AVMA News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The program provides grants to support food animal veterinary services and relieve veterinarian shortage situations across the United States. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, is now accepting applications until March 29.

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AVMA News

APRIL 25, 2023

They urged Congress to support two AVMA-backed bills aimed at ensuring dogs are healthy when imported into the United States and to combat trafficking of the animal sedative xylazine without hindering veterinary access to the drug.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2021

For the United States, there is also a state list. As of mid-November 2021, the Collaborative had submitted more than 4,200 checklists (up from 1,700 in 2018) and has observed 691 species in the United States (up from 618). The Collaborative has also added six states. submissions.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In January 2022, the Collaborate submitted 209 checklists in 5 countries (Costa Rica, United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, and Serbia). The life list for the United States now stands at 692. And there were 1,781 Mallard observations in the United States before the first Steller’s Sea Eagle.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2013

When one of the leading organizations for bird conservation in the United States caves to the pressure of the crazy cat people that is just disgusting. Feral cats kill birds by the billions in the United States and the only real solution to the problem is removal and euthanasia, along with heavy fines for those caught dumping cats.

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JUNE 8, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service’s estimates regarding the number of birders in the United States. But now eBird displays the number of eBirders in the United States (and in every state). Or at least most of the United States, as eBird erroneously considers Puerto Rico and several other U.S.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Check out this graph adapted from eBird that shows the frequency of sightings in the United States in 2012 – Red-breasted Nuthatches are showing up on birders’ checklists just over sixteen percent of the time! No lemmings left in the north? Birders are delighted by Snowy Owls. Thank a pine cone. Or a spruce cone.

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DECEMBER 2, 2013

The midwestern and northeastern United States, especially coastal regions and areas along the Great Lakes, is currently experiencing an invasion of Bubo scandiacus. Here in New York State Snowy Owls have been reported in more than ten counties, with most of those counties having birds being seen in multiple locations.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2022

In March 2022, the Collaborative submitted 184 checklists from 4 countries ( Costa Rica , United States , Mexico , and the United Kingdom ) and they included 637 species. There are 32 Mexican states and the Collaborative has submitted checklists in nine of them. The Collaborative includes the top eBirder in the state!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2021

Many ornithologists fear that the long-billed relative of the southeastern United States’ Brown-headed Nuthatch is kaput. Brown-headed Nuthatch of the southeastern United States. Photo by William K.

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MARCH 5, 2024

There are Vast Amounts of Federal Land Approximately 28% of the entire land area of the United States is federal land , about 640 million acres. However, federal land is not evenly distributed within the United States. On a state-by-state basis, that percentage increases dramatically as one moves from east to west.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2022

In April 2022, the Collaborative submitted 216 checklists from 4 countries ( Costa Rica , United States , Mexico , and the United Kingdom ) and observed 735 species. The United Kingdom ranks sixteenth on the Collaborative’s country list with 211 species observed.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2020

These birds also invite one to sites that are unique within the United States – the climate, vegetation, and landscapes all add context and heighten the experience of seeing one’s first Elegant Trogon or Painted Bunting. So let’s look at this sampler, shall we? Want to see an Elegant Trogon on a Naturalist Journeys tour?:

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2015

Here in the United States, we’ve just observed (not celebrated, mind you) Tax Day, the annual IRS tax filing deadline. Therefore, if you live in the United States, celebrate the fact that your taxes are filed by birding this weekend. If you live outside the United States, celebrate that! How about you?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2021

Such a great bird for the northeastern United States was easily his Best Bird of the Weekend! Corey had a pretty amazing weekend, birding-wise, with a host of highlights including Sora , Hudsonian Godwit , Wilson’s Storm-Petrel , and more. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2022

In February 2022, the Collaborative submitted 127 checklists in 7 countries ( Costa Rica , United States , Mexico , Trinidad and Tobago , United Kingdom , and Serbia ). The 2022 year list stands at 888 and the life list is now at 4,112.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

The mated pair was passing through the area last fall as part of Operation Migration , an effort to restore a migrating population of the birds to the eastern United States. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the death of two Whooping Cranes in Hopkins County, Kentucky.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Here in the northeastern United States, stultifying forces assail us from every side. Let a hot Merritt Island sunset keep you warm! Not only has the polar vortex established a permanent chill in our collective bones, but those who care about such things must also endure the winter doldrums.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2014

