10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

I’ve observed nesting owls, fledgling owlets, owls eating small rodents, owls coughing up their pellets, a Great Horned Owl silently flying over me, a Great Gray Owl sitting regally still on a post as a boy walks up to him, a pair of Barking Owls duetting in early evening hours outside my northern Australian hut as I brushed my teeth.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 224

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2022

I remember leaping off the couch escaping whatever mundane conversation to run outside, eyes peering as far as possible into the night sky in an attempt to locate the Barn Owl whose shriek I had just heard. Fast forward many years later and I learned of a pair of young Spectacled Owls just near to the local university.

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Trinidad Owls Barn Owls Abandon 277

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

The selections appear to largely reflect Hauber’s personal experiences around the world and he does occasionally bring himself into the essay, reflecting on a European Robin he observes at dusk in northwestern Germany or searching for American Robin nests on a tree farm in the Midwestern United States.

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Chicago Barn Owls Penguins New Zealand 193

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2012

Typically these birds hunt at night and are very shy. So my first sighting of Pel’s Fishing Owl was highly appreciated. When visiting the Makgadikgadi Pans region we spotted several Marsh Owls quartering the pan fringes at dusk and, at Mowana Lodge in the Chobe, we had protracted views of their resident Barn Owl.

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Owls Fish Botswana Barn Owls 255