10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2016

Childhood memories flooded back in, and I began my search for the poor victims of this bird, so lovingly nicknamed “The Butcher Bird” Nothing was found, not a grasshopper, lizard, nothing. Shrikes by the numbers: The family Laniidae is composed of 31 species of shrike, around the globe. Sometimes reality is so unfair!

Butcher 114

Butcher Birds North America Mexico 114

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. Though, to be honest, I haven’t really birded all that much as this is a family vacation.). Southern California in summer is where it is at. How could I not crush it?

California 141

California 2006 Butcher Breeding 141

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2011

The first obstacle was getting to the general range of the species, which is the west coast from northern California to Alaska and across to Russia.* 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. Would we do it again? … a.

Washington 170

Washington Protection Puffins Rhinoceros 170