in the south from Florida to Texas and down into Mexico, occasionally as far north as the Carolinas in the east and up the Mississippi River as far north as Illinois.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2019

Focusing on an often under-appreciated portion of the continent, the book showcases forty species found in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio – but perhaps not for long.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2023

Flight Paths gives us another opportunity to get to know Cochran, and Heisman’s visit to his Illinois house in 2021 (during the Pandemic, so everyone was masked) gives us a final, cheery portrait of a man who embraced birds and adventure. As Heiman points out herself, there are many migratory species we still know very little about.

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Critter News

JANUARY 30, 2009

Wildlife conservationists say the freeze will delay and possibly prevent the removal of gray wolves from the federal endangered species list in Montana, Idaho, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, and also in portions of Washington, Oregon, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2015

Musselman of Quincy Illinois is generally credited with originating the bluebird conservation movement that extended beyond local boundaries. You will also hear many other bird species in the background including Ash-throated Flycatcher, California Quail, Eurasian Collared-Dove and Acorn Woodpecker. It was in 1926 that Thomas E.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Along with two clients, while calmly enjoying a fantastic natural show of two oropendola species, wood-rails, other birds, and the miniature antics of an A merican Pygmy-Kingfisher , the general calm was disrupted by the distinct screeches and alarm calls of small birds. All we can say is that it saw its chance and took it.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

He has written and co-written over 400 scientific papers on brood parasitism, Common Cuckoos, egg rejection and other nesting behaviors, and fairy wren learning in addition to T he Book of Eggs: A Life-Size Guide to the Eggs of Six Hundred of the World’s Bird Species (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2014).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Ridgway, born in 1850 in Mr. Carmel, Illinois, was a boy many of us would recognize; all he wanted to do was bird. Ridgway himself had 23 species, 10 subspecies, and two genera of birds named for him, including Ridgway’s Hawk.) And, draw birds. And, identify the birds he saw and drew.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2017

Now that I can travel, I have perversely discovered the charms of really working over one spot of habitat across the seasons and the years; as such I’m on a mission to find 100 species of bird in Socrates Sculpture Park, a bit of Queens between the East River and Vernon Boulevard where artists create open-air displays. Why an asterisk?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

But lets see … I’d say one of my most memorable releases is that of a Purple Martin , a species of special concern in California. I’ll never forget an orphaned Northern Cardinal nestling that I really fussed over a few years back,” said Arden Zich of Fox Valley Wildlife Center in Elburn, Illinois. “We

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Once in a while, I hear these and other species in my tiny backyard, a piece of green space so small that I feel like I would be lying if I referred to it as a patch. While watching the orioles move in and out of the patchwork of foliage and white sky, another, much more quiet and sneaky species popped into view.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

As of mid-October 2018, the Collaborative had submitted more than 1,700 checklists and observed 618 species in the United States. The heat map is revealing: Unsurprisingly for a site founded and run by two New Yorkers (one of whom literally wrote the book on birding New York), the Empire State boasts the highest number of species (316).

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Animal Person

JUNE 23, 2010

They're from a legal farm in Illinois, so the law isn't the reason. However, with lions the story is different because they are a vulnerable species in the wild, and their numbers are declining. Here's my first problem with this: The number of lions in the wild is not affected by the farming operation in Illinois.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2011

While I had heard Yellow Rails in North Dakota in 2010, to see this Ohio Review Species fly, not once but twice, right in front of me was an incredible experience. But in November I flew back north to Illinois to see a special pair of eagles, my best bird(s) of the year. I blogged about them here.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

He held appointments as Assistant Professor of German at the University of Illinois, Reader in Art and Archaeology at Princeton, and Associate Professor of Medieval Studies at Fordham. The genus Bucephala includes three familiar ducks with big heads. Following a detour to Harvard Law School, he took the Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1990.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

It is the 100th Anniversary of the extinction of the species known as the Passenger Pigeon and writers are paying attention. Errol Fuller’s The Passenger Pigeon is a beautifully illustrated, elegantly written “celebration” of the passenger pigeon and the artists who illustrated and photographed the species. It is a hodgepodge.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

There is another area of the Queens County CBC where a team will also likely see Monk Parakeets , Myipsitta monachus , but I am seriously determined to count that bird for my area, Coastal Flushing, a section of northeast Queens, New York, that includes Whitestone, home of one of the loudest invasive bird species in the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

More than concerned, he is dismayed and alarmed and has been since January 1974, when he first witnessed a Mourning Dove fly into a window and fall to the ground dead on the Southern Illinois University campus. This was his trigger moment, when he decided to find out why birds fly into glass windows and die.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2021

This second edition covers 685 species found in the continental U.S. and Canada, including some species as far north as Alaska, an increase over the 500 species covered in the first edition. To get an idea of how many mushroom species are around us, in 2018, the journal Mycologia published a checklist of North American fungi.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2013

Maria and I, first-year graduate students in Zac Cheviron’s lab at the University of Illinois, Urbana-. In light of spring’s recent arrival, do you ever find yourself wondering how some species are able to withstand freezing, wintery days and yet still thrive in summer’s heat? To win, we need your votes! Thanks for your support!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2020

At the moment, night excursions to Poas are limited by pandemic driving restrictions but I can still surmise about the species flying overhead. I dread to imagine what Yellow-billed Cuckoos from Illinois, Missouri, and elsewhere will find when they arrive on these wintering grounds in 2020. Cuckoos are up There. Common Nighthawks.

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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 Louisiana black bear’s threatened status warrants protection under sections 7 and 9 of the Endangered Species Act.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2022

The Latin species name of the Kalij Pheasant is leucomelanos , meaning “white” (leukos) and “black” (melanos, both Greek words). As a popular game bird, the Ring-necked Pheasant seems to have such high importance in the US that there are several papers just discussing the species in individual US states.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

In the right season, with a little luck, we often find it, and sometimes it perches high and long enough that we can admire its scimitar of a bill, its stern face pattern, and even the patch of rusty red on the undertail that gives the species its English and its scientific names. Following a detour to Harvard Law School, he took the Ph.D.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2024

Personally, I wish the species the best of luck in this endeavor. (Of However, the fact that there are 30 subspecies seems to indicate that the species has a slightly overblown estimation of its own importance. Fortunately, Black-crowned Night Heron s are quite common in Shanghai, though apparently endangered in Illinois ( source ).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Eighteen-hour trips are the rule and only about four or five hours are spent in the prime area to see the species most birders are hoping to see. Also on the boat was a familiar face, Nathan Goldberg, a young hotshot birder from Illinois who went off to Cornell and has been birding New York State like a man possessed.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2018

He pointed out that Illinois had been sadly neglected up to this point, so Redgannet made a special visit to Chicago to redress this oversight. 8 beats shared 126 checklists accounting for 704 species. 8 beats shared 126 checklists accounting for 704 species. Clare and Grant’s Partridge Pigeon should perhaps be worth 2?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2020

.”); would have a “likely negative” impact on other biological resources because “many best practices provide benefits to taxa other than birds,” and those practices would decrease; would have a “likely negative” on “species that are culturally important to native peoples;”. The image at the top (via Wikipedia ) is a U.S.

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