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). managed to see it, his largest owl ever.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2015
Cape Coral has a remarkable population of Burrowing Owls , cute little stilt-legged beasts we usually associate with the western part of the continent. 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. Passing cars elicited no such response.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 16, 2018
This has a lot to do with the way the birding mind recognizes patterns: see the correct shape and color in the right context and you automatically think that distant plastic bag shifting in the breeze is a distant Snowy Owl. Yes, a coconut, abandoned on the ice of Meadow Lake. It’s vaguely rail-like, no? It was a coconut.
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. If you see an owl,” wrote Mikal Deese, “someone in your family is going to die.
10,000 Birds
JULY 9, 2015
In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. Previous posts about the same tour: Melghat Tiger Reserve: The Search for the Rarest Owl of India. It is too early to show.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2016
A month ago I visited this site, right at the edge of Belgrade for the first time, only to discover that I cannot get into the overgrown area in my low-clearance city car. Over a few obstacles, we follow the dirt track into an abandoned and overgrown claypit. Yet, Starlings cannot dig and are happy to use abandoned cavities.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2019
commented further: “With a little work some species can be seen quite easily such as the divers, scaup, scoter, Goosander , Garganey and Long-eared Owl. Eurasian Scops Owl is a bird of open forests and scattered trees, parks, orchards, abandoned houses, etc. Another British expat birder, G.L.,
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