10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

I am still tired from the long drive, but it was great to play with the very best toys for birders, to be able to share experiences and to ask the factory staff all sorts of silly questions. Yesterday evening I got home from the second Swarovski Skills Camp at Lake Neusiedl in the east of Austria. impressive for Central Europe.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

I viewed them at dusk, through a telescope, from a ridge overlooking the area they were hunting. It was an exciting experience, though a remarkably chilly one, as winters in Castile and León can be very cold. I’ve yet to see an English pine marten, but I once watched one hunting red squirrels in the Bialowieza Forest in Poland.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2019

Imagine that… a successful snipe hunt. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The question is rarely whether someone enjoys an August weekend but rather how much. Share the details! Ivy and I tracked down her first Wilson’s Snipe this weekend.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Babita Tours has many years of experience organizing tailor-made wildlife tours for private groups in this wonderful country. We travel from Delhi via Agra to visit the Taj Mahal, a truly magical experience with the added bonus of Black-winged Stilts and River Lapwings on the Yamuna River.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2022

Today, Barn Owls can be found across both islands, hunting open fields at twilight or comfortably resting in abandoned relics of the sugar cane industry. You can see the discoverers speaking of their experience (and a brief appearance of the author of this post) in this video. He took a few pictures and moved on. Perhaps heard?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Now that I have driven that to a state of relative completion and I am compelled to return to the forest, I learned that the government here has re-opened the hunting season. After experiencing the ebb and flow of energies over the years with the coming and going of the annual five month long hunting season, the strain is plain for me to see.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2014

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Bald Eagle that he watched (and photographed) hunting and eating a Blue-winged Teal at Viera Wetlands. Sure, Corey saw rarer birds, more colorful birds, and birds that he wanted to see more than a Bald Eagle but the experience of watching such a show was amazing. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The Shoebill serves as the symbol of the magnificent wildlife experiences Uganda offers visitors, which may seem a bit odd. Of course, we did, soaking in that slate blue beauty long enough to observe a successful hunt and more of its rangy, awkward flight. The mighty Shoebill.

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APRIL 12, 2022

I do not (yet) have any accessibility issues, and my only experience regarding anything akin to accessibility has been limited to the period when my daughter was in a stroller, which presents only a tiny sliver of the challenges faced by many. Hunting is also prohibited in this area of the refuge. eBird checklists are here and here.).

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

But hands-on bird experience has been a major gap in my knowledge to date and I’m astounded at how much more I’m discovering about birds. They have long raptor-like wings that enable swift flight, large eyes for nocturnal hunting, bristles close to the bill to aid in prey capture and a mouth that truly defies description.

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JUNE 21, 2015

They are a graceful tern and Corey appreciated watching it hunt, feed, and fly over the marshes. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Such an intimate encounter with one of the world’s rarest birds was a memorable experience. Shooting remains a major threat to this population, for the Italians are still passionately keen on hunting. The individual I am pictured holding ( above ) was a friendly bird that (rather like a dog) seemed happy to be handled.

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Reddit Animals

DECEMBER 31, 2023

they are haunted by other animals, or are in trouble due to humans, maybe humans hunt them or use them for experiments, maybe now there's few in wild or most have been domesticated, anything like that. But can also be brave/fight response, like cat when hiss or scratching and biting. they can climb, dig and swim.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2018

I might have missed out on those buntings I’ve been hunting, but lots of Horned Larks made up for the loss. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Did you make the most of it? I had to work all weekend but managed to chase snow birds on Friday morning.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Now that the odometer on year lists has rolled back to zero, you’re probably eagerly looking forward to beginning the bird hunt anew. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Happy New Year! But take a moment first to appreciate your final sightings of the year gone by.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2015

Excellent 10,000 Birds posts have been written about Pico Bonito and Honduras by Corey and Carlos , so I’m going to focus on some of my most memorable experiences. All of these experiences have been with brown/black/gray birds, birds known for their camouflage. Which is why seeing them was such a great experience.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2013

The Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act , which went into effect seventy-nine years ago on July 1, 1934, authorized the annual issuance of what is popularly known as the Duck Stamp. In 1976, Congress changed the official name to the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp , presumably to broaden its appeal to non-hunters.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2016

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Barn Swallow that kept him company in a bird blind while Seaside Sparrows sang and Common Terns hunted in Wildwood, NJ. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

During the filming of this production, I got to experience “dirt hawking&#. Dirt hawking is a form of falconry that involves hunting rabbits and other small game with Harris Hawks (other hawk species also qualify). They have hunted together before, this pack of sky wolves. Take lions, wolves, hyenas to name a few.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

