10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Many years ago, back in the 1970s, I visited my sister, who lived in West Yellowstone, Montana, in the dead of winter. This morning’s news had this: During this year’s open of waterfowl season, the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center admitted more trumpeter swans for bullet wounds than ever before. All of them. Or almost so.

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Minnesota Wounded Wildlife Rehabilitation Montana 261

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2014

Moving to Montana was not even exotic – it was a non-possibility. I didn’t go to grad school or move to Montana until my 30s, and I didn’t see the Bullock’s Oriole until I had been in Montana almost four years. Images courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

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Baltimore California Condor Montana Cleveland 216

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

Birders know that some of the finest birding locations in the country are on federal land , which include national parks , wildlife refuges , forests , monuments , and seashores , among others. The eleven largest national wildlife refuges are also in Alaska, including Arctic NWR and Yukon Delta NWR , each more than 19 million acres.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Wilderness areas are managed by one of four federal agencies: the Forest Service (FS); the National Park Service (NPS); the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS); and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). At more than 15 million acres, California is the only other state with more than 5 million acres of wilderness.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2014

And yet, perhaps ironically, the biggest sign of spring in a Montana March is when the skies fill with white. This is one of the cases that illustrates the difficulty of so much wildlife management, from trying to decide what is ‘natural’ to figuring out what specifically to do about it. The result?

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Geese Montana Breeding Pelicans 220

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2021

For example, my list of the Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for birding includes an excellent location in Minnesota ( Minnesota Valley NWR ). The Collective added six new states in the past three years, but none have eclipsed the century mark: Wisconsin ( 74 ), Utah (55), Hawaii (38), Oklahoma (18), Rhode Island (9), and Connecticut (5).

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West Virginia United States Puerto Rico Minnesota 261

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

National parks like Rocky Mountain, the Grand Canyon, and the Great Smoky Mountains, as well as national wildlife refuges, national forests, rivers and lakes, community parks, trails, and ball fields in every one of our 50 states were set aside for Americans to enjoy thanks to federal funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF).

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Legislation Montana Wyoming Idaho 188

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2012

Last week was spring break at the University of Montana, and so, for me, a chance for a brief flying visit back east. Fish and Wildlife Service. Yesterday, there were none. Today, Tree Swallows are here, flashing light and dark above the river. Now, let’s back up. Those pesky metaphors cropping up everywhere.

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Chicago Litter Louisiana Montana 225

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Ferruginous Hawks breed in the grasslands of eastern Montana, but they are rare in the mountains and in winter, so this bird was certainly a surprise. Images courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. It sat serenely while we scrambled to set up scopes and get our looks, and only took off as we did so ourselves.

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Bald Eagle Falcons Geese Montana 221

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2012

I haven’t lived in Montana long enough to feel jaded about Bohemian Waxwings, so I concentrated on them at first. Robin photo courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service and Dr. Thomas G. Definitely not spring. I was told there’d be worms. But the Robins kept drawing my attention. Barnes a.

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Downers Montana Fish Wildlife 203

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Whether there is one Sandhill Crane in a camas field in Montana or 1,000 in a flock on their wintering grounds, they put the charismatic AND the mega in charismatic megafauna. Fish and Wildlife Service. They share a noisy charisma with the Common Loon and a predatory grace with the Great Blue Heron.

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California Condor Mississippi Florida Montana 199

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2020

Lately (in the last month or so) he’s been through the Dakotas, Montana, and Canada, up to the Northwest Territories. In his blog, Birds and Nature North America, the peripatetic Bruce Beehler professes to cover not just what the title says, but also American culture, American history, and “stories of back-roads travel and camping.”

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New Hampshire Washington Virginia Montana 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Share Your Thoughts « The Amazing Exploding Dove Meets Montana Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds » To learn more about 10,000 Birds, Mike, Corey, or the many marvelous Beat Writers, please click here. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity.

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Nicaragua El Salvador 2011 Deer 238

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2011

Northern Flicker this species may well be, but Red-shafted Flicker is certainly more descriptive of the majority of the Montana population. photos courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. These are just a handful of the better-documented vernacular names. Feel free to add any you know in the comments.

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Hunters Falcons Montana Ducks 225

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2012

Not having a smart phone, I called a friend in New York and had him Google up some wildlife rehabilitators’ numbers, but they were all out of service. Leaving it there did not seem like a good option. A different Hoary Bat, on a better day. It turns out, helping a bat is hard. A second call netted only Animal Control’s number.

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Bats Wildlife Rehabilitation Missouri Montana 172

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2011

Moreover, at the time I had no inkling that I’d be moving to Montana in two and a half years – in fact, it would be nearly a year before I decided to go to grad school and entertained the notion of leaving New York at all. In Central Park , to be exact. It was exciting — to a degree.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Just before I left for Italy, I took a trip to the Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge for a healthy dose of migration. With all my traipsing about this year I’ve actually been shamefully lax on birding Montana. Montana offers little in the way of flamingos, generally speaking.

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Bald Eagle Montana Italy Owls 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Share Your Thoughts « Fun, Fun, Fun Crossley ID Guide Giveaway The Amazing Exploding Dove Meets Montana » To learn more about 10,000 Birds, Mike, Corey, or the many marvelous Beat Writers, please click here. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity.

