10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2021

The bird is just chilling out, waiting for the urge to fly. The bird below is also waiting, but not to fly. He is simply waiting for someone to move him from the filthy plastic bucket where he is tethered next to a gas pump. One might assume this is a falconry bird, but it’s not. Are we fed up yet?

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Tethering Giraffes Alabama 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2024

Ruffs were by far the most numerous, with as many as 500 birds in view at once. Few birds sport such magnificent breeding plumage as the male ruff, but not a single bird showed more than a hint of this plumage. I suspect that this must be because the magnificent neck feathers, or ruff, are an encumbrance to a migrant bird.

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Cyprus Tethering Breeding 2016 222

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Especially because my summer birds are gone. My friends with boats tell me of some great birds that are still around, of Ivory Gulls and Black-legged Kittewakes , of Arctic Terns and Dovkies. All great birds, and the Dovkies are not normally found in my corner of the Arctic, although they’ve been seen regularly this Fall.

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Tethering Neglecting South America Dogs 179

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2013

I love great bird photography, I truly do. Photos that capture great behaviour, and the incredible beauty of birds. But as she stayed and mice were being tossed out, she decided it wasn’t for her, and she left the birds, and the group. Great photographs also inspire me to try and do better with my own photographs.

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Owls Mice Tethering Chickens 200

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Here I was, sitting patiently in a blind, watching a tethered European Starling on a string. It was the only bird I could see through the narrow slit in the blind, and so, as a bird-watcher, I watched it. Sara, one of the researchers, explained that it was a newish bird. Birds banding Golden Eagle starlings'

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Eagles Tethering Science Wounded 179

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2012

Or they called at us from dog teams tethered on the ice, too busy stealing food to have a closer look. Ravens are the only birds I’m guaranteed of seeing this time of year, even if they aren’t the only ones around. Out further, where currents keep the ice at bay the pelagic birds stick around. It was incredible.

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