10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

I remember trying to enter my local scrubland once, just across the car park behind the last apartment building and there, awaiting me, was a territorial pack of stray dogs barking at an intruder – me. I don’t really know – from my own experience with school bullies or from Jack London’s novels? Mallard duck, Anas platyrhynchos.

Animal 115

Animal Bears Stray Dog Blackbirds 115

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

With the easy-to-use platform offered by the Great Backyard Bird Count, birders of all ages and experience levels set out to find, tally, and document as many birds as possible within the boundaries of Miami-Dade. Although they breed on the west coast of Florida, Snowy Plover is a rare stray to this part of the state. Mottled Duck: 19.

Miami 169

Miami 2015 United States Birds 169

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

Second of all, Lewis’s Woodpeckers are birds of the west and they rarely stray to New York State. The Nuttall’s Woodpecker Tufted Duck at Cold Spring Harbor, New York The northern southern Woodpecker.Or Melanerpes lewis is, to put it simply, a really cool bird. It truly is a beauty, and worth the very long trip.

New York 204

New York Woodpeckers Jordan 2011 204

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Unfortunately, this morph is the dominant one at Fuzhou NFP”) that somehow survived the review process, possibly because the reviewer has had similar experiences. I’d like a beer too, please, as I have never seen a Masked Duck. Scientists now hypothesize that there are two morphs of this owlet, one of which is invisible.

2020 245

2020 Birds Costa Rica Germany 245

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2012

So, this pair (I assume there are two, though I only saw one today) of eagles has a territory including small dogs and stray children, baby coyotes, crows, but mainly squirrels and marmots right around its nest, and a major river backed up by a large dam about a mile or two away (the Mississippi) and several lakes.

Eagles 179

Eagles Bald Eagle Coyotes Mississippi 179