10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2014

, and at the same time not grumpy enough to make them draw their guns (yep – it’s a true story, but do not trust the first impression: they were rough on the outside and soft on the inside, e.g. being fiercely protective of stray dogs and cats – that particular guy kept about five dogs and 15 cats, and they all lived together peacefully).

Serbia 236

Serbia Stray Dog Protection Botswana 236

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.

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New York Woodpeckers Jordan 2011 185

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

I’d like a beer too, please, as I have never seen a Masked Duck. But in 2020, with all my travel plans cancelled and pretty much everything shut down, I wasn’t straying too far from Albany, New York for birding. This weird little skulking waterfowl is a species I had hoped to chance upon in various places for quite some time.

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2020 Birds Germany Costa Rica 221