10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The forests are home to Kalij Pheasants , Crested Tree Swifts , Ashy Wood Swallows , owlets, woodpeckers, spider hunters, barbets and bulbuls, laughingthrushes and hornbills. Here we look for sandgrouse, bush-quails, francolins, wheatears, shrikes, Laggar Falcons , eagles, buzzards, and the endangered Stolikza’s Bush Chat.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2020

While it has no official status – at least not yet – many Scots regard the Golden Eagle ( Aquila chrysaetos ) as their national avian mascot. Pair of Golden Eagles (1899) by Scottish painter Archibald Thornburn (1860-1935). Pair of Golden Eagles (1899) by Scottish painter Archibald Thornburn (1860-1935).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

A crop of Eucalypt trees had been planted and clearly coppiced, apparently to feed recovering koalas from Steve Irwin’s [he of Crocodile Hunter fame] family’s zoo and wildlife hospital. A huge Wedge-tailed Eagle soared high overhead on thermals suggesting that the morning was beginning to wane and our drinks were waiting.

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Critter News

AUGUST 21, 2008

Michigan's removal of the bald eagle and gray wolf from the list will be the most significant change in species protection the state has seen in years. The delisting would not open the door for hunters to kill wolves, the state's DNR notes. Tags: bald eagle Gray Wolf us endangered species.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Approximately one million hunters annually harvest more than 20 million Mourning Doves , which exceeds the annual harvest of all other migratory game birds combined 3. military, with all their ballistics and performance testing, it should be good enough for hunters.”

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Hunters Hunting North America Game 179

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

It was a cold afternoon in Maine, and I was looking at the Steller’s Sea-Eagle perched on a tall coniferous tree across Boothbay Harbor, having arrived at the harbor area seven minutes earlier (I know! ” Steller’s Sea-Eagle, Boothbay Harbor, January 24, 2022 Copyright © 2022 Donna L. It has wings. It can fly.”

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 263

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2016

The nature and purpose of this call is to inform you that we have received an eagle petition concerning a cat filed against you. I’m a wildlife rehabilitator, so I’m always ranting about things like eagles being lead poisoned or songbirds being slaughtered by outdoor and feral cats. Eagles don’t normally file petitions.

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Feral Cats Wildlife Rehabilitation United States Slaughter 101

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

From what I’ve been hearing, sport hunters are chomping at the bit to also return to the forest in droves. The pace of our birding was leisurely just as I enjoy it, but this all changed when we began hearing an Ornate Hawk-Eagle much closer than it was all morning. Any day one sees an Ornate Hawk-Eagle is a great day.

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Trinidad Hunting Venezuela Woodpeckers 263

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2019

As a duck hunter, he had seen Redheads and scaups and mergansers throughout the winter, but as I did not relish getting up at 3:30 a.m. Binoculars turned towards the water, I spotted Common Loons, Horned Grebes , and Bufflehead as we walked, Brown P elicans , a juvenile Bald Eagle, and Ring-billed Gulls soaring past us overhead.

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Bald Eagle 2019 Florida Hunters 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

I can still hear the gunshots and hope that the hunters really do shoot only the flying birds. By now, I use the same dyke to return to the town to reach the next one; but now there is a hunter standing at every hundred meters. There’s a pickup truck parked by the dirt road, next to it stands a bored hunter. Oenanthe oenanthe.

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Greece Serbia Hunters Cows 197

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2018

1PM – Meredith: Bald Eagles are Tools. 1PM – Larry: Hunters are not Conservationists. 7AM – Donna: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds. 7AM – Duncan: Bird Photography is a Fantastic Waste of Time. 7PM – Greg: If Birds are Dinosaurs I’m a Monkey’s Uncle. 7AM – Dragan: Watching Gulls is for Weirdos.

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Bald Eagle Battery Hunters Owls 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2014

I also couldn’t help but notice that the drone passed by at least one eagle nest (the operator probably had no clue it was there) and wondered how much an eagle would tolerate from a small unmanned aircraft. And we would know what to watch for if the eagle didn’t like it and would back the drone off.

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Bald Eagle Mississippi Eagles Ducks 199

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

In a recent case involving my own facility, an immature bald eagle was hit by a car. People passed the eagle often. It is hard to be apathetic when you see for yourself a majestic eagle dying of lead poisoning from the fragments of a lead bullet or lead sinker, both still in use today.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Rescue Wildlife 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

Two days after September 11, 2001 (of course) on a day in the mountains when she sees, for the first time in her life, Bald Eagles (of course) Alejandra becomes pregnant. “We, as individuals, escaped the trap of the past.” The baby wasn’t planned — he’s another “accidental.” Accidentals. By Susan M. Torrey House Press, 342 pp.,

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Uruguay 2001 Bald Eagle Science 155

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2018

1PM – Meredith: Bald Eagles are Tools. 1PM – Larry: Hunters are not Conservationists. 7AM – Duncan: Birders Don’t Need to Dress Like Geeky Desert Storm Cosplayers. 7PM – Greg: If Birds are Dinosaurs I’m a Monkey’s Uncle. 7AM – Dragan: Watching Gulls is for Weirdos.

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Bald Eagle Battery Monkeys Hunters 104

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

The Crested Serpent Eagle is another species bound to suffer from a naming error in perpetuity. The birds forage in flocks and members are believed to stay on nearby if one is killed, according to the Lothas, they will wait to be killed and the hunter would soon see people around him die in quick succession one after another.”

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

The tiercels (young Peregrines) must deal with Golden Eagles, Ravens, adult Peregrines, and foxes; they must also learn to navigate the skies and make their own kills, luckily these skills appear to be innately learned. It’s not easy. Coyotes took carrion from young Condors and then killed the weakest ones.

