10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2020

I can hear a Great Spotted Woodpecker calling. In those few days in the park, I observed about 35 birds, including European Honey Buzzard , Grey-headed Woodpecker and the numerous Mistle Thrushes and Eurasian Bullfinches , and half a dozen mammals, European Pine Marten among them. An hour later, I add another layer of clothing.

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Serbia Bears Birds Mammals 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2020

For 3-4 days, opt for the hills, Tresnjica Griffon Vulture Sanctuary and the nearby Tara Mountain National Park with 140 species (not too much, but with Hazel Grouse , Ural , Pygmy and Tengmalm’s Owls , White-backed and Three-toed Woodpeckers among them). Long-eared Owls of Kikinda. Great Bustard Sanctuary.

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Serbia Sanctuary Birds Bosnia 317

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2019

These are the plants and animals that strive to persist in the realm of Homo sapiens. Some local populations of birds and animals couldn’t adapt to the radical ecosystem-wide changes and just died out but a fair percentage did survive and continue to persist where green space lingers. Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl. An owl by day?

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Costa Rica Birds Parrots Sparrows 200

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2013

Disinterested Gray Langurs await us in the next tree crown; one Black-rumped Flameback woodpecker is searching the branches, while one gorgeous Tickell’s Blue Flycatcher flies by. Occasionally we go so quickly that we may be posing a danger for jay-walking animals… …and then, for no obvious reason, we suddenly stop!

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Lions India Mammals Boars 236

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2018

It might not look frightening to a birder but if we could ask pigeons, woodpeckers, and other birds how they felt abut the Bicolored Hawk, we would see their eyes go wide with fear and their feathers tremble. Spectacled Owl. Another predator, this one only comes out at night and as with most owls, is also naturally sort of spooky.

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Costa Rica Bats Birds Falcons 172

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2013

I wondered, last August, how animals endure it — the tiny ever-pumping lungs of hummingbirds, the lungs of bighorn sheep shouldering their way up mountains, they must get filled with smoke too, right? Conservation black-backed woodpecker endangered species fire olive-sided flycatcher' On the whole, people do not value them.

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Endangered Species South Dakota Woodpeckers Sheep 162

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

As a child, poring through the pages of the Encyclopedia of Animal Life (I was gifted this 25 years before I appeared in Audubon magazine myself) birds gripped my attention. But this book taught me about eagles, owls, storks and herons. Not all the birds, of course, but many of the distinctive and conspicuous species.

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Trinidad Laws Family Hunting 190

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

Terrestrial animals could drown; will not be able to access the necessary ranges; be trapped; suffer diminished genetic diversity; and possibly become extirpated and/or extinct. Gila Woodpecker. Also opposed to that wall: The Owls of Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Texas. Public lands at risk. Image by NPCA. Cactus Wren.

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Texas Defenders Of Wildlife Bald Eagle Protest 170

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Plants, animals, as well as birds. There were Ladder-backed Wood peckers, as well as Gilded Flickers and Gila Woodpeckers like this one. I am reasonably certain that the average person, sees an oasis as that beautiful body of water, surrounded by palm trees, in the middle of miles and miles of barren desert sand.

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Coyotes Rodents Reptiles Fox 133

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2014

For example, to irrupt , at least as far as animals are concerned, is simply to enter a region suddenly and in very large numbers. One wonders how innocent the Spotted Owl finds the rampant range expansion of the Barred Owl. In the same vein, to expand means to increase in extent and scope or to spread out.

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Species Feral Cats Feral Miami 160

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

But birds and all animals need proper habitat. Cut down the virgin forest and lose the Orangutans or Spotted Owls or Ivory-billed Woodpeckers. Central and South Americans are coming here, Syrians and millions of others are flocking to Europe’s stable nations.

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Chickens Illinois Campaign Nebraska 217

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

The Numbat is the animal emblem. Go win a copy and you might get it before I get off my keister and write my review… Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Seriously, that really happens in this excellent video of a Great Horned Owl scavenging a deer carcass by Kirk Mona. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Denmark 2011 Honduras Deer 166

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Abyssinian Long-eared Owl This can be a very tough bird to find, but the juniper forests around the Bale Mountain park headquarters at Dinsho are the most reliable and is where this bird was photographed. It is common in forests and thicker woodlands throughout the highlands and Great Rift Valley.

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Ethiopia Eritrea Africa Mammals 273

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

This special place is also one of the last bastions of wild rainforest on the Pacific coast of Central America, hosts many endemic plants and animals, and as one may surmise, is pretty awesome for birds. We didn’t see the hawk but did get lucky with a Crested Owl. Riverside Wrens are nearly endemic to Costa Rica.

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Costa Rica San Jose Sharks Monkeys 252

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

Leucism “is a condition characterized by reduced pigmentation in animals and humans.&# Go win a copy and you might get it before I get off my keister and write my review… Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Seriously, that really happens in this excellent video of a Great Horned Owl scavenging a deer carcass by Kirk Mona.

