10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Danny Gayheart of Noctor, Kentucky, pleaded guilty to selling three Red-tailed Hawks to an undercover agent for $50 each. He will have to pay over $1,600 to fund the birds’ rehabilitation and will be sentenced – to up to two years in prison – in February.

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AVMA News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The American Veterinary Dental College (AVDC) recently welcomed new diplomates following the board certification examinations it held between June 7-13 in Las Vegas and Lexington, Kentucky.

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Critter News

MAY 11, 2010

Sounds like it's hell for these animals in Kentucky shelters. Tags: animal shelter management animal shelters Kentucky strays. The State used to provide oversight, but in 2004, they abrogated responsibility to the counties. According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, things are not going well. Please sign the petition to help them.

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AUGUST 1, 2011

Bald Eagle image is by Francois Portmann and is used with permission You know, I’ve been thinking about this whole dustup over hunting cranes in Tennessee and now Kentucky. Now that we’ve almost succeeded in pushing a Sandhill Crane hunt through in Kentucky, the sky’s the limit. I get it now, I really do.

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JULY 17, 2011

As you’ll remember, Kentucky’s Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources unanimously passed its sandhill crane hunting proposal. All eight hunters on the commission think it’s a good idea to shoot cranes in Kentucky. The public comment period on the Kentucky sandhill crane hunting proposal ends AUGUST 1 2011.

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MARCH 25, 2016

“I have been caring for raptors for almost 29 years and not even a Bald Eagle can carry off 12 pounds,” wrote Eileen Wicker, the Executive Director of Raptor Rehabilitation of Kentucky. All photos courtesy of Raptor Rehabilitation of Kentucky. Please disregard this for the rubbish it is!”. Click here for more.

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JUNE 15, 2011

For those of you who’ve been following the drama unfolding in Kentucky regarding a sandhill crane hunt, there’s bad news. Kentucky’s wildlife offices have been flooded with protests, whether written, telephoned or emailed. An eight-member commission unanimously approved the hunt proposal in early June.

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MAY 20, 2012

Well, the two birds below kind of speak for themselves… Cerulean Warbler at Doodletown Kentucky Warbler along Mine Road … a.

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JANUARY 19, 2012

The Sandhill Crane hunt in Kentucky is over for the season and only fifty birds were killed. The Courier-Journal , Kentucky’s largest newspaper, excoriated the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources for allowing the hunt to happen in this editorial.

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

A few states still have no checklists at all: Nebraska , Minnesota , Iowa , Kentucky , West Virginia , Mississippi , and Alabama. For example, as to checklists, Kentucky ranks 37th in the U.S. Even the nation’s capital has been ignored. out of 51, including Washington, D.C.) and West Virginia ranks 44th.

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AUGUST 9, 2013

Out of over 30 respondents, almost everyone wanted money for better facilities, paid staff, on-call veterinarians, emergency vehicles, food, and protected land – from Terry and Lindsay in California to Cindy in Michigan, from Sally in Kentucky to Mickie in South Dakota, and Lisa and Lia in New York. wrote Laura, on Long Island.

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MAY 11, 2014

Assuming that your over-worked eyes are as blurry as mine at the moment, we should get right down to business and talk birds… The best of the many warblers I uncovered at Cobbs Hill this weekend was an entirely improbable Kentucky Warbler.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2012

Thus, I was surprised and a little saddened to learn from my Kentucky family that kids in the Bluegrass State go back to school next week. Maybe Kentucky has it right. The summer span of school-free days from late June to early September always seemed to me to be an experience all United States students held in common.

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MARCH 20, 2011

With the proposed hunting seasons on sandhill cranes being discussed in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin, we must not forget the whooping crane, which travels and winters in the big sandhill crane flocks. photo by Cyndi Routledge Here it is then, another angle on the proposed sandhill crane seasons in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin.

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OCTOBER 27, 2018

Breaks Interstate Park, Kentucky. Known as a warbler haven, 30+ species visit this bi-state park near the Kentucky and Virginia southern border. There are guides for historic buildings as well as birding tours. American Kestrel. Photo by © Mike Blevins.

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JUNE 13, 2021

You can own a yak in Kentucky, but not a cheetah in Maine. One’s ability to own an exotic species varies from state to state. For instance, you can own a lion in Alabama, but not in California. You can own a gorilla in Indiana, but not a bear in Michigan. In Mississippi you can own an ocelot, but not a wolverine.

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MAY 5, 2014

The first was a Kentucky Warbler , first heard but never seen by Cesar Castillo on Friday in Alley Pond Park. Kentucky Warbler. It was only my second Kentucky Warbler ever in Queens and despite its reluctance to come out into the open I was still pleased to see it and to get a recognizable photo. Hooded Warbler.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Eileen Wicker of Raptor Rehabilitation of Kentucky has an unreleasable Turkey Vulture who has a thing for hats. “I couldn’t tell for sure,” wrote Maureen Eiger, who discovered the potential perp. “I I didn’t know if he was after the pen, or just reading his chart.”. Hats are a big draw. Anything for a hat,” she said.

