10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2013

I’ve never been on an “owl prowl” before, and was thrilled that the one we joined turned up the promised quarry, and then some. Great Horned Owl babies peering out from their nest! Barn Owl babies peering out from their box! A Burrowing Owl peering at us from beside his burrow, and then making a hasty escape!

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Nevada Birds Barn Owls Cows 164

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2012

But I’m not talking about owling, or listening for rails, or even pointing a microphone skyward to collect flight calls of migrants. Which these days involves a frenzy to breed and raise a brood. Birds arrive, and immediately start the business of breeding, so they can raise a family and be gone before winter arrives.

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Bald Eagle Breeding Raised Whales 170

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

We’re passing the Dasada village where shop owners and artisans are opening their doors, collecting rubbish in the street and burning it, while standing around those small fires and warming themselves up. Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus. Winter mornings are pretty cold, even without the wind-chill effect of an open Maruti Gypsy.

India 216

India Birds Eagles Boars 216

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

I’m extremely grateful to Paul for taking the initiative in raising awareness of this NWR campaign. You may even have some profound insights that need to be shared in this public forum. His underlying point should be well taken by all of us: Birders and bird-educators could have an impact on the future of the Refuge System.

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Which is not to say that it doesn’t contain striking images of birds parenting the most adorable songbirds, owls, and heron nestlings imaginable. American Crows live in extended families, with sons and daughters from previous years helping to raise the current brood. Oops, the curmudgeon in me slipped.) Peregrine Falcon nests.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

There are 28 chapters—“Waders,” “Large Waterside Birds,” “Owls and nightjars,” “Birds of prey” (pulling together vultures, hawks and falcons), “Aerial feeders” (swifts, swallows, martins), etc.—plus Britain’s Birds is organized in a very loose taxonomic order, with priority given to grouping together birds that are perceived as similar.

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 140

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

So, curious about which birds nest in two places, I quickly found out that it’s Phainopepla, a western bird, a relief because I was concerned that it might have implications for my data collection for the NYS Breeding Bird Atlas. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. The Portfolio of Birds is comprised of 87 2-page spreads.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 262

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Between staying warm/cool, finding food, avoiding predators, migrating thousands of miles every year, finding mates, raising chicks and doing all this at the mercy of the elements, it makes sense that they have more brainpower than just simple instinct to run on. What does a Flammulated Owl do all night? But I digress.

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 198

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2015

During this year’s competition, each team raised money for – and awareness of – the illegal trapping of migratory birds in Cyprus , a fitting cause for a race that celebrates the miracle of migration. The competition raised over $50,000 for this very important cause. Rare footage of Desert Tawny Owl.

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Cyprus illegal Birds 257

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

Snowy Owl, Long Island, NYS. This was a special Snowy Owl encounter in a year of many Snowy Owls. It was, indeed, a Snowy Owl. I drove to the other end of the lot and watched the owl fly back to its meal, smack in the middle of the empty lot. How often does one have a Snowy Owl all to one’s self?

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2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 149

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. So, the birds start collecting mud and small sticks. Nest building: a good activity for a rainy day. You should try it too. Sometimes it works. For a dyed-in-the-wool nonbreeder like me, that seems a bit much.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 179

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Wenfei Tong’s Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds addresses such topics as courtship, mating systems, raising chicks, sex role reversals, and others. Vesper Flights: New and Collected Essays is Helen Macdonald’s Wunderkammer , which, every few pages, will make you laugh in delight (even when she, herself, might be crying).

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2020 Birds North America Italy 188