10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

Why is there no state or federal money available to care for federally protected species? Not only that, but I’d like five dollars every time I have to listen to someone tell me they kept a (fill in species of random animal) until it ‘got wild’ and bit them, and then (fill in horrible form of animal demise).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Myers, a professional birding guide in “real life,” summarizes the etymology and history of all common bird names (of bird families and groups, not all 10,000-plus species). The guide covers 265 of Maine’s 461 bird species: common nesting species, common migrants, and wintering birds.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2018

Serbia has 317 eBirded species so far, or 89% of the 356 in the national checklist. The country has one eBird hotspot with 200+ and 48 with more than 100 bird species. The country has one eBird hotspot with 200+ and 48 with more than 100 bird species. Spring migration March to April , 270 eBirded species.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

Even in the tropics there are few birds that excel some of our own in elegance and beauty of plumage and we have an unusually large number of species considering the smallness of the area they inhabit. ” (Woodward brothers, “Natal Birds”, 1899) The mighty Drakensberg Mountains run along the western boundary of KwaZulu-Natal province.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2016

Today’s blog was written by Kathy Hershey, co-founder of Utopia Wildlife Rehabilitators in Hope, Indiana. Guardians of human health, and a pretty awesome bird species as well … what a package! The voice on the other end of the phone was panicked. There’s a huge bird chasin’ the kids around the trailer park!

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Mice Indiana Wildlife 177

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

We let a one-eyed Bald Eagle go after a year of battling state officials in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky. 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. That was 9 years ago. .

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 252

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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10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2017

We have a lot of mountainous land and it’s way cooler up in them hills than down by the coast or back in the heat-stricken states of Indiana, Virginia, and nearly every other state and province south of Alaska. Yep, come to Costa Rica to cool off!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

My best bird of the year is based on the sighting rather than the species. Obviously my best bird of the year is going to come during this trip, what with several species of endemic pitta and broadbill possible, not to mention 8 species of hornbill and numerous babblers, storks, kingfishers, trogons and even the endemic Bornean Bristlehead.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

No, not a reality show, the history of paleontology in the United States is apparently livelier than the Indiana Jones movies.) The new species was subsequently named Sinosauropteryz prima , ‘first Chinese lizard wing’ Its discovery disrupted the paleontologic community, and it hasn’t been the same since.

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Mongolia Reptiles Science Indiana 224

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2013

On a Big Year, every species counts equally, even the lowly House Sparrow. As of my writing this he is off to a roaring start with 169 species recorded already. Rangel Diaz is doing a big year in Miami-Dade County, Florida, hoping to reach 300 species, and keeping a blog about it. What records will fall in 2013?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2016

He loves the Willow Ptarmigan so much that he often uses their calls in his movies, such as Jurassic World and Indiana Jones : Raiders of the Lost Ark. Do you have any favorite instances of Hollywood’s tradition of misidentifying bird species? Let me know in the comments!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2013

Mark Kirk and Alisha Belo are doing a southern Africa big year, trying to see 800 species. As of the end of March they had already reached a whopping 652 species ! Ali Iyoob is sitting pretty at 230 species in his North Carolina big year during which he is trying to break the state record of 351. Birding 2013 big year'

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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

APRIL 5, 2016

There are three species of ptarmigan, all found in Alaska. Unlike other grouse species, the male Willow Ptarmigan remains with the female throughout the breeding season to help raise the chicks. The Willow Ptarmigan was officially designated in 1960, when Alaska entered the union.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2015

Indiana teacher raises the bar for newbie birders everywhere by finding the state’s first record of a Black-tailed Godwit. Help them rack up 4,000 species in 24 hours on eBird!). Why did the chicken cross the archipelago? Scientists investigate the DNA of Hawaii’s free-roaming fowl. Now you have.

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Malta Barn Owls Fowl Cyprus 218

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Most of my family lives in Indiana, but thanks to social media we can easily keep in touch. And if a feral cat colony is near an endangered species, the colony should be eliminated. I took my furlough due to the government shut down as a chance to go down to Indiana and visit my family. Well played, older sister, well played.

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