10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2020

As I mentioned last week, social distancing is widespread but still voluntary here in Mexico, so there are no limitations on being able to get out and enjoy nature. Living in central Mexico, I’m not a big fan of random encounters with passersby. This has determined which places I visit, and which I avoid.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2012

Now they mock the march of our dead by flinging contemptuous coins at their feet… We are shadows of tender fury; our dark wings will cover the sky again, and their protective cloak will shelter the dispossessed and the good men and women who understand that justice and peace go hand in hand.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Promote bird protection and conservation. Actively birding in Costa Rica as well as Nicaragua and Panama as well as the USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. We strive to: Focus on the needs of the client. In brief, birds are our passion, and we would love to help organize your birdwatching trip to Costa Rica.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 3, 2010

Occurring mostly in southern regions, close to the Gulf of Mexico, SLE is mosquito-borne. Now that you are aware of the diseases that can be caused by mosquitoes, you may be wondering how to prevent these illnesses and protect your pets. You can choose various models that can protect up to an acre of land without obstruction.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2019

” So, it is established: this is a film about migrant birds and the people who work to protect them in south Texas and northern Mexico. Birders is directed by Otilia Portillo Padua of Mexico, and was funded by a grant from the Sundance Institute. ” and then adds, “The border wall is no barrier to birds.”

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2018

As we enter the second century of protecting, preserving, and respecting our wild spaces, certainly no one would actually consider undoing, reversing, and exploiting our national parks, forests, and monuments. Chaco Cultural National Historic Park, a World Heritage Site in New Mexico, teeters back and forth with ongoing lawsuits.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

I love living in central Mexico, and miss very few things about living in the U.S. Of course, I also love birding in Mexico, with its 1,000+ species, and seemingly infinite variety of habitats. Mexico, like many developing countries, has a terrible problem with habitat destruction. We should protect it wherever we can.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Fed by the freshwater of Henderson Creek, the bay eventually flows into the Gulf of Mexico. Unlike many other estuaries in this part of Florida, Rookery Bay is protected by the Estuarine Research Reserve system, and remains almost entirely undeveloped. Rookery Bay is dominated by mangrove, a mix of Red, White, and Black varieties.

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JULY 11, 2024

An initiative to protect farmed animals in Colima, Mexico has unanimously passed in the state’s Congress. The legislation was presented by Deputy Alfredo Álvarez Ramírez and 11 members of the parliamentary group, who sought to reform the Animal Protection Law of Colima to include farmed animals.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

This spectacular, turkey-like bird roams the floor of tropical forests from eastern Mexico south to northwestern Ecuador. That changes in Costa Rica, where the vulnerable Great Curassow is easily seen at several protected sites. It also ranges widely from Mexico south to western Ecuador. Ain’t I great?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Although, technically, I mostly felt your pain… for the past four months, while about a dozen beautiful migratory Wood Warblers were nowhere to be found here in central Mexico. It was not easy to get photos, both because the cloud cover was dense, and because I was protecting my camera from water damage.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2022

Some ways to help this incredible bird include supporting the Macaw Recovery Network , any efforts to protect and reforest habitat from eastern Honduras to eastern Panama and northern Colombia, and never buying a Great Green Macaw. Yellow-naped Parrot (Amazona auropalliata). Guanacaste Hummingbird (Amazilia alfaroensis).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2015

There are a few places where that is especially obvious, and one of those is the town of Cape Coral, just north of Naples along the Gulf of Mexico. It’s a family vacation, sure, but there’s always time for birding and in Florida, the birding often finds you.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2012

The species ranges north well into Canada in the summer months, but in the winter they make for the southern coasts or down to Mexico. Trees get pretty cold in the winter, especially when you’re all by your lonesome with no one to cuddle. So the Hoary Bat is migratory.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2017

This little town of about 100 is located right next to what is considered the largest coral reef in all of Mexico [link] which is very well protected with in the boundaries of a Federal Marine Reserve. Here in the Mexico desert, a light breeze and 100 degree F° temps will have to do.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

In fact, the overwhelming majority of federal land is in just 11 western states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming). Thus, legal protections for endangered species and conservation generally are at their zenith on federal lands. This includes the military.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. Corps of Engineers to protect Galveston Bay at the end of the 19th-century. You just need to know where to look.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2021

In a thorn forest, as in some other situations, protection can be vital. Protection, for birds, can be a very different thing than it is for us. We humans need protection from thorns, while for birds, thorns often provide protection. But, the birds!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Established to protect a watershed and used for environmental education in the eastern Central Valley, Rio Loro has a few nice trails, picnic tables, and even has a small canopy tower (!). In fact, the first one I ever saw was a wintering bird in Mexico. It didn’t open until eight but the visit was still a good one.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

