10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

A little more than halfway through 2014, a year Marybeth had decided would be devoted to finishing in the top fifty eBirders in Louisiana AND Alabama, there is a terrible accident and time must be put aside for Lynn’s healing and recovery. But, in Chapter Three the book takes on more shape. Map by Lynn Hathaway.

Louisiana 264

Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

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. .” Yes, there was an American Kestrel inside!” said Alix Parks of Happinest Wildlife Rehab in Tennessee.

Transported 279

Transported Wildlife Rehabilitation Bats Opossums 279

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

212) who trap, follow, and analyze the migration paths of Snowy Owls, a project founded in 2013, the magic year of the Snowy Owl irruption. Author Scott Weidensaul and a Snow Owl. Photograph by Chris DeSorbo, © 2021 Scott Weidensaul. birding tour company.

Cyprus 257

Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 257

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2016

I was working at the Coastal Wildlife Rescue Center here in Alabama, and he had either been blown in during a storm or caught a ride on a ship. I went into a cage of young Great Horned Owls one night carrying thawed rats,” said Linda Hufford. “I A Great Horned Owl taloned me through my left palm on Christmas Day, 2000,” he said. “I

Wildlife Rehabilitation 172

Wildlife Rehabilitation Wounded Wildlife Opossums 172

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Over the winter, the universe lost four whooping cranes to what appears to be recreational shooting: three gunned down together in Georgia on December 30, 2010, and another in Alabama on January 28, 2011. There are 400 whooping cranes left in the wild, 100 of them in the eastern population. Wicked, right?

2011 243

2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2018

They earn the annual avian medal of honor because they fly to Costa Rica from as far as Alaska and other places where Snowy Owls roam. The Wilson’s Plovers with their stout crab cracking beaks and hunched demeanor, they have less distance to fly but it’s still no small feat to zip from Alabama to Costa Rica.

Costa Rica 174

Costa Rica 2018 Birds West Virginia 174

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Travel ten hours from Ohio to Missouri or Alabama, which I have done, and you won’t find all that much variation in the species you can see. Before I even left town, I was shocked to see a Great Horned Owl perched beside the road. When he moved to a nearby branch, he literally positioned himself above the road!

Mexico 226

Mexico Birds Costa Rica Alabama 226