10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2018

In Australia we often observe Peregrine Falcons and they are the subspecies Falco peregrinus macropus. Usually when we observe Peregrine Falcons they are hunting shorebirds around the Broome coastline and you don’t always get a chance to see all of their characteristics.

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Falcons Australia 2016 Investigation 113

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DECEMBER 11, 2022

Poinciana trees are not native to Australia, but they grow very well in the north and are often found in local parks. Their parents really do have plenty of hunting to do, but having got them to this stage of development they must be doing something right! It seems their calls for food are relentless!

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Breeding Australia Family Collecting 147

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JUNE 16, 2018

In Australia where the endemic prey population has evolved without cats, the problem has reached the stage where drastic measures have been imposed. Cats hunt most actively in the hours around dawn and dusk, so please keep them in at these times. They rely on cover from which to launch their hunting attacks. billion bird deaths.

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Cats Culling Hunting Feral 114

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

It was after that date that many of the great and strange animals of that island went extinct, presumably because of human hunting. There are other bits and pieces of evidence for earlier occupation of Madagascar, but just as is the case for Australia and the Americas, the thing does not hang together yet.

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Madagascar Humane Elephants Bahamas 126

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OCTOBER 1, 2014

Couas and koels are both cuckoos, saw-wings are swallows and logrunners are an odd unique thing from Australia who’s only relative is the charmingly named Chowchilla). I’d never heard of them until 2005 when I saw some in the Botanical Gardens of Canberra in Australia. Birds Australia birds of Australia Pardalotes'

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Australia Fiji Hunters Family 172

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JANUARY 9, 2019

Wandering the Sydney Australia Botanical Gardens, there were a large number of birds that could have made this list, like the Powerful Owl, but this photo of Little Wattlebird is one of my favorites from the area. Spending time in Darwin Australia, has made that our #1 spot to return to after the year was done.

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2018 Costa Rica South Africa New Zealand 168

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AUGUST 18, 2013

The Red-backed Kingfisher hunts large insects and small reptiles and can often be seen perched on open dead trees. Birding Australia Broome kingfishers' Around Broome we have several members of the Kingfisher family, with the most common being the Sacred Kingfisher and the Red-backed Kingfisher.

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Reptiles Australia Hunting Family 176

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AUGUST 3, 2014

One then decided to puff out its throat at us and we left them to relax in the tree before they headed off to hunt in the evening. Birding Australia Broome owls' The first time we observed the pair of Barking Owls this year it was very dull and late in the day and they stared down at us from the top of a tall tree. Barking Owls.

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Owls Australia Hunting Species 168

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JULY 4, 2023

Owls live and migrate from Arctic circumpolar to Colorado prairie to South American rainforest to Southeast Asian islands, Galapagos islands, Canary islands–many many islands–to coastal Australia and onward. They are also hunted. They roost and hunt, at night (mostly) when we can’t see them.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 220

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

He continues with images found in illuminated manuscripts such as Catherine of Cleves’s Book of Hours and Frederick II of Germany’s On the Art of Hunting With Birds. Egyptian tomb painting depicting duck hunting in the marshes, from the eBook version of Birds and Us, © 2022, Tim Birkhead and Princeton University Press.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 229

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MARCH 23, 2016

Now I’ve written before about how careless this country is with species, having lost around 60 endemics since the arrival of man to introduced species and hunting. I’m not exactly sure why it failed to remain a separate species from the all-conquering Silver Gull of Australia and New Caledonia. Good night sweet prince.

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New Zealand Hunting Australia Species 111

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JANUARY 2, 2019

Matt was working on his own US Big Year, and wanted to join me for the hunt. Australia Total: 242. Giles Daubney – Melbourne Australia. Murray Hunt – Daintree River Guide Caines, Australia – Boatman@daintreerivertours.com.au. Not just any warbler mind you, but a Rufous-capped Warbler. New Zealand Total: 104.

