article thumbnail

Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Kingbirds and Myiarchus: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

It’s a masterful example of how scientific illustration can inform and be enjoyable to look at, and I’d love to have these plates in mini card form to carry around with me when I visit California. The spectrograms are much easier to read in this volume, larger and darker. ” A fantastic idea!

article thumbnail

A Tale of Three Magnificent Frigatebirds (Two I help, one tries to kill me)

10,000 Birds

For those of us in North America other than the Gulf coast, the only time we might see a Magnificent Frigatebird is after a storm. More commonly seen in care in Central America, over the last 16 years I’ve had the privilege of providing a frigatebird’s care only twice. Less than 2000 grams – more sail, it seems, than bird.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Arctic Loon at Bonelli Park

10,000 Birds

When you think of southern California in June there are a variety of things that could come to mind. Yet, somehow, on 31 May one was discovered on Puddingstone Reservoir, the large man-made lake that is the center of Bonelli Park, a nearly 2,000 acre expanse in San Dimas, just east of Los Angeles.

article thumbnail

"A deer escapes a wildfire in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009" in California, United States of America. Photo credit: Jae C. Hong / AP Photo

Reddit Animals

submitted by /u/trot-trot [link] [comments].

article thumbnail

The ABA’s 50th Anniversary and Information: From Scarce to Abundant

10,000 Birds

The Lab operates All About Birds , which has free and authoritative information on identification and bird biology, as well as Birds of North America. Both operate websites that provide useful content, including lists of major birding festivals (there are now dozens across North America throughout the year) and birding hotspots.

UCLA 125
article thumbnail

Lifer Ocean

10,000 Birds

I’ve spent a fair bit of time on the ocean on right side of North America. These birds nest in Baja California, and drift up into US waters occasionally in the late summer. When we motored into Los Angeles County waters to pick up the many thousand strong flock of storm-petrels milling about.

San Diego 159
article thumbnail

Why Hawkwatching is So Awesome

10,000 Birds

A professional hawkwatcher for many seasons, his passion and knowledge saw him invited to join the board of the Hawk Migration Association of North America in 2013. He now lives in Los Angeles, California where he is employed as a natural history tour guide and as a member of the Leica Birding Team.