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 188

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

eagles and vultures ) so we need to pay attention. About 15 million birds are killed annually by hunters, and of course this is distributed among a very small number of species. You will be wiping out the whooping cranes, taking down the golden eagles, aborgating a handful of rare warblers.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2019

Grant, Mark Twain, and Hunter S. “I’m fly like an eagle and I drink Old Crow.” Crow worked for several distilleries in his day, and after his death in 1856, the W.A. Gaines and Company continued distilling bourbon according to his recipe. The storied old bourbon has counted Ulysses S.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It includes stunning photographs by Tipling of eagle hunters (as in Kazakhs who hunt with eagles), Stellar Sea Eagles in Hokkaido, Japan, and Black Kites at the dump near New Delhi, India. Eagles are national symbols of the U.S., The Birds of Prey chapter, on the other hand, is 18 pages long.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2011

Seriemas are long-legged terrestrial hunters related to extinct terror birds (phorusrhacids). But what no major checklist has yet done (to my knowledge) is to take the next step and rearrange the order in which these groups of birds are presented. Peregrine Falcon ( Falco peregrinus ) © David J.

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Parrots Falcons Costa Rica South America 236

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Bald Eagles are Getting Spoiled… Help Save Migratory Birds! He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Sabrina Didn’t Make the American Idol Top 12?!?

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Experience Experiments Deer 2011 162

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2020

During our tenure there, we had exceptional views of Africa’s largest ( Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl ) and smallest ( African Scops Owl ) owls, the largest bird on the planet, not neglecting numerous hornbills, sunbirds and weavers. Along the track, the shimmering scarlet gorget of a Hunter’s Sunbird shone like a beacon.

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Kenya Owls Hunters Ostriches 240

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2011

In fact, the very first person to guess, Nick , managed to get the third quiz picture correct by calling it a Bald Eagle. Of course, that was the easiest of the three because though the bird in the image is captive, a bird that was injured and can’t be returned to the wild, Bald Eagles do occur regularly and naturally in Queens.

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Bald Eagle Zoos 2011 Parrots 113

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. 3)Bald Eagle Seth Mar 17th, 2011 at 2:25 pm Has anyone picked this list? Kathleen Mar 17th, 2011 at 12:56 pm 1) Wood Duck 2) This looks like an Amazon (“a&# and “z&# !) Mitred parakeet 3.

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2011 Bald Eagle Sparrows Parrots 192

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2016

At first, the road is paved, but as soon as the tarmac ends, the tracks become decorated by hunters in orange vests. The soil is disturbed by foraging boars (and there is not a single shot from those hunters). By the cliffs we find several Eurasian Crag-Martins and a consolation species – a family of Golden Eagles in the air!

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Greece Woodpeckers Boars Eagles 256

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. Sadly, I missed out on seeing White-tailed Eagles and Harlequin Ducks. Between finishing one graduate program and begining another, he embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe.

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Iceland Puffins Europe Birds 195

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2015

We also did not see a drone get knocked out of the sky by an eagle. Otherwise everybody is hunkered down. We did not see a murmuration of starlings forming the face of Vladimir Putin. The picture at the top of the post is the tallest white pine in Minnesota. And Huxley. ” Things happen. _.

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Minnesota Detroit Birds Laws 182

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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“. If you haven’t learned their specific vocabulary, you wouldn’t even understand what the heck two hunters are talking about.

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Germany Birds Hunters Owls 192

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Sharp-shinned Hawks, Cooper’s Hawks, Bald Eagles, Golden Eagles, Merlin and Peregrine, amongst others, dazzled the crowds on this, one of the busiest weekends at this important sanctuary. Hawk Mountain attracts a colorful crowd during fall migration Hawk Mountain is renowned as the world’s first refuge for raptors.

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Bald Eagle Pennsylvania Sanctuary Hunters 258

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2016

The name “Harpy Eagle” was coined by South American explorers, and is based on the harpies of Greek Mythology. A Harpy Eagle. At 3-4 inches long , they rival those of the great Grizzly Bear, and allow the Harpy Eagles to go after prey unavailable to many other birds. Like Woods, I can’t get over their talons.

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Panama Grizzly Bear Porcupines Eagles 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

The land was of course already occupied by San (Bushmen) hunter-gatherers for millennia and more recently Bantu tribes of the Nguni branch (most notably Zulus and Xhosas). Sundevall named Wahlberg’s Eagle and Wahlberg’s Honeyguide in his memory. It is also known as Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 193

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Giving a few hundred hunters something else to shoot, in my opinion, cannot be worth the blowback from tens of thousands of people who are willing to travel and spend just to watch the birds fly over. Isn’t that neat?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 253

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Black Stork and three pairs of White-tailed Eagles breed here. Ecotourism will no doubt arrive soon, and with luck its revenue will prove that there’s more to be gained from protecting wildlife than selling it to hunters.” Unfortunately, at the time of writing, wildlife is still more commonly sold to foreign hunters.

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Serbia Birds Bulgaria Farming 166

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2016

A Bald Eagle took a chunk out of my jaw,” said Vonda Lee Morton. “I And the eagle was released a few months later!”. “ I’ve been working with eagles and raptors for over 40 years,” says Marge Gibson. Most of mine are small mammals,” said Denise Hunter. Yeah right! She had bumble foot, and she was fast and angry.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wounded Wildlife Opossums 175

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.

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Botswana Eagles Porcupines Hunting 231

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2014

It is related to hawks and eagles, but only distantly, with an estimated divergence date not long after the K-T extinction. The Secretarybird is a powerful, long-legged terrestrial hunter particularly well known for killing snakes by stamping them to death but also perfectly happy to consume other animal prey.

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