10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2012

It is accused of driving native species out and it has the protection of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act withheld from it. The species I refer to is, of course, the House Sparrow Passer domesticus. But the lowly House Sparrow does not need to stay in the realm of the hated, the persecuted, the vilified.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2022

In addition to discovering more vagrant sparrows and warblers, I hope we can also get more coverage for such regions and situations as these: Long Range Pelagic Trips in the Pacific. Expeditions to Remote Parts of Protected Areas. A few trips have been done to those distant waters but we need a lot more. What else is out there?

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JULY 19, 2021

Developers cut down pine forests to build resorts, and house sparrows and starlings took over the nuthatches’ nesting cavities. If the nuthatch is now extinct, we’ve lost a species that might have been saved with a greater effort to study and protect it.”. Snakes, cats and raccoons preyed on the nuthatches as well.

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MAY 3, 2022

Fortunately, as I found out over the next four days, High Island, the Bolivar Peninsula, the whole east Texan Gulf coast area is a place of diverse habitats, some protected, some accidental, all offering fantastic avian opportunities. Seaside Sparrow. Corps of Engineers to protect Galveston Bay at the end of the 19th-century.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2011

Or it might even convince them to let bird watchers hike across their property looking for a Baird’s Sparrow or a Sprague’s Pipit. They need to know that their local birds are special and worth protecting. They need to know that people will come from far away just to see them.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2012

By the time urban and suburban sprawl started to reach New Jersey’s pine barrens they were largely protected and today over 1.1 millions acres are protected as the Pinelands National Reserve where development is controlled by an agency called the New Jersey Pinelands Commission.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2015

It is possible that the birds feel so secure in the protection of the vicious, malicious plant that they can afford to reduce their flight distance and allow a close approach. Black-throated Sparrows will tee themselves up atop a cactus to draw the unwary close enough to get skewered.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Breezy Point, the westernmost tip of the barrier islands that protect Long Island’s south shore, is also the southwestern most portion of Queens and one of my favorite locations to look for birds. Five Field Sparrows in February in Queens is unprecedented for me but that’s how many I counted in that one flock.

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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. Change in Government Attitude.

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MARCH 20, 2013

Mallard s are a good example, a hearty and endurable bird that can survive sub zero temperatures so long as they found ample supplies of food like corn and some open water to roost on and be protected from coyotes and foxes. Enterprising birds will see the chickadees and sparrows coming down and realize their might be food there for them.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2019

Costa Rica is well known for national parks and other protected areas than offer access to tropical ecosystems dripping with biodiversity. Euphonias, sparrows, warblers, and tanagers. Less common but still expected were looks at White-eared Ground-Sparrow and Red-crowned Ant-Tanager. Lots of birds, a lot of really cool birds!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2015

whose occupants have already left for Africa, but a clump of elaborate closed nests of Spanish Sparrows hang underneath it. Checking the birds on the stork’s nest, I found both House and Spanish Sparrows. Finally, a large White Stork’s nest (at 850 m a.s.l!) At the end of the causeway and up Mt.

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JULY 2, 2013

In the middle of the 20 th century bluebird populations across the country plummeted because of a decrease in nesting cavities, habitat loss, severe climatic events, and competition from introduced species such as House Sparrows. Bluebird nest box near Prairie, Idaho.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

I love sparrows, so seeing a feather-worn Vesper Sparrow this past July filled my heart with joy. We saw sparrows–a total of 14 species–and we saw many other great prairie birds, and we often saw them perched on posts. Baird’s Sparrow was one of those elusive creatures.

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JUNE 6, 2022

But the stars of the month were some breeding Eurasian Tree Sparrows. Taking the famous statement that Mao was 70% right, 30% wrong (Deng Xiaoping), his decision regarding sparrows certainly falls under the second category. But indeed they vanish somewhere once the people pretending to try and catch fish appear.

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AUGUST 3, 2013

Southern Grey-headed Sparrow , Cape Wagtails and Common Bulbuls used the screen or nearby snags as perches to see who was coming along the walkway. Pied Kingfishers hovered before plunging to catch small fish, Pied Crows circled overhead and Village Weavers teed themselves up on dead snags.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2020

There are very few reports from sites further afield although with all public and most private parks closed, a birder can’t go to such official protected areas anyways. Based on eBird and Facebook reports, it looks like most local birders are sticking to yard birding. Barred Antshrike.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2023

Because this is New Guinea, it does not attract t**s, finches, and sparrows, but parrots and birds-of-paradise… as soon as a fresh load of papayas and bananas is brought out and thrown on the table, the forest comes alive.” “This lodge owes its fame to a 3-yards-long, moss-covered bird feeder table. I’ve had so many incredible experiences.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled. The proposal from U.S. The proposal from U.S.

