10,000 Birds
AUGUST 30, 2015
As feared, work kept me from appreciating the richness of avian diversity in western New York, but luckily a juvenile Baltimore Oriole crossed my path to provide something fun to observe. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend could have been any of a multitude of species spotted on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2014
“Okay, fellow songbird rehabbers,” wrote Vonda Lee Morton of Laurens Wildlife Rescue on her FaceBook page. “Is BTW: Type “(species name) baby” into Google Images – do NOT use the terms hatchling, nestling or fledgling, or you’ll never get decent results.” Ever rehabbed a Baltimore Oriole ? Is this a Song Sparrow ?
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10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2013
It was fun and I ended up with 124 species. And, amazingly, despite visiting less parks and having to end my day even earlier than last time to go pick up my son, I ended the day with the same exact number of species. How can you not take a picture of a Baltimore Oriole below eye-level? So, this past Friday, I did it again.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 10, 2011
The vast majority of Baltimore Orioles that breed in North America return to the tropics between Mexico and northern South America for the cold half of the year. The truth is, wintering Baltimore Orioles are unusual, but not unheard of, in the southeast. Instead I saw a flash of orange. But how does the apply to Orioles?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2019
In the following year, American telegraph pioneer Samuel Morse encountered such difficulty in his original plan to lay underground telegraph cable between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. But history doesn’t seem to have recorded which species of bird first dared to land on an electrical wire.
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
And they were the ones who, at the end of the conference, decided to get together and talk about the possibility of breeding Peregrines in captivity as a way of at least saving the species from extinction.” Fidelity And Guaranty home office building in Baltimore, Maryland. By 1999, the Peregrine Falcon was removed from the U.S.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2024
And the Baltimore Oriole is an iconic eastern bird, which winters along Mexico’s east coast, but never in the west. This was only my fourth encounter with the species (all on the east side). He should have visited my home last month, when both species were visiting my birdbath almost daily. And yet, there it was.
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