10,000 Birds
MARCH 17, 2022
American White Pelicans spend their winter months along the Gulf states, California, parts of Arizona, and Mexico down into Central America. No matter how many times I see them, this particular species remains breathtaking. I’m talking, of course, about “my” flock of American White Pelicans.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 17, 2022
We might have limited space but we make up for it with a massive amount of biodiversity including well over 900 bird species on the official Costa Rica bird list. It was something that truly caught me by surprise, a bird usually heard or seen in Mexico or certain, out of the way gulches in Arizona. Where did they come from?
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 3, 2016
We just had to stop on the way, even if briefly, at Cinchona, Cinchona- always an easy place for in your face views of hummingbirds and species that visit the fruit feeders. Numbers were impressive, especially because that euphonia species isn’t the commonest of birds in Costa Rica. This is a female Green Thorntail.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2012
They reside there at the top of a small mountain sanctuary as mythical as my first remembrances of ancient thunderbirds, living, mating, and raising young. The World Center for Birds of Prey ( The Peregrine Fund ) in Boise, Idaho, most famous for its Peregrine Falcons , also has a vital population of California condors.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 14, 2011
I’ve recently returned from a filming trip in Arizona where I have been working on a production for National Geographic on Harris’s (Harris) Hawks. Dirt hawking is a form of falconry that involves hunting rabbits and other small game with Harris Hawks (other hawk species also qualify).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2016
What these ex-stringers have in common is that they can never recover alone…it takes a village to raise someone from a stringer into a birder. If one encountered this bird at a migrant trap in, say, Arizona, most birders would only call it a “Western” Flycatcher if it did not sing a signature song. Image by Fluxglac.
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2018
Following passage of the United States Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, the California Condor ( Gymnogyps californianus ) was among the first 75 species listed for protection, the so-called “Class of 1967”. Reintroduction efforts expanded to Arizona in 1996, and later, to the Baja California peninsula in Mexico.
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