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APRIL 21, 2013

The photo above, one of mine, shows a Clapper Rail in Louisiana. Maley then goes on to examine the hybrid zone between Clapper and King rails in Louisiana, finding that the hybrid zone is very narrow (about 4 kilometers, or 2.5 King Rails occur widely in eastern North America, in eastern and central Mexico, and in Cuba.

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OCTOBER 13, 2011

Sad news out of Louisiana. Maybe we shouldn’t encourage people to shoot any cranes? Hat-tip to Julie.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

In 1938, they were reduced to only 18 birds in the Aransas-Wood Buffalo flock and only 11 remaining in the non-migratory Louisiana flock. By 1950, the Louisiana flock was gone. Since there were only two birds in captivity when the Louisiana flock became extinct, its likely that the genetics of the non-migratory flock are lost forever.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Spoonbills and ibises are stocky, colorful wading birds with distinctive bills: downcurved and pointed in the case of ibises, flat and paddle shaped in the spoonbills (above is my shot of Roseate Spoonbills ( Platalea ajaja ) near a breeding colony in Louisiana). Roseate Spoonbill ( Platalea ajaja ) in Louisiana © David J.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

It was also to be expected that the first passerine to turn up would be the Louisiana Waterthrush. These were two different Louisiana Waterthrushes , but with the same posing preference… dark and distant! The Laughing Gul l that turned up later that same day, however, was quite a surprise.

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MARCH 5, 2009

The Humane Society of the United States released the video scenes Wednesday, saying that’s only part of the documentation of what it claimed were 338 violations of federal law and policy at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Laboratory. It is the nation’s largest primate research lab that studies chimpanzees.

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Wayne Pacelle Louisiana Humane Society Of The United States Animal Abuse 100

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APRIL 18, 2021

Though he added Louisiana Waterthrush , Blue-gray Gnatcatcher , and Yellow-throated Warbler to his year list, Corey most enjoyed watching a Northern Mockingbird doing singing in the Rockaways. Corey enjoyed getting out on birding outings both mornings of the weekend, and was out in nature with his family both afternoons.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

Well, a team from Louisiana State University managed to pull that off on 14 October, seeing an astounding 354 species in one day in Peru. How would you like to see a lot of bird species in a day? Like, more species than anyone else anywhere has ever seen in a day?

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APRIL 6, 2014

Though Corey spent most of the day on Sunday birding Sandy Hook in New Jersey, seeing 73 species of birds, including four new species for him for the year, his Best Bird of the Weekend was the Forest Park waterhole in Queens, where he spotted his first Louisiana Waterthrush of the year. The wood-warblers are back! How about you?

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MAY 5, 2012

Please forgive the repetition…but somehow I think that repeat images of wood-warblers will be rather easily forgiven.

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APRIL 19, 2011

Now HBO Documentary Films presents Saving Pelican 895 , the story of the effort to save the 895th surviving oiled pelican in Louisiana, showing how conservationists, government agencies and wildlife activists joined forces to preserve this life and so many others.

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Pelicans Louisiana 2010 Suffering 162

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JUNE 15, 2016

First, wildlife officials in Louisiana announced the first successful wild Whooping Crane nest in that state since 1939. It’s a bang-up breeding year for super-endangered birds! Now, it’s Spoon-billed Sandpipers’ turn.

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APRIL 29, 2014

Louisiana Waterthrush are a wonderful early migrant that announce themselves with their clear song. April birding often consists of sifting through a flock of Butterbutts trying to find another species. I feel like they never get their due as beautiful in their own right.

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APRIL 1, 2012

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was his first Louisiana Waterthrush of the year. The gang of Common Grackles plundering my feeder deserve a nod for their brassy, cacophonous splendor. Also of note were the Long-tailed Ducks on Lake Ontario, holding on when the other cold-waterfowl seem to have fled.

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MAY 2, 2012

” That is the defense of Lloyd “Chip” Badeaux , a city councilman in Thibodaux, Louisiana, for killing 48 whistling-ducks at a friend’s house. “This is not just regular duck. This is an infestation, they come by the thousands.” State law allows 6 dead ducks per day.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Even though it doesn’t show on the NatureServe range map above, Golden-crowned Sparrow vagrants have been recorded eastward to Ontario and Nova Scotia, Michigan, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey; also south to Alabama, Texas, Louisiana and Florida 1.

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JUNE 6, 2013

Participating teams include the E-Birders from Cornell University, the Tigrisomas from Louisiana State University, the Forest Falcons from Great Britain, the Zululanders from South Africa, Team Tramuntana from Spain, and the Ararajubas from Brazil.

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JULY 7, 2018

This is where I saw my first Louisiana Waterthrush and Swainson’s Warbler. Louisiana Waterthrush. (I have seen it dry after recent extreme droughts.) You may have to stalk the single parking spot at this location; but the habitat makes it worth the effort to hover or walk. Photo by © William H.

