10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Daily birding in my own hometown added to the joy of seeing common species in uncommon circumstances, like a Bald Eagle perched on a Destin sand dune. For many women, pregnancy gives them a burst of energy, the joy of creating new life the boost they need to continue their daily activities while growing a human inside them.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2022

In the grass, Desert and Isabelline Wheatears await us, together with Tawny Pipits and large flocks of Greater Short-toed Larks ; while Booted Eagle , Lesser Kestrel and even one Critically Endangered White-rumped Vulture fly above us. And the animals themselves?

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Gazelles India 2012 Endangered Species 259

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. Even sparrows, if you choose the right species and play your cards right, can be elevated to ‘cute’ status.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

Shortly after I arrived I got word of the Gray-hooded Gull at Coney Island, and of course I went after it right away. Unlike the last megararity at that end of Coney Island, I got the gull right away (thanks in part to a helpful phone call from Corey.)

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New York City Bald Eagle New York Birds 162

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. I imagined walking right up to them. They did flush eventually, but not because of humans. American Avocets.

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Reddit Animals

JULY 7, 2023

In "Mayan Spirit Animals Unleashed," I invite you to join me on an extraordinary journey into the world of Mayan symbolism, where the profound connections between humans and spirit animals come to life. Eagle, the fierce ? Yes, you read that right—free access to this mesmerizing adventure. ?? Jaguar, and the wise ?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Many birds sing local dialects, and human languages are dynamic, they can’t help but change, evolve over time. Some of the birds on that list could be Great Potoo , White-fronted Nunbird , Keel-billed Motmot, Semiplumbeous Hawk, Ornate Hawk-Eagle, Bare-crowned Antbird , and oh, so many more! The motmot with a keeled bill.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

Hongbenghe is a very small village in Yunnan, right next to the border with Myanmar. The Blue Whistling Thrush is presumably named for its loud human-like whistling, and possibly for being blue. The Crested Serpent Eagle is another species bound to suffer from a naming error in perpetuity.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2013

Granted those birds had a very different outlook on humans than wild owls, but there were times they were stressed and a good program person can read those signs and know when to end a program when the owl needs it. Here’s the view of the owl: Note the eye on the right, a tiny slit is open and you can see the pupil.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2012

The water this Northern Pintail is in has human poo in it, which completely ruins the experience of seeing this bird. The first place I started birding a lot was a sewage treatment plant…I still equate the smell of human waste with great birds. Walking right up to one and identifying it with your naked eye.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

“We let a one-eyed Bald Eagle go after a year of battling state officials in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky. Two years ago we got a call about an eagle hit by a car. When we arrived we looked and there was our one-eyed eagle, eating a raccoon that had been hit. That was 9 years ago. So gorgeous!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

At the far end of the lake stands a tall, dry tree with an eagle that we are struggling to determine and it remains a dark silhouette far too far. Somewhere below that mysterious eagle, at the far shore of the lake, lies one Bengal Tiger … and further to the right – two more! He has earned his tip.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2016

Luckily, I didn’t have to look hard to find the Dusky Eagle-Owl’s nest. Lunch, some time to get to know our rooms (I loved mine, right next to a tree that housed a Spotted Owlet), and we were off again for Ranthambhore National Park, right down the road. Target: Tigers. It was a big owl.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2013

It’s either that or the Hindus are right, that our existence is a continuing chain of lives through re-birth, a system of action and reward, and Corey Finger’s former life was that of a panda bear whose biggest mischief was eating bamboo, while I was Pol Pot. What could possibly go wrong?

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

In the majority of cases, it is humans who are to blame for the plunging numbers of animals, and Corwin is very clear about the extent to which we have destroyed the world around us. if we believe it's our right to do what we want with the lives of other animals. . . .

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Polar Bears California Condor Bald Eagle Lions 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2016

Well, it was beautiful to humans in those conditions but apparently not for a kingbird, which took advantage of the break in the cool and rainy conditions to skedaddle. We saw Common Gallinules , a nice male Rose-breasted Grosbeak , Bald Eagles , and a Great Horned Owl among the fifty-three species for our checklist.

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New York Bald Eagle McDonalds Fast Food 101

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2017

Or on a hawkwatch platform hoping to pick up and identify the Golden Eagle before anybody else? Humans have evolved with binocular vision and it is unnatural and unfortunate that our spotting scopes have, with a few unimpressive exceptions, left us stuck with an inferior monocular view. And play with them we did!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2013

In the grass, Desert (bellow) and Isabelline Wheatears await us, together with Tawny Pipits and large flocks of Greater Short-toed Larks ; while Booted Eagle , Lesser Kestrel and even one Critically Endangered White-rumped Vulture fly above us. Off the tarmac we go, into dry turf intercepted by bare ground, where we follow wheel tracks.

