Massachusetts VMA – November 3, 2024
AVMA News
DECEMBER 12, 2024
The Massachusetts VMA (MVMA) held a celebration to honor the recipients of its Distinguished Service and Merit awards on November 3 in Northampton.
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Massachusetts VMA – October 28, 2023
AVMA News
DECEMBER 13, 2023
The Massachusetts VMA (MVMA) held a celebration to honor the recipients of its Distinguished Service and Merit awards on October 28, 2023, in Cape Cod.
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Eurasian Hobby in Massachusetts
10,000 Birds
MAY 18, 2011
The second-ever record of Eurasian Hobby for lower 48 states has been spotted and photographed by Ian Davies in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It was viewed from his yard. Now that is a yard bird that any American birder would kill for! Congratulations, Ian!
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Greyhound Racing Officially Ends in Massachusetts
Animal Person
DECEMBER 30, 2009
Thanks to Grey2kUSA and the voters of Massachusetts who put an end to live greyhound racing in the Bay State as of last Saturday night! Here 's more on how it all happened and why this particular situation was unique (i.e., the ban happened while the industry was still operating).
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“Birds of Passage” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2012
Longfellow was born in Maine, then a part of Massachusetts, in 1807. He outlived two wives and upon his death was buried next to both of them in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He attended Bowdoin College, traveled extensively in Europe, and later returned to Bowdoin to teach before he moved on to Harvard.
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Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of New England: A Field Guide Review by an Aspiring Naturalist
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2012
It was Massachusetts Representative John Weeks who sponsored and fought for the 1911 Weeks Act, which authorized the use of federal funds for the purchase of forest lands for conservation. I had the pleasure of briefly meeting Kenn Kaufman several years ago at the Hampshire Bird Club, located, appropriately, in Massachusetts.
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Snowy Owl Invasion!
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 2, 2013
Here in New York State Snowy Owls have been reported in more than ten counties, with most of those counties having birds being seen in multiple locations.
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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2013
A robot that feeds baby birds so I can take a nap,” wrote Jodi in Massachusetts. “A A massage therapist for an hour every morning, then I wouldn’t be so bitchy,” wrote Jodi in Massachusetts. High Technology. Self-cleaning pens, never-empty feed buckets,” wrote Angel in South Carolina and Zoe in California. “A Personal Things. “A
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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds
10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2021
“A lady put American Robin nestlings in a small Tupperware container and put the lid on,” said Jodi Swenson in Massachusetts. Thankfully the bird was alive, but he needed a lot of Dawn soap baths.” “ Herring Gull in a bait bin,” added Jodi Swenson in Massachusetts. Here’s a sad example of where logic failed.
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Marchesi Biscardo – Corvina della Provincia di Verona (2017)
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2021
With the risk of infection declining in the summer months, I headed over the border to Massachusetts for a day at the Berkshire Botanical Garden. All this was still on my mind when I finally ventured out of New York State for the very first time during the pandemic last Fourth of July.
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What is Wrong with People?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 3, 2011
In Dartmouth, Massachusetts an Osprey was recently found with a gunshot wound that proved fatal and in Santa Clara, California some sick person has taken to shooting Mallards with darts from a blowgun. What is wrong with people?
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Quoth the Ravens: We’re Ready for Our Close-up
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2014
Now you can add another one to the list: the Ravencam, in the unlikeliest of places—the campus of Wellesley College , just outside of Boston, Massachusetts. There are hawk cams , falcon cams , puffin cams , tern cams , heron cams , and even Osprey cams. Common Ravens tend to avoid nesting around lots of humans.
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Tales of the 2012 Superbowl of Birding
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
You can read about it in The Eyrie , Birding North Central Massachusetts…and beyond , and the Maine Outdoor Journal. Though no one from 10,000 Birds participated in this year’s Superbowl of Birding IX and the Bloggerhead Kingbirds did not field a team that doesn’t mean that you can’t read about what happened this year.
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160 Wildlife Rehabilitators vs. Bird Thieves
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 14, 2014
Jodi Swenson of Massachusett’s Cape Ann Wild Bird Rescue released a crow named Odin, who occasionally still appears at her open window. Many rehabbers raise several crows together and release them on site. The crows are not friendly to humans, although they sometimes make an exception for the person who raised them.