The Horned Guan is not just one of, if not THE standout birds of Mexico and Guatemala, but of the entire world. Endemic to mountaintop cloud forest patches in Chiapas and Guatemala, perhaps occurring at a maximum of six locations in Mexico and a handful more in Guatemala, the Horned Guan is restricted to a tiny, fragmented range.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The conservation need is urgent: great attention has rightly been paid to Brazil’s Amazonian rainforest but not enough resources have gone to the Pantanal and the Cerrado, of which only 4% and 5%, respectively, are protected.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

American Goldfinches are found in much of the United States all year round, spreading their range to Canada in the summer, and into the southern United States and Mexico in the winter. In fact, it is their reliance on seeds that actually protects them against Brown-headed Cowbirds , the famous parasitic nesters.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2021

The avocado is, after all, one of many food plants that originated in central Mexico. The state is, after all, Mexico’s fourth-poorest state. Which might, just maybe, give a local landowner a good reason to protect his forest, instead of planting avocados. And that is why I write for 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2019

For my state of Michoacán in central Mexico, Lago de Cuitzeo is an unusually poor site for our specialty, which is west-Mexico-only endemics. Perhaps you like them enough to have supported legislation protecting wetlands in the United States and Canada. The post Who cares for your ducks in the winter?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2019

Tallahassee is surrounded by lakes, springs, and forest, located only 30-45 minutes from the Gulf of Mexico. After all, the refuge was established in 1931 to protect the wintering grounds of migratory species, and my head has already filled with dreams of crisp, cool hikes, trusty binoculars over my shoulder. The post Returning to St.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2011

With a name like Santiago, I wouldn’t be surprised if his mom lives in Mexico…Sorry, but the TSA is one of my least favorite government organizations. btw, I promote equality in all ways, but I don’t bend over backwards protecting any either.&# I’ve had stuff stolen before. Not too many I bet. you guessed it.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2017

As the dog days of summer descend upon us here in Mexico, many of our avian residents have bailed out and headed back north to avoid the summertime heat. I have never encountered the white morph birds here in Mexico, so we have very little problem with identification, that you might find with the all white birds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

My camera and binoculars, protected by the light coat I had packed, were wet but fully functional. The vast majority were Western Gulls , which, happily, cannot be seen in central Mexico. It would have been a typical rainy California day for, say, the month of January, with steady drizzle punctuated by more substantial showers.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2019

4%: Mexico, West Papua (Indonesia), New Zealand, South Africa, Kenya. A lot more needs to be done to protect and sustainably utilise that biodiversity, although with the Brazil’s current president, it seems highly unlikely. 6%: Antarctica, Argentina, Indonesia (including the votes for West Papua), India. 8%: Brazil, Panama.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2013

The United States built Fort Jefferson on Garden Key between 1846 to 1875 to protect its interests in the Gulf of Mexico, but was later abandoned without ever being fully completed.

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Critter News

AUGUST 30, 2012

Mexico's first "anti-bullfighting" town has signed a petition calling on the United Nations to approve a universal declaration on animal welfare. From Latino Fox News.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2023

And I have protected and cared for other native plants that have turned up on their own, particularly granjenos , which have now begun to produce their first tasty red fruits. And my botanist friend gifted me some cucamelon seeds; this wild cucumber (native to Mexico) looks exactly like a tiny watermelon.

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Critter News

JANUARY 13, 2009

At the end of 2007, the World Society for the Protection of Animals selected the McKee Project to work on spay/neuter programs in Guatemala. Although they are best known for their work in Costa Rica, they also work in Mexico and Panama. This is a great group that I've spotlighted before.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2017

Even our local Greater Sage Grouse , which now are receiving a huge effort at habitat protection, and restoration, were just those really cool birds out in the desert. Now that I am here in Mexico, I finally found them! There is little doubt about the serious nature of the threat to this bird.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2017

We had hit state and nationally protected areas, and now were ready for Cedar Key city gems. Through an ongoing effort on the part of local citizens and grant organizations, Cemetery Point Park sits at the edge of the shallows of the Gulf of Mexico. Our energy climbed with our species count.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

One utterly baffling discovery was the statement in a birding magazine that many American birders were reluctant to go to Mexico because the birds there “wouldn’t count” (the article, I should point out, did not subscribe to that view). It is not an attraction, it is maintained these days purely to protect valuable species.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2016

We are in search of the warm and sunny climate that Mexico has to offer. The bulk of the boats will stop just before making this turn, in the little protected bay called Bahia Los Frailes. For the most of the visitors to Baja California Sur, the name Los Frailes means little or nothing.

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