10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. Seriema at the deepest branch of Australaves could be considered to belong to a raptorial taxon because they kill vertebrate prey and are the sole living relatives of the extinct giant “terror birds,” apex predators during the Paleogene. Open Jarvis et al.’s
10,000 Birds
APRIL 14, 2023
When it is seen that A falcon, tow’ring in her pride of place / Was by a mousing owl hawk’d at and kill’d, that is taken as a sign that the natural order has been disturbed (there, by Macbeth’s act of regicide). An Englishwoman, she thought, originally, that she would stay within the British Isles, to see the five or six native species.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
I am taking a sip of coffee, my eyes following an impossibly colourful Kill-Bill ( Keel-billed) Toucan , flying against the background of the Irazu Volcano slopes and, farther to the right, water-vapour ‘smoking’ Turrialba Volcano on the horizon. Some years later, he returned to Rancho for a few months as a volunteer.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
The Latin species name of the Brown Falcon is berigora , which made me hope it was named for some colorful and potentially sleazy racist naturalist (you may have realized I like these stories, even though I am not a person who slows down when seeing a car crash). Unfortunately, berigora is just an Aboriginal name for this falcon.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2019
The Gyrfalcon ( Falco rusticolus ), the largest falcon in the world, is as sought after by falconers as it is by birders – and for many of the same reasons: namely, the rarity with which these imposing raptors of the Arctic visit us residing in more temperate climes.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 31, 2021
Then we relocated to a spot where people were seeing several and arrived just in time to see the last one present get snatched by a Peregrine Falcon. It’s a horrible photo but if you squint you may be able to make out the dead Dovekie in the falcon’s talons in this image. A first state record? I wonder if they taste good?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 7, 2014
Twelve family accounts have been added. It is 72 pages longer than the first edition. An undisclosed number of family and species accounts have been updated. Nine photographers contributed most of the photographs used to illustrate the family sections, including Richard Crossley, Kevin T. Over 70 range maps were updated.
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