10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2012

Western Screech-Owl ( Megascops kennicottii ) photos by Larry Jordan It’s been an interesting winter in my neck of the woods. Personally, I’m waiting for the irruption of Snowy Owls to reach northern California! Once the Jays moved on, the owl closed its eyes and went back to sleep, seemingly unconcerned with our presence.

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Owls California Jordan Sparrows 185

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Merlin and Short-Eared Owl are almost a “dead cert” in winter. Large groups of Little Bustard are not uncommon in winter. If you feel guilty about that, scan the river for ducks and geese and check out the muddy margins. The only guaranteed sighting would be the Zitting Cisticola.

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Portugal Geese Suffering Farming 197

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Birding that starts with the largest eagle of the continent certainly bears promises… The next stop is the town park in Opovo, north of Belgrade, where local bird expert Ceda Vuckovic reported one, locally rare, Short-eared Owl. Long-eared Owls are irresistibly cute. And the citizens of Kikinda are justly proud of it. Blip-blip!

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Serbia Owls Rodents Eagles 244

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2022

For example, in reading about the re-introduction of the California Condor into the Pacific Northwest, the press releases referred to a “non-essential experimental” group of condors. The answer sometimes result in a post. I had no idea what that meant at the time, but it later became a post.

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Puerto Rico California Condor Virgin Islands Laws 180

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

It turns out that duck nests tend to be so similar that you need to identify the feathers lining the nest, usually the breast feathers of the parent, to identify the user. Each family section begins with a Group Account, an overall section giving the number of species in the family and nesting commonalities and differences.

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Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 244

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

They specialize in tailor-made safaris for private groups. Your group would be a minimum of four to eight people, more by arrangement. Hornbills, Paradise Flycatchers , day roosting Giant Eagle Owls or if we’re really lucky Pel’s Fishing Owl , the holy grail!

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Botswana Africa Elephants Angola 185

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2022

For example, in reading about the re-introduction of the California Condor into the Pacific Northwest, the press releases referred to a “non-essential experimental” group of condors. The answer sometimes result in a post. I had no idea what that meant at the time, but it later became a post.

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Puerto Rico California Condor Virgin Islands Laws 130

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck , 11 July, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, New York (2nd Queens sighting). I quickly reported it to the local WhatsApp group and was disheartened by a bunch of responses from other birders saying they were seeing only Razorbills. Eastern Screech-Owl, 22 March, Alley Pond Park, Queens, New York.

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New York Birds California Owls 262

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Thanks mostly to David Lindo, The Urban Birder, there are a few British bird groups touring the country every year now, even the BBC came to film the world famous Long-eared Owl gathering in the town of Kikinda with more than 700 birds in some winters. What has changed in the meantime? eBird bar chart. #2 2 Baranda fish farm.

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Serbia Birds Bulgaria Farming 168

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

It confirms many of the once-radical notions put forward or refined by Shannon Hackett and her colleagues in 2008, and several since, and it proposes solutions to some of the most deeply unresolved questions about how major bird groups are related to each other. ( “Metaves” was purported to contain the groups in Jarvis et al.’s

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

That Common Redpoll at the Evodia Fields feeders, for instance, and the Northern Saw-whet Owl I finally found on my second trip to Forest Park. I’ve only seen this handsome, copper-headed duck once before, years ago – being in Montana didn’t help on that front – and from all accounts this bird was showing well.

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Iceland Owls Ducks Montana 163

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2012

There were, in her book, three kinds: Owls, Pigeons, and Ducks. water birds (ducks!) and birds that would fly over either (which included raptors, and therefore I’m going to spot him the owls.) and birds that would fly over either (which included raptors, and therefore I’m going to spot him the owls.)

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Montana Bald Eagle Owls Ducks 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2015

Last week I had the privilege of taking a group of Queens middle-schoolers birding in Forest Park as part of an after-school program. A lot of owls look kind of like Muppets when they’re young, but there is only one Flammulated Owl. The Ferruginous Pygmy-owl is pretty much always rusty, though.

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Blackbirds Owls Sparrows Ducks 162

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2018

What did find right off the bat, was an amazing group of people, all willing to help out in so many ways. That lovely little owl represented bird number 34 for the run thru Texas! Here that Eastern Screech Owl. Estero Llano Grande has a HUGE number of Black-bellied Whistling Ducks, somewhere in the area of 3000-4000.

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Texas Tucson San Antonio Owls 135

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

Screech-Owls! The revolution of splitting small owl species has finally caught up to Costa Rica. Rumor has it that Choco Screech-Owl might also make it onto the list. However, no matter how one enjoys or takes in interest in the avian side of life, an official list of the birds for a given area is of vital importance.

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Costa Rica Birds Owls South America 202

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

In front of us, the river is two miles wide… and it is paved with birds: smaller groups of Greater White-fronted and Greylag Geese , numerous Mute Swans and Mallards , plus Eurasian Teals , Gadwalls , Common Pochards , a few Ferruginous and Tufted Ducks , Common Goldeneyes and several Smews.

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Geese Hunting Boars Birds 183

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2018

If there was nothing more than the large group of Brown Teal here, it would be enough to keep me around for a while. New Zealand is really not over populated with owls, but they do have a great little bird, called a Morepork, or Southern Boobook. New Zealand has what is considered to be a relatively rare bird, in the Gray Duck.

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New Zealand Ducks 2018 Fish 111

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2018

Here is a small group of the Pigeon Guillemots near their rocky Cliffside nesting area. Out on one of the rocks that were visible during low tide, a small group of Harlequin Ducks had gathered. And here is a small group the broke away and swam out to deeper water. Here is a small group shot of those Purple Martins.

