10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

And, the One-page Index, a quick reference to locating major bird families, is placed in two locations–the front and the back of the book. When you review the system, it makes perfect sense: falcons are placed with hawks, nightjars are next to owls, and grebes are close to ducks, rather than separated from them by quail and grouse.

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North America America Hawaii Birds 231

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Bufflehead in Flight Bufflehead in Flight By Corey • March 13, 2011 • 8 comments Tweet Share Bufflehead are one of our most amusing ducks. Bufflehead are the smallest of North America’s diving ducks.

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2011 Ducks Deer New York 150

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The last weekend of January found me in the frosty Pacific Northwest, meeting some long over due work and family obligations. Nearly 800 acres of wetlands and tidal flats provide diverse habitat for the local birds, as well as large numbers of migratory species, including thousands of ducks and geese. Nisqually Wildlife Refuge.

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Wildlife Seattle Bald Eagle Geese 108

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This location is great as it is close to Jeanne’s Family, as well as a very short drive to the Billy Frank Jr. This cold weather and snow does not seem to have much effect on the huge number of ducks and geese, but the smaller song birds, all seem to wake up much later in the days, and only after it has warmed up a bit. Nisqually NWR.

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Fox Washington Geese Sparrows 140

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2013

So if you come to Spring Wings, and you’d be well served if you do, get ready to see lots and lots of shorebirds and ducks and waders. 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!

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Nevada Birds Barn Owls Cows 189

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

Owls are a little different. They don’t build nests and some like Great Horned Owls take over old hawk or squirrel nests. Before baby owls (like the above Great Horned Owl chicks) are able to fly, they go through what is called a “brancher phase.&# Their feet are already fully grown and very strong.

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Birds Fox Raised Ducks 266

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2013

Chuk makes his quip about the Black-winged Yellow Bird; my friend Molly insists that everything is a duck, a pigeon, or an owl. Philosophically, arbitrary names divorce average people from nature, creating the same effect as any system of jargon — keeping insiders in and outsiders out.

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Connecticut Baltimore North America New York City 189

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APRIL 5, 2011

Astounding because she picked up birding before she could speak and surprising because this ability was definitely not inherited from anyone in my family, myself included. Very few kids just take to birding like ducks to water (terrible pun I know!). They also have some great apps specially designed for kids like the Owl app.

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Birds Game Wildlife Family 279

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or Thanks for visiting!

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Deer 2011 Oklahoma New York 124

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family.

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2011 Deer New York New York City 140

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Since many of these exceptions are common birds (Wood Duck, Red-tailed Hawk, Great-horned Owl), I assume Lund saw the additional space as opportunities to teach people how to absolutely positively identify these birds, adding more text and featuring images of the species in flight or in gender-specific, nonbreeding or juvenile plumage.

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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 218

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family.

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Squirrels 2011 Deer New York 145

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. Birds arrive, and immediately start the business of breeding, so they can raise a family and be gone before winter arrives. In the last couple of weeks I’ve seen over 20 new species.

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Bald Eagle Breeding Raised Whales 175

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For example, on finding gulls: Close study of gulls is not for everyone, and birders shouldn’t feel obligated to get deep into it if you prefer colorful, less-confusing, families of birds. Finding owls is the occasion to discuss the ethics of playback. The book starts with “Why Birds?”

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Birds North Carolina North America Owls 263

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

First published in November of 1843 the tale of a baby swan, or cygnet, being raised among ducks strikes a chord with many people, but in Denmark the works of Hans Christian Andersen bring feelings of national pride. It is no wonder that the ugly duckling grew up to be the national bird of Denmark. . Wicked, right?

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Denmark 2011 Honduras Deer 169

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Many birds around the world in the Robin family ( Turdidae ) are favorites due to their musical songs. The quail, guans, ducks and pheasant are hunted for their meat. A three generation family in Choluteca checking out a Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl in their backyard Better yet. We will take charge of the prosecution.

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Honduras illegal Parrots Birds 192

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2013

Mottled Duck ? I did finally get Snowy Owls in Queens , even if they did cause a bit of controversy. We had a wonderful family vacation in Germany and the Czech Republic during which I managed to do a bit of birding. I even chased after a Barred Owl ! Florida Scrub Jay ? Crested Caracara and Snail Kite ?

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2012 Czech Republic Hedgehogs Hungary 146

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2013

Here, thousands of Amur Falcons hunt for insects during the southern summer, Wattled Cranes and Denham’s Bustards may be seen, impressive Long-tailed Widowbirds display over the grasslands and the waterbodies are a haven to many hundreds of waterbirds, including Maccoa and White-backed Ducks. Photo by Adam Riley. Photo by Adam Riley.

