10,000 Birds
JUNE 13, 2021
It’s under the jurisdiction of the Exotic Species Division of the Department of Environmental Protection, which is a division of US Fish and Wildlife. For instance, you can own a lion in Alabama, but not in California. The bird is a captive-bred Peregrine/Gyrfalcon hybrid owned by people with an Exotic Species Permit.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
I felt especially thankful for the cooler air while boarding a touring boat at the Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserv e along the coast of Alabama. Belted Kingfishers looked for fish from atop snags, and Ospreys joined them in the darker recesses of the canopy. Laughing Gulls rested on the water like buoys.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 9, 2012
Researchers at Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama conducting a two-year study focusing on the diets of Tiger Sharks in the Gulf of Mexico have made an alarming discovery: not only are these sharks eating the expected fish and other assorted marine organisms, but they’re also eating land-based songbirds!
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 8, 2018
I would wake up in darkness, gather my camera and binoculars and drive to Alabama for a birding tour along a river. We didn’t have any set course; I sat behind the wheel of the center console while Brian used the trolling motor to cast after fish. Originally, I had big plans for the October Big Day.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2015
Since I live so close to the state line, it’s only natural that I do some of my birding along the Alabama coastline. We were only a few miles from shore, so watching Ospreys and Bald Eagles return with fish from the Gulf was fascinating, as were the Double-crested Cormorants and Brown Pelicans that periodically flew overhead.
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2021
Chapter One is all about Marybeth’s 2012 Big Year, an adventure she shares with Lynn, a fishing enthusiast who is probably the most supportive big year/300 year birding partner in the history of listing. The book is structured in a way that made much more sense after I read it than as I was reading it.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2021
Covered in fish slime! I was so horrified I didn’t even ask why.” “A bat in a bucket floating on a piece of watermelon,” wrote Michelle Whitfield English in Alabama. “A Red-Tailed Hawk wrapped in an oily rag and transported inside the guy’s pickup truck toolbox,” said Johanna Walton. Soaked and ice cold!
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