10,000 Birds
MARCH 16, 2017
am, at the crack of dawn I am sitting in a car by the Suslik (European ground squirrel) pasture. Actually, I am not waiting for them, but for the Eastern Imperial Eagle to come here to hunt Susliks – an eagle from one of the last two remaining nests in Serbia. Alas, there is no eagle to be seen either. It is still cold.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Recent studies in Sri Lanka have revealed that, upon sighting a predator, a drongo will imitate the alarm calls of at least 4 other bird species (babblers, laughing thrushes, bulbuls, and others), as well as the call given by the specific predator, i.e. a giant squirrel or eagle.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
But what really caught my eye as I drove on the gravel road over the top of the capped landfill was a young Red-tailed Hawk feasting on what looked like a dead Gray Squirrel. It must be immensely frustrating to have food stuck on your beak when you lack hands to get it off. I don’t know.). Other hawks are the worst!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 22, 2011
Many are familiar with dissecting owl pellets, but several birds will caste a pellet including hawks, eagles, gulls, herons and heck, I once witnessed a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher hack up a small one. For example, since eagles and hawks tend to rip their prey apart and have stronger digestive acids, their pellets look like wads of fur.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2015
There’s a Three-striped Palm Squirrel by the side of the track, while Jungle Bush Quails are running across it in front of our Maruti Gypsy, almost the official safari vehicle of India. 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.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 13, 2016
Over the pass, trees turn to pines – one very dark Eurasian Red Squirrel in them – and peaks around us become much higher. Short-toed Snake-Eagle – Circaetus gallicus. A Willow Tit feeds on thistle by the side of the road. Mute Swan – Cygnus olor. Great Crested Grebe – Podiceps cristatus.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2016
I had the snot bitten out of my thumb by a squirrel who didn’t want a bath,” said Shannon Keith. “I 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. Yeah right!
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