10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2019

You could add Middle Spotted and Grey-headed Woodpeckers to the list. Eurasian Scops Owl is a bird of open forests and scattered trees, parks, orchards, abandoned houses, etc. Syrian Woodpecker is a species of forest edges or open woodland and parks; it doesn’t go into closed canopy forest. Another British expat birder, G.L.,

Serbia 250

Serbia Birds Woodpeckers Breeding 250

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Patrol and enforce wildlife-damaging violations, including the taking of endangered native plants, capturing turtles, riding ATV’s on pedestrian trails, and abandoning fishhooks. It’s a very mixed chapter. Remove Phragmites and replace it with cattails. Mow grasslands only once a year to arrest succession.

New York City 161

New York City New York Birds Breeding 161

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The birds were right next to an old abandoned farm house, and seemed quite happy to have their photo taken, up to a point, but then like the wind, they were gone, out thru the flat desert areas of New Mexico! American Kestrels, Cooper Hawks , and Northern Harriers also found the hunting here to their liking.

Albuquerque 127

Albuquerque New Mexico Mexico Sparrows 127

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. I would dearly love to see an Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and I think our Carrie deserves to observe a Great Auk.

Mauritius 103

Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 103