10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2016

This is the lesson I learned at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival back in January when a young birder, Noah Kuck, let me know that he really wanted to see a Carolina Wren. You don’t know how hard it is to see a common bird until you try to get someone else to see one.

North Dakota 119

North Dakota Birds Florida Wildlife 119

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2013

Barbed wire fences are terrible for wildlife, snaring large birds and mammals alike…but for smaller passerines, they sure make good perches. National Wildlife Refuges, various wetland sites) you are supposed to bird from your car to prevent the needless flushing of birds. In many places (i.e. Does that sound so bad?

LACS 134

LACS North Dakota Costa Rica Idaho 134

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2012

White Lake, North Dakota. This Snail Kite, photographed from my treacherous 1999 Honda Accord, was right outside Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, FL. Just because a place isn’t pretty doesn’t make it worthless to wildlife, so why not check it out? Is this such a terrible way to live?

San Francisco 207

San Francisco North Dakota Oakland Birds 207

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.

Wolves 100

Wolves Obama South Dakota North Dakota 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2012

It can be argued that birding North Dakota is cheap, but there’s not a major airport nearby, you’ll still have quite a drive to the birds once you land. And really, the day I get tired of seeing Green Jays is the day I need to hang up my binoculars.

Texas 215

Texas North Dakota Birds South America 215

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.

Colorado 135

Colorado North Dakota Montana Puffins 135

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. Hunting is on a steady downturn, and nonconsumptive wildlife pursuits are on a tremendous upswing. We can fight them back in Kentucky, too.

2011 244

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 244

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

Baird’s Sparrow, North Dakota. I viewed this Life Bird on my New Jersey Audubon North Dakota trip; it was not an easy bird to find, and a challenging one to photograph. John James Audubon first heard the sparrow in July, 1944, on a buffalo hunt in North Dakota. Another sparrow! An eBird mystery.

2018 153

2018 Michigan North Dakota New Jersey 153

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2018

Donna was first amongst beats to reach North Dakota and brought the number of Lower 48s to 32, adding Sharp-tailed Grouse , Sprague’s Pipit and LeConte’s Sparrow to the life list. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Tuttle Marsh Wildlife Area. Battle Creek Wildlife Area. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.

2018 101

2018 Australia Los Angeles Albatross 101