10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2013

This past winter was very good for the chance to see boreal owl species in the United States. Owls are cool looking birds that appeal to a mass audience, even people who are not birders. When people started heading out to see these owls and then get photos, some disturbing videos showed up. Was it because the owl flew on him?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2015

Go up there early in the morning and you might also see Buffy-crowned Wood-Partridge on the side of the road (most reliable spot for this wild chicken in Costa Rica). Go up there before dawn and you might even hear and see Unspotted Saw-whet Owl along with much more common Bare-shanked Screech-Owl and Dusky Nightjar.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2013

Normally I feed vultures, as well as hawks and owls, defrosted mice and rats. He then ate a screech owl, a robin, two squirrels, a mourning dove, three chipmunks, and a rabbit. But I was on a work deadline, so by the time I arrived at the zoo the vulture had eaten several pork chops and some very nice free-range chicken.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Mob Wives: While their mates are off harassing owls, these Black-capped Chickadees gossip, feud, and occasionally get a little extra-pairing action! Doctor Who-cooks-for-you: A curmudgeonly Barred Owl somehow knows what’s wrong with every sick bird he sees, but only after two false diagnoses and five commercial breaks.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

It was loaded with waterfowl – lots of Mallards and Green-winged Teal , a few Gadwalls and Northern Shovelers , a solitary Pintail and an equally lonesome Eared Grebe , and of course tons of my old favorite the American Coot (or as I like to call them, the Devil’s chickens.) Will a Northern Hawk Owl come perch on my roof?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Jose’s deep knowledge of rainforest wildlife and ecology is reflected in his detailed paintings of Spectacled Owls, Ornate Hawk-Eagles , and other jungle wildlife. He mentioned how, growing up, locals talked about losing small chickens to those frogs but never to toads.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. A housecat in Buenos Aires got its start in Africa, a sheep in Australia to the Middle East, a chicken in Ireland can trace its origin to the jungles of Asia. But hedgehogs? Greenfinches?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

It’s not limited to small birds, either. “We once took in a Barred Owl stuck to an 11″ x 14″ sheet,” she adds. If people have to use them, I suggest they create a cage of chicken wire and hang the strip inside the cage.”. We had to euthanize the poor bird immediately.”.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Cover photo : observing the rarest owl of India. On that same trip, in another reserve I was walking along the boardwalk through a large reed-bed. Being next to the sea, the air was cold and damp, enough for the wood to absorb moisture and become slippery. And the final advice to lodge owners: listen to your guests.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2011

These small chickens are mountain-top specialities. Areas of mixed-coniferous and mixed-deciduous forests can yield the secretive Northern Pygmy-Owl. These tiny, long-tailed Owls are often tame when found, but call for brief periods usually only around the break of day (crepuscular). This species is an athletic and patient one.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2012

I think my official Best Bird of 2012, though, was (finally, finally seeing) the Burrowing Owl. Burrowing Owl Tai Haku liked Mike’s choice of a chicken in our original post but decided to do him one better. Rebecca Deatsman picked a Best Bird of the Year that was the same as my Best Bird of the Year last year.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 20, 2009

Like a perch in a chicken coop>insulted, pooped on (Spanish, Mexico). To carry owls to Athens>useless (German) – coals to Newcastle. It’s called I’m Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World and there are many that have to do with animals! And they are pretty funny!

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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.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2013

We stayed at the foot hills of La Campana National Park with the hopes to get a look at the Rufous-legged Owl. Continued from: Birdwatching Santiago de Chile – Trip Report. By the time we had dinner and arrived to our hotel we were so exhausted that it became impossible to go search for this endemic bird.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

There are owls in New York City. Big owls: Barred Owls on Riverside Drive and down the path from Harlem Meer, a Great Horned Owl in Central Park’s Ramble. The NYC owls have little to do with the book in front of me except that it too is about birds and people. But–is that it?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2024

I was high and happy, not from “420” drugs but from the altitude and the anticipation of seeing woodpeckers and owls I had never seen before. Usually not one to chicken out, the worried and concerned looks on their faces told me not to ignore the advice. What is 100% true is the flight number I took into Denver: 420.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2022

