10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

Like manky mallards, ganky geese display remarkable variety due to both the methodical manipulations of breeders and the variable volatility of the more natural kind of breeding. Tags: features , geese , manky , waterfowl • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? We certainly see enough of them, don’t we?

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Geese 2011 Deer New York 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

The little stiff-tails are almost year-round at Jamaica Bay though almost all leave to breed in the summer and in the depths of winter, when the ponds are almost completely frozen, they tend to head for open water. I can see why you thought you had found a new breed with this one. Get yours today! Do you think it is the female?

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica Deer 152

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

I may have to quit blogging… Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or The street is then stained with blobs of pecan oil.

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2011 Deer New York Owls 151

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Here are some of the questions that were running through my mind as I read Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl : (a) Is ornithological research always this dangerous? (b) The fish owl is Jonathan Slaght’s grail and also, more prosaically, his dissertation topic.

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Owls Russia Fish Research 136

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

They breed across Canada and Alaska’s boreal forest near ponds and lakes, using nest holes made by woodpeckers, almost exclusively flickers. … Tags: diving ducks , ducks , flight • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Bufflehead are the smallest of North America’s diving ducks. Get yours today!

2011 150

2011 Ducks Deer New York 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

The male Bar-tailed Godwit are the first to show us breeding plumage and then the Red Knot and Curlew Sandpipers have two beautiful reds-red wine rather than cranberry juice! Breeding colour becomes rather obvious! She also monitors Pied Oystercatchers breeding along a 23km stretch of beach by bicycle and on foot.

2011 150

2011 Australia Deer China 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Finally a Feeder Watcher Recent Forest Park Birding Unpacking My 2009 Year List New Year, New Bird Exodus: The Migration of Saw-whet Owls in North America About the Author Rick Rick Wright studied French, German, philosophy, and biology at the University of Nebraska. at Princeton University in 1990. Wicked, right?

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2011 Tucson Arizona Deer 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

By March though Scandinavian Rock Pipit begins to show some changes into breeding plumage and outs itself as a migrant rather than a resident. By the way: at the Baltic coast we had large flocks of spinoletta migrating through in late March/April, and due to them moulting from non-breeding to breeding plumage, many had seemingly pale lores.

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2011 Deer Fish New York 152

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

This is an endemic breeding bird in North America and much is now being done by various federal and non-profit groups to ensure and foster its conservation. Piping plovers are always a treat to see, whether at their coastal or inland breeding grounds or whether at their southern wintering grounds. Get yours today! Wicked, right?

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Florida South Africa 2011 Africa 191

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

It is also familiar at inland sites in winter, especially reservoirs and refuse tips, and breeds in the relatively-Northerly regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Yellow-Legged Gull These gulls breed around the Mediterranean and have yellow, rather than flesh-coloured legs. Get yours today! I am clearly not.

2011 157

2011 Cyprus Deer Species 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Ringer Gannets and Boobies (Sulidae) Black-and-white gannets breed on the cold, rocky coasts of the northern and southern oceans. They can soar for hours, or plunge and twist after another bird with spectacular power and flair. Wicked, right?

2011 153

2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 153

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

Birders who have been to California might be familiar with the latter two, indeed we would be close to the Poor Knights Islands later in the day, the site of the only breeding colony of Buller’s Shearwaters in the whole world. One birder from Australia even got his lifer Red-crowned Parakeet ! I personally had a great if exhausting day.

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New Zealand Albatross 2011 Cooking 175

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

I had a beautifull view on 5 horned grebe here (one in breeding plumage), in Ann Arbor Michigan, for the 3 seconds it lasted, until I heard a huge “CRRACK&# , and I fell through the ice. When I first saw it I thought it might be a snowy or a barn owl because it was almost white. And my first Killdeer of year! Wicked, right?

2011 155

2011 New York Deer Birds 155

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2024

Wader watching in spring is always exciting, as so many of these birds are transformed when they acquire their breeding finery. A few breed locally, and in March I went out twice at dusk to watch for roding (displaying) males: I saw single birds on both occasions. Always a good bird to see: a Short-eared Owl.

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Spain Eagles North America Ducks 130

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

212) who trap, follow, and analyze the migration paths of Snowy Owls, a project founded in 2013, the magic year of the Snowy Owl irruption. Author Scott Weidensaul and a Snow Owl. Photograph by Chris DeSorbo, © 2021 Scott Weidensaul. It is often hard to be positive. But Weidensaul seems to have optimism in his DNA.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 253

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2011

The vast majority of Baltimore Orioles that breed in North America return to the tropics between Mexico and northern South America for the cold half of the year. 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. Wicked, right?

