10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

This is one of the Mormon Metalmark family, whose members all look alike, so opinions from more informed butterfly enthusiasts are welcome. Of course, that all went out the window once we started seeing birds, but I think we all came out unscathed. Just, regular old Acorn Woodpeckers , loud and persistent.

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Los Angeles Woodpeckers California Birds 171

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2015

So there was more than simple lister anxiety coursing through my body when word of one sitting atop Grandfather Mountain came out, and birders began making plans to head west. In short, it’s exactly the sort of place that a family would visit even if there weren’t a state first record at the top of the mountain.

North Carolina 145

North Carolina Mountain Lions Otters Lions 145

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 16, 2009

Disneynature’s first film, Earth , which comes out on Earth Day (April 22,2009), follows three animal families across the globe. Inevitably, it’s a situation where you were there, and for me, it’s the swimming male polar bear. When you see a dying male polar bear and you’ve been with that animal for a long time, it is hard.

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Polar Bears Bears Walruses Norway 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2017

Bear in mind, even the plants have to find ways to survive, so virtually every one of them has some form of thorny defense. When it comes to a one stop shopping for food and shelter, no other plant is as widely used as the Cardon Cactus family. Therefore, nothing here ever passes on a chance for a meal.

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Elephants Woodpeckers Squirrels Shelters 105

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2018

Over the years, this site has hosted many popular festivals, concerts, and tours, as well as an on-site café serving traditional Belgian fare like waffles and frites, and – of course – a bottle shop. non-birders) envision when they hear the word “bird” – but it bears a passing resemblance to the American Robin.

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Belgium New York United States Skunks 100

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 group pages show how much the taxonomy of certain bird families has changed over the past 13 years.

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North America 2003 Birds America 155

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2012

The trip was far too amazing to encapsulate in one mere blog post, so prepare to be enthralled over the course of several weeks (especially once I find the USB cord for my camera and download my photos.) But the grasslands of eastern Montana bear a resemblance to their wildlife that goes beyond the mere evolutionary imperative of camoflauge.

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Wildlife Ferrets Montana Prairie Dogs 180

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

This small pine tree was very recently demolished by a brown bear. The claw marks on this brown bear’s footprint make you wish you had taken the other kind of canon with you. Of course this book does not aim at being an ID-guide for the tracks of 750+ bird species, which the author points out in the first sentence of the chapter.

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Europe Mammals Animal Birds 165

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

For the purpose of this post being of a reasonable length, I’m only going to touch on members of the Tyrannidae family of New World Flycatchers which can be found in the cocoa estates of Trinidad and Tobago. There are of course, many other birds which feed on flying insects, such as jacamars and trogons.

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Trinidad Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 206

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Livingston, and on the dust jacket was a drawing of three Pine Grosbeaks ( Pinicola enucleator ) standing on a cone-bearing tree. There were waterbirds and raptors, owls and woodpeckers, thrushes, grosbeaks and crossbills, and of course those charming and indispensable new world warblers.

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Birds Woodpeckers Canada Collecting 209

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

It’s the bird family that most people don’t know is a bird family. For many years it was thought the two bird families were related taxonomically. Like Antpittas and Gnateaters by Harold F. Introduction. Images of typical display poses are included for many of the birds of paradise.

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Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 261

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. I hope by this time you have settled on a bird family for your avian obsession. (I

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2022

According to an article in the Guardian , “nearly a quarter of black swan families are parented by homosexual couples, the males sometimes mating with a female simply to have a chick. Though of course, competition for these jobs from Eurasian Spoonbills is fierce. It seems they kept a pheasant as a pet for the chick.

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Birds China Pythons Breeding 200

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Of course, a “person who birds” begs the question of what “ bird ,” as a verb, means. Duck : “any of various swimming birds (family Anatidae, the duck family) in which the neck and legs are short, the feet typically webbed, the bill often broad and flat, and the sexes usually different from each other in plumage.”.

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Albatross Bears Ducks Bald Eagle 103

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

I didn’t know the set up required for a black bear, or how high a Florida panther can actually jump. I come from a family where the worse the situation, the faster and more furiously the wisecracks fly, so I suppose I’m hardwired to look for humor. And of course, Carl Hiaasen, who unintentionally taught me how to write a novel.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 249

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2014

And, of course, the wood-warblers. Every spring they totally steal the show in the northeast and you really can’t blame birders for abandoning their jobs, their families, and their sanity as they rush to New York City’s abundant and amazing parks to see the show live and in technicolor. Northern Parula. American Redstart.

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New York City New York Kentucky Abandon 172

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2013

In celebration of the upcoming I and the Bird look at the heron family I invite you to consider the White-faced Heron ! Very little is known about this species, and only a few skins survive to bear testament to its lost existence. That New Zealand had an endemic species of heron which went extinct should hardly be surprising either.

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New Zealand Indonesia Cattle Guinea 148

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. The bird’s skeleton bears similarities to New Guinea’s much smaller (!) But here we are today.

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 273

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Once you reach Coconut Wells the road bears to your right and just as the bitumen ends you take a left turn towards the beach. The more secluded the beach the better of course! Family of Brolga. Pied Oystercatcher egg.

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Eggs Birds Investigation Bears 140

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

This past weekend, while I was vacation over the long holiday with my family in Asheville, North Carolina, a little town in the part of the Appalachians named the Black Mountains, I was made aware of an amazing phenomenon that mountain birders had known about for years.

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Tennessee Salamander North Carolina Georgia 172

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2024

Of course, the same applies to pizza services for humans. Location, location, location – some practical advice for River Lapwings aiming to have a family: “ River Lapwing nests on open, unvegetated river banks achieved significantly greater nesting success than those in crop fields” ( source ).

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Squirrels Birds China Bears 136

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Suppose there is a man who wishes to end his life but regrets never having given his poor and hungry family any pleasure. He requests that after his death his wife prepare a lavish dinner with him as the main course. The members of his family have no objections; on the contrary, they rather relish the idea.

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Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2018

Anyone who has set foot in an Irish pub at any point in the last several decades has undoubtedly seen these vintage ads featuring a colorful and clownish menagerie of bears, sea lions, turtles, kangaroos, crocodiles, lions, and many birds – including the famous Guinness toucans. They thought it would be vulgar. Somehow it led to animals.”.

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Campaign Sea Lions Lions Kangaroos 101

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Tobago of course bears a closer geological relation to the aforementioned Netherlands Antilles than it does to Trinidad. Making ourselves comfortable on a small ridge overlooking the salt ponds, we had our sandwiches as we enjoyed views of a Northern Waterthrush and a small family of Bicolored Conebills working the vegetation.

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Trinidad Netherlands Columbus Whales 171

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2014

There is some variation in this, of course, with some preferring a seat by the pool. This is not to say, however, that birders on holiday are, should they choose to travel with family, friends or other assorted loved ones, resigned to seeing nothing, or even nothing except the common stuff. Poring Hot Springs.

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Birds Bats Elephants Family 180

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In the end of course, the eagle went on to become the national bird of the United States, despite the bad rap from old Ben. With all this injustice, he is never in good case but like those among men who live by sharping & robbing he is generally poor and often very lousy. Good birding, happy drinking, and happy Thanksgiving!

2017 151

2017 Bald Eagle United States Turkey 151

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

advisory board, the “ Wildlife Protection Board ,” has been created to help rewrite federal rules for importing the heads and hides of African elephants, lions and rhinos is stacked with trophy hunters, including some members with direct ties to President Donald Trump and his family 2. A newly created U.S. But I digress.

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Hunting Hunters Gorillas Wolves 109