10,000 Birds
JANUARY 16, 2020
The Ural Owl inhabits old and undisturbed boreal forests, in an unbroken belt from Sweden and Finland across Russia to Japan, and is rarely seen to the south, only here and there, in the Carpathians (Slovakia/Ukraine/Romania/eastern Serbia) and Dinaric Alps (Croatia/Bosnia/western Serbia). managed to see it, his largest owl ever.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
According to Wikipedia, these birds are good at multitasking, being “in some parts of its range … known as a symbol of luck, longevity, and fidelity” As in humans, “the social implications of dancing [among the cranes] are complex in meaning” ( source ). If everybody did this, the result would be chaos.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2021
Influence in high places helps, too, such as when, to his delight, McMullan, a mere corporal at the time, discovers that his Brigadier (the boss of McMullan’s boss) is avid to see a Tengmalm’s Owl that McMullan had photographed (in Germany), and gets McMullan to guide him.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2014
Why does this little Screech Owl look so horrified? With luck, there has been enough negative feedback to stop this kind of insanity in its tracks, although it bears monitoring because there are no guarantees. So: what do you do if your six-year-old finds a baby bunny, and she can’t bear to part with him?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2018
Flashy of look, brash of attitude, and strident of voice, they bomb around announcing every discovery – ripe acorns, sleeping owls, snakes in need of scolding – to the world. There’s a certain suburbanization of the natural as well as the human world.
10,000 Birds
MAY 31, 2013
Xena is a Eurasian Eagle Owl. Rehabbers have to grin and bear it during baby season; we raise incredibly cute wild birds behind masks, give them no human attention, and make sure they bond with each other and not us. And considering Eagle Owls are capable of taking down young deer, we don’t want her throwing too many tantrums.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2019
There’s nothing to be afraid of: Landscape with Grave, Coffin, and Owl by Caspar David Friedrich. With enough imagination and superstition, some birds can be absolutely frightening – as the multitude of spooky fowl haunting the darkest corners of human culture throughout history will attest.
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