General Interest Podcast Episodes for Birders
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2022
Throughout their journeys these long-distance travelers rely on well-stocked pit-stops, like Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord, Massachusetts. .): Springtime Birding with David Sibley (“A great migration is underway in the northern hemisphere, as migratory birds head north to start a family.
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Birding Hokkaido
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
Ian Davies lives in Manomet, Massachusetts, and is a recent graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a bachelor’s degree in Widlife Ecology and Conservation. Corey first met Ian five years ago when he showed Corey three lifers in the span of half-an-hour.
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Shutting Your Trap
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 20, 2013
The states which have essentially banned leghold traps are Florida, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts, California, and Washington. The trapper, who was not a local, ended up in court, had to pay a fine, and (we were eventually told) was not planning to trap in the area in the future.
Say Hello to Our New Nature News Beat Writer!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2013
When Meredith was a little girl in the New York suburbs, her dad praised her “eagle eyes,” but she didn’t see her first eagle until decades later along the Hudson River.
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Snowy Owl Mania!
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 5, 2013
The Stokes checked out some Snowy Owls in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Another inventive post, or, rather, series of posts, is the Tumblr of pictures of things that are NOT Snowy Owls. At the Nemesis Bird Tim Shrekengost featured Snowy Owls digiscoped with his iPhone 5.
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The Predominately Western, Golden-crowned Sparrow
10,000 Birds
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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Sand Trap: Netting Red Knots for Science
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
That’s just what researchers on Cape Cod in Massachusetts are using–a cannon-fired net. What if, however, you want to nab a group of shorebirds that will scurry or take flight at the merest approach? To paraphrase Roy Scheider , you’re gonna need a bigger net. Their goal?
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Birding Under the Influence: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
A bicycling big year, which started out as a cool, interesting idea after Dorian biked eight miles to see two Northern Lapwings in Nantucket, Massachusetts, becomes an out-of-the-box way to re-orient his mind and find new direction.
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242 Peli Can-Do
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 22, 2013
Remembering a fourth-grade class where he learned that Massachusetts Native Americans planted fish heads along with their corn, he collected fish waste and composted it. Besides actually rehabbing, Monte spends a lot of time convincing people that fish waste could be a money-maker and save birds’ lives in the process.
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Birds Are Gumming Up the (Public) Works
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2014
But parts of Fire Island are nesting habitats for the threatened Piping Plover (like the one above that I photographed, albeit in Massachusetts).
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10,000 Birds goes eBirding – Part II
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2021
There are several states with 100-199 species: North Carolina (172, unchanged), Washington (171, up from 144), Michigan (159, unchanged), Virginia (147, up from 122), North Dakota (141, unchanged), Idaho (129, up from 57); New Mexico (112, unchanged); Massachusetts (110, up from 81); Colorado (106, unchanged), and Pennsylvania (109, up from 102).
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Glue Trapped
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2014
Horse people love to hang flypaper, I’ve had many Barn Swallows come in stuck to them,” says Jodi Swensen, of Cape Ann Wildlife in Massachusetts. “I If people have to use them, I suggest they create a cage of chicken wire and hang the strip inside the cage.”. Ugh, glue traps!” says Lisa Kelly, of Teatown Lake Reservation in New York.
Rachel Carson: Secret Birder
10,000 Birds
JULY 12, 2012
One such woman was Ada Govan, an amateur ornithologist who’d already established a bird sanctuary in Massachusetts. And as she continued to write, Carson found others along the way as inspired by birds as she was. Tow path along the C&O canal (MD) where Carson reportedly often walked with Shirley Briggs spotting birds.
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Montezuma Winery: Carbonated Rhubarb Wine
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2021
So far, the closest Roseate Spoonbill to me in Albany, New York has been a bird discovered in the last week just over the border in western Massachusetts – but I don’t really care about my list in that commonwealth enough to cross the state line, even if it is for a spoonbill.
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Delhi’s Birds Need Help!
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 30, 2015
After Nadeem attends the NWRA conference in Princeton, NJ, he will go to Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research in Delaware; The Wildlife Center of Virginia ; New Jersey’s Mercer County Wildlife Center ; and The Cape Wildlife Center in Massachusetts. What’s left? The indiegogo campaign needs donations. .
