10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

They didn’t, of course, have the luxury of the fantastic modern optics we take for granted today. Wagner wasn’t the only one to have died from gunshot wounds. There are not, as far as I know, any plans to re-name the Montagu’s Harrier, a bird that’s now a real rarity in the UK that only occasionally breeds here.

Falcons 234

Falcons Collecting 2003 Wounded 234

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2013

Now that passerine migration has largely wound down the attention of this New York birder has shifted to seabirds, shorebirds, and the occasional trip looking for breeding birds. Instead, I found two banded birds, which I reported of course. Dunlin in breeding plumage are sexy beasts.

Eggs 148

Eggs New York Wounded Jamaica 148

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Of course, the exact wording would have to be toned down a bit, but a premise such as “I want to adopt you because I would really like to f*ck your mother/father” would certainly find its audience. If that isn’t a great basic plot for a soap opera, then what is? T his is an African Sacred Ibis at Ndumo.

South Africa 147

South Africa Africa Birds Research 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2019

Of course, the CBC has sexier abbreviation: with the IWC (or iWC?) These globally threatened raptors breed from Ukraine eastward through Siberia and only a few come to overwinter here. The first idea was, it is probably wounded by poachers. words “international water closet” come to mind. My mind, at least. we will kill it!”,

Geese 155

Geese Serbia Birds Estonia 155

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

There were ten students in total that had signed up for the spring break “Seabirds” course in Dry Tortugas National Park, and after long drives down from North Carolina we had all made it right on time. No, that was not a typo, the Sooty Terns fly non-stop for an average of five years before they return to the Dry Tortugas to breed.

Birds 184

Birds Florida Groups Breeding 184

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2022

The Lilac-breasted Roller is the national bird of Kenya, but of course, this does not help it pay its bills in South Africa. These hornbills have the well-tried breeding strategy of enclosing the female in a tree hole. .” The Latin species name caudatus does not really mean much – just that it has a tail.

Swaziland 147

Swaziland Landlord Birds Sweden 147