10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2014
It was July of 2012. As I got out of my car, about fifty feet from Manzanita Lake, I heard the loud drumming of a woodpecker. I didn’t know what species of woodpecker it was, but I knew it was just in the clearing on the other side of the road. I arrived at Lassen Volcanic National Park around 7:00 a.m.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2023
2012), and (4) Waterfowl of Eastern North America, 2nd ed. Lengthy captions point out key identification features, mostly plumage-based, sometimes including behavior, size, and structure. The text descriptions encapsulate everything else and they are a delight. Arnold Small, an ABA founding birder and past president.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2017
Black Woodpeckers are usually easy to find in Germany. However, even in the age of alternative facts, there is no denying it: Here in Germany, Black Woodpeckers are no big deal. However, even in the age of alternative facts, there is no denying it: Here in Germany, Black Woodpeckers are no big deal. Well, they are big.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
Ron Pittaway has published his winter finch forecast for the winter of 2012-2013. WINTER FINCH FORECAST 2012-2013 The theme this winter is that each finch species will use a different strategy to deal with the widespread tree seed crop failure in the Northeast. It will be a quiet winter in the eastern North Woods.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2013
They were once a widespread and diverse group, however, with many fossils known from what are now North America and Europe. ’s “land bird clade,” with passerines, parrots, falcons, woodpeckers, the Coraciiformes (kingfishers, hornbills, bee-eaters, etc.), But to what other birds are mousebirds related?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 23, 2012
Tucson, AZ, August 2012 – When you get a bunch of bird bloggers together, which you do you imagine comes first: birds or blogs? As soon as Sharon , Nate , Laura , and I convened at the airport, we coreced Clay Taylor, Naturalist Market Manager for Swarovski Optik North America, into an afternoon of birding, 100-degree heat be damned.
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
This was where I set up my bird feeders, just one at first, then expanding as everyone expressed delight in seeing the Carolina Chickadees, Dark-eyed Juncos, and Downy Woodpeckers. I picked up a Downy Woodpecker, an every-day visitor. ©2012 Donna L. I was shocked when I found the first body, a female Towhee.
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