10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2024

I have encountered a few of the more quirky members of the family, including the brilliant and aptly-named African Emerald Cuckoo, India’s ultra-shy Sirkeer Malkoha, and the fascinating Lesser Ground Cuckoo in Costa Rica. It reminded me of a Roadrunner, which is, of course, also a member of the cuckoo family.

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Cyprus Africa Europe Asia 196

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2015

It’s a family vacation, sure, but there’s always time for birding and in Florida, the birding often finds you. Cape Coral has a remarkable population of Burrowing Owls , cute little stilt-legged beasts we usually associate with the western part of the continent. But daytime owls always look miffed about something.

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Owls Florida Tenant United States 194

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2023

To round up the day, in our base-village of Chrisochorafa, we later had one adorable Little Owl just a few hundred metres from our hotel. I went to explore the best birding area of the national park, the legendary eastern levee, and this day started with another Little Owl in the next village.

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Greece Pelicans Birds Stray Dog 221

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.”. If you see an owl,” wrote Mikal Deese, “someone in your family is going to die. million-year-old early human.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Porcupines Raccoons Birds 172

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2013

I’ve seen Yellow Warblers in the low shrubs of Western New York pastures, the river valleys of Missoula, and the trees of abandoned industrial sites in New York City. Chuk makes his quip about the Black-winged Yellow Bird; my friend Molly insists that everything is a duck, a pigeon, or an owl.

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Connecticut Baltimore North America New York City 169

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

When that isn’t possible, many raptor rehabbers keep tabs on nests and will place an abandon chick in a foster nest. Owls are a little different. They don’t build nests and some like Great Horned Owls take over old hawk or squirrel nests. Try to get it too another family group or contact a wildlife rehabber.

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Birds Fox Raised Ducks 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

Of course, it is quite common for human parents to set fire to their family homes in order to keep the adult children from moving back home, but this is not an issue for drongos. If you are looking for a use of a cardboard box, one of the more interesting ideas is to use it to house an abandoned juvenile Striated Heron.

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Singapore Mountain Goats Birds Giraffes 147