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.

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Wisconsin Falcons Owls Hunting 237

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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Falcons Lifestyle Eagles Parrots 121

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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Chinchillas Ducks Lifestyle Sparrows 161

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

There were once two species of goose, a merganser, and a pair of raven species. 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. Right from the beginning the species was something of a mystery.

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Eagles New Zealand Bald Eagle Collecting 101

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

processed the entire genomes of 48 bird species and compared nearly 42 million base pairs of DNA (Hackett et al. Now we move on to the Neognathae , which also has two very deep branches that lead to all the other living species of birds. Erich Jarvis discuss key findings. ). were revolutionary for using 32,000 base pairs!) This is why.

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Family Parrots Birds 2014 279

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2013

I will not be competing with Redgannet and his jetsetting lifestyle this year, though! Once again for my Australian birds I will use the “Christidis and Boles 2008 key to species names” and list them in the order that they come on that list. If there is a post that I have done that covers any of the species I will attach a link to it.

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2013 Lifestyle Eagles Zebras 127