February, 2015

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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

10,000 Birds

'Does the product above strike you as black humor, only not funny? Let me introduce my guest blogger, Lisa Owens Viani, co-founder of the California-based group RATS ( Raptors Are The Solution ), which educates people about the dangers of rat poisons. I’ll leave today’s blog in her capable hands. It takes a lot of nerve—or something that can’t be printed here—to name your rat poison after the animals that so effectively and efficiently control rodents but that are also being poisoned

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Adorable baby gorilla photos!

4 The Love Of Animals

'Busch Gardens® Tampa has welcomed another endangered western lowland gorilla. The female gorilla was born on Feb. 6 at 8:30 p.m. and is being cared for by 27-year-old mother Mary. “The first month will be the critical period as the … Continue reading → The post Adorable baby gorilla photos! appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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'This blog had 955 visits during January, which is an average of 30.8 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 36.5.

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The Most Interesting Gull in the World

10,000 Birds

'As I had cause to observe last weekend, the great divide between birders and nonbirders is best expressed through gulls. 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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What’s So Special About the Gadwall?

10,000 Birds

'Seriously? Just look at this drake. Pretty dapper wouldn’t you say? Pete Dunne calls the Gadwall ( Anas strepera ) the “Dapper Gray Dabbler.” Click on photos for full sized images. Pete goes on to state that “the plumage of the male is distinctive. The head and body are overall gray, shot through with subtle brown highlights and bracketed by a small black bill and a very obvious black butt.

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Snail Kites at East Lake Toho

10,000 Birds

'Every time I go to the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival I make sure to go out of my way to spend some time with Snail Kites. As a New Yorker, the idea of a raptor that subsists primarily and almost exclusively on snails is utterly foreign to me and I find the idea fascinating. After all, we tend to think of raptors as fast, as powerful, as stealthy.

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In Sunlight or in Shadow

10,000 Birds

'Those of you who go outside like actual birders and/or adults may not be aware of the latest craze to sweep the internet. No, not the llamas. Or the trailer for the new Frozen short. Or even the welcome news the Obama has vetoed the Keystone pipeline. No, it’s about a blue dress. Or a white dress. With decorations that are either gold or black.

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Attack of the Drones

10,000 Birds

'So you’re a bird just minding your own business—feeding, nest-building, mating, that kind of thing. You’ve adapted fairly well to the presence of the odd tall creatures with two legs who can’t fly. And now a bunch of them are staring intently at you. No biggie. But wait, what’s that? Out of the corner of your eye, something menacing and not quite organic appears.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of February 2015)

10,000 Birds

'So many sexy snow birds pop up this time of year: Snow Buntings , Snow Geese , Snowy Owls … But if you’re like me, you couldn’t get out to see them this weekend. Why? Too much snow! Between work and shoveling, I had no chance to get out birding. Fortunately, House Finches came to me, brightening up the feeder with their raspberry resplendence.

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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of February 2015?

10,000 Birds

'Every weekend deserves at least a little excitement, but I’m finding it difficult to get too worked up about another ice-rimed February weekend. So much for going out like a lamb! At least this miserable (YMMV) month is coming to an end. I’ll dream of an opportunity to encounter a cool owl, falcon, or boreal vagrant along the lake this weekend, but I can’t say for sure I’ll actually look for one.

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Waterfowl at Baisley Pond Park in Winter

10,000 Birds

'Baisley Pond Park in southern Queens is a spot that few birders venture to despite it being a magnet for wintering waterfowl. It is inconvenient by mass transit, requiring a bus ride at the end of a ride on the subway, and the nearest highways, the Belt and the Van Wyck, tend to clog up with traffic. But I visit whenever I can because the park’s namesake pond is mostly surrounded by vegetation, which gives birds cover; it is underbirded, which means that there is a chance to find somethin

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2015)

10,000 Birds

'Alas, the team named for a bird fell short of the crown in Super Bowl XLIX. While many human beings felt anguish and rage at the loss, most avifauna appeared unperturbed. The non-Seahawk birds that caught my eye this weekend were Northern Cardinals , which always look their best burning crimson against a blanket of white snow. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a wonderful American Pipit foraging on the roadside margin at Jones Beach State Park.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of February 2015)

10,000 Birds

'As members of an international community of nature lovers, we all experience the weekend in different parts of this wide, wide world. Consequently, only those of you who live in the northern temperate regions can appreciate how I’m feeling about this dreadful month. Author Anna Quindlen expressed this midwinter despair quite eloquently: “February is a suitable month for dying.

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Juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge

10,000 Birds

'Red-shouldered Hawks ( Buteo lineatus ) are one of my favorite raptors and I am fortunate to have them nesting near my property. I hear them constantly calling with that steadily repeated squealing keeyuur, keeyuur, keeyuur , and I see them more often in early summer hunting for food for their nestlings. That being said, I found this juvenile recently at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge.

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Cholla Birds

10,000 Birds

'The internet appears to have nearly as many people getting caught up with Cholla Cacti as it has cute kittens doing funny stuff. It almost qualifies as a genre in itself. Now this is only a personal suspicion, but I reckon that the birds of the Sonoran Desert have set up candid cameras and are getting their Youtube footage by enticing birders close enough to the cholla bushes for the spiked fruit to make the leap onto their innocent carriers.

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Is my Rhino Still Alive?

10,000 Birds

'The annual number of rhino poached in South Africa last year rose to 1,215, Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa told a media briefing in Pretoria two weeks ago. On average, over 100 rhinos were illegally killed each month. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said the figures showed a 21% increase in poaching from 2013, topping that year’s total by 195.

