10,000 Birds
MAY 26, 2017
Falcon Wild is a new book in that long tradition, and this one features a more realistic (though still very slightly romanticized) portrait of a human/animal partnership. Stark, a white Gyrfalcon , is a falconry bird born and raised. Falcon Wild by Terry Lynn Johnson, $16.99, Charlesbridge Publishing.
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2020
The April arrival of the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition was a supremely happy moment in a very difficult, sad month. A companion regional guide, Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Western North America was published in 1941; its fifth edition will be coming out in early September.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2019
I brushed the screen of my tablet and the image of a small bird, bold in black and gray and chestnut, filled the screen behind me. No brand recognition at all.” “We’ll take the Peregrine Falcon ,” at least seven voices said at once. And having a bird named after you or your company shows that.”
10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2015
This time I was lucky enough to join a fam trip organised by Natural Greece, an ecotourism company from Athens, and spend a few days at my favourite Kerkini Lake, which you already birded through my bins ( April and September ). Scan of the ridge reveals a distant but definitive Peregrine Falcon.
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2018
One of my early memories of birds is the abundance of Ospreys I saw after moving from Syracuse, New York downstate to eastern Long Island at the age of eight. Ospreys nesting on platforms like this one in Fort Ticonderoga, New York make easy targets for even the most modestly-skilled bird photographers (this author included).
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2016
On her return, she was able to bundle up and bring with her, a brand new Nikon lens. The arrival of this new piece of camera gear, and the fact that it just happens to coincide with some of the largest numbers of migrant birds I have seen in this area in the last 6 years, has certainly made me a happy camper.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 8, 2017
Shallows provide an ideal spawning ground for almost 50 fish species and submerged islands breeding ground for more than 100 bird species. I suck at bird songs but this one sounds more like something coming from a pinball machine. Along the cliffs before the citadel, another great bird shows up – a small flock of Alpine Swifts.
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