10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

But hands-on bird experience has been a major gap in my knowledge to date and I’m astounded at how much more I’m discovering about birds. The massive eyes are really evident in the hand Chuck -will’s-widows feed predominantly on insects but they have been known to prey on birds and even bats too, swallowing these whole.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But previous experience with Ejido Triquillo taught me that another species might turn up during the spring. Of course, I can’t bat a thousand on the bad photo rankings. The next three photos aren’t bad; they’re just garden-variety bird pics. But they helped me to pick up a very nice catch for the day.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

This is where Gila Woodpecker and Yellow-breasted Chat meet Squirrel Cuckoo , Bat Falcon , and Black-throated Magpie-Jay. As the sun began to set, a flock of Mexican Parrotlets alighted in a tree with brilliant red bark, and we all noticed a Bat Falcon watching silently from a high perch above all the action down below.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

In 2023 I attempted to keep a year list of mammal encounters: the list barely exceeded 20 species, while it became complicated by seeing bats and voles that I was unable to name specifically. It was an exciting experience, though a remarkably chilly one, as winters in Castile and León can be very cold.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2019

An expanse of habitat as vast as Murchison Falls NP in Uganda, as excessively generous in beauty and biodiversity, permits endless ways to experience both its birds and animals. Plus, the food, service, and accommodations meet the highest standards.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

The selections appear to largely reflect Hauber’s personal experiences around the world and he does occasionally bring himself into the essay, reflecting on a European Robin he observes at dusk in northwestern Germany or searching for American Robin nests on a tree farm in the Midwestern United States.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2020

If it was any indication of where my passion lay, instead of racing home like the proverbial bat out of hell, I stayed put to monitor this supposed nest. These irruptive visitors to T&T always are a pleasure to experience. I was thrilled to see a Short-tailed Hawk fly in. Once we arrived at a suitable (i.e.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

He introduces ideas and slowly builds on them, staring with the outbreak of Hendra in people and horses in Queensland before moving the story to his own experiences of great ape die-off when he was covering Michael Fay’s Megatransect in the Congo Basin. The disease had killed a tourist like ourselves.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

In this first installment, I will focus on my impressions and experiences in the highlands portion of our tour. Birds came fast during the first few hours, including a wide array of classic Neotropical species such as Keel-billed Toucan , Bat Falcon , Bright-rumped Attila , Buff-throated Saltator , and Boat-billed Flycatcher.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Items up for bid feature a variety of one-of-a-kind experiences and merchandise. The auction is taking place online at CharityBuzz and includes exclusive experiences such as a private “coffee” with Dr. Jane Goodall , tickets to a taping of Dancing with the Stars , a tour of The Today Show , VIP sports packages, and much more.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2014

It was the perfect experience, the guide had astonishing eyes and found things we would have passed over if we had been alone. Best of all the lodge also set out a large white board with lights on, which attracted lots of insects and in turn bats. It’s hard to know how to predict how a spotlighting experience is going to go.

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Critter News

JUNE 20, 2010

For example, there was a higher-than expected number of bats passing away each year between 2004 and 2008, but the zoo didn’t do anything to decide why. Instead, it brought a new bat species into the exact place in the year 2009 — twenty-five of those creatures also passed away.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2020

Most of all, the time and effort is worth it when we see new birds, surpass our goals, and when we share those trying, challenging, exuberant and triumphant times with others because the birding party is always better, always stronger, when you you can enjoy the experience with like-minded souls. Bat Falcon – Falco rufigularis; Curu, 4-Jan.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 28, 2009

But there were many things that I didn’t realize she needed right off the bat. There are lots of dangers for a baby animal who experiences the world through its mouth, just as much as its eyes and ears. This page about what to do on your puppy’s first day was a huge help in getting a checklist in order.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2011

Platypus have bills, bats and bugs can fly, and reptiles lay eggs, but only birds have feathers. Feathers are the unique ingredient when it comes to birds. Of all of the sections of the book I definitely learned the most from Evolution.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2012

Highlights here (while drinking the thrillingly strong coffee) include Channel-billed Toucan , Crested Oropendola , Turquoise Tanager , Bat Falcon , Barred Antshrike , Blue Dacnis , Green Honeycreeper , Gray-headed Dove , Yellow Oriole , and a suite of hot hummingbirds that deserve their own report.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