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Critter News

APRIL 16, 2009

They are at least admitting there are problems with standard operating procedures at New Iberia Research Center. Officials claim to be taking steps to correct certain problems. This web page also has a video with a tour of the facility, conducted by center staff.

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

However, most states still have less than 100 species, including: Missouri (98, unchanged); Wyoming (97, unchanged); Georgia (94, up from 54); Nevada (93, up from 53); Delaware (88, up from 83); Maine (82, up from 76); South Carolina (82, up from 49); Louisiana (81, up from 73); Alaska (79, up from 34); Maryland (62, unchanged); Illinois (50, up from (..)

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NOVEMBER 30, 2015

It happened during a Christmas Bird Count in Louisiana in 1984. Honestly though, I was hoping for a number like one hundred. Now that would be something! The most of any species ever reported is 76,000,000 Brown-headed Cowbirds. The same count had 15,000,000 Red-winged Blackbirds and 10,000,000 Common Grackles. Other fun numbers I dug up?

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JULY 1, 2011

3 rd word, first syllable: what do Kirtland’s Warbler, Louisiana Waterthrush, Palm Warbler, American Pipit (and maybe others) ­­­­­have in common? You could be hearing this too if you are in eastern US, as far west as, say, parts of Texas and going north to approximately the Canadian border.

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MAY 4, 2010

This Louisiana Senator is just a slave to these oil interests and I'm sick of her. Tags: louisiana oil drilling 2010 oil spill endangered species. She's calling for MORE frigging oil drilling in spite of the catastrophe in the Gulf. I'd like to shove her face in a vat of oil and not bring her up for a long, long time.

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JANUARY 12, 2012

The air was thick and clammy, and mosquitoes were biting along Louisiana’s Mermentau River last Thursday morning, the final day of the Audubon Christmas Bird Count. A lone Black-bellied Plover quietly worked the flats amid hundreds of other shorebirds.

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APRIL 13, 2012

It took a long stake-out — happily by other birders, who I spotted just in time — to find a single Louisiana Waterthrush , after the previous day’s count of five. Nor was there any evidence of the old favorite I secretly yearned for, the Black-throated Blue Warbler.

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DECEMBER 25, 2021

Louisiana Waterthrush. Not including the vagrants, these are the warblers that regularly frequent green space in Costa Rica: Wood-warblers of Cooler Montane Habitats. Cloud Forest near San Ramon. Similar to how this stream bird rolls at its summer home, in Costa Rica, this bird also frequents rushing forested waterways.

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Critter News

MAY 25, 2010

Charges have been filed against seven members of Greenpeace who boarded an offshore drilling support ship in a Louisiana port and painted anti-drilling slogans in crude oil on the vessel’s side on Monday afternoon. Tags: louisiana animal enterprise terrorism act Stupid British Petroleum 2010 oil spill.

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

Sitta canadensis isn’t just irrupting out of its far northern home but exploding southward, with reports in every southern state except for Florida, including birds on the outer banks of North Carolina, on Grand Isle, Louisiana, in a suburb of Atlanta, and on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Bird bloggers from Wisconsin to Massachusetts.

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Critter News

MAY 4, 2010

Tags: louisiana 2010 oil spill Gulf of Mexico endangered species.

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MAY 10, 2020

Shorebird migration is a dramatic start to a lengthy fall migration in South Florida, which stretches for the most part from mid-July through the end of November.

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

The main wintering area for Ross’s Goose ( Chen rossii ) is presently in the Central Valley of California, though increasing numbers winter in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Texas, and the north-central highlands of Mexico 1. Map courtesy of Terry Sohl at South Dakota Birds and Birding.

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APRIL 28, 2024

Warblers, thrushes, buntings, and other migrants move across the Gulf of Mexico in an extremely stressful, marathon flight from the Yucatan Peninsula to the Gulf Coast of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida before spreading throughout the flyways and heading north.

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APRIL 12, 2013

Are Brown-crested Flycatchers following this same migration route undetected, or are they flying across the gulf (such as from the Yucatan) into southern Florida as some have postulated?

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Critter News

MAY 4, 2012

Retired game-show host and animal rights advocate Bob Barker is opening a new area for five HIV-infected chimpanzees at a sanctuary in northwestern Louisiana. From The Washington Post. The former host of “The Price Is Right” donated $380,000 to create space at the Chimp Haven near Shreveport.

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JANUARY 15, 2013

The Tigrisomas, comprising four doctoral students in ornithology at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, took top honors, having identified a staggering 493 bird species in 6 days. The final tally of the Peru Birding Rally Challenge.

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MARCH 29, 2017

This line of thought was started in me today with the horrifying news about the Monroe Museum of Natural History’s ultimatum from the University of Louisiana. Curators are considered less important than designers trying to pull in the punters.

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AUGUST 30, 2022

We saw our first Louisiana Waterthrushes of the season. So I now have a third site for this exciting bird. The Black-chinned Sparrow , a special bird that I can expect to see only at Las Mesas. did indeed turn up. I was shocked to see a Red-faced Warbler so early. Ricardo was shocked to see his first Red-faced Warble r.

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