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India Gazelles Endangered Species Pakistan 245

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Guianan Cock-of-the-rock (left) and Andean Cock-of-the-rock (right) by Adam Riley Redgannet’s choice turned out rather, well, pedestrian: I was bloated with smugness after stalking and managing to get a photograph of what I imagined to be a rare and elusive rallid during a trip to Costanera Sur on an Argentine autumn morning.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

The Cherokee nation called them “Peace Eagles” owing to the fact that they never killed a living thing – and also that they tended to show up in numbers after battled when peace treaties were being signed, though admittedly that may have been for a slightly more macabre reason. And when you think about it, that seems right.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Algeciras, Spain, to be specific — right around the bay from Gibraltar. This spot has achieved quite a bit of fame as part of the staging area for hawks, eagles and vultures planning to soar south across the Straits of Gibraltar every September. Booted Eagle. An immature Bonelli’s Eagle flew by, also nice and low. (I

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Larry starts us off right with an owl that makes birders drool: I was able to see and photograph many great birds in 2014 but my Best Bird of the Year would have to be the Great Gray Owl , the largest Strix in North America. Below are our Best Birds of the Year. What was yours? Let us know in the comments…see you there!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

If there are human fishing activities then all the better – Marabous will gather in numbers around fishermen’s docks and fish markets, in fact anywhere where fish are cleaned and scraps disposed of, allowing these intelligent birds to obtain a free meal. They also prey on frogs and crabs.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 243

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Although it is impossible for me to prove this, you should take the word of this Overlord Ornithologist when I say there are simply more good birders around right now. We have more California Condors , Bald Eagles , and Peregrine Falcons , but there seem to be less Spotted Owls , Burrowing Owls , Sooty Shearwaters. 9) Birdfinding.

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San Diego California Condor California Bald Eagle 172

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2022

About the Green-winged Pytilia , the HBW entry includes the harrowing “Popular cagebird, large numbers of which are captured and exported; mortality during shipment high” Humanity can be a scarce resource in humankind. A Barn Owl slept peacefully on the inside of the roof of a well-visited tourist cafe. With Red-billed Quelea.

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Birds Africa Eagles Barn Owls 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Kinabalu (at 13,455 feet the highest peak in southeast Asia), and human development that has resulted in freshwater rice fields, secondary forest, and oil palm plantations, this means that Borneo offers an incredibly high degree of biodiversity. Bird images are numbered to correspond with the text.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2022

The Northern Goshawk gets the HBW into a slightly lyrical mode: “Whether carried afield on the fists of Japanese shoguns or by medieval falconers of Europe, Goshawks have seen much human history. Revered as symbols of strength, a Goshawk adorned the helmet of Attila the Hun.” Well, the female is attractive, too.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2019

A couple of the songs are sung, not from the human point of view, but from the bird’s – or maybe from both at the same time, as with “Bald Eagle.” When Seymour woke from hers, she remembers, she heard a whooshing sound at either ear, and tuned both ways to see Bald Eagles – they were flying and she was flying with them.

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Bald Eagle Blackbirds Birds New Jersey 185

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

How far is the closest human settlement? Well yes, but all of the planet’s tall mountains are relatively close to some form of human habitation. Some rain-forests could rightfully be termed remote but again, human habitation is actually relatively closer than what one might think. Gough Bunting by Ross Wanless.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Oh, cheeky me left out another alternative for both cases, which brings us right to the origin of these sayings: the devil. The eagle-owls of the genus Bubo are all called “Uhu“. As a rule of thumb, with quite a number of exceptions, if the species sports feathery ears and is not an eagle-owls, it’s an “Eule“.

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Germany Birds Hunters Owls 189

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

The longer Introduction lists and briefly summarizes topics covered in the Portfolio (evolution feathers, coloration, variation, senses, movement, physiology, migration, food and foraging, survival, social behavior, birds and humans, threats). The Portfolio of Birds is comprised of 87 2-page spreads. 167, Meadowlark line of sight–not p.67).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

But within a couple of decades, it’s effects on both wildlife and humanity became apparent. Raptors and other predatory birds have largely rebounded, and there seems to be be no shortage of Brown Pelicans, Peregrine Falcons and Bald Eagles. They were secure in their isolated home here until humanity came to Laysan in the 1890s.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 210

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2011

We were walking through a field of dry grass in a Hamilton County park, looking for sparrows and pursuing three Bobolinks when we flushed a Yellow Rail , literally right at our feet. Susan Kailholz-Williams had raptors as her BBOTY: My best and thrilling bird of 2011: First confirmed nest of Mississippi Kites right here in Ohio.

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2011 Birds Ohio North Dakota 162

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2013

It’s a Bald Eagle, a hawk. I’m not going to try to explain why people are fascinated by hawks; human-to-avian psychology is not my specialty. The publication of this new title is again an occasion for excitement (how can you can you not get excited when looking at photographic layouts like the one of Bald Eagles shown above?)

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North America Bald Eagle Falcons Owls 218

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

A special box shows the differences amongst hawk and eagle copulation sounds. The symbol on the right indicates roughly how the sounds in each group appears on the spectrogram. These sound descriptions are brief, one to three paragraphs, but are expanded for certain species.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Many robins, eagles and finches later, he ended up at university studying various biology things and wrote a thesis on vertebrate biogeography in southern African forests. Dale Forbes Mar 16th, 2011 at 8:37 am Hi Laurent, that is a fascinating example of humans responding to difficult environmental challenges. Wicked, right?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

March 14, 2011 Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Jon Gassett, Commissioner One Sportsman’s Lane Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 Dear Mr. Gassett, I am a writer, naturalist and artist with a special interest in human/bird interactions. Wicked, right? Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009? Isn’t that neat?

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