10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Serious birders may have an obsessive interest in birds, but one thing they universally don’t like are birds which, they believe, aren’t properly wild. This individual was photographed in India There’s one problem with this approach, as it can lead to birds being ignored.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2024
Most serious bird photographers dislike taking pictures of birds wearing rings (or what on the other side of the Atlantic you call bands). I can sympathise, as a shiny new ring, clamped to a bird’s leg, rarely enhances its portrait. The information I received didn’t indicate the age of the bird.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2018
Nonetheless, when you positively ID a bird that differs from the usual expectations, you’ve got to spread the word. While I generally loathe these exercises in discerning the nearly indiscernible in the field , subtle evidence points to the bird my local reviewer will likely question. What was your best bird of the weekend?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2018
White-tailed Eagles normally take flight silently, yet, while checking some Common Starlings and hoping for Rosy Starlings , I heard a few noisy wing-beats, enough to turn and see a young eagle flying with a wing tag. and after the road construction (June 2018). It was announced that the works should be finished in four months.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
I haven’t yet been birding in Europe but whenever I occasionally skim a field guide about the birds on the other side of the Atlantic, I’m always encouraged to find that I’m already familiar with many species found over there, even though most of my birding experience has been limited to eastern North America.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2021
Currently he is the convenor for Birdlife Australia in his local area and, as that suggests, he loves sharing his passion for birds and all wildlife through outings and bird walks. Currently Ken continues to dream of overseas birding tours but will settle for ones down under. First the listing part.
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2018
He roots the theft in the history of collecting bird skins, in the brief life history of Edwin Rist, in the secretive world of classic fly tying, and in his own efforts to follow up on a police investigation that got the man but not all of the loot. Only, birders don’t require pieces of dead birds to satisfy their desires.
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