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica Deer 154

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

For good measure, some animals in the near vicinity were also named after him, such as Raffles’s Malkoha. So, if you ever think of dressing up as an Orange-backed Woodpecker of different ages, remember: you will need to spend a lot of money on costumes.

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Los Angeles Birds Woodpeckers Owls 200

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2011

Despite being mainly interested in botany, about which he published some of the most influencial scientific essays of his time, he was also very well acquainted with the animal kingdom. And being a universal genius, he liked to combine these things, like writing a poem about a swallow and calling it “March&#. Wicked, right?

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2011 Deer New York Science 134

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Go win a copy and you might get it before I get off my keister and write my review… Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Seriously, that really happens in this excellent video of a Great Horned Owl scavenging a deer carcass by Kirk Mona. Wicked, right?

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The others follow, some dozen animals in all. Related to starlings, like woodpeckers they move over large mammals feeding on ticks, but also on their hosts’ blood. From 2020 to 2022, that figure was lower, about 500 animals per year, but is it because of better safety measures or fewer and consequently harder to locate quarries?

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South Africa Africa Game Elephants 232

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Searching for kiwi is unlike spotlighting that I’ve done while looking for nocturnal animals in the past. We set out at sunset, with the still partly sky filled with orange clouds giving the forest an otherworldly feel. Soon it became dark, and we slowly walked down the paths ringing the island. Wicked, right?

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New Zealand 2011 Deer New York 150

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2024

I was high and happy, not from “420” drugs but from the altitude and the anticipation of seeing woodpeckers and owls I had never seen before. Soon Steller’s Jay , both Downy and Hairy Woodpecker , Mountain Chickadee , Pygmy Nuthatch and White-breasted Nuthatch were everywhere. I ticked off 9 lifers.

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Denver Colorado Ducks Mules 176

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

There are owls in New York City. Big owls: Barred Owls on Riverside Drive and down the path from Harlem Meer, a Great Horned Owl in Central Park’s Ramble. The NYC owls have little to do with the book in front of me except that it too is about birds and people. But–is that it?

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New York City Birds Owls Fox 199

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Another, hands against the animal’s vast side, said… March On Into Spring – I and The Bird #146 Mar 17th, 2011 at 12:37 am [.] david Mar 13th, 2011 at 1:17 am Three non-sighted people stood around an elephant. One, feeling the creature’s tail, said, “Ah, it’s a rope!&# Wicked, right?

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 155

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

A range of animals come to satisfy their need for salt or the soothing effects of the clay along the river banks of the region. UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank.

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

YourBirdOasis.com Mar 17th, 2011 at 11:22 am So polygynandry really is rare, but I can’t believe I forgot about Acorn Woodpecker! In the case of Acorn Woodpeckers, they are cooperative breeders (as with many other polygynandrous species), which seems to predispose species to polygynandry. Journal of Ornithology 137 (1): 35-51 N.

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 221

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2013

The others follow, some dozen animals in all. Related to starlings, like woodpeckers they move over large mammals feeding on ticks, but also on their hosts’ blood. If such a trend continues, we will lose these animals for good! Barn Owl on a dry tree trunk and a… traffic jam! They are crossing one or two at a time.

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Africa South Africa Elephants Rhinos 200

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2012

The DVD packaging features three cherubic children, a cartoon owl, and a Red-bellied Woodpecker. The owl, on the other hand, is annoying, clumsily done, and distracting. Even my cats turned away from the television when the owl would come on screen, only to come back when it was only real birds.

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Science Owls Pennsylvania United States 178

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

There are also entries for “ albatross ,” “ dove ,” “ eagle ,” “ egret ,” “ flycatcher ,” “ gull ,” “ grebe ,” “ hummingbird ,” “ loon ,” “ murrelet ,” “ shearwater ,” “ sparrow ,” “ swallow ,” “ tern ,” “ thrush ,” “ woodpecker ,” “ wren ,” and so forth. Many individual species get an entry too, though they are generally not capitalized.

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Albatross Bears Ducks Bald Eagle 106

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Fourth Whooping Crane This Winter Shot Animal Rights vs Conservation in Cyprus Tennessee Crane Hunt Tabled for 2 Years! Her writing is based on keen observation of animal and human behavior, and she likes to interweave solid natural history information with larger philosophical themes to challenge and inspire the reader. Wicked, right?

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Her writing is based on keen observation of animal and human behavior, and she likes to interweave solid natural history information with larger philosophical themes to challenge and inspire the reader. we allow limited (by season and bag limits) hunting on populations of game animals that can sustain it. I am inclined to believe so.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 255

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Now this, might not sound like anything of particular ground-breaking significance, but in the context of animal personality research, it is a fairly big thing. Whilst working on Scarlet Macaws in Costa Rica , I had the pleasure of having Katherine Herbourn assist with some of the field work we were doing. Wicked, right?

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Cats 2011 Costa Rica Deer 151