10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2019

This one, seen at Lake Cuitzeo in central Mexico, makes me think of a giraffe wearing a tuxedo: Now, most of the time this middling photographer can only hope to get a clear photo of a bird, not too far away, and at a good angle. One heron had the good sense to abandon his quest quickly. No, these are not time-lapse photographs.

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Giraffes Spain Abandon Abandoning 197

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2022

and Canada, it had apparently discovered an abandoned nest, on which it was clearly showing nesting behavior. So, as they say here in Mexico, we got out of bed on the right side! I’d would love to know if any of our readers have insight into the behavior of one Sora. Was it practicing?

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Falcons Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 190

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2020

When you are an American expatriate who lives, and birds, in Mexico, it is a topsy-turvy world. I have still seen each of these species out in the forest between two days and three weeks after they abandoned my yard. However, the platform did not allow me to include photos. That is a garden first!

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Nashville ALA Louisiana Mexico 133

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

But imagine those flocks are verdant green, a color unmatched by any native bird currently in North American (north of Mexico, of course). Barreling into your feeder with reckless abandon and cleaning you right out. Imagine those sun-headed, screeching demons alighting on a stand of cockleburrs or sweetgum or sycamore.

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Parrots Hunters United States North America 233

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2015

There are a few places where that is especially obvious, and one of those is the town of Cape Coral, just north of Naples along the Gulf of Mexico. You can tell which abandoned lots host owls by a small roped off area with the tell-tale t-bars that the owls perch upon.

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Owls Florida Tenant United States 208

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

After our brief trip thru the great state of Texas, we were headed back into New Mexico, a state I was quite excited to explore. I have been all around the western states, here and there, but never spent any time in New Mexico. This one flew right over my head. Our first stop was a mutually agreed upon stop, in Tucumcari.

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Albuquerque New Mexico Mexico Sparrows 123

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

Had they been able to make the jawbone talk, no doubt its first words would be, “You can’t put a baby bird back in the nest, because the parents will smell your hands and abandon it.”. So right from the beginning, none of this makes any sense. That’s why I can’t take owls to a lot of my education programs out here in New Mexico.”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Porcupines Raccoons Birds 183