10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2013

They were joined by hoards of Common Redpoll and Black-capped Chickadee , along with Red-breasted Nuthatch , Downy Woodpecker , and Hairy Woodpecker. I could hardly contain my excitement as I gazed at a Great Gray Owl and watched it hunt through someone else’s scope.

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Minnesota Owls Bald Eagle Hoarding 177

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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Costa Rica Birds Thailand Family 203

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2013

However, the great birding experience that is Sani starts lower down. Buff-streaked Chats and Cape Rock-Thrushes sing from boulder tops, and family huddles of Ground Woodpeckers emit their rather gull-like shrieks. Another typical Sani Pass bird, the strange Ground Woodpecker, a remnant of an ancient woodpecker lineage, by Adam Riley.

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Lesotho Africa Birds Rats 164

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2019

There are more than 50 regional endemics to choose from, and many birds are easier to see in Costa Rica than many other places because of access to habitat and/or lack of hunting pressure. Thanks to better protection from hunting, this fancy bird is tame and easy to see at many sites in Costa Rica. Rufous-winged Woodpecker.

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Costa Rica Panama Birds Eagles 201

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Habitat is very important to Hashimoto’s art, they are part of her observational and creative experience, and I think it’s this attention to appropriate waters, plants, climate, and time of day that make her bird portraits special. I also love the design of the book itself, credited to Kate Basart of Union Pageworks.

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Birds Eggs Laws Woodpeckers 143

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Female Imperial Woodpecker in flight, Mexico, a still from recently found film made by William Rhein, p. Eskimo Curlew, Passenger Pigeon, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Bachman’s Warbler, Carolina Parakeet—these are names that echo mightily through birding histories and even some recent field guides.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

I don’t really know – from my own experience with school bullies or from Jack London’s novels? At some stage, a salmon-hunting bear at a shingle beach came too close, mere 9 steps. Finally, the list of birds mentioned in the examples include: Acorn woodpecker, Melanerpes formicivorus. How did I know that?

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Animal Bears Stray Dog Blackbirds 114

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

I have had similar experiences at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge and you are so right on when you say “am I ever glad that I am a birder!&# Duck MigrationSandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?!Avian It was a great experience. Share Your Thoughts « Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! What a spectacle indeed.

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica New York 168

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Fernandina’s Flicker, a tongue-twisting alliterative name for one of the most endangered woodpeckers in the world! In addition to habitat loss, extreme weather, invasive species, hunting, and the illegal capture of birds for pet markets are major contributing factors. Bee Hummingbird, the smallest hummingbird in the world!

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Cuba Birds United States 2000 224

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Recent publicity about these remarkable tribes has resulted in tourists wanting to experience this wild land and its attractions for themselves. They are traditionally pastoral people, but have from necessity accepted agriculture, fishing and crocodile hunting as means of survival.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Game 235

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

The What To Do If… section answers many questions often posed by beginning birders and just plain people in social media groups and I’m sure elsewhere–What to do if a woodpecker is attaching your house, if you find a dead bird, if you find a baby bird, etc. More narrative, more dense, maybe a little less fun.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 262

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Is this the type of avian experience we want? We know what those large flocks were like. Well, except maybe you.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 101

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

On my first visit to the island a few years ago I even found one hunting for sandhoppers and other assorted treats in the washed up seaweed on the beach. Duncan Mar 10th, 2011 at 3:01 am I know from experience that Saddlebacks are tricky little guys to catch. Saddleback ( Philesturnus carunculatus ) on the beach.

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New Zealand 2011 Deer Cats 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

Again, Poe provides the anwer: Regarding, then, Beauty as my province, my next question referred to the tone of its highest manifestation- and all experience has shown that this tone is one of sadness. Beauty of whatever kind in its supreme development invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

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2011 Fowl Deer Cats 239