The experience, the place, and the bird combine to make this my BBOTY. But at any rate, it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience that was just incomparable; I hope I never repeat it, but was glad to have had it happen, just to enjoy the amazing encounter and horror movie–type buzz. Carlos’s BBOTY – the Nicobar Pigeon.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Strictly speaking, Mammals of Madagascar is not a field guide, because some larger groups (rodents, bats) cannot be identified down to a species level following the concise descriptions and a single illustration. Still, there should be no problem with larger species that allow for longer observation time (e.g.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Steve Howell has spent decades of experience in the field studying the birds of Belize, Costa Rica, and especially Mexico. Bat Falcon is a “Handsome small falcon of humid forest and edge, adjacent clearings, semi-open areas with scattered trees and forest patches; locally in towns, often at Maya ruin sites” (Belize, p.

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Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

But alas, we' re too important and special to "manage," and every human pregnancy is treated as a sacred, blessed event, while we kill the kittens inside pregnant feral cats every day without batting an eyelash, and in fact we're relieved when we can catch one who's pregnant, as that's x number of cats who don't have to come into this world.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2011

Such meditative birding is, for me, the heart of the experience. By the time we pulled up on shore, the Common Nighthawks and the bats were out. Biking and most especially walking tend to accustom a person to a certain pace — a pace that is leisurely and lends itself to reflection and rumination. What could be better?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

Shearwaters and Fulmar are “like stiff-winged gulls, with tubular nostrils, often in flocks, glide easily”, Storm-Petrels are “tiny birds, like bats or swallows” that “fly low over the sea” and Phalaropes are “small sandpipers that swim, often in flocks.” The idea is that the observer can drill down to the correct identification.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Strictly speaking, Mammals of South Asia is not a field guide, because some larger groups (rodents, bats) cannot be identified down to a species level following the concise descriptions and a single illustration. Still, there should be no problem with larger species that allow for longer observation time (e.g. monkeys, deer, gazelles, etc.).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Here are some of the best experiences of my excellent trip. It is my experience that good things happen after trips and festivals end. Now, years later, it was time to return. I had a list of birds I had missed and a list of birds I needed to see again—second lifers I call them. Fortunately for us all, Linda is such a driver.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2022

The confluence of these two elements gives rise to a unique experience with a distinctive aesthetic. Much smaller but no less deadly, a Bat Falcon dines on a bat in the mid-morning perched comfortably on a roadside stump. The gradient is so steep that the cabins are essentially treehouses! Check it out for yourself here.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Recent publicity about these remarkable tribes has resulted in tourists wanting to experience this wild land and its attractions for themselves. This is largely due to the remoteness and prior near inaccessibility of the area, forming a natural barrier to modernization and the detribalization of the Omo Valley.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

We also got great views of a very small mammal, Wahlberg’s Epauletted Fruit Bat, at Satara. That was easily fixed by adding a post-Safari trip to Eastern South Africa, led by dashing Rockjumper guide Clayton Burne, to my itinerary. The small group was a good counterpart to the large, convivial ABA Safari group of 98 birders.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Our methods have changed over time — Linneaus, for example, chose not to classify bats among birds — but now, detailed molecular analyses can confound even the most comprehensive and rigorous morphology-based hypotheses, not to mention “obvious&# groupings. Corey Mar 12th, 2011 at 8:29 pm Now wait just one second.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? In subsequent experiments, Heinrich confirmed that group interests could drive what an individual raven decides to do. by Marc Bekoff.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2013

Plus, I saw awesome bats, bugs, butterflies, herps, pitcher plants, and four of the five possible monkey species: Dusky Leaf Monkey , Banded Leaf Monkey , Southern Pig-tailed Macaque , and Long-tailed Macaque. All in all, a memorable Malaysian experience. Bats under a rocky overhang.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Being on a boat surrounded by the endless blue of the ocean is a wonderful experience, especially when the waves aren’t too high, the sun isn’t too bright, and the birds are showing. I like pelagic birding. Being out on the water is great, even when the birds are only so-so.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2014

It prompted a lot of questions, many of which I had previously answered by simple supposition and presumption, but which now became highlighted as inadequate in the light of this experience. How many well sites does a sapsucker maintain? How often does he do the rounds? Does he vigorously defend his food source? The sapsucker was seen first.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

It was an enjoyable experience and the better views desired were definitely achieved. Of course, I missed the Lewis’s Woodpecker that had been found at nearby Irvine Regional Park, which also would have been a second encounter with a species I hardly ever get to see but batting.500

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