10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s not like I had forgotten lists created with friends of ‘songs with birds in the lyrics’, my personal favorites being Sondheim’s Green Finch and Linnet Bird and the Beatles’ Blackbird. As I explained to my nephews when they were younger, “The Burrowing Owls don’t think we’re their friends.

Birds 236

Birds Egypt Family Eagles 236

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2013

Yellow-headed Blackbirds singing in the reeds allowed us to get an arm’s length away. I’ve never been on an “owl prowl” before, and was thrilled that the one we joined turned up the promised quarry, and then some. Great Horned Owl babies peering out from their nest! Barn Owl babies peering out from their box!

Nevada 197

Nevada Birds Barn Owls Cows 197

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2012

I was delighted by the invitation and spent hours going through my photos, printing them out, imagining fifteen 4-year olds entranced by egrets, herons, and Burrowing Owls. Jake’s favorite before-bedtime book when he was just a bit younger was Owl Babies by Martin Waddell, a picture book I had picked up at a nature center.

Birds 238

Birds Owls Switzerland Lions 238

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2011

There are several species of birds we enjoy for their songs-- American Robins, Carolina Wrens, Wood Thrushes and maybe even Red-winged Blackbirds. v=I3mgqqmugPU Reason 2: Nesting If a woodpecker is making large holes, they could be creating a roosting spot or a cavity to raise a family of young woodpeckers.

Woodpeckers 262

Woodpeckers Owls Blackbirds Raised 262

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

I’m happy to say that Laura Erickson and Marie Read have written a book, Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds , that is not too cute and that does not anthropomorphize. Part Two: The Family Live of Selected Species” describes and illustrates the family lives of 49 species in 25 chapters.

Eggs 263

Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

In many cases, our waterfowl, gulls, and shorebirds are the same as those overseas – or only slightly different – and there are many other corresponding species in nearly all the shared families. I remember the talking (Song?) thrush cracking snails on the gray stone in J.R.R.

2017 121

2017 Portugal Rabbits Europe 121

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

Jon Fjeldså’s contributions include many of the ducks, yellow-finches, and many other families where his images of Birds of the High Andes could be used. And, it has to be added that all of these artists and the additional seven artists contributed images that filled out plates of most of the bird families.

Bolivia 196

Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 196

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

… Tags: ducks , features , jamaica bay , migration , queens • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. Wicked, right?

Ducks 181

Ducks 2011 Jamaica New York 181

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

… Tags: migration , phoebes , spring • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. Wicked, right?

2011 200

2011 Deer New York Philadelphia 200

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

Red-winged Blackbird in Flight Flight Of The Ancient Mariner About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. Tags: denmark , mute swan , national bird , swans • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Wicked, right?

Denmark 173

Denmark 2011 Honduras Deer 173

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2013

We soon figured out the place for Barred Owls, for Harris’s Sparrows and Brewer’s Blackbirds and all sorts of semi-rare birds that we were solely responsible for bringing to the count list at the end of the day. My schedule – as a young semi-professional with a family – is hardly set in stone.

North Carolina 163

North Carolina Missouri Blackbirds Sparrows 163

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2015

The real Gung-Ho, Kung-Fu birders would have drove to this site at midnight and just slept in the car or looked for owls until the dawn chorus in excellent middle elevation rainforest but since we have families, and I hate being exhausted and zombie-eyed from lack of sleep, more leisurely birding was just peachy.

Costa Rica 185

Costa Rica Chile Nicaragua San Jose 185

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Even the names we give to some birds reflect their dependence on the cultivated landscape – we have Barn Owls ( Tyto alba ) and Barn Swallows ( Hirundo rustica ) over much of the world, and Orchard Orioles ( Icterus spurius ) in the Americas really do have a fondness for fruit groves.

Vermont 125

Vermont Belgium Farming Europe 125

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

Of course, it is quite common for human parents to set fire to their family homes in order to keep the adult children from moving back home, but this is not an issue for drongos. A hard-working Chinese Blackbird almost certainly already incubating its second brood is certainly not a target customer for a La-Z-Boy.

Singapore 147

Singapore Birds Mountain Goats Giraffes 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2011

I chanced to glance at a bird perched atop the Oak tree in my back yard, figuring it was one of the Blackbirds or Grackles that had recently returned to my neighborhood. Tags: baltimore oriole , half hardy , Terminology • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Instead I saw a flash of orange.

North Carolina 140

North Carolina 2011 St. Louis Baltimore 140

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2019

Red-winged Blackbird – Agelaius phoeniceus. Melodious Blackbird – Dives dives. Barn Owl – Tyto alba. Eurasian Blackbird – Turdus merula. Middle American Screech-Owl – Megascops guatemalae. Mottled Owl – Ciccaba virgata. European Starling – Sturnus vulgaris.

2019 126

2019 Jamaica Eggs Woodpeckers 126

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Nice. ((** all names have been changed to protect identities and have been substituted with (almost) randomly chosen substitutes suitable for a family of Alpine Accentors.)) small families putting less pressure on the adult members of the family). all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes. Wicked, right?

2011 230

2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 230

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

I was attending the 3rd Global Bird-watching Conference in Gujarat and suddenly surrounded not just be species that were completely new, but entire families of birds. Larry adds our second owl species to this list of stellar birds. It was a race between the Snowy Plover and the Spotted Owl. I chose the owl.

2013 168

2013 Birds Costa Rica India 168

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

Species Accounts are arranged taxonomically, grouped by family. Family sections start with a brief description of the characteristics shared by the species in the family, followed by a description of the sounds made by those species and how they obtain their song/call knowledge.

North America 186

North America America Birds New York 186

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Veraguan Mango by Carlos Bethancourt Although the Neotropical region supports fewer bird families than Africa, there are considerably more bird species here than anywhere else on earth. This means that there are some astoundingly large families of birds in Central and South America. have found their way to Costa Rica. Wicked, right?

Panama 231

Panama Costa Rica 2011 Cleveland 231

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

Moved by an unseasonable bout of optimism, I went owl-chasing this weekend and actually encountered what has been a true nemesis bird for me: Northern Saw-whet Owl ! Jochen Mar 15th, 2011 at 5:03 am The return of the twilight chorus of Eurasian Blackbirds. we might have a shot at another spring. Enjoy the details and proof here.

2011 133

2011 Deer Birds Owls 133

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

This outstanding member of the wattlebird family is unique among songbirds in having different shaped beaks for each of the sexes. We’ll also keep our eyes open for several members of the New Zealand wren family. Laughing Owl. The forests around Wellington will let us clean up any North Island endemics we may have missed.

New Zealand 226

New Zealand Ducks Australia Mountain Goats 226

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Can the whole family live together in harmony during the school holidays? Bare-shanked Screech-Owl – Megascops clarkii. Eurasian Scops-Owl – Otus scops. Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl – Bubo lacteus. Little Owl – Athene noctua. Tropical Screech-Owl – Megascops choliba. 13 Jun 2018.

2018 100

2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

There are exceptions: some full-frontal views, owl back views, and, strangely, a section on Kingfisher Behavior in which the kingfishers are facing left). Birds are arranged in taxonomic order, organized into sections based on families. I did find an error in the introductory page for Orioles and Blackbirds.

North America 255

North America Birds Species America 255

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

For the moment I’ll stick with the split babbler families although I may relump the laughingthrushes, ground and tree babblers per Molye et al (2012). Species are listed by family according to the order eBird spits them out to me in. STRIGIDAE (OWLS). I’m pretty sure this is a Malaysian Hawk-cuckoo.

2014 150

2014 New Zealand Singapore Rhinoceros 150