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Lesotho Africa Birds Rats 183

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

Jon Fjeldså’s contributions include many of the ducks, yellow-finches, and many other families where his images of Birds of the High Andes could be used. And, it has to be added that all of these artists and the additional seven artists contributed images that filled out plates of most of the bird families.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 187

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

In spite of this New Zealand does have an iconic family of birds that has served as an emblem for the country for over a century, the kiwi. I ducked down excitedly and switched on the read torch, shining the weak light under a large bush, and sure enough there was a North Island Brown Kiwi. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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New Zealand 2011 Deer New York 152

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Baicich, one of our most passionate proponents of American birding conservation — misguided though he is on the topic of the Duck Stamp — has identified the Bold Ideas presented on the Conserving the Future site that deal specifically with birds and birding issues. • Explore These Related Posts Greenough – Green Enough.Or

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Or These Blasts From The Past Steller’s Jay – Mysteries of the Common Birds A Different Flavor Of Turkey Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis Happy Fiesta de las Golondrinas Lets talk about ducks About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens.

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2011 Bald Eagle Sparrows Parrots 201

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

The genus Bucephala includes three familiar ducks with big heads. The naming of the hornbill family is a bit farther fetched. Wikimedia Commons Bucerotidae is etymologically opaque to most birders, I’d venture, but when Rafinesque described the family almost two centuries ago, he had kine on his mind. Wicked, right?

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Cows Cattle 2011 Birds 143

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2012

Tufted Duck in Cold Spring Harbor. When you go on a boat ride specifically with the hope of seeing a species, and you drag your family onto said boat, you had better see the birds that you want to see! The number one bird of the year for me for 2011 is the Burrowing Owl. Because, well, owl! Brown Booby in Cape May.

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2011 Puffins United States New York 176

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

… Tags: migration , phoebes , spring • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! • Explore These Related Posts Spring is for Wheatears Pipits and the Sweet Smell of Seaweed Duck Migration Black Phoebe Sayornis nigricans Spring is Coming! Wicked, right?

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2011 Deer New York Philadelphia 196

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of August 2010) Commence Project FeederWatch 2006 Best Bird of the Weekend (Halloween Edition) Discerning Distant Ducks About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Wicked, right?

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Honduras 2011 Deer Birds 156

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. l-r) Brushland Tinamou ( Nothoprocta cinerascens ), Southern Cassowary ( Casuarius casuarius ), Greater Sage-Grouse ( Centrocercus urophasianus ), Mandarin Duck ( Aix galericulata ). In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al. Open Jarvis et al.’s

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

So when I was trying to keep my eye on some ducks out on the lake as I made my way to a more advantageous position, well, I did manage to not fall down and the gull was not harmed. . … *Many people show up at Flushing Meadows Corona Park and feed the gulls. Let’s leave it there, shall we? at Gloucester Harbor.Or Wicked, right?

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Breeding 2011 Deer New York 145

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Each family of birds has a short introductory paragraph and most genera get a sentence or two of description. … Tags: books , brazil , field guide , Reviews • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! of species of bird that birders the world over desperately want to experience.

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Birds 218

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. But meanwhile, let’s look at the four avian families that comprise the brand new order Suliformes.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 157

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means, amongst other things, that Nightjars and Potoos are still between owls and trogons and not following cuckoos, which really seems more appropriate to me.). Each species account lists the basics—common name, scientific name, measurements in inches and centimeters.

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El Salvador America Costa Rica Honduras 235

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2019

Long-tailed Duck – Clangula hyemalis. Wood Duck – Aix sponsa. Indian Spot-billed Duck – Anas poecilorhyncha. American Black Duck – Anas rubripes. Ruddy Duck – Oxyura jamaicensis. Barn Owl – Tyto alba. Eastern Spot-billed Duck – Anas zonorhyncha. 01 Jun 2019.

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2019 Jamaica Eggs Woodpeckers 124

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Taxonomic tweakings and reshufflings of birds on the Family and Genus levels are too many to count. For example, in California, populations of birds like Aleutian Cackling Goose have dramatically increased…but where did our Fulvous Whistling-Ducks go? Whereas checklists used to start with loons, they now begin with waterfowl.

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San Diego California Condor California Bald Eagle 176

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

It won’t be long before the drake Ruddy Ducks are all in their breeding finery and doing their displays for the females so I thought I would take the time this past weekend to try to get some decent shots of the males that are still in basic plumage. Jochen Mar 17th, 2011 at 11:11 am To me, they’ll always be the Rubbery Ducks.

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Ducks 2011 New York New York City 144

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

&# Tags: Bird Behavior , buntings , features , michigan • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! • Explore These Related Posts Tree Swallows Return, It Must Be Spring Stalking a Kiwi Icon Polygynandry and the Alpine Accentor Duck Migration Finally Saw-Whet.Or Wicked, right?

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2011 Birds Michigan Ohio 234

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The commonest owls are Eurasian Scops Owl and Tawny Owl , while rare ones include Ural Owl and Eurasian Eagle Owl. Head back to the town of Opovo, south of Baranda, and ask for the Kod Bobe Restaurant (Chez Boba), a second generation in the same family and the best restaurant in the area.

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Serbia Woodpeckers Owls Eagles 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2011

By the way, the Queens Zoo has a very nice collection of ducks that are certainly not countable for a birder’s life list but are useful in terns of studying and learning field marks. Jochen gets credit for first identifying this quiz picture, even if his guess was at least half in jest. Wicked, right?

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Bald Eagle Zoos 2011 Parrots 113