North Carolina 140

North Carolina 2011 St. Louis Baltimore 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

She also monitors Pied Oystercatchers breeding along a 23km stretch of beach by bicycle and on foot. Go win a copy and you might get it before I get off my keister and write my review… Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Seriously, that really happens in this excellent video of a Great Horned Owl scavenging a deer carcass by Kirk Mona.

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Australia 2011 Sharks Deer 151

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the next few days, the Alpine Accentors ( Prunella collaris ) will arrive on their high-Alpine breeding grounds – it is time to start singing, despite that the treeless Alpine landscape is still under metres of snow. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes.

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 212

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

The variety of plumages that they show and the way different individuals molt at different times is interesting to me and I have stopped being surprised at seeing a small flock of ruddies with some nearly in full breeding, or alternate plumage, while others are still in their basic, or non-breeding plumage. Get yours today!

Ducks 143

Ducks 2011 New York New York City 143

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

Go win a copy and you might get it before I get off my keister and write my review… Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Seriously, that really happens in this excellent video of a Great Horned Owl scavenging a deer carcass by Kirk Mona. Tags: Asides Explore These Related PostsCarnival of the Blue XLVTerrifying [.]

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Deer 181

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

Here’s hoping this bird makes it back to its home turf to breed and comes back to spend another winter in New York State! … Tags: Lewiss Woodpecker , new york , woodpeckers • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Also, your using a computer burns carbon. Wicked, right?

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New York Woodpeckers Jordan 2011 194

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

Outside of the breeding season a few birds may join together in a loose flock if the feeding is good. Go win a copy and you might get it before I get off my keister and write my review… Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Seriously, that really happens in this excellent video of a Great Horned Owl scavenging a deer carcass by Kirk Mona.

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2011 Deer India New York 183

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

Not to mention, its brilliantly bulbous crimson throat, bloated during breeding season must be a sight! … Tags: brazil • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? The Magnificent Frigatebird is the bird I would want to see. Though not a rare bird, it’s tireless flight, day and night, I find alluring.

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 206

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

Let us for once judge a book by its cover, and take a thorough look at a Black-headed Gull in breeding plumage. The eagle owl is still sitting tight on the nest. Tags: features , gulls • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Thanks, Wikipedia ! Get yours today! Dan: thanks so much!! Very glad you like it.

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2011 Birds Deer Europe 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Sincerely, Julie Zickefoose Tags: cranes , sandhill crane hunting , sandhill cranes • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! They reach breeding maturity at four to seven years of age, produce only one chick per nesting season, and only one in three offspring survive to fledging age. Wicked, right?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 247

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. Go win a copy and you might get it before I get off my keister and write my review… Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Seriously, that really happens in this excellent video of a Great Horned Owl scavenging a deer carcass by Kirk Mona.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 242

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

They will feed up there and then head north to Siberia to breed. The shorebirds are starting to get their breeding plumage and the first to show some colour are the male Bar-tailed Godwit. She also monitors Pied Oystercatchers breeding along a 23km stretch of beach by bicycle and on foot. Get yours today! Wicked, right?

2011 144

2011 Australia Deer New York 144

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The Gray-crowned Rosy Finch , when she abandons her breeding grounds, prefers to forage on the ground, similar to (and sometimes in company with) Snow Buntings, Horned Larks , and Longspurs. eBird also shows records of Great Horned, Flammulated , and Northern Saw-whet Owls on Snow Bowl Road.

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Badgers Montana North America Abandon 176

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

On the other hand, I quite enjoyed an array of Long-tailed Ducks at Irondequoit Bay, including one male in breeding plumage. Long-tailed Duck by Mike Bergin Tags: best bird , weekend • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Wicked, right?

2011 140

2011 Deer Birds Costa Rica 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2011

Outside of the tropics, nesting would usually take place in the spring (in the southern hemisphere, spring and the height of the breeding season occurs before Christmas); these pictures were taken in March as the weather in Cape Town is beginning to cool. A multi-part trip report from Cape Town can be found at Redgannet, March 2011.

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2011 Deer Africa Peru 165

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2011

Breeding behaviour and plumage was very apparent, but John Wise , an ex-pat Brit now resident in Orlando, told me that the birds’ activities had been held up for a couple of weeks during a cold snap that saw frosts in Florida. Mike Mar 5th, 2011 at 1:32 pm Those egrets in breeding plumage are absolutely exquisite! Wicked, right?

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2011 Alligators Florida Deer 116