10,000 Birds
JANUARY 29, 2014
Unlike an ill equipped diver like me, Boobies have adaptations for a plunge-diving lifestyle: forward-facing eyes and streamlined heads and body. Seeing this amazing feat by these Boobies makes me think of Piliated Woodpeckers, which generate such loud sound by hammering their bills against a tree trunk.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2021
He found some solace when, at age eleven, he became entranced with birds – specifically, with a Green Woodpecker — and that sighting, he says, “took me to another, safer world.” . As McMullan tells it, birding goes pretty well with the military lifestyle, at least for himself and a select few others.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 13, 2022
However, unfortunately, this seems to be mainly true for Laced Woodpecker (female) … … and Greater Flameback (female). Seeing a Rufous Woodpecker for the first time, I thought it looked kind of weird. “Odd, me?” But the joke simply does not work then).
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2015
Owls and eagles and ducks and hummingbirds and parrots and woodpeckers are all things that a regular nonbirding joe or jane can, with time and a few color photographs, see the appeal of. And what about lifestyle? As I had cause to observe last weekend, the great divide between birders and nonbirders is best expressed through gulls.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2014
Living a highly migratory lifestyle, I’ve had a lot of patches, but honestly none I ever forged a strong and lasting bond with…my very first patch was destroyed by a golf course, so I didn’t get the best start to patch-birding. After this, patch birding will never be the same. It is known.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2019
When it comes down to it, birders can partake in the hobby, lifestyle, or passion however they want (as long as they don’t harm themselves, others, or the birds). Rufous-winged Woodpecker. Not as fancy as some of the other birds, this range restricted woodie is nonetheless much easier to connect with in Costa Rica.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 18, 2014
Whilst his nomadic lifestyle allows him to bird all around the world, he tends to favour certain spots and sticks to where he knows. Nuttall’s Woodpecker (Picoides nuttallii) 13/01/2014 San Diego, Dairy Mart Road – Main Pond. If he is to become a better birder, he must try harder!
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