10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

This is where Gila Woodpecker and Yellow-breasted Chat meet Squirrel Cuckoo , Bat Falcon , and Black-throated Magpie-Jay. As the sun began to set, a flock of Mexican Parrotlets alighted in a tree with brilliant red bark, and we all noticed a Bat Falcon watching silently from a high perch above all the action down below.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2015

Right off the bat I could watch the two cute birds, unobstructed by anything other than some low sand vegetation. Turns out, it took me almost 30 minutes to leave the parking lot! The dunes beside the lot – roped off – boasted not only Willets and Great Egrets , but also not one but two Wilson’s Plovers.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

It’s become regrettably political in the US right, which is the absolute worst response to a potential pandemic going. And sure enough, the natural reservoir of Marlburg, an unpleasant relative of Ebola, was finally identified in was indeed a bat cave I had taken my parents to in Uganda.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 31, 2018

A Blue-throated Hummingbird just flew right past us, and over to one of the feeders. When the Coopers Hawk blew thru the yard looking for a meal, it just froze, and stayed right there for nearly 5 minutes, plenty of time for me to approach, and get this picture. That is our 5th wheel on the right corner. 1 Gila Woodpecker.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

The Brits are known for their animal rights activism, but there's been a rise in wildlife crime against all animals. Bats are being targeted. I don't get it. Apparently they are seen as nuisances. Badgers are being caught for dog-baiting. A bird species is near extinction.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2017

On our first morning, we actually ended up with over 90 species in a couple of hours right around the rooms of the hotel, best ones being Green Ibis (common at the hotel ponds), Bat Falcon , Cinnamon and Rufous-winged Woodpeckers , Fasciated Antshrike , Plain-colored Tanager , Crimson-collared Tanager , and Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2018

I saw my first in Utah back in 2010 right around the time I first started birding but didn’t see one in California proper until a visit to Point Reyes National Seashore in October of last year. , California Scrub-Jay , California Thrasher , California Towhee, California Gnatcatcher, and even the state bird, the California Quail.

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Reddit Animals

OCTOBER 12, 2023

My kitten named Xena that I got back in February has this weird behavior I've never really seen from a cat before and I need to get an opinion on it from other people.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2020

The graveyard shift is on duty: several bats are chasing insects through the evening coolness. That is the trickiest moment for him: what if there’s a bear right next to the dirt track? The Song Thrush becomes silent. Does that mean that the big guy is around? The shades are impenetrable now.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2017

Wheeler, Raptors of Mexico and Central America has a two-part structure: (i) Plates—artwork by Schmitt on the right, detailed plumage descriptions on the left; (ii) Species Accounts—two to six page descriptions of each species with photographs and range maps. Here’s a sample of Plate 30, Bat Falcon and Orange-Breasted Falcon (pp.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2012

Yes, you read that right, two FREAKING MANGROVE CUCKOOS perched OUT IN THE OPEN! That’s right, some Alouatta palliata palliata , a subspecies of the plain-old Mantled Howler , were moving through the trees above the water’s edge! Howler monkeys! Golden-mantled Howlers ! My first-ever wild monkeys! Monkeys!!!!!

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Critter News

JUNE 20, 2010

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. Instead, it brought a new bat species into the exact place in the year 2009 — twenty-five of those creatures also passed away.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2017

The Elephant Cactus , puts out a white tubular flower that open from late March, until early, June, and are visited by nectar feeding bats at night and many birds during the day. At some point the female landed right on top of the cactus that contained the nest, and let her wins droop down. The male came and went several times.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Yet they also bring up questions, which I’m going to talk about right now before diving into the specifics of the guides themselves. I think we do have the right to expect that artwork and species descriptions when repeated are current, reflect recent studies and taxonomic thought. © 2023 by Steve N. © 2023 by Steve N.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

But be it a mouse, bird, bat, gecko, kitten … it’s a very bad way to go, and no creature should have to suffer death by torture. “My The Barn Swallow at right was rescued by Rebecca Dmytryk of Wildlife Emergency Services in Moss Landing, California, and transferred to Native Songbird Care and Conservation in Sebastopol.

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Critter News

MARCH 28, 2010

They’ve had to earn degrees in economics and sociology to learn to marry their causes with the human one – explaining, for instance, that humans depend on bats to pollinate or on coral reefs to support other marine life that is advantageous to mankind. Japan, which imports most of the tuna, led the fight against a proposed ban.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

Bats just love to fly into human hair!” So right from the beginning, none of this makes any sense. Rehabbers are very responsive, although constantly living under the gun makes us sometimes vent about species that aren’t necessarily the ones in question. Porcupines throw their quills! You simply feel relieved to have your baby back.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 28, 2009

But there were many things that I didn’t realize she needed right off the bat. This page about what to do on your puppy’s first day was a huge help in getting a checklist in order. But how do you puppy-proof your home for your new family member?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2018

