10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2015

But bear with me for a second: this post presents a different context for a different squirrel. Its drey – one of several in the garden – is located a few feet below the tip of the skinny spruce between the two bigger conifers. This is not about feeder competition and chicken wire. Which sometimes leads to cool views.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2011

Nearby in the cliffs a Raven sang (yes sang) and high over head a pair of them soared, wing tip to wing tip. I scanned the frozen ocean, after all this is Polar Bear country. And while many people’s image of the bears have been softened by soft drink commercials and Disney films, they are an apex predator.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2012

” Eastern Kingbirds are dark above, white below, and boast a distinctive white-tipped tail. You can tell that from the jaunty bearing of the small warrior when it returns from a high-climbing pursuit in a series of glissandos to fetch up on its tree-top perch. When hawks are lacking a wholly innocuous heron will do.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Now, bear in mind, I just left Costa Rica, where seeing a trogon is really nice, but not all that uncommon, so I don’t believe I was as awed as the occasion called for. Brandy’s tip about going up into the Carrie Nation Mine area was also perfect. This is the area where there is an intermittent creek.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2015

But if they obeyed the rules, which may be too strict – in the Kruger Park in South Africa, the limit is 50 km/h (31 mi/h) – they would not manage to show tourists much of the reserve in about three hours in the morning and the afternoon, which would reflect on their tip. A sounder of Indian Boars is watching us from the jungle.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Bear Grass Tank. Bear Grass Tank. Bear Grass Tank. Bear Grass Tank. Bear Grass Tank. Bear Grass Tank. Bear Grass Tank. Bear Grass Tank. Bear Grass Tank. Bear Grass Tank. Bear Grass Tank. Bear Grass Tank. Bear Grass Tank. Bear Grass Tank. 11 Oct 2019.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

There’s a Sloth Bear in tall, dry grass, barely 50 metres from us, but all we can see is a dark, shape-shifting shadow that eventually becomes all but invisible. He has earned his tip. On a branch above the road, one Black-winged Kite is scratching its throat and… we brake! The Telia Lake.

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MARCH 6, 2011

Even the ones that bear the same plumage as their progenitors, however, can usually be distinguished by their larger bulk. Hat-tip to Stella. Like manky mallards, ganky geese display remarkable variety due to both the methodical manipulations of breeders and the variable volatility of the more natural kind of breeding. Wicked, right?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

The lower bird is almost certainly littoralis the general upperpart tone lighter olive grey; the more prominent supercilium; whiter median and greater covert tips as opposed to buff; white rather than dirty grey outer tail feathers and restricted flank smudging and streaking all point to this individual being a Scandinavian Rock Pipit.

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JUNE 1, 2021

The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. Audubon guides to birds have been around since 1946. This is a fairly large book: 907 pages; 7.38

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

When placed correctly, these feeders are squirrel-free, though, as the Squirrel Buster brochure makes clear, they can still be attacked by raccoons and bears. Its product brochures and website offer tips on bird feeding, and suggestions on how to turn your yard into a safe place for birds, including keeping cats indoors.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

The crowd of macaws is soon joined by parrots arriving as if on cue and bearing their colorfully named body parts: Yellow-crowned , Blue-headed , White-bellied , Orange-cheeked , and Mealy – followed by two species of parakeets – Dusky-headed and White-eyed. Hat-tip to Stella. Wicked, right?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2016

Coming from Niagara Falls, New York, it also means freezing, bitter cold, watching for imaginary Polar Bears while pretending to walk through an Arctic landscape, and looking for owls. White-tipped Dove – Leptotila verrauxi; El Rodeo, 9-Jan. Another year, another list. That’s January for birding.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Up to 256 bird species, deer, black bears, foxes, big cats, Gila Monsters, and 16 species of bats call this area of southeastern Arizona home. ( Insider tip: For Madera Canyon camping, I stay in the Bog Springs Campground (unless it’s the apex of summer – too hot for me!). Peregrine Falcon. Photo by © Mark Schraad. Cooper’s Hawk.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

Informed literature bears out my experience that most birds are seen singly or in pairs. Hat-tip to Stella. The former British colony’s Z.c. melli strain is one of as many as 12 races and shows a lighter face than many of the others. Wicked, right? Coreys 2011 Year List - 228 Copyright © 2011 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Might I assume that women typically bear fewer children, or fewer survive? Hat-tip to Stella. Dale Forbes Mar 16th, 2011 at 8:37 am Hi Laurent, that is a fascinating example of humans responding to difficult environmental challenges. In this case, they would be exhibiting polyandry. Wicked, right?

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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. In the water I find a single black-tipped feather as their only trace. And, this was badly needed. Snow Geese, photo courtesy of Tom Middleton.

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MAY 4, 2019

White-tipped Dove – Leptotila verreauxi. Breezy Point Tip. Breezy Point Tip. Breezy Point Tip. Lemmon–Bear Canyon (Cypress, Middle Bear, Chihuahua Pine Picnic Areas). White-tipped Sicklebill – Eutoxeres aquila. Unnamed Road, Provincia de Puntarenas, CR (9,844, -84,596). 03 Jan 2019.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2019

Lemmon–Bear Canyon (General Hitchcock Campground). Lemmon–Bear Canyon (General Hitchcock Campground). Lemmon–Bear Canyon (General Hitchcock Campground). White-tipped Sicklebill – Eutoxeres aquila. Lemmon–Bear Canyon (Cypress, Middle Bear, Chihuahua Pine Picnic Areas).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2019

Breezy Point Tip. White-tipped Dove – Leptotila verreauxi. White-tipped Sicklebill – Eutoxeres aquila. Breezy Point Tip. Lemmon–Bear Canyon (Cypress, Middle Bear, Chihuahua Pine Picnic Areas). Breezy Point Tip. Point Lookout–Town Park. 06 Jan 2019. Shinnecock Inlet.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2014

The United Nations released its new list of protected species as well, adding the Great Bustard along with the Polar Bear and other species. Hat tip to Duncan for the lead.). Better luck next time, African Lion.). Go home, Bohemian Waxwings in the Yukon, you’re drunk.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Chacachacare (pronounced shaka-shaka-reh ) is the westernmost of the Bocas islands off the northwestern tip of Trinidad. Tobago of course bears a closer geological relation to the aforementioned Netherlands Antilles than it does to Trinidad. Then it hit me that the name of the island itself is rather exotic sounding.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2018

Bear in mind, this boat is 80 feet long, and carries 240 people! Finally, I got a tip from Ricky at Summit Forest Products, and it paid off at a lake very near the RV park at 90 Mile beach on the west coast of the island. It was, and we did go thru. I am borrowing a photo from my wife’s series that she shot.

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JULY 10, 2013

Before you get all huffy and point out that birding doesn’t have to cost money, bear with me because a) the points don’t all have to do with money and b) yes birding doesn’t have to cost money but hands up who actually doesn’t spend stupid money occasionally when it comes to birds?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2012

In Africa, barbets occur throughout the continent from the tip of the Cape Peninsula to the fringes of the Sahara desert. Well, the answer is that the moniker Red-headed Barbet was first given to the South American species that still bears and thus it had precedence to retain the name. They range in size from the tiny 3.5

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