10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

There are not, as far as I know, any plans to re-name the Montagu’s Harrier, a bird that’s now a real rarity in the UK that only occasionally breeds here. Eleonora’s Falcon was named by Italian naturalist Alberto della Marmora after Eleonora of Arborea (1350-1404), a celebrated Sardinian princess.

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Falcons Collecting 2003 Wounded 242

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Let us no more speak of this week’s extraordinary failure by a cast of Falcons to finish off their prey. And as a ferocious storm bears down on much of the northern U.S., Instead, we’ve got other bird news to cheer us up (or at least take our minds off avian’s inexplicable inability to capture U.S. sports championships ).

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Massachusetts Eggs Falcons Rights 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Add more than 350 pairs of White Pelicans to that picture, numerous herons and up to 700 pairs of Pygmy Cormorants breeding in the same reedbeds (cover photo)… It must be bursting with activity in spring, but I was there in mid-September. Have you heard of it? Can you pinpoint it on a map?

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Greece Pelicans Geese Breeding 252

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Beside birds, in this park you stand a chance of spotting the Eurasian Lynx , Brown Bear and Gray Wolf ! Birds of the Iron Gates: While the best birding season here is the breeding period (May to June), the Iron Gates is also an important migratory stopover and wintering area. Well, do you really?

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Serbia Turtles Birds Eagles 209

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

Am I willing to give up the field guide which bears the mud and dirt of so many falls on so many birding trips? And, that falcons are about as far away from hawks as a bird family could get. The guide that flips open automatically to Semipalmated, Western, and Least Sandpipers, a testament to my continuing learning curve with peeps?

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North America 2003 Birds America 181

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

For example, the definition of Laysan Albatross , mentioned above, reads: “an albatross ( Diomedea immutabilis ) that is white with dark back and wings and is found on Laysan and adjacent islands of the Pacific ocean.” However, this bird spends most of its life on the vast North Pacific Ocean, returning to land only to breed.

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Albatross Bears Ducks Bald Eagle 108

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Though the coast of British Columbia, a part of the Great Bear Rainforest, was rich in both, it was appallingly deficient in scientific data. The species was seemingly killed off by feather hunters, but then, after years, reappeared at the site of one of the deserted breeding colonies, Torishima Island in Japan.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100