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JANUARY 10, 2020

will be much more cloudy than the sky in the photo above, taken at Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada. Though it is January, often the coldest month for those of us in the northeastern United States, this weekend is forecast to be exceptionally mild.It

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DECEMBER 29, 2019

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a surprise Swamp Sparrow at the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve in Nevada. Luckily, we spied a large flock of turkeys from the highway between Syracuse and Binghamton.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Pigeons are, perhaps, the most loathed of birds. And now Clark County commissioner Chris Giunchigliani has proposed making it illegal to feed pigeons in unincorporated areas of the county, which includes Las Vegas. The law seems virtually unenforceable but could cause problems for those who have bird feeders that pigeons take advantage of.

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JUNE 21, 2013

All of these things can be found in Las Vegas, Nevada. He steered me right and there it was, my first life bird in Nevada! Trips Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve Las Vegas Nevada' All-you-can-eat Buffets. Sewage ponds. That is, all of them can be found in Las Vegas except the last one on the list. One lifer down and one to go.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2013

The festival is now in its 16 th year in the quaint-yet-vibrant town of Fallon, Nevada (about an hour east of Reno), and it draws on the wide array of birds that flock to the area during spring migration. The town is actually nicknamed “The Oasis of Nevada.”) Birding Destinations Trips Nevada'

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

(Inexplicably, eBird does not consider Puerto Rico part of the United States, but if it were properly included , it would do well, with 107 species.).

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OCTOBER 22, 2014

These beautiful birds are now reduced in numbers or distribution throughout their range and considered to be declining in Utah, Nevada, and Oregon. They are listed as a Species of Special Concern in Utah, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, and as Threatened in California.

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MAY 27, 2013

Nothing, however, prepared me for the fauna that awaited last weekend at the Spring Wings festival in Fallon, Nevada. But the wilds of Nevada revealed rattlesnakes, lizards (OK, the lizards didn’t seem that dangerous), and more than one mama cow who stared us down when our vehicles got too close to a calf. Not yet, knock on wood.)

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NOVEMBER 1, 2013

A week ago today, the federal government proposed a “threatened” listing for the Greater Sage Grouse in Nevada and California , as part of a larger study considering whether the species as a whole should be listed. I am a great lover of these gallinaceous birds, though my encounters with them have been but brief.

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JUNE 11, 2019

The population in Arizona, Utah, and Nevada was designated as such in 1996 , before the first release from Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona. In fact, the proposed northwest population would not even be the first “nonessential experimental” population of California Condor.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2013

……… Birds Black-throated Sparrow Nevada Red Rock Canyon sparrows' . … I hope you liked these shots of Black-throated Sparrows. If you want to see more great images of birds check out our big and growing page of photo galleries, 10,000 Clicks !

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

A few days ago, I received and then flipped through a bird guide of the Sierra Nevada (my way of coping with currently not being able to do birding trips outside of China, given the Covid policy of the Chinese government). This Grey-headed Bullfinch is waiting for a birdwatcher. Maybe I am the man he and his wife are waiting for.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Bureau of Land Management's internal review of a wild horse roundup in Nevada found some mustangs were whipped in the face, kicked in the head, dragged by a rope around the neck, and repeatedly shocked with electrical prods, but the agency concluded none of the mistreatment rose to the level of being inhumane.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 14, 2019

With several major projects in southern Nevada set to be completed in the next few years, the demand for improved mass transit is imminent. The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada has looked at nine transit technologies, including everything from buses and people movers to light rail and gondolas.

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MARCH 8, 2017

They frequent the dry, hot desert areas, which includes Arizona, Nevada and central mainland Mexico. The birds living on the Baja are fulltime, breeding residents, while many of the birds will range as far north as central California, and Utah.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2013

I’ll be reporting more in the next few days about the coolness that is the Spring Wings Bird Festival , held every year in Fallon, Nevada. Did I mention the writer’s cramp I came close to getting, from scrambling to list everything I saw/heard?

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APRIL 12, 2012

They identified the populations as follows: Eastern clade; Pacific clade; Eastern Sierra Nevada clade; and Rocky Mountain, Great Basin, and Mexico clade. Interestingly, the Eastern and Pacific clades are more closely related to each other than to the two populations in between them geographically.

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APRIL 30, 2012

Indigo Buntings breed from southern Canada across the eastern and central United States, and as far west as Nevada. How willing were these birds to pose? Well, check out the next shot!

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DECEMBER 31, 2013

I didn’t travel much this year, with a June family trip to California and Nevada and a four-day trip in July to Trinidad and Tobago being my only opportunities to get birds not in the northeastern United States. My first trip to Nevada since I became a birder was pretty awesome. But what were my top ten birding moments of 2013?

