10,000 Birds
JANUARY 16, 2020
The Ural Owl inhabits old and undisturbed boreal forests, in an unbroken belt from Sweden and Finland across Russia to Japan, and is rarely seen to the south, only here and there, in the Carpathians (Slovakia/Ukraine/Romania/eastern Serbia) and Dinaric Alps (Croatia/Bosnia/western Serbia). Cover photo by Snezana & Slobodan Panjkovic.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2017
On a recent visit to Tokyo, Japan, I came across a beautiful bird that I took to be a White’s Thrush , Zoothera dauma. Species searches on eBird reveal that both species might be found in Tokyo, though White’s is much more common, with a few contemporary sightings. So I resorted to the internet. How I wish now that I had not.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 24, 2016
They are in large flocks when they roost of several thousand birds, but often they will roost among their own species. These two species are renowned for preferring to lie flat on the wet sand once the tide drops rather than stand around waiting for the tide to drop. They have a website for reporting shorebirds throughout the Flyway.
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