10,000 Birds
JANUARY 14, 2022
Of course, a land of beefeaters needs butchers. Given its veneration of Chianina beef, it’s hardly surprising that Tuscany has brought forth the world’s first celebrity butcher. An avian butcher at work: Red-backed Shrike ( Lanius collurio ) depicted by Dutch bird illustrator J.G. Good birding and happy drinking!
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 10, 2016
As a boy growing up, I scoured every bird book I could get my hands on. I guess it is that gruesome boyhood interest in any bird that would use thorns and barbwire to impale its prey on. These fiercely territorial birds. Here is a pair birds that I visit quite often, in an arroyo near La Ventana, Mexico.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2015
Sure, it’s been well over a month since I returned from my fun-filled, family vacation to Honduras but that doesn’t mean that it’s too late to blog about it, right? Well, it’s a life bird if you consider Salvin’s Emerald a separate species. Of course we had a lot more to do other than look at birds.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2011
Feeding birds is generally regarded as a harmless past-time, a wholesome way for people to share nature and enjoy wildlife with the family. However, more and more news stories are popping up this year of communities cracking down on bird feeding. How do you know when you are a little too involved with feeding birds?
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 20, 2012
No wonder they’ve earned the moniker “butcher bird.” ” This one was calling to its family group as they wandered through the thorns searching for tidbits. Removing the legs is a good start but eventually this bird left with a legless insect, presumably to find a bush full of makeshift talons.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2013
Though I have made several trips to southern California over the eight years I have been birding almost every trip has been in December or January. The one exception, in 2006, when I had only been birding for one year, was in July. Though, to be honest, I haven’t really birded all that much as this is a family vacation.).
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 29, 2011
Having flown to Washington State on a family vacation the first obstacle was easily out of the way, which you knew already if you ever read this blog. But then came the biggest obstacle of all… …would Daisy agree to a boat ride that had a bird as its goal? Instead I heard “Sure, that sounds like fun.
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