10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
How much do you know about owls? I’ve been fortunate to encounter many owls in my birding life, sometimes because I’m looking for them, sometimes happily by happenstance. What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds is a joyous, fascinating read. I don’t think so.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2011
If you cannot find the nest or it’s too destroyed, do not try and raise a chick this young. It’s illegal to raise wild birds (even orphaned ones) without state and federal permits. Owls are a little different. They don’t build nests and some like Great Horned Owls take over old hawk or squirrel nests.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2015
Which is not to say that it doesn’t contain striking images of birds parenting the most adorable songbirds, owls, and heron nestlings imaginable. And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. Into the Nest , as the title says, is about the courting, mating, egg-laying, nesting, and parenting behavior of “familiar birds”.
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2023
While having somebody else raise your chicks like an attractive strategy to me, it is not without dangers. Not only does this species directly parasitize other species but also metaphorically, by imitating the sparrowhawks in its appearance and thus deterring potential predators.
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2012
Current well-intentioned environmental pressures to emphasize harvesting large dead or dying trees, if realized, would have further adverse effects on such ecologically and esthetically important species as woodpeckers, swallows, wrens, nuthatches, and owls – to name a few 1.”
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 19, 2011
Baird’s Sparrow by Seagull Steve Julie’s was not a wild bird, well, at least not one that lived outdoors: My Best Bird of the Year, and the 22 preceding, was Charlie, a Chestnut-fronted Macaw I got as a captive-raised fledgling in 1989. What’s not to like about an owl that lives underground?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2012
A nest wasn’t found until 1903, which set off a craze for Kirtland’s Warbler skins, nests, and eggs. One of the strange things about the Kirtland’s Warbler story is the participation of Nathan Leopold, Jr. a young brilliant scientist who observed and filmed the bird in its nesting habitat shortly after the nest was discovered.
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