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

Afraid that their ideas for the development of the area, including a ski centre, might be restricted by the nature protection regime, the officials rejected the idea. House Sparrow – Passer domesticus. Tree Sparrow – Passer montanus. Chaffinch – Fringilla coelebs. Goldfinch – Carduelis carduelis.

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DECEMBER 8, 2018

Migrant species are around, rarities are waiting to be found (such as, believe it or not, Lincoln’s Sparrow ), and, most of all, we have Christmas Counts to attend to. “Cangreja” means crab in Spanish and refers to the shape of the mid-sized peak at the center of the protected area.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

A Fascinating Blog Post Three Brave Boys Save Secretary Bird Black-backed Woodpecker to Get Protection in California? Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or The proposal from U.S.

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MARCH 3, 2011

and Colombia respectively, have secured thirteen new conservation easements in Colombia with private landowners that will protect important habitat for the Cerulean Warbler – North America’s fastest declining neotropical migrant songbird. The proposal from U.S.

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Colombia Deer 2011 Brazil 145

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

In May 1992 European Union governments adopted legislation designed to protect the most seriously threatened habitats and species across Europe. We were headed for the Noudar Nature Park , 9km from Barrancos along a dirt track; Noudar takes some effort to get there but is well worth the trip.

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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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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Calilegua is the only national park in the province of Jujuy that protects 76,000 ha of Yungas forest providing a bird sanctuary for many endemic species that live in this special forest. In the process we found the Saffron-billed Sparrow, Rufous-browed Pepershrike, and the Stripe-headed Brush Finch. Saffron-billed Sparrow.

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OCTOBER 15, 2016

Carara National Park isn’t just any old protected area. Baird’s Trogon : Unlike a sparrow of the same name, Baird scored big on beautiful colors with this bird. Scarlet Macaw : A true star of Carara, the national park protected a remnant population of this major bird for many years. Fairly common around Carara.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Warbler chips and sparrow seeps, Bobolink notes and faint yellowleg whistles. Costa Rica is just the half way point, I’m glad to see them, happy to see Red-eyed Vireos finding food in protected forests. If the kid had been a birder, though, they might have said, “You know where I was! Fall migrants!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

After such a mysterious bird, it is time to enjoy the simple pleasure of seeing ordinary birds such as the Eurasian Tree Sparrow. In any case, this does not protect the bird from being pestered by its chicks, just like other species with less divine colors. Unfortunately, I did not manage such a photo this time.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

Five hatchling House Sparrows in a Happy Meal box,” said Johanna Walton, also in Connecticut. The finders of an adult Barred Owl brought to Kathryn Dudeck in Georgia thought he had a wing fracture, so they wrapped the entire bird in the plastic protective wrap used by landscape companies and taped it up.

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OCTOBER 11, 2011

This country boasts over 1,000 bird species, vast wildernesses, a superb network of protected areas, the greatest concentration of large game and predators on the planet, excellent lodges and friendly people. A question I am frequently asked by birders and wildlife enthusiasts is: “ if I only visit Africa once, where should I go ?”

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Tanzania Africa Stud Leopards 243

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JANUARY 25, 2019

This means that readers in or near the covered region will see not only aspirational birds, but birds they’re likely already familiar with – and read about not only the dangers that threaten even common birds, but also the concrete steps being taken to protect them. I honestly found it in many ways quite hopeful.

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Indiana Downers Iowa Illinois 145

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled. The proposal from U.S.

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Ducks 2011 Deer Brazil 232

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2012

Normally students on spring break wear sunglasses to protect their eyes from the bright tropical sun in some place like Cancun. She wore sunglasses to protect herself from going snow blind. While we were chatting I heard what sounded like a very large House Sparrow , which I had been told was what Evening Grosbeaks sound like.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

Safflower is not the favorite food of house sparrows, red-winged blackbirds and squirrels. I’m just beginning to use a feeder and am surprised by how quickly the House Sparrows seem to decimate it. This will be the feeder that the blackbirds will avoid and the other birds can eat in peace. I’ll try these techniques out!

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2011 Woodpeckers Blackbirds Deer 214

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

My camera and binoculars, protected by the light coat I had packed, were wet but fully functional. The Song Sparrows were wet. And the White-crowned Sparrows were very, very wet. 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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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow. The name change of a small brown bird, a sparrow, is exciting. Split from birds in northern Central America (the White-faced Ground-Sparrow ), the Cabanis’s becomes a very special bird. To me, this is the most exciting change to the list. Yeah, I did just say that.

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