10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2013

There’s a guy in Ossining and he swears he has two baby eagles in his back yard. I told him they’re probably not eagles, but he says they’re definitely eagles. She’s right there in Ossining.”. As it turns out, summer camp was going full force, so no one could leave and pick up the ham and fruit-eating baby eagles.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2024

However – and I am not saying this out of misplaced national pride – there is one bird in the Netherlands that proves Jefferson wrong and Buffon right: the White-tailed Eagle (or Sea Eagle ). It’s the only Dutch eagle. Our eagle makes Baldy look imparfait, even a bit manqué. Buffon 5 – Jefferson 0.

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Beavers Netherlands Eagles Geese 141

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2017

She is The Eagle Huntress , the young Kazakh star of this captivating film, and her joy comes from a life integrally connected to nature. In Act 1, we meet Aisholpan and her family—her eagle hunter father, Rys, her hard working mother, Almagul, her younger sister and brother, and her grandfather, also once an eagle hunter.

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Eagles Mongolia Hunters Hunting 101

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2017

Despite mostly guiding them, I still somehow managed to see a European Badger sitting and watching me back for several seconds, before it slipped into bushes and quite a few White-tailed Eagles , e.g. four in just one morning. And how about Black Storks, otters and eagles? And, with it, its otters, eagles and storks.

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Critter News

MARCH 19, 2012

A federal government decision to allow a Wyoming tribe to kill two bald eagles for a religious ceremony is a victory for American Indian sovereignty as well as for long-suppressed religious freedoms, the tribe says. The Northern Arapaho decline to say specifically what they will do with the eagles the federal permit allows them to kill.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Killing Wyoming 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2024

Better is to turn into the many roads to the left or right. Then return and do it all over again, but now it will be afternoon and Eurasian Griffon , Cinereous Vulture , Golden Eagle , Spanish Imperial Eagle , Bonelli’s Eagle and Booted Eagle are all possible sightings on the thermals.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2023

No, there weren’t any sightings of ultra mega Crested Eagle or missing Solitary Eagle , or king Harpy Eagle on my part but I did connect with most of the rest. I looked in some of the right places but failed to connect. I also saw a high percentage of the raptor species possible in Costa Rica.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

And eagles. New Zealand had eagles. Once upon a time there was a much larger forest harrier, Forbes’ Harrier , and the all-time ultimate bird-of-prey, the Haast’s Eagle. This massive eagle, with a wingspan on up to 2.6 metres, was the largest eagle to grace the world, alive or dead.

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Eagles New Zealand Bald Eagle Collecting 101

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In his first chapter, on the Raven, Moss is an enthusiastic borrower from Bernd Heinrich’s classic The Mind of the Raven , and in chapter ten (about which more below) a good deal is sourced from a 2022 book, The Bald Eagle , by Jack E. Maybe Moss is right, and birds have changed history. There’s a fair amount of etymology, too.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2024

I had long yearned of seeing a wild Harpy Eagle and was genuinely thrilled to hear about an active nest not too far from where we would be staying. Selfishly, I was a bit disappointed that the lack of water turned our two-hour commute via river to see the nest of the mighty Harpy Eagle into a no-go. After all, there were already rocks.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2021

Once I observed a man walking his two small dogs here, passing by a perched White-tailed Eagle but looking down at grass and not noticing the largest raptor in Europe at all. The eagle seemed well-used to people and paid no attention either. Reva had the semi-natural feeling of a forgotten green oasis at the outskirts of a busy city.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2022

Harpy Eagle! The biggest birding news for Costa Rica was a sighting of an adult Harpy Eagle in northern Costa Rica , near Boca Tapada. Their local guide excitedly confirmed the bird as a Harpy Eagle (only the most dearly wanted species for every birder in Costa Rica), took photos and video, and spread the news.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Photographed within Beljarica: five White-tailed Eagles by Snezana Panjkovic. Two hundred metres further on, two young White-tailed Eagles were soaring. Yet, the primary job of Beljarica is not to support eagles and otters, but to control the floods. I barely started when some sulphur (a.k.a. Easily enough, they got it here.

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Serbia Otters Boars Eagles 244

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

The structure of wings is addressed in Chapter 8, “Feathers and Flight.” Among their other uses, wings are also employed for balance during copulation, a not unimportant or inconsequential usage, as the male Bald Eagle ably demonstrates in the photo, above right. Peterson Reference Guide to Bird Behavior. By John Kricher.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Lucky him, right? A Crested Serpent Eagle , looking a bit ridiculous after a rain. This is a juvenile Grey-headed Fish Eagle , unless it is another fish eagle like the Lesser (the lack of any grey head makes me doubt the identification a bit, but it seems juveniles cannot afford a grey head yet).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2020

In winter you may scope the Danube for Greater White-fronted and Greylag Goose , Common Shelduck , Smew and Goosander , Ferruginous Duck , Black-throated Diver , Pygmy Cormorant and Caspian Gull ; and check the tree crowns for Fieldfares , Redwings and Mistle Thrushes , also a rare Greater Spotted Eagle. Dubovacki Rit , Labudovo okno.

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Turtles 2002 Serbia Eagles 168

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

February feels like a step forward to our next season, but we’ll still be as mired in winter or summer, depending on your hemisphere, at month’s end as we are right now. Learn to love it! I’m really saying this for myself, since I absolutely hate being cold but live in a place that LOVES to be cold. How about you?

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Bald Eagle Delaware New York Pennsylvania 202

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

I was tired, as if it were my shoulders that held the sky suspended… So much so that I made no birding plans for this vacation.

