The League of Conservation Voters and the Keystone XL Pipeline

April 3, 2013
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Do you know about the League of Conservation Voters (LCV)? This is a national non-profit organization that works to turn environmental values into national priorities. To secure the environmental future of our planet, LCV advocates for sound environmental policies, elects pro-environment candidates who will adopt and implement such policies, and provides state LCVs with the [...]

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Double-crested Cormorants

April 2, 2013
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Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) photos by Larry Jordan Updated 4/3/2013 A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate to be able to take a trip to the San Francisco Bay area and stopped at a few National Wildlife Refuges on the way. The first refuge I visited on my trip South was Sutter National Wildlife [...]

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Ross’s Geese at Klamath National Wildlife Area, Miller Island Unit

March 18, 2013
Ross's Geese

Ross’s Geese (Chen rossii) in Flight photos by Larry Jordan (click photos for full sized images) A few weeks ago I took a ride up to the California/Oregon border to visit the Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge Complex. You can read my posts on two of these refuges over at the Wildlife Conservation Stamp website. [...]

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Rough-legged Hawks Wintering at Klamath Basin NWR Complex

March 5, 2013
Rough-legged Hawk

Rough-legged Hawk (Buteo lagopus) photos by Larry Jordan (click to see full sized images) The Rough-legged Hawk is a true arctic species having an extensive panboreal breeding range, with populations in taiga and tundra regions of both the Old World and the New World1. Green is their summer range, blue is winter. In North America [...]

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Marsh Wren Singing and Gathering Nesting Material at 10000 Birds

February 27, 2013
Marsh Wren

Marsh Wren ((Cistothorus palustris) Singing photo by Larry Jordan Check out my latest West Coast Beat Writer post over at 10000 Birds on the Marsh Wren. It includes two videos of this vociferous little bird, one collecting nest material and one of the male building a nest. Did you like this? Share it:

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The 16th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count a Huge Success

February 20, 2013
House Finch, Evening Grosbeak and Pine Siskin

House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) Male, Evening Grosbeak (Coccothraustes vespertinus) Male and Pine Siskin (Spinus pinus) photos by Larry Jordan Even though the Great Backyard Bird Count is still accepting check list submissions until March 1st, it is already a huge success. They already have 2,994 species recorded (at this posting) and over 23 million birds [...]

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The Great Backyard Bird Count Goes Global! February 15th – 18th

February 14, 2013
Evening Grosbeaks at Feeder

Evening Grosbeak (Coccothraustes vespertinus), Lesser Goldfinch (Carduelis psaltria) & Pine Siskin (Carduelis pinus) What is the Great Backyard Bird Count? The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual four-day event that engages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds to create a real-time snapshot of where the birds are. Everyone is welcome–from beginning bird watchers [...]

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See the Peregrine Falcon Up Close at 10000 Birds

February 13, 2013
Peregrine Falcon

Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) at Delevan National Wildlife Refuge Wanna see some cool photos with a link to a really cool Peregrine Falcon video? Check out my latest West Coast Beat Writer post over at 10000 Birds! Did you like this? Share it:

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Birds of Colusa National Wildlife Refuge

February 12, 2013
Falcated Duck

Colusa National Wildlife Refuge is part of the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex located about 90 miles North of Sacramento, California’s state capitol. The Sacramento National Wildlife Complex consists of five national wildlife refuges (NWR) and three wildlife management areas (WMA) found in California’s central valley. Colusa NWR is located about 6 miles east of Interstate [...]

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How a Fall in Duck Hunting Is Shooting a Financial Hole Into Conservation Efforts

February 10, 2013
Northern Pintail Pair

Northern Pintail (Anas acuta) Pair photo by Larry Jordan Feb. 7, 2013 — The annual duck hunting season in the United States is traditionally big business, but while bird numbers are rising faster than they have for decades, the number of hunters continues to fall. Far from being good news for ducks a new study [...]

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Cornell Lab Releases Unprecedented Video of the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper

February 7, 2013
Spoon-billed Sandpiper

Ithaca, N.Y. February 7, 2013 – The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has collected the first known comprehensive video documentation of one of the world’s rarest birds on its tundra breeding grounds in Chukotka, Russia, and posted the video online at www.birds.cornell.edu/sbs. Cornell Lab videographer Gerrit Vyn captured footage of the first moments when Spoon-billed Sandpiper [...]

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Birds of Delevan National Wildlife Refuge

February 4, 2013
Northern Harrier Female

Delevan National Wildlife Refuge View From the Photography Blind According to the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex website, Delevan National Wildlife Refuge comprises 5,797 acres, including seasonal marsh, permanent ponds, and uplands. It is predominately a hunting refuge for waterfowl and pheasant. Wildlife observation takes place from the county roads, on the perimeter of the [...]

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Outdoor Cats: A Major Souce of Human-Caused Mortality for Birds and Mammals

January 31, 2013
Cat with Coot

Cat with American Coot photo by Debi Shearwater Due to concern about the validity of the original headline of this post, I have changed the title from “Single Greatest Source” to “A Major Source” of Human-caused Mortality. Please read the actual study linked below as “peer-reviewed study” The following is an excerpt from an article [...]

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Tundra Swans In The California Central Valley

January 30, 2013
Tundra Swan in Flight

Tundra Swan (Cygnus columbianus columbianus) photo by Larry Jordan Please go check out my latest West Coast Beat Writer post over at 10000 Birds. It’s all about Tundra Swans that migrate down to the central valley in California to winter every year. Then, go check out the other great bird photos from around the world [...]

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