10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2017

But for millions of years up until now you haven’t had an international audience of thousands of highly social mammals with their own particular quirks and evolutionary strategies watching your every move around the clock. If it works, it works, and it’s been working for you guys for millions of years up until now. It’s just for the summer.

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Bald Eagle Belize Iowa Eggs 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2015

But you haven’t come here to read my writing about mammals or reptiles, so, yeah, there are also lots of birds. Perched high above the river were a number of birds of prey, including the one with the most evocative call of the African bush, the African Fish-eagle. Red Lechwe. In particular, there are lots of waterbirds.

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Botswana Birds Lesotho Elephants 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2015

This is a Pika, a charismatic and beloved mammal found in high elevations in much of western North America. Here’s a peek at what our avifauna, here in North America, may be in for… Yes, I am aware this isn’t a bird…but hear me out.

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North America Birds San Francisco Suffering 214

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. But I only rehabbed birds, so I had to do research and call my mammal rehabber friends. photo by John Huba.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 254

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

However, they were refound on Buldir Island, a remote island that never had any introduced mammals. Raptors and other predatory birds have largely rebounded, and there seems to be be no shortage of Brown Pelicans, Peregrine Falcons and Bald Eagles. Can you imagine having to go to Alaska just to see our national bird?

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 203

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2011

We also spotted Raven , Bald Eagle , Black-billed Magpie , and the inevitable Canada Goose. Mammals were mostly represented by Mule Deer and a handful of debatable Elk. Sometimes a little too confiding, like the Wild Turkey that wandered out into the road in front of us and brought us to a stop for nearly a minute.

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ALA Bald Eagle Mules Turkey 160

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2016

A Bald Eagle took a chunk out of my jaw,” said Vonda Lee Morton. “I I’ve been working with eagles and raptors for over 40 years,” says Marge Gibson. Most of mine are small mammals,” said Denise Hunter. Yeah right! She had bumble foot, and she was fast and angry. We felt so bad for her. She left her mark.”. “A

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wounded Wildlife Opossums 165

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The Achiever’s survey voyages took place from 2005 to 2008; the goal was to collect baseline data on sea mammals and marine birds. She’s described conservation successes in detail–the Bald Eagle, the Short-tailed Albatross, now protected in Japan. And, this was badly needed.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2011

As the name suggests, the National Bison Range is mostly known for its large mammals. And although the single Bald Eagle we spotted just outside the park was probably more interested in fish, they are known to enjoy fawn as well, when they can carry it.

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Rattlesnake Bald Eagle Mules Mammals 164

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

I wonder what Americans would think if, in a Wikipedia entry, a Bald Eagle would be illustrated using a photo taken at an Albanian zoo. Many nocturnal mammals and birds such as the Kiwi would likely wholeheartedly agree. But I am grumbling a little bit about it.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 184