10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2012

Then, in Meeteese, Wyoming, the Hogg family’s ranch dog Shep found something. The way Randy figures it, a desperate or curious ferret discovered a bowl of dog chow, and set to eating kibbles; then Shep discovered the ferret.

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Ferrets South Dakota Wyoming Captive Animal 237

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2013

One species, the Wyoming ground squirrel, spends only about three hours a day above the surface of the earth, and that only on days during the four months of the year when they are not hibernating. Almost the only universal thing that can be said about the ground squirrels is that they live on, and in, the ground.

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Chipmunks Squirrels Rodents Montana 225

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2016

I saw a very nice male Western Tanager while I was in Wyoming this summer but the relatively drab bird I saw in City Hall Park made the list and the one in Wyoming didn’t. Western Tanager , 27 November, City Hall Park, Manhattan, New York. What gives?

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Critter News

MARCH 19, 2012

A federal government decision to allow a Wyoming tribe to kill two bald eagles for a religious ceremony is a victory for American Indian sovereignty as well as for long-suppressed religious freedoms, the tribe says. The Northern Arapaho share the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming with the Eastern Shoshone Tribe.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Killing Wyoming 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2022

A good example is once when I was visiting Wyoming, I found a checklist from a few years earlier that had 750 Horned Larks, 100 Lapland Longspurs, and a Golden Eagle at a nondescript place called “Beef Unit.” As I said, I like including weather observations and appreciate when others do too.

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Wyoming Portland Research Oregon 290

10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2015

Chicks in nest in Wyoming. From pictures I saw, I thought a nest built using mud and looking like bricks neatly stacked was rather unique. But, seeing a actual barn swallow nest would imply either going to central Argentina or travel to northern latitudes during the breeding season. Photo: Alfredo Begazo.

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South Dakota South America North America Wyoming 192

Critter News

AUGUST 24, 2008

This is a new nonprofit in Wyoming that provides a sanctuary for survivors of animal experimentation. I'm sending them a donation and hope you will too.

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Wyoming Sanctuary Tagged Animal Tagged 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

In fact, the overwhelming majority of federal land is in just 11 western states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming). The federal government owns about 46% of the land in these states but only about 4% of the other states (excluding Alaska).

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Virgin Islands Alaska United States Nevada 264

Critter News

DECEMBER 26, 2008

And the worst: Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arkansas, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, South Dakota, Wyoming You can check out the whole report on their web site.

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Animal Legal Defense Fund Animal Protection South Dakota Samoa 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2016

The birds weren’t high on the agenda while we were in Wyoming but I still managed to see some. When we left Wyoming we headed west across Idaho making a stop at Craters of the Moon National Monument and spending the night further west still in Boise.

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Idaho Wyoming San Francisco Colorado 125

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This is the title for the person who lives for both literature and nature. Dragan]: What puts Philip Briggs’s Sri Lanka into a class of its own is a special emphasis on nature and wildlife-watching tourism.

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Sri Lanka Malaysia Suriname Malawi 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

There is the hike up Slide Mountain (NYS) for Bicknell’s Thrush with the John Burroughs Natural History Society; the thirteen mile solo trek through the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming while on a writers’ residency; the first twitch (for a Fork-tailed Flycatcher in Connecticut, a bird I had seen several days before her); the first Christmas (..)

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Connecticut Sparrows Birds New York 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2023

Here is a list of 20 popular birding locations in the United States, known for their rich diversity of bird species and habitats: Magee Marsh Wildlife Area – Ohio Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge – New Mexico Point Reyes National Seashore – California Cape May – New Jersey Everglades National Park – Florida High (..)

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United States Michigan Texas Virginia 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2011

Their range of breeding is literally only very southern Wyoming to very northern New Mexico. Try hiking a Colorado 14,000 foot mountain and your chances of having these guys at your feet rise exponentially. Most REAL montane species like this finch are declining in overall population. Thus, Colorado encapsulates most of their breeding range.

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Colorado Breeders Wyoming United States 169

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

The landscape known as the Crown of the Continent extends from northern Idaho and Wyoming through Montana to the Canadian border, linking the Greater Yellowstone and Salmon-Selway ecosystems and including Grand Teton, Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks.

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Legislation Montana Wyoming Idaho 188

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Many of the states with more than 100 species are home to contributors and/or have destination birding locations and/or are popular places generally. Some are all three ( e.g. , New York, California, and Florida).

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Rhode Island United States West Virginia Puerto Rico 118

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 5, 2011

Pukka tells the story of how Ted met the young yellow lab, recounting the early days of their bonding as they explore Kelly, Wyoming, and the wider world. Pukka: The Pup After Merle This story is told in the charming voice of Ted’s new pup and is illustrated with more than two hundred photos!

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For Animals Animal Wyoming Dogs 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. I’m sure there are states that I missed, but you get the idea.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 255

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

And of Wyoming. Here – in a state so far removed from their native land that the entire city of Missoula doesn’t even have an Indian restaurant – they are now hunkered down amidst lingering snow to make more Eurasian Collared-doves. They appear regularly on our Christmas Bird Counts and number in the hundreds.

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Montana 2011 Bahamas Deer 172

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Both sites are in the middle of wilderness, thousands of feet above sea level, both jobs involving total immersion into the lives of her charges and their unique habitats, working with another young colleague but otherwise almost totally isolated from ‘civilization.’

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California Condor Falcons California Coyotes 186

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2018

With Wyoming and South Dakota in our rear view mirror, we look toward Colorado, and a hot spot I have been anxious to visit. Trinidad Colorado is located just a few miles north of the Colorado – New Mexico border, and home to the Trinidad Reservoir.

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Colorado Texas Trinidad Albuquerque 113

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Here is a New York Times story about gray wolves, who are no longer on the protected list in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. If you haven't read Barry Holstun Lopez 's 1978 book Of Wolves and Men , you should do so. It changed my life.

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Wolves Wyoming Idaho Montana 40

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

However, 12 states, namely, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming and Wisconsin [Imagine, The Dairy State doesn't protect a woman's right to nurse!],

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Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2014

The Oilbird today lives only in South America, but fossils of similar species are known from Wyoming. It’s a bat-like cave-dwelling, echolocating, fruit-eating nocturnal species capable of hovering on three-foot wings.

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Madagascar Comoros Ecuador South America 278

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2012

Shawn Billerman is a graduate student at the University of Wyoming studying birds, though his degree will likely use fancier words than that. He is a New Yorker, a great birder, and a nice guy. You may remember him spotting a shrike in Brooklyn from the passenger seat of Corey’s car back in December.

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2002 North America 2000 2009 207

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2022

District Court for the District of Wyoming in April 2022. Broadly summarizing, the information alleges that ESI violated the MBTA and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act by failing to secure permits for several of its facilities in Wyoming. The information is 17 pages and it details the facts underlying the charges.

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Wyoming Eagles Wounded Killing 230