10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic. I knew no falconers. ” Falcons could be taken from the nest just before they were able to fly or caught wild after maturity. The concern possessed him.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 19, 2013
With a Rustic Bunting in Homer, Alaska, Neil Hayward has tied Sandy Komito’s American Birding Assocation area big year record of 745 (+3) species. That is a lot of birds in what is essentially Alaska, Canada, and the lower 48 states in one year. But whats with the (+3)? That’s where things get kind of fun.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2016
It is found as far north as Alaska and as far south as Mexico, taking its place as one of Mexico’s official symbols. Crested Caracaras, though they often associate with vultures, are actually part of the falcon family. One of the most impressive birds in North America is the Golden Eagle. ” The bird is massive. .”
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Birds of Prey of the West covers raptors west of the Mississippi River and west of Manitoba and the western shore of Hudson Bay, then north into Nunavut and west across the Arctic islands, the Northwest Territories, and Alaska west to the Aleutian Islands—a total of 33 species portrayed in 85 plates. Species Accounts.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2012
Crested Auklets form some of the biggest, most impressive flocks and formations that I have ever seen, on islands in Alaska. These Black-legged and Red-legged Kittiwakes only need to fear gulls and Peregrine Falcons , although bad weather and erosion do take their toll on nests. Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Buldir Island, AK.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2014
The other sub-species, Calidris canutus roselaari , migrates along the Pacific Coast and breeds in Alaska and the Wrangel Island in Russia. One of the two sub-species of Red Knot occurring in North America, the Rufa subspecies breeds in the Canadian Artic Region and migrates along the east or Atlantic coast of the United States.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2013
Peregrine Falcons breed on the sheer cliff faces of Santa Cruz; you may meet one at eye level on the bluff trail north of Scorpion Ranch, where this photo was taken (I highly recommend this trail, by the way, if only for the views). Many raptors are not afraid to make the ocean crossing to the Channel Islands.
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