10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2020

Its eastern border is Lake Michigan, one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world. We also observed spatial patterns in bird observations across neighborhoods, with fewer observations in low-income community areas and those with less open space, as well as those farther from Lake Michigan.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2015

But apparently Fred was not alone because over the last three years quite a few people from Michigan, Ontario, Indiana, Iowa, and Nebraska have chimed in to say that they too, grew up stamping robins and some mentioned passing it on to their children and grandchildren.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

We were driving up to northwestern Michigan from our homes in Ohio (me) and West ByGod Virginia (Geoff) in search of a bird species that would be a lifer for both of us: the Bohemian Waxwing. Tags: Bird Behavior , buntings , features , michigan • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Snow Bunting?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2015

Found in all fifty states except for Hawaii, the robin is also the state bird of not just Connecticut, but Michigan and Wisconsin as well. Looks like these birds will remain symbols of Connecticut, Michigan, and Wisconsin far into the future! Few birds are as ubiquitous in the United States as the American Robin.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Their were 1,805 pairs of Kirtland’s Warblers found in Michigan this year, second only to 2009′s 1,813. The population has stabilized with neither increases nor decreases of greater than five percent since 2007. A couple dozen pairs also nest in neighboring states and provinces.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2021

You can own a gorilla in Indiana, but not a bear in Michigan. 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 yak in Kentucky, but not a cheetah in Maine. In Mississippi you can own an ocelot, but not a wolverine.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2011

I love my new WeWood watch , a sustainable yet stylish timepiece made of maple, and I like WeWood even more now that I’ve learned about the 4,000 trees they helped place into American Forest’s Kirtland’s Warbler Habitat Creation Project in Michigan.

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Michigan 160

Critter News

MARCH 19, 2010

It's a flurry of activity out there in the animal research fight! This one involves PETA and Saginaw Valley State University.

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PETA Michigan Animal Research Research 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2012

Watch out for Wild Turkeys going wild in western Michigan! It seems that they have taken to crashing through windows and windshields. Though, as the news report points out, it is likely just because it is their breeding season and the hormones are getting to them… a.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2011

But in Oak Park, Michigan, it is apparently a crime to have a vegetable garden in your front yard. Julie Bass should be lauded and should not be facing jail time. Where are the Tea Partiers? Or does freedom not apply to vegetable gardens?

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Michigan 154

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2013

Finally, identifying gulls can be tricky, but there’s one in Michigan that seems to have everyone stumped. You can keep up with the latest on this case through the Michigan Birding Network.). (The story includes a link to the tracking site so you can see where the birds are now!). That’s because it’s pink !

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2012

My Best Bird(s) of the Weekend were a trio of cranes, presumably Sandhills , crossing high above the interstate as I drove out of Michigan. .” But is it ever too hot or too cold to get out and look at some birds? Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was his second Purple Martin ever in Queens.

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New York City Michigan 2012 New York 173

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2012

This weekend, I’m heading out to Michigan for a week of sand and sun. Summer months mean a lot to me, which must explain why I’m always on the run these days. Have you been watching the sun set in strange skies? You should.

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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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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Well, even though it’s blended in Detroit, Michigan, Doctor Bird Jamaica Rum from Two James Spirits gives us just that. Aiturus Polytmus from Histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches, ou, Colibris constituant la famille des trochilidés (1877) by Louis Victor Bevalet.

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AUGUST 2, 2012

Sunsets over Lake Michigan are phenomenal! Share your plans in the comments below. Whatever your plans this weekend, make time to enjoy SkyWatch Friday. Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend !

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10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2012

My family and I have taken our show to the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. The month of July is drawing to a close, so prepare yourself for the inevitable chorus expressing surprise, chagrin, and dismay at the imminent end of summer. Do folks on the southern side of the globe, I wonder, do the same thing around the end of January?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2017

The jack pines of Michigan are well-known as the breeding grounds of the Kirkland’s Warbler —and thus, the best place to catch a glimpse of this exceedingly rare songbird. Eastern seaboard, and up to Michigan. Photo of Kirkland’s Warbler in Michigan by Jeol Trick, U.S. But how do these tiny birds get there?

