10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2012
Hawk watchers and birders who look at hawks (not always the same group!) There are probably more identification guides about raptors than there are for any other bird group. If the accipiter swivels its head to look at a group of hawk watchers without moving its body, it’s a Cooper’s.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
There were an estimated 13,000 breeding pairs and roosting birds in 2016; additional islands have been created to support the increasing population and a raised (17-feet) walkway with observation platforms allows birders and photographers to enjoy them. Chestnut-sided on the left! Redstart above the Parula! Another Hooded! Wood Thrush!
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Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 18, 2006
I buy pasture-raised meat, milk and eggs from local farmers who I know personally, because the animals are healthier than industrially raised animals, and I find that the quality is better. I hope everyone who prefers local and pasture-raised animals will speak up and protect the source of their food and health.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 17, 2011
Nonetheless, they adjusted their behavior to allow Babyl to remain with the group. In June 2006, Jane and I visited a chimpanzee sanctuary near Girona, Spain. Caledonian crows live in small family groups and youngsters learn to fashion and use tools by watching adults. Sometimes the matriarch would even feed Babyl.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2018
Five species are grouped in a chapter titled (4) Dark Horse Gulls (Rare or Unlikely Gulls). The beginning of each chapter begins with a stunning, full-page photograph of a gull on the left; each photo shows the gull with wings raised, facing right as if in expectation of wonderful things. These vary according to species.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
One of these clades holds a diversity of Old World species in several distinct groups, including an Australasian clade, the green-pigeons, the emerald- and wood-doves, the imperial-pigeons and fruit-doves (favorites of mine), and the subjects of our investigation today, the 15 known members of the Raphini.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
For several weeks in 2006 shortly after my arrival a strange noise could often be heard emanating from the dry hillside forest behind my home – it was beginning to freak me out a little. There are any number of concerns one could raise. How ecologically similar are the two species? Isn’t this just another non-native introduction?
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