10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2015
Cape Coral has a remarkable population of Burrowing Owls , cute little stilt-legged beasts we usually associate with the western part of the continent. You can tell which abandoned lots host owls by a small roped off area with the tell-tale t-bars that the owls perch upon. But daytime owls always look miffed about something.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
Snowy Owls are iconic birds. You rarely find a person – birder or non – who doesn’t want to take a good long look at a bright white owl. And, of course, you rarely meet a photographer who doesn’t want to take a good close picture of a bright white owl. All of this brings me to my point.
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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. It’s spelled this way, all caps, because that is the official name.).
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 Noting the rare and vagrant sections in the table of contents or adding specialized index would greatly help accessibility.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2011
The first twenty-nine pages of the book, after the acknowledgements, table of contents, and other prefatory materials, are devoted to the Pantanal and Cerrado and the need to conserve these two endangered biomes. Asides Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Utah Birders has a copy of Hawks at a Distance to give away. Wicked, right?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2011
Many of the fruits, seeds and flowers that make up a significant part of a macaw’s diet in this part of the Amazon basin have evolved with naturally occurring toxins designed for the plant’s self-protection. Each bird, regardless of species, seems perfectly content to wait for the other to make the first move toward the colpa.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 23, 2020
The next 256 pages are devoted to reserve guides (pity, the reserves are not covered in the Contents, only the states are). Yet, with larger protected areas things get more complicated. Small reserves such as the Khijadiya and the Thol Lake Wildlife Sanctuaries in Gujarat are mostly well described.
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