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Fifty Shapes of Grey

10,000 Birds

'We are bound to suffer. Yes, winter has done it again : here in Heidelberg, we are subjected to the painful games of Mr. Grey, trapped under his cloudy sheets and denied the warmth of the sun or the privilege of seeing colours on birds. Admittedly, it is not quite as bad as it was two years ago, since we have occasionally been seeing small bits of blue skies for a few minutes every few days during the last two months.

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Winter Birding (By Car) at Jones Beach State Park

10,000 Birds

'Jones Beach State Park in Nassau County, New York, is a great place to bird at all seasons. In winter, especially with the kind of winter we have had this year, it can be brutal. I was reminded of this one morning last week when I had to work out on Long Island so thought that I would do some before work birding at Jones Beach. Because, you know, why not?

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Nine-banded Armadillos in Florida

10,000 Birds

'One of the wonderful experiences when birding away from your home turf is the potential to come across creatures other than birds with which you may not be familiar. On my previous trips to the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival I had only once spotted an armadillo, and that was on the side of the highway as I whizzed past, which is hardly the view you want when you are seeing something for the first time.

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Minks and more on the Outer Banks

10,000 Birds

'A couple weekends ago I headed out to the Carolina Bird Club’s winter meeting in Nags Head, North Carolina, on the cusp of the Outer Banks. The CBC is great for holding their meetings at some of the Carolinas’ best birding locations, but there’s something special about the Outer Banks that makes the rotation to the NC coast something that birders don’t want to miss.

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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of February 2015?

10,000 Birds

'Don’t you wish this was your backyard? Ready to spend this weekend gazing adoringly at the ones you love? Perfect, because the Great Backyard Bird Count has begun! The GBBC stands as one of the most important and easy international citizen science initiatives. Just pay attention to a patch or yard for a few days and log your sightings. What a simple yet profound way to contribute to our collective understanding of bird behavior and distribution.

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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of February 2015?

10,000 Birds

'Keep your eyes to the skies for gulls, but don’t breathe in too deeply ! Here we lie fallow in mid-February. In just about every part of the world, this weekend will be much like last weekend. Next weekend will be more of the same. Nothing for us to do, my friends, but soldier on… I’m eager to spy winter birds around Rochester, but ironically, the snow and cold seem to be shutting most of them down.

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On Jacamars and Flycatchers

10,000 Birds

'Jacamars live only in the neo-tropical rainforest of South America. Structurally, they resemble an oversize hummingbird, the coloring is more like that of kingfisher, they act like Tyrant flycatchers, and nest in cavities they dig themselves. Ecologically, they are Tyrant flycatchers in disguise. They perch on exposed branches and sit and wait for passing insects they catch in the wing.

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Help for the Wildlife of Delhi

10,000 Birds

'There’s time left! The campaign to provide one of two brothers who almost singlehandedly care for the injured birds of Delhi, India, has been extended. There’s still time to help! Here’s the campaign. Do you love birds? Love the wild world? Do you have a fascination with snakes? Because Nadeem and Mohammad Saud also rescue cobras from snake charmers.

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Some Yummy-scented Winter Birding

10,000 Birds

'Not so long ago, there was a question on this blog : which is the most interesting gull in the world? In the last two weeks, I have been busy counting thousands of gulls, involving two visits to the Belgrade city rubbish dump to look for some light reading. It usually meant tens of thousands of Black-headed Gulls , a few hundred to a few thousand each of Caspian and Common Gulls (and a dozen or two of Yellow-legged Gulls which I missed, but they’ll become more common with the advance of spring)

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Shorebirds and Lyngbya

10,000 Birds

'At the moment in Broome there is an outbreak of the cyanobacteria called Lyngbya and it thrives in warm water, so the conditions are ideal at the moment. The Lyngbya is growing across the seabed and smothering the seagrass and then become buoyant and float to the surface. Huge mats of Lyngbya are now floating in and covering the mangroves, beaches and it is advisable to not enter the water due to the toxic nature of the plant.

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Goals for Birding Costa Rica in 2015

10,000 Birds

'January kicks off the high season for birding in Costa Rica. The winds of the dry season keep the clouds away for half of the country, and guides are busy showing people tanagers, guans, and (with luck) a Resplendent Quetzal or two. I have been doing my fair share of guiding and that’s why February has crept up on me with the stealth of a Puma.

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Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of February 2015?

10,000 Birds

'Keep your eyes to the skies for freaky hybrids ! If you live on my side of the globe–north/south axis, of course–you may be as sick as I am of winter weather. Alas, the long slog to spring will take many, many more frigid, blustery weeks. At least we have birds… My desire to see boreal specialties pales in comparison to my passion for staying warm and dry.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of February 2015)

10,000 Birds

'A weekend in which we observe both Valentine’s Day and the Great Backyard Bird Count is one most of us need to recover from, am I right? So much love! Actually the temperature is rather frigid in my part of the world, which meant that most birds weren’t willing to brave the subzero temps. Thankfully, American Tree Sparrows thrive under these brutal conditions and provided terrific views throughout the weekend.

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Intermediate Egret encounter

10,000 Birds

'Some weeks just fly by and here I am realising it is the weekend and time to write and get away from painting woodwork and other projects we have running around our home! So, I am digging into the past! Our garden has been active with birds as always and we have had the company of the noisy raucous Grey-crowned Babblers , three Black-chinned Honeyeaters that have become regular visitors as they patiently wait for one of the native trees to open its flowers, Double-barred Finches , Brown Honeye

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