10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2021
As shown by the photo, below, of McMullan and Merlin, his Eurasian Eagle Owl friend, McMullan is a rough-hewn 6’4” foot bear of a man; he describes himself as resembling a character from the World Wrestling Federation. (Or would want to, one guesses.). More Birds Than Bullets is not the first of its genre.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2022
Actually, many birds are able to use smell; the 2006 edition of the classic textbook Ornithology states, “Although they have been underestimated in the past, the olfactory abilities of most birds are comparable to those of some mammals (Mason and Clark 2000). Freeman, 2006, full text available on Internet Archives, [link].
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 30, 2018
Bear River MBR (Utah). Virtually all are listed in the National Geographic Guide to Birding Hot Spots of the United States (2006) by Mel White and Paul Lehman, still an excellent resource for the traveling birder more than a decade after publication. Anahuac NWR (Texas). Aransas NWR (Texas). Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually NWR (Washington).
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
The Bridled Titmouse ( B.wollweberi ) looks like the missing link between titmice and chickadees, bearing the gray back and crest of the former and the black chin of the latter. This post was first published in September 2006 but has been republished because titmice are always in vogue! ). Birds chickadees and tits titmice
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2015
There’s a Sloth Bear in tall, dry grass, barely 50 metres from us, but all we can see is a dark, shape-shifting shadow that eventually becomes all but invisible. Earlier, a large number of villagers were being killed by tigers: 11 in 2006, 13 in 2007 and more than 26 during 2008. The Telia Lake. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 11, 2011
Ringer Proposition 491, recently submitted to the American Ornithologists’ Union South American Classification Committee (SACC), bears the esoteric title “ Change linear sequence of orders for Falconiformes, Psittaciformes, and Cariamiformes.&#
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 27, 2016
The WBW remained elusive like a bear (for me at least – a month ago, Georgos met a mother with two cubs, took a few photos, then dropped down and played dead). A ditch in the middle of the tracks, a fallen rock here and there and afterwards the road becomes overgrown with ferns and young pines. Enough of the mountains.
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