10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2011

Phoebe, Liam and I went down to work (and play) in January 2011 at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival , and it was the highlight of our winter. From the tail band, it looks like an immature. When the fish rise to investigate, a split-second snap of the bill captures a meal. It’s a three-year seagle.

Florida 145

Florida Tail Banding Ducks Ohio 145

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2011

On October 15-16th, 2011 Nikon Birding teamed up with Hawk Mountain and Cabela’s to host a blow-out weekend focusing on raptors. What can you notice about the tail of this bird? The uneven tail bands are usually a dead giveaway for Coop’s. The edge of the retrices look to be a sharp 90 dg.

Hamburgers 177

Hamburgers Tail Banding United States Philadelphia 177

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JULY 1, 2014

Here are three excellent but very different children’s books I enjoyed this year (two were published in 2013, one in 2011). Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). Dawn Publications, March 2011. A second aviary is created. by Carol L.

Puerto Rico 233

Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 233

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

But, before Jerry Liguori’s wonderful photographic guides of Hawks at a Distance (2011) and Hawks from Every Angle (2005) and before Clark and Wheeler’s classic Field Guide to Hawks of North America (2nd ed., ” There are the classic field marks, size of head and shape of tail, but, we are told, never rely on just one or two features!

North America 222

North America Bald Eagle Eagles Birds 222