article thumbnail

Birds on Utility Poles – The Electrocution Solution

10,000 Birds

But occasionally people see it – especially when it’s a hard-to-miss bird like this Bald Eagle. Within walking distance of her house were a pair of Bald Eagles with two chicks. One morning she discovered the male eagle on the ground, appearing – as you can see from the two photos – unwell.

article thumbnail

West Point Cadet’s Mouse Release

10,000 Birds

Rabbits scamper into the underbrush, only to encounter a coyote nobody saw standing there. Naturally people question the video’s credibility, especially after that stupid and damaging eagle-snatching-a-toddler hoax by a Canadian college. But this is not always the case. What’s our choice? Here is the video.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

10 Questions for Birdchick on 1001 Secrets Every Birder Should Know

10,000 Birds

They asked me to anthropomorphize and say things like, “eagles fall in love for life.” My first book was based on what used to be a page of rabbit photos on the Birdchick webpage called Disapproving Rabbits. So far, the rabbit book has proved to be the most financially successful. the answer to that is always yes).

Rabbits 232
article thumbnail

Comebackers

10,000 Birds

Raptors and other predatory birds have largely rebounded, and there seems to be be no shortage of Brown Pelicans, Peregrine Falcons and Bald Eagles. Rabbits were introduced to the island by guano miners, which turned the previously verdant island into a giant sand dune; almost all vegetation was wiped out. That would have been awful.

Albatross 202
article thumbnail

Poop From The Front End Of The Bird

10,000 Birds

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.

Bats 202
article thumbnail

What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

10,000 Birds

It is a book with a careful infrastructure, however (even though it doesn’t have an index), with references to one section from another, enabling the curious reader to go down structured rabbit holes, pursuing information on nesting or skeletal systems or feather structure throughout the book. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

2020 263
article thumbnail

How To Help A Baby Bird

10,000 Birds

Young raptors like the above Bald Eagle chick are a different matter. If you find a young hawk or eagle out of the nest and it is covered in down and is unable to stand on its huge feet, it needs to get back in the nest. Once they are old enough to flop out of the nest, they have no desire to stay there. Owls are a little different.

Birds 265