10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

If you cannot find the nest or it’s too destroyed, do not try and raise a chick this young. It’s illegal to raise wild birds (even orphaned ones) without state and federal permits. Young raptors like the above Bald Eagle chick are a different matter. Never raise a wild goose or duckling yourself.

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Birds Fox Raised Ducks 264

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. A beautiful series of raised boardwalks have been constructed, allowing year round access to the area, thru the marsh area, all the way out nearly a half mile into the tidal flats. Nisqually NWR.

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Fox Washington Geese Sparrows 121

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2012

Which these days involves a frenzy to breed and raise a brood. Birds arrive, and immediately start the business of breeding, so they can raise a family and be gone before winter arrives. Birds like American Coots and Long-eared Owls in Arviat, to Bald Eagles in Whale Cove.

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Bald Eagle Breeding Raised Whales 170

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

“My biggest regret in life was raising my binoculars to observe this monstrosity of a bird” – Ethel M. This is the downside of having eyes like an eagle, and is extremely aggravating. If you misidentify something, you bring great shame and dishonor to both you and your family. Long-tailed Jaeger.

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Puffins Albatross Penguins Experience 245

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2013

The place was lousy with Swainson’s Hawks , and we may even have spotted a distant Golden Eagle. The specials for our dinner at The Slanted Porch in Fallon included dishes prepared from cows and lambs raised by local 4-H Club kids.). This made for a friendly, positive atmosphere without any one-upmanship or snobbery.

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Nevada Birds Barn Owls Cows 163

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

The one bird I did not see here, however, was the Bateleur Eagle … One highlight in the area is the Saddle-billed Stork , likely to be the tallest species in the stork family. Another member of the stork family, the African Openbill , looks like it is could benefit from a good orthodontist.

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Ostriches Parrots Birds Eggs 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. Have you had rehab experiences with eagles? I’ve only handled a couple of eagles, and they were awesome birds!

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 245

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. It looks as though “New World” vultures are sister to hawks and eagles after all, not anything stranger or more exotic (and certainly not storks). In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al. titled Avian relationships – What do we know?

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Family Parrots Birds 2014 279

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

The famous Verreaux family who made several expeditions into the province through the 1820’s and 1830’s procuring specimens for rich collectors. Gurney’s Sugarbird was discovered by the Verreaux family and named after wealthy English banker and amateur naturalist John Gurney from Norwich. Image by Hugh Chittenden.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 182

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

If you have always wondered what the minimum anesthetic concentration for isoflurane and sevoflurane for the Crested Serpent-eagle is, science has an answer. While serpent means large snake, the Crested Serpent-eagle also eats frogs, as this video shows. Apparently, if exposed to sunlight, the green of the magpie plumage may turn blue.

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China Birds Pythons Eagles 216

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

The species are taxonomically divided into two families: Tytonidae, Barn-Owls, and Strigidae, Owls, encompassed in one order, Strigiformes. When you look at Clements latest taxonomic spreadsheet, you get a sense of the depth of their relationships to each other and the world. This is a great summer read.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 199

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

My librarian self is partial to a more strict taxonomic organization, but with no hope that the constant shifting of families will end in the near future, this type of sequence is making more and more sense. The book’s organization reflects the authors’ goal of making this a guide accessible to birders of all levels and skill.

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 140

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

If you want to learn more about avian visual field, the essay cites two related essays in the book on Eagles and Meadowlarks (though there is a typo–it should be p. They portray the nesting cycles of Mallard, Red-tailed Hawk, and American Robin, illustrating the various ways in which birds create families. How are they different?

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2020 Birds Groups North America 262

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2016

The birding at Eilat is so dynamic in so many ways, you can’t just use that easy “gen” to zip over and see a Bar-tailed Lark , that Greater Spotted Eagle that flew overhead, or even the Wryneck hanging out in Eilat’s very own Central Park. Lesser Spotted Eagle was also seen several times along with Steppe Eagle.

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Costa Rica Eagles Birds 165

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

Species Accounts are arranged taxonomically, grouped by family. Family sections start with a brief description of the characteristics shared by the species in the family, followed by a description of the sounds made by those species and how they obtain their song/call knowledge.

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North America America Birds New York 160

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

White-necked Herons and White-faced Herons were present and there was also a family of Black-necked Storks. The advantage of early starts is that you raise the odds of seeing Australian Bustards and Brown Quail! There were at least four Dollarbirds swooping down across the water and numerous Rainbow Bee-eaters. Black-winged stilt.

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Geese Australia Parrots Ducks 174

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2015

This Cape Francolin was raising a family less than a hundred metres from the main gate. The gardens are particularly famous for a nesting pair of Spotted Eagle-owls. All three can be found strutting around in the grassy areas maintaining the same indifference to people that other birds treat antelope with.

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Africa Birds South Africa Mongoose 181

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Nice. ((** all names have been changed to protect identities and have been substituted with (almost) randomly chosen substitutes suitable for a family of Alpine Accentors.)) to have and raise children. small families putting less pressure on the adult members of the family).

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 202

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. From July 1 2008-June 30 2009 Ducks Unlimited raised 200.4

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 238

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2013

It is a little tradition we started when we were not both working on Christmas Day and a great way to pass the day when you don’t have family in the same state or time zone! The raptors included Black-shouldered Kites, Black Kites, Wedge-tailed Eagles, Whistling Kites and Kestrels. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper.

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Ducks Birds Parrots Australia 154

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Nineteen days later we had racked up an amazing list of 436 species, including some of Africa’s least known birds such as Congo Serpent Eagle , Yellow-footed Honeyguide , Tessmann’s Flycatcher , Yellow-bearded Greenbul , Black-collared Lovebird and much besides. Another of Ghana’s forest gems, the seldom encountered Fraser’s Eagle Owl. .

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 187

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

This outstanding member of the wattlebird family is unique among songbirds in having different shaped beaks for each of the sexes. We’ll also keep our eyes open for several members of the New Zealand wren family. In Cantebury, where there are moa there might be Haast’s Eagles. Laughing Owl.

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New Zealand Ducks Australia Mountain Goats 193