This Black-throated Blue Warbler was a bird we missed while in Texas, so it was great to see one right off the bat! L ittle Big Year species – 1280. eBird submissions – 320? Bahama species – 38. This is the local Red Legged Thrush. So far the only hummingbird we have seen has been the Bahama Woodstar.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Larry starts us off right with an owl that makes birders drool: I was able to see and photograph many great birds in 2014 but my Best Bird of the Year would have to be the Great Gray Owl , the largest Strix in North America. the scene where Jochen’s saw his BBOTY – a Bat Hawk. Below are our Best Birds of the Year.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

I know these winds had a lot of the birds all settled in, and not moving much, but right off the bat, I got a new Lifer, in a pair of Nuttall’s Woodpeckers. Only my third Brown Creeper sighting ever, this was one of a pair that landed right next to a tree I was sitting near.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Because I've been thinking about the evolution of my own thinking--and languaging--regarding animal rights. Both animal rights groups and animal welfare groups use "compassion" frequently. Compassion" has been so diluted that most people don't bat an eyelash at the idea of " compassionate carnivores." Is it fair? Is it just ?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2014

It’s almost a bucolic place; sea turtles nest on the beaches, Humpback Whales and bat rays frolic just offshore, and you can buy the freshest fish from the panga fisherman at Punta Lobos every afternoon. Gray Thrashers are not as conspicuous as the hummingbirds, but should not be difficult to find in the right places.

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Animal Person

APRIL 26, 2009

Free Speech may be a noble ideal, but perhaps we are better served by thinking of it not only as a right but also as a privilege. They certainly depict cruelty to animals, right? And is video of a cow being pummeled to death with a bat worse than a cow being "processed" in a slaughterhouse? Need it be gratuitous to be offensive?

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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.

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Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

mikey, my stance can be seen in the posts about Project Treadstone (and if you type Project Treadstone into the Google Search box just below my half-blind, diabetic greyhound, Violet Rays, on the right, you'll get a dozen more posts). How contradictory is that? So mikey, I agree with you in theory.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Beljarica floodplain, from the Danube at the left to the embankment at the right hand side. These 870 ha / 2150 ac of river arms, ponds and cubicles, willow and poplar forests, together with alien hybrid black poplar plantations, are earmarked to become the new harbour of the city of Belgrade.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Birds came fast during the first few hours, including a wide array of classic Neotropical species such as Keel-billed Toucan , Bat Falcon , Bright-rumped Attila , Buff-throated Saltator , and Boat-billed Flycatcher. The following morning, we explored an area of secondary growth and edge near a recently tilled field.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2021

And birders spend a lot of their time watching the tree-crowns and, in the right place, spotting many other tree-dwellers. Strictly speaking, Mammals of Madagascar is not a field guide, because some larger groups (rodents, bats) cannot be identified down to a species level following the concise descriptions and a single illustration.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2012

Highlights here (while drinking the thrillingly strong coffee) include Channel-billed Toucan , Crested Oropendola , Turquoise Tanager , Bat Falcon , Barred Antshrike , Blue Dacnis , Green Honeycreeper , Gray-headed Dove , Yellow Oriole , and a suite of hot hummingbirds that deserve their own report.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2017

All of those birds can be identified with the right look, or associating the species with range and habitat, it just takes a close, patient view accompanied by brave jumps to a definitive identification. Before we let the paranoia take over, buck up and take a closer look at the field guide. Be not afraid of this Spotted Woodcreeper.

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Costa Rica 2017 Birds West Virginia 115

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Photographing the Short-tailed Nighthawks involved exercises firstly in tracking their rapid, erratic and incredibly bat-like flight, and secondly in processing the remaining images once 99.99% were deleted. Once I looked through proper glass however, all doubt was blown to smithereens – it was a Bat Falcon.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

We ran across this Common Back Hawk right alongside the mangrove swamp. After hours of tromping thru the muck of a mangrove swamp, we found this Gartered Trogon on the wire right above the car. In addition to this area, our hosts had put together quite a feast for the bird’s right outside out casita door.

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Costa Rica Falcons Mexico Groups 113

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2015

There are 172 species of butterflies recorded within the national park, 24 species of bats, plus the Beech Marten (which I saw only as a road-kill), Otter , Wild Cat , Badger , Wild Boar , Grey Wolf and the European Brown Bear, among others. The roadside bush held one Willow Warbler , while the nearby sandpit was adorned by Northern Wheatear.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2023

And this one’s was definitely when a bird briefly took wing just to the left of our path, only to settle right back down to the ground. Nacho assured me that these bats are fruit-eaters. That was a relief, since Mexico is home to all three of the world’s vampire bat species. But every outing has its high point.

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Bats Mexico ALA 2020 130

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The bird was a little harder to find than I expected; I needed to triangulate the sounds of the call and finally, after standing and looking and walking around the tree where the bird had to be calling from, I took a deep breath, looked again, and there it was right in front of me, actually at eye level. At least for birders.

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