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Costa Rica Tucson South Africa Bahamas 136

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JULY 9, 2014

The first most readers have probably been aware of, the cheerleader hunter who has been in the news for, well, hunting game animals and being attractive and blonde. Regular readers of this site might be able to think of a much discussed example, that of birding on National Wildlife Refuges versus hunting. she’s Texan.

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Rhinos Hunting New Zealand Science 170

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

Of course, being Christmas it is a time for travel, which means I often miss the season visiting family in Australia or the UK, or, as is happening this year, Borneo. So you’ll have to wait till next year for me to post more rambling and incoherent thoughts about hunting or how I managed to not see a single pitta in Borneo.

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New Zealand Hunting Sanctuary Ducks 166

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MAY 10, 2017

This is a bird blog, and my beat is New Zealand, so let me talk about a fish I saw in Australia. On Nigaloo Reef in Western Australia, where I took these pictures, there were lots of them. Note the beaked mouth, used for hunting invetebrates. They’re there, and for that reason you may not pay much attention to them.

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Costa Rica Porcupines Fish New Zealand 100

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JULY 23, 2014

They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. A housecat in Buenos Aires got its start in Africa, a sheep in Australia to the Middle East, a chicken in Ireland can trace its origin to the jungles of Asia. Rabbits are still an agricultural pest.

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New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 162

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JANUARY 17, 2012

His passion for wildlife and traveling has led him all over the world, from the Amazon to Australia and even Madagascar. James Currie will take the viewer on an adventurous journey through the desert with the hope of witnessing Harris’s Hawks hunting together. The viewer will just have to watch and find out.

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South Africa Madagascar Wolves Lions 276

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JANUARY 19, 2020

Foxes were introduced to Australia in 1855 for hunting and have established themselves far and wide. There is a family of feral foxes that I often encounter near Bennison Creek. They usually bolt as soon as they see me, but I have been able to take a few photos of them.

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Fox Feral Ducks Horses 155

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JANUARY 7, 2022

Little Egrets [below] were hunting close by and there was a sole Intermediate Egret at the other end of the swamp. The rain had filled these wetlands causing wetland species to spread out and there were a few species conspicuous by their absence.

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Birds Ducks Hunting Species 226

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NOVEMBER 20, 2022

I walked slowly around the tree and then left them to have a quiet day in the park before they go hunting at night. I didn’t hang around, but took a few photos to capture the Tawny Frogmouth family that has once again bred close to home. The streetlights aid with attracting insects, so it makes perfect sense to live amongst the houses.

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Breeding Family Hunting Rights 162

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

In my younger days I always kept year lists: my best ever year was 1986, when I topped the 1,000 mark thanks to trips to Australia, Kenya and various European destinations. Birdwatchers love making lists, with the year list one of the most important. Later in the month, a flock of several hundred Avocets on the River Alde was also memorable.

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Estonia Portugal Greece Barn Owls 233

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Royal National Park, south of Sydney in Australia, is one such place. For being in the country less than two hours (being an Aussie citizen really speeds up Australia’s usually slow immigration processes), its a great place to start. One of Australia’s prettiest parrots, the Crimson Rosella.

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Australia Ducks Parrots New Zealand 177

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OCTOBER 5, 2014

Wildfowl hunting season has recently started in the Northern Territory and no doubt there are a few Magpie Geese that have decided to move here rather than get shot at in the hunting reserves. Birding Australia northern territory' View back across to the picnic area.

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Geese Pelicans Ducks Hunting 163

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APRIL 26, 2020

They were also busy eating very small bivalves and their hunting was proving to be very successful. In a few weeks’ time they will be into their breeding season and there will be a moment of close contact. Pied Oystercatchers keeping physically distant. Bivalves are one of the most common food eaten by Pied Oystercatchers around Broome.

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Hunting Breeding Birds Australia 161

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

The species ranges widely across the Pacific, as its scientific name suggests, from the Revillagigedo Islands off Mexico to the Japanese Bonin Islands to New South Wales in Australia. But it also occurs in the Indian Ocean, from Aldabra near Madagascar to Western Australia.