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Greece Eagles Turtles 2019 226

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2017

Dunne is a compelling writer, and if he’s fond of long, multi-clause sentences and elaborate descriptions that might seem outright poetic to people used to terse field guide species accounts, well, I’m right there with him. Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America by Pete Dunne with Kevin T.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2021

White-tailed Eagles in Beljarica. Serbia has a right-centre Government that for years avoided protecting any of the already proposed areas, heavily pushing the development at whatever cost and miserably failing the environment. It is a spacious floodplain between the River Danube and the levee, 2.1 Golden Jackals in Beljarica.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2021

During our visit, one was sleeping high in a tree right next to the parking area. Short-tailed Hawk, Black Hawk-Eagle, Brown-capped Tyrannulet , and other species. Black Hawk-Eagle from another day. Watch the streams for fish, we saw a few, unidentified yet cool looking tropical species! Roosting Great Potoo and Crested Owls!

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Costa Rica Puerto Rico Birds Owls 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2023

Fortunately, late June is the right season for the locally brewed snake-cold Vergina lager in the deepest shade by some gull-filled beach. Soon after it, singing Black-headed Bunting awaited me on a wire at the right, with two Woodchat Shrikes in the bush at the left-hand side of the road.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2018

Lesser White-fronted Goose and Greater Spotted Eagle came to mind, but what else? I am scoping Great Cormorants roosting in their colony in the (now dry) flooded forest, there is one… eagle to the right of them. I am right, Kostas confirms, it is a Greater Spotted Eagle. One done, three more to go.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2022

You can park by the side and check the Boljetinska River Canyon at your right, a true geological history book. Among the possible species there are Rock Bunting , Eurasian Wryneck , Grey-headed and Eurasian Green Woodpeckers , European Honey Buzzard , Lesser Spotted Eagle. Somrda Peak (810 m a.s.l.)

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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2021

When I first spotted the label of this week’s wine in my local shop, I took one look at the songbirds on it and rightfully assumed this 2020 Emiliana Natura Rosé was from some European winery. I think most birders would, given the ornithological evidence presented.

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2020 Chile Bald Eagle Europe 234

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2019

With a foundation this firm, you can’t help but have a great weekend, right? Of what he did see, a pair of Bald Eagles at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge was the highlight, a species that didn’t used to be around in June in Queens at all. So, Bald Eagles as his Best Bird of the Weekend. Even the birding is decent.

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2019 Bald Eagle Jamaica Eagles 115

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

That’s the Kingfisher at the right; on the left was one of the area’s many European Stonechats. It was busy mobbing one of the region’s many Booted Eagles. Gee, I hope I got this one right. In contrast, if I had ever seen a Common Kingfisher before, I would most certainly have realized it.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2022

24 species of diurnal raptors were recorded including Bicolored Hawk, both Cooper’s and Sharp-shinned Hawks (rare birds in Costa Rica), and Black and Ornate Hawk-Eagles. Raptors and Swifts. The swift action was also excellent, at least on our route. In the morning and even during mid-day, dozens of swifts coursed through the skies.

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Costa Rica Eagles Species Blackbirds 241

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

A female Mallard was running on the water right out of the thickets, flapping its wing frantically. This endearing ground squirrel is the preferred prey of a resident pair of Imperial Eagles … Within twenty minutes, a Goshawk, a Black Kite and two Honey Buzzards passed over.

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Serbia 2004 Eagles Chickens 247

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2023

Not at all, they are very right to protest, and I have no issue with the farmers – we all share the same enemy, our own President. Am I annoyed with the farmers, angry at them? He started his political career as Slobodan Milosevic’s Minister of Propaganda.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2017

This time the tome that three lucky readers will receive is Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America by Pete Dunne. The first and easiest way to win a copy of Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America is to subscribe to the 10,000 Birds email mailing list. How do you win one?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Those Eagles you’re hearing everyone talk about right now aren’t the ones you typically seek while birding, but rather the ones from Philadelphia that just won Super Bowl LII. To get in the mood for the big game, I took a run up to Irondequoit Bay in search of Bald Eagles. Well, they did it.

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Bald Eagle 2018 Philadelphia Game 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In a huge crown of an old ash, two adult White-tailed Eagles await us, posing confidently for some time. White-tailed Eagle by Snezana & Slobodan Panjkovic. A Black Redstart on the fishing cottage rooftop, Mistle Thrush in a distant tree, European Greenfinch and the Eurasian Siskin right in front of us.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2016

Oh, the joys of urban birding… Add half a dozen Ferruginous Ducks (cover photo), two Whiskered and 40 Black Terns to the previous picture, plus an eagle, an immature White-tailed Eagle. A man walking his two small dogs is passing by the eagle, looking down at grass and not seeing the largest raptor in Europe.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2018

White-tailed Eagles normally take flight silently, yet, while checking some Common Starlings and hoping for Rosy Starlings , I heard a few noisy wing-beats, enough to turn and see a young eagle flying with a wing tag. To prove more how young and inexperienced it was, the eagle even landed on the ground a mere 15 metres behind my car.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2017

This large reserve has its namesake mountain range running right down the middle of it, and virtually no roads. Just above a near by ridge, two Golden Eagles were calling to each other, circling on the early morning currents and then, just like that they were gone. These were my first Golden Eagles here in Mexico.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Frankly, if the name of the Bald Eagle was North Korean Eagle ( Haliaeetus coreaseptentrionalis ?), There is a great song by The Chills titled “ Complex “ Great link, right? it would not be the national bird of the USA either.

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