10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This is “the deep cradle of Western ornithology: the birthplace of bird study,” he tells us as he writes about gazing at the 8,000-year old depictions of “flamingos, herons, raptors, avocets and many other species” (p. There’s the Neolithic era; Ancient Egypt (bird mummies!);

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 242

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2019

Although little-known, WPAs provide critical breeding, resting, and nesting habitat for millions of ducks, geese, and swans, as well as shorebirds and grassland species. Funk WPA is about three miles long and is dissected by roads and dikes. Nevertheless, it has 195 reported species and features trails and an observation blind.

Nebraska 146

Nebraska Dissection Geese Ducks 146

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2019

Although little-known, WPAs provide critical breeding, resting, and nesting habitat for millions of ducks, geese, and swans, as well as shorebirds and grassland species. Funk WPA is about three miles long and is dissected by roads and dikes. Nevertheless, it has 195 reported species and features trails and an observation blind.

Nebraska 113

Nebraska Dissection Geese Ducks 113

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

When you catch a stringer in the act, first try to figure out what they are hearing/looking act that makes them think a bird is a certain species. After you have collected their mistakes, dissect them. After the dissection is complete, you then unleash a tidal wave of evidence that proves their strung rarity has been misidentified.

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Dissection Arizona Birds Collecting 188

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2011

Many are familiar with dissecting owl pellets, but several birds will caste a pellet including hawks, eagles, gulls, herons and heck, I once witnessed a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher hack up a small one. Oehlenschlager apologized that he couldn’t say the exact species of bat. Birds will barf them back up out of their mouths.

Bats 220

Bats Dissection Owls Minnesota 220

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2011

Fortunately for you, though, when I got home I found a review copy of National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Birds of North America by Jonathan Alderfer and Paul Hess ready and waiting to be dissected for your delectation. The target audience of this book is not the jet-setting hardcore birder, or even the dedicated local lister.

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North America America Dissection Birds 160

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2023

As a bird mainly feeding on seeds, it is regarded as a threat to crops (in fact, the Latin species name of oryzivora combines the words for rice, “oryza”, and eating, “vorus”). eBird calls the White-breasted Woodswallow a “chunky” bird – members of the species might find this slightly offensive.

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Zebras Thailand Philippines Birds 222