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Albatross Madagascar Mexico Breeders 172

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APRIL 3, 2022

There are currently several Swamp Harriers that are hunting across the floodplains and the other birds are nervous. There are thousands of Whiskered Terns and White-winged Black Terns and it is near impossible to take a photo of anything without having a tern photo-bomb the shot! A few of the many Great Egrets.

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2013 Collecting Hunting Species 216

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Seal tourism brings in more revenue for the African country than the seal hunt.

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Seals World Society For The Protection Of Animals WSPA Namibia 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2013

02–19 There may be a crisis of the Duck Stamp, and the relationship between duck hunting, habitat preservation, and funding may be shifting as Duck numbers and Duck stamp sales no longer correlate. But there was this one in Australia. 01–15 Who could forget the catfish that figured out how to eat birds ?

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Science 2013 Elephants Birds 191

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JANUARY 18, 2012

They are one of the most attractive of Australia’s parrots, and one of the most common, benefiting from the planting of attractive flowering shrubs. Pairs of these a are common sight on open grassy areas in Australia. The Willie Wagtail ( Rhipidura leucophrys ) is actually a terrestrial fantail.

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New Zealand Ducks Australia Japan 172

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

“Now the kangaroos are drinking from the pool” (Jen is from Australia). In one study , the bird used electric power lines as a perch in 63% of all hunts, which makes me wonder how the bird survived before there were power lines. I am paralyzed just thinking about how to do it. “Analysis Paralysis” , Jen Cloher.

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Birds Woodpeckers Kangaroos Madagascar 173

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JULY 7, 2013

They were hunting across the plains and being rather successful due to the sudden influx of prey. Birding Australia Broome' The number and variety of raptors was impressive with Brown Falcons, Black Kites, Whistling Kites, Australian Hobbies, Nankeen Kestrels, Spotted Harriers, Swamp Harriers and Black-shouldered Kites easily observed.

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Falcons Ducks Raised Cattle 157

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JUNE 4, 2014

Otherwise they escape to the Pacific islands or Australia for winter sun, or finally they drink beer or wine and dream of summer until summer comes. I don’t ski, or hunt, and I sadly haven’t been to the tropical Pacific for a while. The more rural shoot pigs, deer and ducks.

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New Zealand Australia Albatross Pigs 140

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Later in the year we were able to travel around the north of Western Australia. Our 2020 year list stands at 324 for Victoria and the north of Western Australia combined, so we are more than happy with that under current circumstances. We then returned home to Broome and waited for restrictions on local travel to lift.

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2020 Birds Costa Rica Germany 241

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

This attractive relative of Australia’s Maned Duck is the most common duck you’ll see on the tour, but visitors always love seeing them and their ubiquity doesn’t detract from their attractiveness. And birders familiar with Australia will certainly recognize the local race of the Brown Goshawk.

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New Zealand Ducks Australia Mountain Goats 207

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FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Unfortunately we have only ever seen dead Barn Owls in the Broome area and one day it would be nice to see a bird hunting over the land. Birding Australia Black-winged Stilt Broome' It was our second trip out on this piece of highway this year and sadly the second deceased Barn Owl.

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Barn Owls Seals Birds Cattle 162

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

The area is used as a hunting ground for large raptors including the White-bellied Sea-Eagle and Brahminy Kite. In recent years there have been Pied Oystercatchers attempting to breed along the shores of Roebuck Bay. By coincidence the return of the migratory shorebirds is at the same time as the Pied Oystercatchers breed here.

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Breeding Family Hunting Eagles 147

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

Eastern Reef Egrets, mostly white phase, hunt the shallow reefs when the low tide allows. Red tailed Tropicbirds nest here in small numbers and are one of the major reasons birders visit. On land a small number of migratory waders visit; especially Pacific Plover and Ruddy Turnstone.

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Sea Turtles Birds Marine Life Fish 255