10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2020

To be honest, I was in a last-minute bind trying to find something appropriately spooky for Hallowe’en, some bottle along the lines of the wines or beers with creepy ravens or blackbird s we’ve enjoyed on this holiday in years past. Good birding and happy drinking! Four out of five feathers (Excellent).

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2013 Barn Owls Owls Livestock 217

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2020

Just under a fortnight ago, I saw a report on the local bird alert of a sighting of a group of approximately 20 Nacunda Nighthawks at a wetland not more than 20 minutes from where I live. It seemed to be good birding judgement to scan the seasonally flooded wetland in the couple hours of daylight available before the storm arrived.

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Livestock Ducks ALA illegal 223

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2012

Have you ever enjoyed one of those brilliant birding expeditions, the outing where every target species takes its cue with machine precision? Of course we’ve all experienced the excruciating opposite of such an excursion, but when waves of new birds practically clamor for attention in quick succession, the feeling is exhilarating.

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Trinidad Birds Fast Food Cattle 181

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Birders know that the pairing of farms and birds represents more than mere bucolic romance – it’s a match borne out of a real avian dependence on these man-made landscapes. And of course, there are Cattle Egrets ( Bubulcus ibis ) and several species of cowbirds that rarely stray too far from livestock.

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Vermont Belgium Farming Europe 120

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2016

inhabitants per km², mainly livestock farmers. Blackbird – Turdus merula. Draped in dense forests of black pine, beech, fir, spruce and Scot’s pine, this is one of the least populated areas of Greece, with merely 0.47 At the edge of the forest, above the road, a Roe Deer swiftly disappears between trees.

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Bears Greece Europe Slovenia 270