10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2014

We are closely followed by a cloud of dust and every time we brake for some bird, that cloud maliciously overtakes and envelops us. The water level is quite high and the flood zone between the river and the dike is mostly under water, attracting birds to search for food. Birding Europe Serbia wetlands'

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Badgers Deer Serbia Europe 217

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

Bufflehead ( Bucephala albeola ) Female at Cavity Entrance photos by Larry Jordan “Some 85 species of North American birds excavate nesting holes, use cavities resulting from decay (natural cavities), or use holes created by other species in dead or deteriorating trees. The owlet looking up to the parent bird is the one currently being fed.

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North America America Barn Owls Falcons 207

Critter News

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Badgers are being caught for dog-baiting. A bird species is near extinction. The Brits are known for their animal rights activism, but there's been a rise in wildlife crime against all animals. Apparently they are seen as nuisances. Bats are being targeted.

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Wildlife Badgers Animal Cruelty Cruelty 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2017

I have been there several times last month, but barely ever managed to do any proper birding! Despite mostly guiding them, I still somehow managed to see a European Badger sitting and watching me back for several seconds, before it slipped into bushes and quite a few White-tailed Eagles , e.g. four in just one morning.

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Eagles Campaign Otters Serbia 159

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2014

But spotlighting brings you the things you don’t see so much of when birding. Sometimes in a forest you’d be forgiven for thinking there was nothing but birds, monkeys and squirrels (and mosquitos, obviously), and then at night you start seeing civets, wallabies, and tarantulas. So many insects. And spiders, and scorpions.

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Badgers Wildlife Reptiles Monkeys 154

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2015

The other day I was exploring a new area for the first time, birding the national park that I’ve watched only in BBC documentaries, the place famous for the largest Dalmatian Pelican colony in the world – more than 1300 pairs! Checking the birds on the stork’s nest, I found both House and Spanish Sparrows. Have you heard of it?

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Greece Pelicans Geese Breeding 252

Animal Person

APRIL 11, 2009

She has done the same with the fox and badger cubs, she licks the rabbits and guinea pigs and even lets the birds perch on the bridge of her nose.” The list of orphaned and abandoned youngsters she has cared for comprises five fox cubs, four badger cubs, 15 chicks, eight guinea pigs, two stray puppies and 15 rabbits.

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Greyhounds Guinea Pigs Rabbits Badgers 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2012

The tussocks are badgers, the stones are grouse until they fails to fly away. The cottonwoods in the river bottoms echo the branching antlers of the elk that bugle among them each falls (abundant, but never enough so for Montana’s voracious hunters.) In the winters the snow lies heavy and researchers travel in and out by small plane.

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Wildlife Ferrets Montana Prairie Dogs 179

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2011

reduce traffic casualties amongst Badgers , get the White-tailed Eagle back as a breeding bird, increase the number of protected plant species etc.). The project will take another year to complete, but in about a month from now, we should have the first samples finished on www.ecosim.nl. -

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Badgers Ethics Africa Spain 145

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. And for thousands of years the lizards, rodents, and birds of North America adapted to Fishers, Badgers, Wolverines, Ermines, etc. How many wild birds are eaten by either feral Cats or “outdoor Cats?”

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 252

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2012

But we really need to leave birds out of it. The key to a successful lek-watch is getting in place with minimum disturbance to the birds. A bird that is nervous about predation temporarily puts aside thoughts of strutting his stuff. All of the birds on the lek this day were white-ruffed, gular-pouched.

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Ferrets Badgers Coyotes Ducks 180

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Nothing is sacred, not even Big Bird or Honey Badger. This year as the party was rounding the corner, I thought that I might look into a sexy bird costume. But I thought I could do some form of brown bird. But I thought I could do some form of brown bird. Here we have a Ruby-throated Hummingbird costume.

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Birds Owls Badgers Fowl 210

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2014

When you read trip reports of birders going to remote and interesting locations to see interesting (and not so interesting birds, I’m looking at you LBJs), these accounts are typically written by people who have either gone with groups of like-minded people or those that have gone it alone.

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Birds Bats Elephants Family 180

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

They are high-altitude birds, and will only come as far down the slopes as they are forced to by the weather. Besides my little tiny no-car problem, I tend to huff and puff at high altitudes; a noise so much like a very hungry badger that any sensible bird will disappear long before I come into view. Will it work?

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Badgers Montana North America Abandon 174