10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2021
Ranging in color from off-white to dingy black, with pastel to gelatinous shades of yellow, orange, purple, and brown in-between, found in moist crevasses, decaying trees, rain-soaked pastures, mushrooms lack the beauty of butterflies and wildflowers cannot equal the action of bats, or flying fish, and certainly lack the spiritual zest of birds.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 29, 2013
On Saturday’s nature walk at Oakland Lake, a small park in Queens, Desi and I got to enjoy the antics of a very active Little Brown Bat before our friend Kerry arrived to join us. Little Brown Bat Myotis lucifugus. Little Brown Bat Myotis lucifugus. ……… Mammals bats Oakland Lake Queens'
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10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2017
This is the first identification guide that I know of that covers Mexico (technically North America but rarely included in North American raptor guides) and Central America. Like Peterson’s Hawks of North America, 2nd edition (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), which Clark co-authored with Brain K.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
These are the largest nightjars in North America, significantly larger than Whip-poor-will or any of the nighthawks. The massive eyes are really evident in the hand Chuck -will’s-widows feed predominantly on insects but they have been known to prey on birds and even bats too, swallowing these whole.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2011
Which is bad news for someone like me who still struggles with the fact that bats are mammals. million bird observations in North America alone. It is this last feature that I personally find the most exciting - the ability for me to find birds anywhere I travel in North America.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
The Durango Highway is arguably one of North America’s great birding roads due to the great variety of habitats, the spectacular mountain scenery of the Sierra Madre Occidental, and the numerous Mexican endemics one can target. Thus, I looked forward to this second portion of the trip with great anticipation.
Critter News
JUNE 20, 2010
A study released by the associations that accredit zoos across North America said that the occurrence of deaths was not a fluke. For example, there was a higher-than expected number of bats passing away each year between 2004 and 2008, but the zoo didn’t do anything to decide why.
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