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Oregon Bald Eagle Owls Groups 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Western Grebes, Clark’s Grebes, Wood Ducks, American White Pelicans, and a few Short-billed Dowitchers made up some of the highlights. I only ran across this one Clark’s Grebe mixed in with in the groups of Westerns. This year they did not disappoint, as the first morning we sighted 17 birds in two groups. The bunny got away.

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Oregon Owls Wildlife Barn Owls 115

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2021

A few highlights included all quail-doves, Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo, Black-billed Cuckoo , all 48 expected hummingbird species, Buff-breasted and Upland Sandpipers , all expected owls including Unspotted Saw-whet, Red-throated Caracara, Black-banded Woodcreeper, all cotingas, Gray Kingbird (we saw one of three that were found!),

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Costa Rica Species 2020 Falcons 262

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2015

And it had to start at 5:45 am, because if we wanted owls this was when we had to get them. It was a dark and foggy ride into Nags Head Woods, the only forest of any sort on the islands, and we paused every few hundred meters and listened for owls. The three main impoundments at Pea Island were packed with birds. Photo by Nate Swick.

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North Carolina Rattlesnake Sparrows Owls 150

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2020

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. .–but Family groups are briefly introduced with descriptions of their shared characteristics. Species Accounts.

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North America America Hawaii Birds 223

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2021

The roadmap out of lockdown here in the UK has allowed us to meet up in small groups to indulge in outdoor activities, so birders have been gathering in loose flocks to greet the migrants as they head north.

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Woodpeckers Sparrows Blackbirds Ducks 156

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

JUNE 9, 2021

After a good introduction called “The Miracle of Migration,” the substance of the book is organized not by strict taxonomy, but by “loose association” into six sections: Wildfowl and Diving Birds, Seabirds, Shorebirds and Waders, Songbirds, Raptors and Owls, and “Other Bird Migrations.”.

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Alaska Breeding Kenya Africa 221

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These are photos of Mandarin Ducks (where they belong, not in Central Park), Great Crested and Little Grebes, endangered Black-faced Spoonbills feeding with Eurasian Spoonbills, a Japanese Sparrowhawk (which Kai notes he first thought was a Cuckoo); and, speaking of cuckoos, a Cuckoo in side portrait and face-forward screaming, red maw agape.

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China Birds 2018 Ducks 144

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2018

Saddle-billed Storks, Yellow-billed Storks, Woolly Storks, Sacred Ibis, Gray Herons, Reed Cormorants, Three-banded Plovers, White-crowned Lapwings, Blacksmith Lapwings, Egyptian Geese, White Faced Ducks and African Palm Swifts have been there every day. I have managed to find two owls, the first was this pair of Verreaux’s Eagle-owls.

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Lions Buffalo United States Zebras 122

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2017

1) Dusky Eagle-Owl. But the best was when we were gathering at the gatehouse to leave (many of us still taking Taj selfies) and a sister birder casually asked if I’d seen the Dusky Eagle-Owl. 5) White-winged Duck. White-winged Duck is an ugly duck, maybe the ugliest bird I’ve ever encountered. And, scoping.

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2016 India Ducks Birds 113

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2013

asked Marge Gibson, when I asked a group of bird rehabbers about their bling experiences. Earrings are toast with my Wood Duck and Wild Turkeys. I had an evil-tempered Great Horned Owl - is there any other kind? Another Great Horned Owl snagged his talon under the wedding band of Vonda Lee Morton’s vet.

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Bald Eagle Wildlife Rehabilitation Vet Birds 233

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Further exploration of academic facilities, experimental fields, and random trees can produce some exciting sightings, from flocks of Crested Caracara to ridiculously confiding Ferruginous Pygmy-Owls. You know these owls are chill, if I can snap a shot this good (pardon the epiphyte!). ECO-SENDERO. Oliver, along with Yobani A.

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Honduras Birds Kentucky Research 143

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 182

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Owls and eagles and ducks and hummingbirds and parrots and woodpeckers are all things that a regular nonbirding joe or jane can, with time and a few color photographs, see the appeal of. As I had cause to observe last weekend, the great divide between birders and nonbirders is best expressed through gulls. And what about lifestyle?

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Seals Lifestyle Turtles Parrots 231

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Imagine waking up to the call of thousands of ducks, geese, and every kind of marsh bird you can imagine. Not another person for miles, and a pair of friendly, well, almost, Great Horned Owls living in the tree right above us. Hundreds of Black-necked Stilts were around the refuge, this group passed right by me on a short morning walk.

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Blackbirds Mules Beavers Wildlife 123

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

Even a Heron Conservation Group seems to have a none-too-positive view of the Striated Heron , describing it a bit as if it is the Quasimodo among herons: “The Striated Heron is a small, stocky dark backed heron with a thick neck, relatively heavy dark bill, thick short legs, and grey neck.” ” How unfair.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 197

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

And they were intrigued and they had questions, lots of questions, more questions than could be answered by a field guide or a social media group. Each spread consists of a full-page painting of a bird or group of birds on the left and a combination of text and illustrations on the right. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

Wikipedia points out that the Black-winged Kite has some similarities with owls, in particular, the “owl-like forward-facing eyes with red irises” On Chongming Island, some of them seem to be relatively unafraid of people, at least by the standards of raptors.

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Birds Iraq China Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2012

The park even features a Welcome Back Waterfowl day when the community is encouraged to come out and learn about the ducks, geese, and swans that visit the valley – an event that usually occurs in early April but this year took place on March 24. An additional fly-over by more Trumpeter Swans got the group charged up.

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