10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2011

A Northern Potoo by Nick Athanas Northern Potoos are found from Mexico to Costa Rica and on the islands of Jamaica and Hispaniola. You see, potoos don’t require a nest to protect - or hide - their eggs and young. In reality though, this is actually a pretty stellar nesting strategy.

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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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APRIL 25, 2024

But once I get back home to Mexico, I will be climbing hills on livestock trails once again. And I must be careful to protect my skin, having had a couple of basal cells removed. I will often walk on the sides of steep slopes, staring at the abyss below. Or I may slog on the crusty floorr of a dry lakebed.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Instead, they are summer visitors, moving up to Colorado in the warm months to breed before returning to wintering grounds in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. Hopefully greater focus on Lark Buntings and other grassland species will promote additional conservation measures and protect them from further population problems.

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MAY 9, 2017

Although not federal “lands,” these federal marine protected areas— Channel Islands , Cordell Bank , Greater Farallones , Monterey Bay and Olympic Coast —provide critical foraging areas for seabirds. All only spend a small—albeit critical—portion of their lives on their breeding grounds.

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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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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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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

under the 1969 Endangered Species Conservation Act and later transferred to the 1973 Endangered Species Act; then protected with other birds of prey under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act through agreement with Mexico, but not Canada, in 1972 1. They were officially listed as Endangered in 1970 in the U.S.

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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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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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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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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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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

After leaving the sunny weather of Mexico, setting out for a short hike with morning temperature of 28 degrees was a shock to my system, to say the least. Established in 1974 to protect the delta, which is formed where the fresh water of the Nisqually River meets to nutrient rich, tidal salt water of the Puget Sound.

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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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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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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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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The added publicity – the bird now appears on Aruba currency and stamps – will draw attention to needed conservation and protection efforts. Burrowing Owls also gained greater recognition after a 2006 film, “ Hoot ,” was released.

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MARCH 11, 2011

His fascination with birds and nature began at the age of four or five, and he now works full time in conservation of Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River birds and ecosystems. Mexico’s Coronado Islands: Brown Boobies, cormorants, oystercatchers, and pinnipeds | Search and Serendipity Mar 12th, 2011 at 8:19 pm [.]

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JULY 20, 2019

Seen Green Violetear in Mexico and Costa Rica? But, birds in eastern Mexico have even more blue and are now their own species so Lesson’s Motmot it is. However, no matter how one enjoys or takes in interest in the avian side of life, an official list of the birds for a given area is of vital importance. Hummingbird changes.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

The majestic gray wolf once roamed the United States from coast to coast and from Mexico to Canada. Visit www.nwf.org/endangered to find out how to protect more threatened species. As I changed my calendars to February, I saw all this information printed on the January spread. Amazing what these calendars can contain.

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MAY 29, 2019

This town sits at the edge of a river in Mexico’s Tierra Caliente (Hot Country), an inland basin between the coastal Sierra Madre del Sur and the much higher Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. Before ending this post, I feel I must address the issue of safe birding in Mexico. Sometimes, Pygmy Owls look rather fierce.

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JUNE 7, 2017

The cactus are not the only things down here that are protected in this manner. While the squirrels get both food and the water content from the cactus, the Nopal is a huge mainstay in nearly every local kitchen and restaurant in this part of Mexico.

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