10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
Osborn, a passionate field biologist who participates to the core of her being three re-introduction projects aimed at saving three very different, endangered species: Peregrine Falcon, Hawaiian Crow (‘Alala)*, and California Condor. As of 2024, the ‘Alala are extinct in the wild though they live on in captivity.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2014
Images courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. It was not mine, and I couldn’t miss what I had never had. Because sometimes a Bullock’s Oriole just flies over your head, on a day when you’re only vaguely expecting any such thing, and then perches at the tip of a pathside tree and starts singing.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2011
With an 8 to 9 1/2 foot wingspan and weighing in at up to 30 pounds, it rivals the California Condor for size and weight. They occur mainly in western and southern portions of North America, breeding inland in colonies on remote islands and wintering along warm southern coasts 1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEWUbe7ec4E
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
The Mourning Dove ( Zenaida macroura) is among the most abundant and widespread terrestrial birds endemic to North and Middle America. It’s a good thing too, because it is the leading gamebird in North America in terms of total harvest and the widespread distribution of hunting effort. Click on photos for full sized images.
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
such as California Condors and Passenger Pigeons. Endangered Species List, giving it free reign to wander and populate North America in ever increasing numbers, including a nest on the ledge of the U.S. Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds. By 1999, the Peregrine Falcon was removed from the U.S.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
I haven’t even been to all of the best national wildlife refuges for birding. Another is California Condor in the Grand Canyon.). I particularly enjoy birding national wildlife refuges, so I try to include at least one on each trip. A direct flight from Portland is also a plus, as is seeing new parts of America.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2012
But, before Jerry Liguori’s wonderful photographic guides of Hawks at a Distance (2011) and Hawks from Every Angle (2005) and before Clark and Wheeler’s classic Field Guide to Hawks of North America (2nd ed., The original Hawks in Flight treated 23 raptors, the major hawks that migrate through North America.
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