10,000 Birds
APRIL 9, 2011
David Sibley (yeah, the one ) recently raised the question visiting birders (particularly from Germany, not so much from the UK – I am told!) Note also that the border of the pale bar towards the tip forms a more prominent saw pattern in Short-toed compared to Common. North America may currently feel very smug, safe and sound.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2011
Between staying warm/cool, finding food, avoiding predators, migrating thousands of miles every year, finding mates, raising chicks and doing all this at the mercy of the elements, it makes sense that they have more brainpower than just simple instinct to run on. Picture being a Blackpoll Warbler being born in the boreal forests of Alaska.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 9, 2011
In the finest tradition of Romanticism, gulls dwell in the mystic world of dark and morbid imagery and emotions, which is expressed in often eroticized ways of aesthetic self-dramatization*. The tips of their fingers is where the last fragment of their former Gothic self is maintained. Hat-tip to Stella. They’re Back!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2015
Very little information was available at the time, so we hired a car and off we went, following the few tips we had managed to gather but mostly our noses. And wow, what a trip we had! What are the chances of survival for these shy forest denizens?
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