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MAY 18, 2013

Finally we went past the Yerba Loca (National Park) entrance and then to the first road split which goes to Sierra Nevada Valley, to the right and to Farellones town to the left. From here we drove back down to take the road to Sierra Nevada Valley. We could see the towers and wires for the chair lifts in many places. Moutain Caracara.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2017

The plucky underdog is always the British favourite though I do worry about Conor McGregor’s Western Palearctic complexion in the Nevada desert. I would have wagered that the Willet would have outreached the heavier coot, but would have lost the bet.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2019

I am originally from California, so it is easy for me to deal with a geography defined by a low coastal mountain range, a central valley, and a much higher inland range (in California, the Sierra Nevada). But for the past 25 years, I have lived in Mexico’s state of Michoacán.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2014

Rock Pigeon Jan 1 – Las Vegas, Nevada. One more thing – I don’t know whether 2014 will bring any new bird tattoos, but if it does, you guys will be the first to know. Anyway, here we go: 1. Dark-eyed Junco Jan 3 – Missoula, MT. American Crow Jan 3 – Missoula, MT. Mallard Jan 4 – Missoula, MT.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

However, most states have less than 100 species, including: Missouri (98); Wyoming (97); Delaware (83); Massachusetts (81); Maine (76); Louisiana (73); Maryland (62); Idaho (57); Georgia (54); Nevada (53); South Carolina (49); Vermont (34); Alaska (34); New Hampshire (31); Indiana (27); Kansas (23); Tennessee (17); Ohio (16); South Dakota (14); Montana (..)

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Critter News

JANUARY 4, 2012

Federal wildlife managers are fighting in court to take the unprecedented step of castrating 200 wild stallions in Nevada, in an effort to control surging populations of wild horses across the West. It's a proposal for population control. Read the whole story here.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2013

” That small minded perspective is difficult to overcome despite Clare’s continued insistence on the excellence of Poo Ponds and my own small contribution from my visits to Florida’s Viera Wetlands and Nevada’s City of Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

There are whole regions of the country from the Great Lakes west to Nevada where official hawkwatching is essentially non-existent, due to lack of migration density, so If you live in one of the places it is possible to see this magical migration you need to grab that opportunity.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 20, 2020

Ari Kalechstein is a licensed psychologist and the president and CEO of Executive Mental Health, which provides clinical psychology and neuropsychology services in California and Nevada.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

The report, Nourished by Wildfire: The Ecological Benefits of the Rim Fire and the Threat of Salvage Logging , explains how fires are essential for maintaining biological diversity in the Sierra Nevada ecosystem 4. It is a short, very informative, nine page report that I urge you to read.

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Critter News

AUGUST 30, 2009

Join Best Friends Animal Society for the annual No More Homeless Pets National Conference, October 23-25, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. From a Best Friends email. Each year, five million healthy, adoptable homeless pets are still being put down. This is the conference for people who want to make a difference.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2012

The southwestern US is still undiscovered country for me – barring one trip to San Diego and a handfull of layovers in Las Vegas, I’ve never been – and I had imagined a Grace’s Warbler darting out of a treetop in Nevada or New Mexico to add a flash of color to my first real exploration of the region.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2012

His work on the color-coded “Sierra Birds: A Hiker’s Guide” and the follow-up “The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada” are testaments to his position as an artist, but his most recent book firmly establishes him as a teacher of art as well. Enter John Muir Laws.

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APRIL 2, 2013

The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Nevada (Univ. of Nevada Press, 2007) features a cover by David Sibley. So, if you want to read about West Nile Virus, you have your choice of reading about the disease as it affects the American Crow, American Kestrel, and down the list to Tufted Titmouse. of New Mexico Press, 2005).

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MAY 7, 2019

Floyd has also written the ABA Field Guide to the Birds of Colorado (2014), the Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America (2008), and co-authored the Atlas Of The Breeding Birds Of Nevada (2007), plus numerous articles–over 125–in popular magazines and scholarly journals. He received a B.A.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 1, 2017

SMM: You were interviewed on Nevada Public Radio earlier this year. SMM: You told the Nevada NPR interviewer that your life is better for having participated in Downtown Project. [Editor’s note: Zappos introduced an experimental management system called Holacracy in late 2013 that essentially eliminates managers.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The American part of the A-Team includes the American Robin (Reno, Nevada). The Acorn Woodpecker (Reno, Nevada) is presumably named this way because the red spot on his head looks a tiny bit like an acorn (I know. The actual line for the toilets. After the festival, it feels good to clean yourself in the sea. Still, there are a few.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The team explored Nevada and Utah, with Ridgway collecting thousands of bird specimen, plus nests and eggs for the Smithsonian. Ridgway himself had 23 species, 10 subspecies, and two genera of birds named for him, including Ridgway’s Hawk.)

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