A Barn Owl slept peacefully on the inside of the roof of a well-visited tourist cafe. It warned me not to order the latte though – overpriced and not very good, according to the owl. If you want to get some irrelevant information on hornbills, please read my previous post on them.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

According to Wikipedia, “A l owl ife is a term for a person who is considered morally unacceptable by their community” The local Nanhui shrikes are well aware that the word “lowlife” has an owl hidden inside, and mark the appearance of owls in their territory with harsh protests. Not this one though.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

I’ve been chasing Northern Saw-whet Owls , those adorable little predators, for years now. But here we are in March again, so off I trudged to Owl Woods, Rochester’s surest spot for Saw-Whets. Most owlers look for whitewash, pellets, and other owl sign; I, on the other hand, look for other owlers!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2016

And I was pecked in the eye by my pet chicken, does that count?”. “I I went into a cage of young Great Horned Owls one night carrying thawed rats,” said Linda Hufford. “I And speaking of learning lessons, I won’t be sticking un-gloved hands into a Screech Owl cage ever again. Nothing hurt but my feelings.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

One of the other papers released last week identified chickens — of 21 species studied — as having the most similar genome “to the common avian ancestor, probably a bipedal feathered dinosaur” ( Romanov et al. Jarvis et al. top: Turkey Vulture ( Cathartes aura ), bottom: Osprey ( Pandion haliaetus ).

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JULY 7, 2020

with additional sections added if there is just too much interesting information for a two-page spread (“Large Sandpipers,” “Small Sandpipers,” “More Owls,” and so on). Some of the chapters focus on a specific bird, most are about bird families like hawks, tanagers, wrens, etc.,

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2011

They strolled around like fierce chickens, too young to know any better. I felt so lucky to watch generations of hawks emerge from that park. I also spent seven months documenting the life of a single urban red-tail. Hopefully I can share that story with you in a future post.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

Plus, I mean, it’s a giant chicken-looking thing that’s actually related to ducks… with that kind of identity crisis going on, what’s not to love? Screamers of all types are awesome, but of all of them, the Horned Screamer is the weirdest and perhaps most beautiful. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

You can designate it thus; you can legally call it a Rhode Island Red chicken if you want, but no whooping crane on this planet is nonessential. It flies on. photo by JZ When a population of birds numbers only 400 in the wild, there can be no such thing as a “nonessential” individual. Not when we have but 400 to spare. Wicked, right?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2011

When I upped my goal to some insane stratospheric level in June, going back to find things like Lesser Prairie-Chicken (which I missed) became more problematic. I also missed easy birds like Snowy Owl and Swainson’s Warbler. Some were glaring misses since I started the year with a goal of 600 species (while working).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2012

Aside from geese, various albatross, alcids, eagles, owls, cranes, swans and condors have life partners as well. Some famous lekking birds inculde Ruffs , Buff-breasted Sandpipers , manakins, and various grouse and prairie-chickens. Believe it or not, this is what “fidelity” looks like. Photo courtesy of Adam Riley.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2015

Props on the sweet Barred Owl call, too. “I Why did the chicken cross the archipelago? What kind of miscreant kicks a Barn Owl in mid-flight? And last but not least, get your owl snark on. Even more thought-provoking is the original article from which it sprang.) No, you didn’t. Now you have. Different, but the same?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2018

They earn the annual avian medal of honor because they fly to Costa Rica from as far as Alaska and other places where Snowy Owls roam. One gave excellent close looks and another did a classic, sputtering chicken-like marsh bird flight right in front of us. The Unspotted Saw-whet Owl project. The changes are vast.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

Chicken Skin! 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. Whoa – gotta love that 6 foot wing span! Wicked, right?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

I traveled to the other side of the world just to see a chicken! Of course, no ordinary chicken would do, but the Red Junglefowl is the primordial progenitor of poultry, the wild source of cutlets, nuggets, and Buffalo wings. This year, I have chosen the Guira Cuckoo as my Best Bird of the Year. Secondly, well just look at it.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Make Mine Mines Road Missing Birds on Staten Island What is the Chicken Inferno? • Explore These Related Posts Ring-billed Gulls in Breeding Plumage The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida I Am Heron, Hear Me Roar Snail Kites, Limpkins and Escargot Visiting Viera Wetlands.Or Wicked, right?

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