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. When I looked at lists of birds allowed for falconry in Minnesota years ago, I asked some of my falconer friends, “Really, owls?” I learned that I knew nothing of falconry.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 14, 2013
What is a falcon, really? Based on their physical attributes and lifestyle, falcons enjoyed a very long run as a founding member of the order Falconiformes, along with the rest of the diurnal raptor-y type birds like vultures and eagles and hawks and hawk-eagles. Laughing Falcon, photo by Renato Espinosa. Like falcons?
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 21, 2012
More curious was the owlet-nightjar, an already obscure group to begin with, but made all the more astonishing by virtue of its flightless and ground living lifestyle. Today, by way of birds of prey New Zealand is somewhat deficient, having a small and attractive falcon and a floppy-winged harrier, and that’s about it.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 18, 2014
Whilst his nomadic lifestyle allows him to bird all around the world, he tends to favour certain spots and sticks to where he knows. Peregrine Falcon [sp] (Falco peregrinus) 12/01/2014 San Diego River – Estuary. If he is to become a better birder, he must try harder!
10,000 Birds
MAY 29, 2015
Introduced as they are over much of their range, they’ve nevertheless become a crucial part of the urban ecosystem, recycling discarded french fries into tasty meals for falcons in a way that surpasses human ingenuity (although there are few stats on the rate of clogged arteries among the falcons in question.).
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
It’s an intriguing proposal — none of these birds had belonged much of anywhere before (heck, bustards were dumped in Gruiformes with cranes and rails) — and it means that birds adapted either to arboreal or to ground-dwelling lifestyles more than once within the clade. Australaves: Songbirds and Their Kin. Hackett et al.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 19, 2014
An itinerant lifestyle, while wonderful in some regards, does not lend itself to forming certain connections. At Powell’s Cove Park we got Great Blue Heron , and at Francis Lewis Park we spotted our first Peregrine Falcon , looking tiny far atop the Whitestone Bridge. Gradually our list grew and grew.
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