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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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10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2022

of Comstock, Michigan. Sure, there’s been an admirable resurgence of lager brewing in the last few years, but it’s hard to shake the feeling that as far as craft beer goes, there’s been an overwhelming tendency toward the hoppy monotony of hazy IPAs – along with a handful of other fads – for the better part of a decade now.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2015

If you’re a regular reader of 10,000 Birds, you may remember a remarkable video posted some months back of a Great Horned Owl swimming in Lake Michigan. The amiable nature photographer who preserved this special moment was Steve Spitzer, well known in Chicago’s birding community for taking spectacular pictures of even the most common birds.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2018

In particular, Michigan was gray, indicating complete failure to submit even a single checklist. But I had spent years in Ann Arbor attending law school at the University of Michigan, albeit before I started birding. If you are tracking your life list, that’s not a difficult sell for the folks running eBird from Ithaca, New York.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2014

A Whooper Swan conservation project keeps a small wildfowl collection, which includes the Wood Ducks, but free food during cold spells attracts “freeloaders” from Lake Michigan and the zoo end up providing winter fuel for hundreds of Mallards.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

A pinky mouse…a day or two old… in a dishwasher box,” wrote Cindy Sobels Sniecinski in Michigan. “But there was a reason – the people found it in a lake, floating on the watermelon.” “A The lady didn’t want it to get out.” ” When it comes to wildlife rescue, transportation runs the gamut as well.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2015

During the 1980s, the Pacific Coast Population swans became the source of eggs for several restoration programs in Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Iowa 2.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2019

Focusing on an often under-appreciated portion of the continent, the book showcases forty species found in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio – but perhaps not for long.

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Indiana Downers Iowa Illinois 144

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2019

In addition to spotting exciting new species in Florida, including the rare Snail Kite, travel across the country brought me into contact with birds in Oregon, California, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Alabama, and more.

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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

Among the best: California, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Oregon. The ALDF has released a report on how different states' animal protection laws stack up.

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Animal Legal Defense Fund Animal Protection South Dakota ALDF 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

The poem is placed in Chicago by the use of “Lincoln park&# which is both a neighborhood and a park on Chicago’s Lake Michigan shoreline. Sandburg obviously appreciates the martins’ flying skills, the “ciphers and figure eights&# of the “purple tumblers&# in the air overhead.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

The ruling today affects wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. TRAVERSE CITY - State officials say they're not pleased with a federal court's ruling overturning the government's decision to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list for the Great Lakes region. District Court in Washington, D.C.,

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2019

of Birmingham Michigan have released Piping Plover Pilsner. Hermit Thrush Brewery: Po Tweet. Three out of five feathers (Good). Birds and Booze News. Piping Plover Pilsner: The Detroit Zoological Society and Griffin Claw Brewing Co.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

But I did have what comes close to qualifying as a Proustian moment in finding this week’s featured beer: 313 Polish Lager from Grand River Brewery of Detroit, Michigan. Today, I can’t even recall the last time I had a Zywiec.

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Poland Detroit New York City Eagles 158

10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2016

I’m still in Michigan enjoying the lake life, despite the prosaic (for a New Yorker) birding. Summer is full swing here in the Northern Hemisphere, which means a birder’s fancy turns to less predictable targets. Traditionally, we might start chasing butterflies or odes, but these days bring more colorful fare. How about you?

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Critter News

JANUARY 30, 2009

Wildlife conservationists say the freeze will delay and possibly prevent the removal of gray wolves from the federal endangered species list in Montana, Idaho, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, and also in portions of Washington, Oregon, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 25, 2009

The others are the University of Michigan and University of Louisiana/New Iberia. The University of California, Davis is the focus of a major federal complaint charging it and two other nationally known university research centers have killed dozens of primates through traumatic injuries, veterinary negligence and other violations.

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