10,000 Birds
APRIL 11, 2012
Since 2006 a pair of Bald Eagles ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus ) nesting at Turtle Bay in Redding California have successfully raised a dozen eaglets! This year when the pair returned to Turtle Bay, they decided to build a new nest in an adjacent tree.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2013
Growing up, you may have been told that a baby bird doesn’t need flying lessons. After three years of observation at a Bald Eagle nest in Washington state, I believe that young birds do, in fact, learn to fly — and they appear to learn much the same way we do. … Birds Bald Eagle raptors'
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Still, I knew the winds of the hurricane could bring interesting bird species, so I ventured out Saturday morning, a day and a half before the meat of the storm made it up to northern Florida. The wind whistled through the dune grasses and low bushes on the Santa Rosa Sound side of Navarre Beach Park, where I began a three-mile birding loop.
10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2019
February had brought zipping breezes and cloudy skies to this part of coastal Texas, but the birds didn’t seem to mind. Encompassing over 30,000 acres, the refuge protects birds of course, but also butterflies, mammals, and more. While the whistling ducks may have been the highlight, there were birds everywhere.
Critter News
MARCH 19, 2012
A federal government decision to allow a Wyoming tribe to kill two bald eagles for a religious ceremony is a victory for American Indian sovereignty as well as for long-suppressed religious freedoms, the tribe says. The Northern Arapaho share the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming with the Eastern Shoshone Tribe.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 22, 2011
I don’t know how many of you ever raised chickens but the old joke went something like this. So how do nesting birds deal with the excrement of all those nestlings until they fledge? The fecal sac is a translucent gelatinous membrane containing the excrement of nestling birds. The dark part is undigested feces.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
Audubon guides to birds have been around since 1946. The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H. Knopf, 1994/97.
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