10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2021
One such surprising experience happened with grouse. In keeping with gamebird tradition, my first experience with grouse wasn’t one of a bird on a branch or something singing from a tree. Watch and listen for the birds as they rustle through the leaf litter. Wood-warblers lived in those Appalachian forests, many of them!
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
My first experience was with a nesting pair, one bird was out at the time and the other was comfortably sitting quite low in the nest. Nothing could move around in the leaf litter without full attention from this Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl. Now, although I have seen this species several times before, we have a unique relationship.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 16, 2012
Food for a fledgling thrush is abundant in June with everything from ripe cherries on the trees to loads of snails crawling through the leaf litter. It is a fledgling Song Thrush being attended by a parent outside of the wonderful Nomad Hotel in Hungary’s Bükk Hills.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 20, 2014
A recent experience left me upside-down in a drift of pine needles as finding myself face-to-face with a Barred Owl was such a shock that I lost the power of standing. What is it about Owls that casts such a spell over folk?
Critter News
NOVEMBER 12, 2009
Failed to ensure that experiments minimized discomfort, distress and pain to the animals. In one case, up to 17 kittens from three litters died or were euthanized -- with no experiment data generated -- after injections to induce hydrocephalus. "It's a remarkably banal list of ordinary events in an animal-care facility."
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
There is a lot of extreme behavior here (and a lot of that behavior takes place in Australia), but this is not simply a collection of the world’s most fantastic bird tales. Most of the chapters in The Bird Way focus on one or two scientists who has done extensive research on ‘outlier behavior.’
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 27, 2013
And sure, it’s really great to see the Scrub Jays at the pay station at Cape Canaveral or the Scrub Jay trail at Merritt Island, but if you want to really experience the Scrub Jays, you have to travel down the road to Rockledge and visit Cruickshank Sanctuary. But honestly, part of that is a peanuts.
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