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Deer 2011 Cats New York 179

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2012

Russell National Wildlife Refuge ? Finally, I want to leave you with a thought from the astonishing Barry Lopez, who gave a Q & A here at the University of Montana yesterday: “So much of memory is tied to being in love with the world.” Does anyone here have personal experience visiting the Charles M.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2012

Russell National Wildlife Refuge. We’ll do this until the dawn breaks over eastern Montana. That’s how we’ll eventually learn for certain that we’ve been watching Ferret 492, out of all the fifteen black-footed ferrets that currently live on the Charles M.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2023

Pelee National Park – Ohio Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge – Texas These locations offer a variety of habitats including marshes, wetlands, forests, coastal areas, and deserts, attracting numerous bird species throughout the year. Please note that the availability of specific bird species may vary depending on the season.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Moving to Montana would surely make a difference, because Evening Grosbeaks aren’t “irruptive” here, they’re just birds, living their lives. Fish and Wildlife Service. And living my life in the same place, I’d find them. Jochen, I’ll try to get an abundant bird for you next time!)

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Critter News

JUNE 14, 2010

The University of Montana study, aimed at exploring the effects of climate change on mountain goats, got under way this month with preliminary field work in the Many Glacier Valley. Tags: animal research montana. After meeting with park managers on Wednesday, researchers were allowed to resume their field work.

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Mountain Goats Goats Montana Killing 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2011

Though the climate of the area is described as mild, this needs to be understood in Montana terms. Alas, my hoped-for Tundra Swan did not materialize despite the proximity of Swan River National Wildlife Refuge. Yes, the surrounding region is famous for its fruit crops, such as cherries and wine grapes.

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Mules Bald Eagle ALA Turkey 174

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2013

Since it’s really hard to type in a splint, here is a blast from the past: specifically from the beginning of this long, strange trip, my cross-country journey from New York to Montana: I have to confess, I had forgotten all about the Eurasian Tree Sparrow. Even as non-threatening a person as yours truly has been ordered off of lawns.

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St. Louis Sparrows Kansas City Kansas 198

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2017

Swanson Wildlife Health Center received an adult male Red-tailed Hawk that had been found on Cornell University’s campus. A few days later the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology contacted the Wildlife Health Center to ask if they’d received any red-tails recently. Last Saturday, the Janet L. Their fears were confirmed.

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Feral Cats Montana Suffering 2006 137

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2017

Birders are familiar with the National Wildlife Refuge System, which consists of more than 550 units distributed through all fifty states. National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs), which are managed by the U.S. FWS calls WPAs the “Prairie Jewels of the National Wildlife Refuge System.”. Ding” Darling NWR in Florida. million acres.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2011

I imagine these explorers had the same reaction as the Lewis and Clark expedition as they moved from the tallgrass prairies of North Dakota and Montana into the northern Rockies of western Montana. The Native Americans had already been experiencing this poetic mountain range for generations.

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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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Wolves Obama South Dakota North Dakota 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2017

Last night I lay awake from 4 am til almost 5, worrying about the black-footed ferrets I met in Montana and the humans who had devoted their lives to helping them. Fish and Wildlife Service. The question is, regardless of party, do We the People have the will? Image by Robert H. Day, courtesy of the U.S.

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Endangered Species Ferrets Montana United States 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

During the weekend that I was there, it was announced that there were over 1300 fires burning just within the state of Oregon, not to mention California, Washington, Montana and British Columbia, Canada. It was to latter area that I was traveling. The smoke that had settled everywhere within the state was incredible.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2018

We spent two blissful days exploring both the waders and wildlife of Lake Yojoa and the tropical splendor of PANACAM Lodge. MONTANA DE VIDA. The birding around Lago de Yojoa in Honduras is frankly phenomenal, as I learned during a June 2018 birding junket organized by the Instituto Hondureño de Turismo.

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Honduras Birds Farming America 186

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

For example, my list of the Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for birding includes locations in Utah ( Bear River MBR ), Minnesota ( Minnesota Valley NWR ), and Wisconsin ( Horicon NWR ). Even some states that technically have checklists barely qualify: the great state of Illinois has just a single checklist with two species (from an airport).

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Rhode Island United States West Virginia Puerto Rico 118

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

I hope they consider this idea for future books Sophie Osborn has a long history of observing, surveying, and studying birds in North, Central and South America as field biologist, research biologist, field manager, and wildlife program director.

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California Condor Falcons California Coyotes 186

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

I haven’t even been to all of the best national wildlife refuges for birding. Although not a birding trip, before we moved from San Francisco to Portland, my wife and I did a long road trip across the United States, covering 12,000 miles and 34 states, from California to Florida to Maine to Montana.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

My best bird of the year was without a doubt the Montana Baikal Teal , a bird that combined rarity, beauty, and the good grace to stick around long enough for me to actually see it. Montana’s Baikal Teal by suneko. Making it just under two years old when it came back to the High Arctic to continue the cycle.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2019

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. 02 Jun 2019. 02 Jun 2019.

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