10,000 Birds
APRIL 17, 2020
And even with that, it’s difficult for all of us – whether we’re quarantining, sheltering in place, or just hunkering down – to escape the strange, oppressive monotony of our new day-to-day lives. For one thing, all this social distancing can make each day feel “like déjà vu all over again”, as a famous ball player once put it.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 29, 2013
The first eggs were laid in the first week of July, which is the case each year. The eggs take 28 days to hatch and it is then at least 35 days before the chicks are developed enough to fly and there have been problems with predation as in other years. Pied Oystercatcher sitting on eggs in the nudist area of Cable Beach.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
Eagle-eyed Pat spotted a Lesser Black-backed Gull in nonbreeding plumage and other birders that week noted a Thayer’s Gull (which we may have seen too–I mean, who expects Iceland Gull in April?). Many birders left at the first drops, but I crowded with a few other birders under the shelter of the volunteer kiosk.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
The proprietor of our ecolodge guides my small group of birders up a steep slope where we see, just at the point where a scope view deteriorates into pixels, a huge bird—a Chaco Eagle, also known as a Crowned Eagle—on a huge nest. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret. Author Joshua Hammer.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
Their common names reflect their size, appearance, residence, and sometimes their sound, ranging from the simple to the eponymous: Little Owl, Powerful Owl, Pharaoh Eagle-Owl, Cloud-Forest Pygmy-Owl, Pearl-spotted Owlet, Morepork, Christmas Island Boobook, Blakiston’s Fish-Owl.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 19, 2012
Although they share some affinities with typical raptors (building eagle-like nests and possessing hooked bills) Secretarybirds have many characteristics that warrant them to be placed in their own genus, Sagittarius. There is no raptor quite so removed from the typical confines of what a bird of prey should look and behave like.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2013
Let’s explore some of these far-off places and the birds that find shelter here. These predatory thrushes have been known to prey on albatross and Spectacled Petrel eggs, the young of Great Shearwaters and have even been known to remove storm-petrel species from their burrows and kill them. Gough Bunting by Ross Wanless.
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