I have put this post off for a couple of months now because I wanted to avoid dealing with the huge pile of American Bittern images I had after my experience at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival back in January. How ridiculous? I am one of those birders.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2020

Especially as we were at the time about to experience a rapidly advancing tropical storm. Scores of Black-bellied Whistling Ducks circled overhead, these vocal ducks are often hunted illegally here so it was refreshing to see so many. Striated Heron in breeding plumage – extra plumes and blue lores.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2016

But if I have to pick a living bird, American Kestrels hunting along farm roads always work for me. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Pretty swanky, right? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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MAY 21, 2014

and provides diverse nature experiences for visitors from around the world. Fishing accounted for 21 percent and hunting 7 percent. Now, as the popularity of hunting has declined, so too have the sales of Duck Stamps. The National Wildlife Refuge system is one of America’s greatest treasures. million, a 37% reduction 3.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2012

My family took our annual post-Easter Egg hunt hike at Powder Mills Park, where I spied several gorgeous matched pairs of Wood Ducks along with lots of different woodpecker species. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Today happens to be mine, so send some cheer my way!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The drongo perches above the flock, snatching insects that they disturb, and keeping an eye out for predators that might go unnoticed by its hunting flock-mates. The species is classified as Near Threatened for all the usual depressing reasons – pollution, drainage, hunting, and the collection of eggs and nestlings ( source ).

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

The selections appear to largely reflect Hauber’s personal experiences around the world and he does occasionally bring himself into the essay, reflecting on a European Robin he observes at dusk in northwestern Germany or searching for American Robin nests on a tree farm in the Midwestern United States.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

” Most shrugged and said very few US falconers fly owls because they’re slow and some species you can only hunt at night, that wouldn’t be much fun to watch. If anything, falconry birds like the above red-tailed hawk are a hunting partner, especially wild caught birds. I learned that I knew nothing of falconry.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2013

I could hardly contain my excitement as I gazed at a Great Gray Owl and watched it hunt through someone else’s scope. The high winds and frigid temperatures made photography difficult, but it felt right to experience my life Snowy Owl in its element among the whipping snow. My last day in the bog had a grand finale in store.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2018

Whether they were carrying prey, actively hunting, or just flying past I didn’t pass up the opportunity to click away with my Swarovski digiscoping rig and I ended up with some fun shots as a result. My favorite experience was on a day with really strong south winds. This Osprey is carrying a Houndfish.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2011

This is not a surprise as both pastimes tap into my primeval desire to hunt. I don’t need to kill something to feel the rush of the hunt. For me there are few experiences more satisfying than releasing a fish that has put up a great fight. I enjoy fishing almost as much as I enjoy birding. It consumes me.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2013

He was very pleased to see his first ever Rough-legged Hawk in Queens, a dark-morph bird hunting over the old landfill. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. That’s his third new bird in Queens in less than a month! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

This means that they probably can’t withstand any sort of hunting pressure, and given the lack of Great Curassows in most accessible parts of their range, that is probably the case. Come on down and see if you can experience a neotropical turkey-trogon-cotinga fest! It also ranges widely from Mexico south to western Ecuador.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2019

While the hunting of game with trained birds of prey can be a controversial topic among birders , falconry was a valuable early source of information on birds, and its history, culture, and imagery continue to fascinate bird lovers, as we shall see. es de altaner ía. ( The pursuit of love. is like falconry.).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Yet, one other hunting attempt in the same area I do remember. The next memorable hunt came from winter 2006/07. The year was 1996 and it must have been quite a sight – if I only could remember it! But no, that sighting is no longer in my head, only on paper. And, now, at eBird.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

Swainson’s Spurfowl is a somewhat unlucky species for two reasons – one, it is considered a delicacy by outdoor and hunting enthusiasts in Zimbabwe ( source ), and the other, it is named after William Swainson, an English ornithologist with an ill-advised side activity in botany. They exercised this activity in part-time (96.5%).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2013

Hunting of Scarlet Ibis for their feathers as well as drainage of portions of the swamp for rice harvesting was, at one time, putting what is now a major tourist destination in jeopardy. Fortunately, forward-thinkers prevailed, the site is now protected as a Ramsar Wetland , and the hunting of Scarlet Ibis has become a social taboo.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2020

I savor the timeless experience of scanning these tropical waves for storm-petrels and lost jaegers. As it learns to hunt and live on its own, the young bird has taken up residence in a tree right in front of the farm. Of course, unless you live on Venus, we all know that this year is far from normal and so is the birding news.

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