10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

But research has shown that some plovers even use the super-sensitive soles of their feet to detect movement beneath the substrate. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. Scary to be a worm or crustacean in Ploverland -- nowhere to run and nowhere to hide!

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Florida South Africa 2011 Africa 200

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MAY 8, 2017

I never researched the resort, imagining that it lacked the amenities my family wanted, but visiting for dinner allowed us to rent its grandeur without forking over the considerable room rates. The food was better than decent, which exceeds our experience of Panamanian cuisine at most other locations. Make sure you can do the same.

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Panama 2017 Monkeys Family 100

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MARCH 18, 2011

UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. Chestnut-fronted Macaws Ara severa.

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

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MARCH 18, 2011

Many Happy Returns to the Owl Research Institute Prepping For Spring Spring in East Harbour Regional Park.Or He caught the itch, so to speak, when he arrived at Sapsucker Woods in Ithaca, New York, and he refined his birding skills with the Lab of Ornithologys Spring Field Ornithology course. Get yours today! Wicked, right?

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Cyprus 2011 Deer New York 145

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The experience was marvelous — but it also weighed heavily on me. White-headed Woodpecker. You can read more about the study at The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times , among others. That’s one of my photos above. Black Rosy-Finch. Brown-headed Nuthatch. McCown’s Longspur.

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Species Science Los Angeles Birds 178

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MAY 4, 2017

In 2009, I traveled from New York City to the tropical rainforest of Ecuador. I looked up most of Kricher’s biography on the Internet because his bio on the back book cover is very brief and I wanted to know a bit more about the education and experience he brought to this uncommon book. is remarkable.

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South America Ecuador Reptiles America 162

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MARCH 12, 2011

They really appeared to enjoy this, because as soon as they swam back to the rocks they would line up again to repeat the experience. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. It seemed like a really fun way to spend the day! Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 216

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016

I realized a curious thing while researching some of the creatures in this guide–some of the common names given for the flying fish appear to have originated with co-author Steve N.G. Howell; I can’t find them anywhere else on the Internet. George is also the co-author of last month’s book, Better Birding , and a friend.

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Pennsylvania Texas Whales Whaling 176

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NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Fernandina’s Flicker, a tongue-twisting alliterative name for one of the most endangered woodpeckers in the world! This New York Times article summarizes the current status of travel to Cuba. Bee Hummingbird, the smallest hummingbird in the world! Cuban Black Hawk, split in 2007 from Common Black Hawk!

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Cuba Birds United States 2000 238

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MARCH 9, 2011

Take a look at this little Blue Tit and admit that you have never seen a more pathetic picture of a bird that combines the colours blue, yellow, green, white, and black in the most marvellous way you have ever seen: Recent research has shown that Leonardo da Vinci showed a Blue Tit to his model while he painted the smile on “Mona Lisa&#.

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2011 Birds Deer Europe 167