10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
But a falconer did legally trap a snowy, I saw the picture on his Facebook page before he deleted it after a firestorm of controversy exploded. ” But then I thought of the other wild raptors falconers can take like a Northern Goshawk, Gyrfalcon, Great Horned Owl and Peregrine Falcon and debated with myself about why an owl is different.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 17, 2024
A couple bends along the trail and it seemed as if we were out of human contact by a thousand miles. Until a small, falcon-like bird darted through the understory. As these odd cotingas called to each other, a small group of Spix’s Guan rummaged through the high branches of the canopy, running with ease on swaying limbs.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
A Peregrine Falcon was seen in the distance, one of the day’s few species I could also have seen in Mexico. The locals were also excited when a small group of Black Storks flew overhead. Still, after the smaller group flew overhead, a larger group followed. One European Sparrowhawk turned up.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 30, 2021
In the Orinoco, the largest observed groups number 30, but average is just above five. We sailed right into a group of more than a dozen Hoatzins (cover photo, by Tyler Ficker) with their orange mohawks and blue facial skin. At first one, then two more, then one more, and altogether some 6 or 7 dolphins were coming to the surface.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2016
That’s what a group of researchers suggest in a paper recently published in Behavioral Ecology. Further, the researchers add, just as cuckoos (like the Common Cuckoo above photographed by Redgannet) display a tendency toward skittishness around humans, so too do songbird predators such as raptors.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
The inside front covers are the start of four-page pictorial guides to bird families/groups and the pages where they can be found, a quick, easy entry to the identification process (see image above). The Species Accounts follow the ‘modern guide’ format, with illustrations clearly labeled and arranged in species groupings.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2021
This is the hook that draws us into reading about and caring about migrant birds, that and the charisma of birds like Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Kirtland’s Warbler, Snowy Owl, and Amur Falcon. This is big, global-level stuff with amazing findings but worrisome data. Still–it’s a lot of material to take in.
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