Why Are Red-breasted Nuthatches Irrupting?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2012
Bird bloggers from Wisconsin to Massachusetts. 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.
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274 The Economic Impact of Birding on National Wildlife Refuges: Creating Local Jobs
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2019
Parker River NWR (Massachusetts): 687,000; $17.2 Lee Metcalf NWR (Montana): 178,000; $4.5 million; 45. Malheur NWR (Oregon): 210,000; $30.1; Minnesota Valley NWR (Minnesota): 274,000; $4.2 million; 31. million; 166. Santa Ana NWR (Texas): 195,000; $3.4 million; 30. Photos: Bosque del Apache NWR and Ottawa NWR by Jason Crotty.
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Good News for Greyhounds
Animal Person
MAY 27, 2009
You may recall that Massachusetts voters let their opinions about dog racing be heard when they voted to ban racing in their state. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Greyhound Matters Florida Gambling Greyhound Racing Massachusetts Michael J. Here are a couple recent bits of good news. Mooney Rhode Island.
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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2020
And, in contrast to all the blog posts that were expanded into essays, Jenn Dean’s “The Keepers of the Ghost Bird,” the story of the fight to save the Bermuda Petrel, the cahow, was originally published as an e-book by The Massachusetts Review (in which format it won the 2018 John Burrough’s Association Nature Essay Award).
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220 When Feeding Birds Runs Amuck
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2011
Last week the media was eating up a story about a poor, little 80 year old woman who violated a 2009 No Trespass Order that prohibited her from visiting local parks in Massachusetts. The media seemed to be focusing on the idea that you would actually arrest a little old lady who just wants to feed the birds.
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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
The gap is in high school, though there are a few teaching in high school, including Steve Maguire in Massachusetts. And, of course, many colleges and universities have undergraduate and graduate level ornithology courses. Examples here , here , and here.) I checked in with Manker three years after his article for an update.
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264 Birding Magee Marsh
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2011
My first visit, in the company of my Massachusetts-based birding buddy, Christopher Ciccone , was in the late morning of Saturday, 17 September, and we merely and metaphorically touched our toes to the deep waters of the Magee Marsh boardwalk.
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191 Best & Worst States for Animal Protection
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. According to this Technorati article , the Humane Society rated the states on their animal protection laws.
The Last Few Rays Before Extinction
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
Hodge, of Worchester, Massachusetts, claimed in the fall of 1905 he was working in his garden when he looked up “and saw a flock of about thirty wild pigeons winging their way southward.” Naturalist C.F.
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Animal Rescue Month
4 The Love Of Animals
AUGUST 13, 2010
Volunteers will earn double points for time spent on animal rescue-related activities, which they can redeem for rewards from the site’s retail partners, such as Especially for Pets, a seven store Massachusetts pet food and supply company.
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Hermit Thrush Brewery: Po Tweet
10,000 Birds
JULY 12, 2019
Po Tweet is a sour pale ale brewed year-round with local hops from Four Star Farms, just over the border in Northfield, Massachusetts. This week’s beer is the second we’ve seen from the Hermit Thrush Brewery of Brattleboro, Vermont, a state with its own share of boreal habitat for nesting Hermit Thrushes. And what do the birds say?
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Nature’s Ambassador: The Legacy of Thornton W. Burgess, by Christie Palmer Lowrance
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 18, 2013
The text, by Christie Palmer Lowrance, offers plenty of primary sources, with extensive quotations from Burgess’s own correspondence and that of his friends and colleagues, along with contemporary interviews with his surviving relatives and with people influenced by his work that range from the poet Nikki Giovanni to Dr. Tom French of the Massachusetts (..)
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First Puppy To Be Unveiled Soon
Critter News
APRIL 11, 2009
Kennedy of Massachusetts. The word is, that it's a Portuguese water dog. The little guy is a 6-month-old Portuguese water dog given to the Obama girls as a gift by that Portuguese water dog-lovin' senator himself, Edward M. The girls named it Bo -- and let it be noted that you learned that here first.
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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of July 2018?
10,000 Birds
JULY 26, 2018
Maybe I’ll be able to add something new to my Massachusetts list. So if the birding by you has been uninspiring, just wait. A change is on the horizon. I’ll be in Boston for part of this weekend. Wish him luck as he endeavors to rectify these insults.
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