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MAY 1, 2012

They were everywhere and we were lucky to nail down some nice species including Prothonotary Warbler and a very confiding Kentucky Warbler. An American Redstart Yellow Warbler Prothonotary warbler Kentucky Warbler After some very rewarding birding at Fort Zachary we headed straight for Indigenous Park.

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JULY 8, 2013

I encourage you to head on over to her blog to learn more, or, if you already know that the idea of a Sandhill Crane hunt is a bad idea, head on over to the Kentucky Coalition for Sandhill Cranes page dedicated to stopping the hunt in Tennessee and TAKE ACTION ! This time around, Vickie Henderson is once again sounding the alarm.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2015

In addition to North Carolina, six other states have named the cardinal their state bird, including Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio. I’m not the only one who appreciates the Northern Cardinal.

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JUNE 2, 2011

Singing Kentucky Warbler ! Maybe, just maybe, an individual Kentucky Warbler with a weird song had been reported from that exact spot on the listservs and maybe, just maybe, my decision of park for our outing and paths for our stroll weren’t random? Oh, no real reason except, yes!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

” (Emerald Ash Borer photo from University of Kentucky Forestry Extension; Red-bellied Woodpecker above by Corey; White-breasted Nuthatch below by Mike). . “Given the increasing prominence of such phenomena, citizen science projects such as FeederWatch and eBird are likely to play an even greater role in the future!”

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JULY 18, 2014

Kentucky or Prairie would be the only possibilities. .” “Can you post a begging video? Sure, here you go:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ8QwaHZtY0&feature=youtu.be. v=dZ8QwaHZtY0&feature=youtu.be. “You don’t have many breeding warblers down there, do you? I have no idea what those would look like.”

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JUNE 7, 2015

But the Kentucky Warbler singing away at Doodletown won the honors this weekend even though it wouldn’t cooperate for pictures worth sharing. The one above was spotted in Queens last year.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2011

Corey’s BBOTW was a singing Kentucky Warbler at Rockefeller State Park Preserve in Westchester County on a family outing… nice find! However, an Osprey won my admiration with impressive aerial acrobatics. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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AUGUST 15, 2014

My very first rescue was a House Sparrow caught in a glue trap,” says Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator in Kentucky. But be it a mouse, bird, bat, gecko, kitten … it’s a very bad way to go, and no creature should have to suffer death by torture. “My They’d baited the trap with seed and a bit of cake!

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OCTOBER 1, 2013

But I had been returning from an engagement in Paducah, Kentucky, where I had given a talk on Resources for Birding on the Internet at the fall meeting of the Kentucky Ornithological Society.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Kentucky Warbler. A beautiful common species of mangrove and other wetland habitats of the lowlands. Hooded Warbler. Not as common as some other species but regular in wet, tangled second growth in and near lowland rainforest. Learn the call note of this skulker and you will find it in any number of foothill rainforest sites.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Duck MigrationSandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?!Avian Share Your Thoughts « Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! &# Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of March 2011? Mar 17th, 2011 at 2:18 pm [.] 1 – Paradise in PortugalTsunami Pics from Midway AtollDoes This Make My Mom A Bird Blogger?Duck It was a great experience.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

By the time September rolls around, anything is possible, the raptors begin to join the passerines on their own migratory journey, and birders begin to pour into suburban migrant traps in search of such treasures as Kentucky and Swainson’s Warblers which they cannot see at any other time of year.

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Critter News

JANUARY 3, 2011

BEST Illinois (best) Maine Michigan Oregon California WORST Mississippi Idaho Hawaii North Dakota Kentucky. 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.

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Critter News

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

APRIL 28, 2019

His Best Bird of the Weekend was an easy one though, as he found a Kentucky Warbler in Forest Park on Friday morning, only his fifth sighting of the species in Queens ever and his earliest by four days. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Not only is it useful to be able to understand instantly when a fellow birder tells you that the Pine Siskin is at the top of the London plane or the Kentucky Warbler is skulking in the bushes just to the west of the big catalpa; it’s also helpful to understand the world the birds inhabit.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

Adult Mourning Dove in a box with a hunk of Kentucky Fried Chicken,” wrote Mikal Deese. “I “You open the box and there are big chunks of white bread next to a nestling,” wrote Maureen Eiger, “and the person says “I’m surprised it did not eat any of the bread that I put in there for it.’”. “I I swear on a stack of bibles!”. “I

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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. For example, as to checklists, Kentucky ranks 38th in the U.S. Even the nation’s capital has been ignored.

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