10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2019

We have observed the first Pied Oystercatcher chicks of 2019 over the past two weeks grow steadily. In fact we often don’t have any chicks within two weeks of the eggs hatching and other pairs along the coast have not been successful yet this season. Pied Oystercatcher chick sheltering from the wind.

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Eggs Feral Cats Shelters Feral 122

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2020

So my favorites for 2019 includes a good number of birds that are rather common elsewhere, but were firsts for me. But the Kentish Plover was sheltering its young under its body, and the Little Ringed Plover was incubating an egg — right in the middle of downtown Madrid! But… Been there, done most of those.

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Austria Spain 2019 Birds 144

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. 2019), and now this book. wrote a lengthy article in Outside magazine (Jan. Author Joshua Hammer.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 202

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Ackerman understands how to set a scene, fill it with charismatic real-life characters, and top it off with magic–the hoot of a distant Great Gray Owl, a Burrowing Owl evading capture, an old barn sheltering young Barn Owls, a tree full of Long-eared Owls in the middle of a small town in northern Serbia.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 203