10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2024
These lands support countless birds, either year-round, as migratory stopovers, or as breeding grounds. Many refuges are strategically located along major flyways, allowing ducks and geese to hopscotch their way up the continent to northern breeding grounds and back down again. But what else should birders know?
10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2022
Snowy Plovers also breed half an hour north of my home, so we have those in common. I met Jonathan because his mother-in-law lives here in Morelia, and when he visits her, we sometimes find a space to bird together. He seems to be my Northern (Mountain) Pygmy-Owl whisperer.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2021
After a good introduction called “The Miracle of Migration,” the substance of the book is organized not by strict taxonomy, but by “loose association” into six sections: Wildfowl and Diving Birds, Seabirds, Shorebirds and Waders, Songbirds, Raptors and Owls, and “Other Bird Migrations.”. A “broad spectrum,” indeed.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2022
In Sydney, refuse is an important constituent of the diet during the breeding season (HBW), and a study conducted in 1970 describes a number of strategies by which these gulls steal food from Crested Terns. This makes the marketing of a Queensland vacation home as Silver Gull Court a bit questionable. Feel free to call me shallow.
10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2019
Essay #158, “Things Birders Do: Big Years,” starts with the writer’s observation of a Barn Owl and then defines a Big Year, surprisingly celebrating it as opportunities for solitary introspection. .” The essays are arranged in thematic order grouped in six sections: “Spark Bird!” He received a B.A.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 8, 2014
I was chatting with Gordon about this and we discussed how drones could be a safer way to get photos of birds or document birds for breeding surveys, but he was quick to point out, “You and I already have an idea of what a safe distance would be to test that out with an active bald eagle nest. How close is too close?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2016
By Greek law enforcement officers, I had already been taken for a spy. Although quite a few species will have a second brood ( European Starlings among them), in the lowlands, mid-June is the end of the breeding season for many small passerines. Birders are utterly suspicious characters.
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