10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Of course, this would probably get me a telling off from Mark J. It seems the bird I saw is a first-winter one, at least according to the HBW description: “First-winter has head white apart from dark brown mottling on crown and nape; upperwing-coverts extensively marked brown; black subterminal tail-band; dark bare parts.”

Birds 246

Birds Tail Banding Psychology Buffalo 246

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2011

Skimmers, of course, use that laterally flattened mandible to cut the water and leave a trail of light–intriguing to small fish at dusk. From the tail band, it looks like an immature. Now that’s a jutting jaw. When the fish rise to investigate, a split-second snap of the bill captures a meal.

Florida 145

Florida Tail Banding Ducks Ohio 145

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

Also present in good El Nino years are the occasional and much sought after Blue Petrel with its distinctive black sub-terminal tail band with white trailing edge, a unique diagnostic feature amongst petrels.

Albatross 189

Albatross Penguins Dolphins Whales 189

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This is where we learn how to differentiate Broad-winged migrating hawks from Red-tails, immature Bald Eagles from immature Golden Eagles, Northern Harriers from “the rest” and, of course, that classic conundrum, how to know a Sharp-shinned Hawk from a Cooper’s Hawk.

North America 234

North America Bald Eagle Birds Eagles 234

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). And, of course, it shows the beauty of the world of the rain forest. Special nesting boxes are built in the wild, a wild chick damages its wing in the nest, (it is rebuilt). A second aviary is created.

Puerto Rico 241

Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 241

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

There’s Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania, of course, and that little known Cape May place in New Jersey, not to mention others like Fort Smallwood in Maryland and even Fort Tilden in Queens, New York, which gets some press on the occasions that Corey swings by. Hawkwatches on the northern half of the Appalachians get a lot of press.

South Carolina 163

South Carolina Maryland North Carolina New Jersey 163