We birders in the northeastern United States are unbearable in April. Once May comes, we will likely be ignoring these birds so I thought that it would be nice to give them a little bit of attention now.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

American Goldfinches are common in Maine, and can be found across much of the United States. But for a week of mornings during a trip to Maine, none of that bothered me, because I was on the lookout for only one species: the American Goldfinch. American Goldfinch.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In 2022, the 10,000 Birds eBird Collaborative submitted 1,837 checklists from 9 countries ( Australia , China , Costa Rica , Mexico , Saint Lucia , Serbia , Trinidad and Tobago , United Kingdom , and the United States ) and observed 1,273 species. The Collaborative life list increased to 4,140.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

And while a Painted Bunting is nowhere near as rare a bird as a Fork-tailed Flycatcher it is still a great bird in the northeastern United States, especially when it is a crimson, indigo, emerald and canary male. It was a joy to watch and digiscope and it was almost as much of a joy to watch others see the bird.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

My daughter and I were exploring our yard the other day, which presented the perfect opportunity to introduce her to one of the coolest, cuddliest caterpillars of all… The wonderful Woolly Bear Caterpillar ( Pyrrharctia isabella ) is a common sight once October rolls around in temperate regions of the United States east of the Mississippi.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

As many as six soaring overhead at once was enough to make the national bird of the United States Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. He was pleased that the birdseed he brought with him attracted a variety of common woodland birds, but the highlight of the weekend was the sheer volume of Bald Eagles. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

The banner blackbird of most of Mesoamerica as well as much of the southwestern United States is the Great-tailed Grackle. Ten species of these iridescent ebon irritants, most in the genus Quiscalus , are distributed throughout the New World.

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AVMA News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Veterinarians and students in foreign countries can make use of the unused textbooks, journals, instruments, equipment, and other supplies cluttering many veterinary clinics in the United States.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

They make their way south in big numbers, especially on days when the winds are right, which generally from the north, though they do tend to pile up very nicely at many hawkwatch sites in the northeastern United States when the winds are out of the northwest.

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DECEMBER 9, 2012

The end of January is a cold time for those of us who live in the northeastern United States. This past January I had the great pleasure of temporarily escaping winter by going to the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

A recent study has documented a rise in the number of turbine-related eagle deaths in the United States. . The use of wind turbines, often deployed on large scale in “wind farms,” has many benefits–wind power is a renewable resource with minimal impact on the environment. Except for birds, that is.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Chuck-will’s-widows migrate from the south-eastern United States to the Caribbean, Central America and northern South America. A Chuck-will’s widow is extracted from a net at the South Florida Bird Observatory The size of the Chuck-will’s-widow is deceptive – until you get it in the hand.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The recent hubbub in the northeastern United States in terms of rare birds has been all about the Whiskered Tern at Cape May, the third record of this species for North America. All three of those records are from Cape May. You can read more about this awesome bird here.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2013

Here in the United States, April 15 is Tax Day, which means that countless Americans have toiled through the last 48 hours to prepare their taxes. Some are surely at it still. What a way to ruin a weekend! It’s nice to see that Red-breasted Nuthatches still haunt my home turf.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2014

Especially amazing is how the Rufous Hummingbird went from having a series of green dots across the southeastern United States in the first edition, indicating a pattern of vagrancy, to having the southeastern United States shaded blue, to indicate that the species regularly winters there.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

The key point is that Refuge System is perhaps the most important conservation program in the United States. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and they are located in every state as well as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and they are located in every state as well as Puerto Rico, the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2012

Before January I had come across the very red birds of the western United States and the “normal” birds in the eastern part of the country but when I first laid eyes on the pale form of Florida I felt like I was seeing a whole new bird. Buteo lineatus , the Red-shouldered Hawk , is a gorgeous bird.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2022

During the third quarter of 2022 (July, August, and September), the Collaborative submitted 212 checklists from 3 countries ( Australia , Costa Rica , Mexico , and the United States ). July: 81 checklists and 318 species. August: 54 checklists and 195 species. September: 82 checklists and 259 species.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Most birders I know across the United States–and well beyond–seemed happier than usual this weekend, even ecstatic. Is a winter finch irruption really that exciting? I didn’t catch up with any crossbills this weekend, but my travels took me from Rochester to NYC and back.

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