10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2019

If a large, powerful bird of prey capable of terrorizing a Wild Turkey comes to mind, that may be a fair definition of a hawk-eagle. Oh, and yes, some do also kill our local “turkey”, the Great Curassow. Oh, and yes, some do also kill our local “turkey”, the Great Curassow. This curassow is great.

Costa Rica 198

Costa Rica Eagles West Virginia Opossums 198

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2017

3) It is a sequel to Good Birders Don’t Wear White: 50 Tips From North America’s Top Birders , the popular 2007 collection of essays. Dorian Anderson finds a moment of connection with a duck hunter during his bicycle big year, and, despite his distaste for the sport, realizes that in hunters we have allies for conservation.

2017 163

2017 Costa Rica 2007 Hunters 163

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

For ornithologists, it is the documentation of a multi-year project designed to record the distribution and abundance of birds in a specific area (in North America, usually a state or a province), utilizing a mapping method involving blocks and grids.

Pennsylvania 249

Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 249

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Hunters flocked to the Kittatinny Ridge to literally blast raptors out of the sky, buoyed by the belief that they were doing the world a great service. But this weekend has reawakened my faith that the state of birding in America is in good shape and that birding truly is a multi-generational pastime.

Bald Eagle 258

Bald Eagle Pennsylvania Sanctuary Hunters 258

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

…Sure, we got lots of ‘em javelina and wild hogs too” But I explained to him that I was a hunter of a different kind and that I was looking for tiny owls and not wild pigs. I went on to tell him that I’d seen these birds in Central America but that I needed to see them in the US too. Fearless little predators.

Owls 167

Owls Texas Arizona Pigs 167