10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2022

The narrative takes place across two timelines: 1) Early in Stotts’ life, when he begins working with the Earth Conservation Corps to clean the trash-choked Anacostia River 2) Decades later, when he has become a Master Falconer and is taking on his son as a new apprentice.

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Falcons Wildlife Collecting Owls 184

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2021

It was an unexpected bird tour, without too much planning and aimed at a few target species, of which we saw most, but the main one eluded us… Early morning, leaving the last houses behind… and a Little Owl awaits us on a traffic sign. Red-footed Falcon by Martin Mecnarowski/Wikimedia Commons. Did I mention Great Bustards ?

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Serbia Birds Romania Eagles 228

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

Costa Rica’s winning combination of small size and distinct habitats makes it possible to connect with species as different as Snowcap, Crested Owl, White-throated Magpie-Jay , and glittering tanagers in a matter of thirty-six short hours, even quicker if you push your luck (and your vehicle). White-whiskered Puffbird.

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Costa Rica Owls Birds Eagles 135

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2024

The festival headquarters is located on the southwest side of Mission Bay, overlooking a marina with nearby Black-crowned Night Herons and frequently plays host to several falcon species, and a short walk to the San Diego River. This makes it a prime spot for bicycle-birding, our niche at the festival.

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San Diego Sea Lions Lions Birds 191

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Although Collared Forest-Falcon and Laughing Falcon failed to come close enough to see, we still enjoyed hearing those uber tropical species give their distinctive, voice-like calls. King Vulture. Raptor Ridge is a wonderful place to visit most any month but even better for kicking off yet another year of birding in Costa Rica.

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Costa Rica Birds Falcons Philadelphia 185

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2014

I have received so many calls to come rescue a baby hawk or falcon or some kind of raptor,” wrote Jennifer Dudley, and attached this photo. Erin Smithies-Baker wrote, “I once had someone call and say they were bringing me a baby hawk … or maybe an owl… no wait, a heron … I couldn’t wait to see what the heck this baby hawkowlheron was.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Falcons Pit Bulls 244

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2020

Since you won’t be seeing any cardinals, eagles, falcons, ravens, or seahawks in the Super Bowl this weekend, you’ll have to search for them outdoors instead. Maybe we’ll all score looks at a Superb Owl or two. Hopefully some birds show up this time!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2022

To properly assess owls, other night birds, and the dawn chorus, you really have to be out and about by 4:30. Pre-dawn birding for us on October 8 gave four owl species, a Common Potoo (not so common), and then a host of species right at and just after dawn. A final check turned up a distant calling Laughing Falcon but not much else.

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Costa Rica San Jose Falcons Owls 261

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2019

And some Falcon , most likely mixed breed, because it belonged to falconry, not the skies. Falcons – Gyrfalcon. In the 70+ episodes, I noticed only the homing Ravens (caged/domesticated) and Pigeons (domestic – in pie). Yes, there were Chicken , too (I remember the chicken soup, not the birds). Ducks (domesticated). Partridges.

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Chickens Falcons Birds Geese 161

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

The Snowy Owl account focuses on irruptions. The material on Boreal Owl is a wonderfully condensed account about the species’ sexual dimorphism and its relationship to breeding plus the link between the species’ cyclical abundance and the red-backed vole. Boreal Owl, p. I really like the photographs of Justin S.

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North America Birds Owls Canada 200

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2022

Dragan has caught up from his adventures in Colombia and the life list has reached 4103. Dragan has caught up from his adventures in Colombia and the life list has reached 4103.

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Sparrows Woodpeckers Parrots Owls 222

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2020

The late nights with the mosquito crowd are worth it when the owls finally reveal their lethal soft selfs by sound. Middle American Screech Owl– Megascops guatemalae; Raptor Ridge, 6-Jan. Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl – Glaucidium brasilianum; Tambor, 4-Jan. Black-and-white Owl – Ciccaba nigrolineata; Raptor Ridge, 5-Jan.

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Costa Rica 2020 Morals Farming 256

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Laughing Falcon. Spectacled Owl. Another predator, this one only comes out at night and as with most owls, is also naturally sort of spooky. Pygmy-Owls. They might look cute but the pygmy-owls vie with the Accipiters for the horror they generate. Bat Falcon. These are the winners: BEST COSTUMES.

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Costa Rica Bats Birds Falcons 153

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2023

To round up the day, in our base-village of Chrisochorafa, we later had one adorable Little Owl just a few hundred metres from our hotel. I went to explore the best birding area of the national park, the legendary eastern levee, and this day started with another Little Owl in the next village.

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Greece Pelicans Birds Stray Dog 221

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2018

European Collared and Pied Flycatchers , Eurasian Hoopoes , Common Cuckoos and Tree Pipits are back in late March, while Eurasian Scops Owls are back by late March – early April. Red-footed Falcons , Whiskered and Black Terns by mid-April, White-winged Terns are passing about a week later.

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Serbia Geese Owls Macedonia 145

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2020

It was also a pleasure to get a picture of a Laughing Falcon , although from quite a distance. Like Paso Ancho, the La Escalera area is a great place to see Ferruginous Pygmy-Owls. Your eyes do not deceive you; the woodpecker is significantly larger than the owl. Back to a (satisfied) normal.

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Owls Woodpeckers Mexico Falcons 153

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2012

Abbotts Lagoon welcomes the night and so do Burrowing Owls. Searching for Golden Gate Great Horned Owls. Peregrine Falcons frequent the sheer rock faces of Tennessee Valley. Carrizo Plain harbors shrikes, meadowlarks, eagles, falcons, etc… oh, and flowers. Owling anyone? Many, many, many flowers.

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San Francisco Tennessee Falcons Owls 180

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2017

This legendary trail connected to Summit Ponds hosts all manner of Canal Zone specialties, including an abundance of hawks, kites, falcons, and owls. Is it a hawk, and owl, or some sort of Pokemon? So I wasn’t entirely surprised to spot something raptorish but unfamiliar perched high above the trail.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

I’ll dream of an opportunity to encounter a cool owl, falcon, or boreal vagrant along the lake this weekend, but I can’t say for sure I’ll actually look for one. Every weekend deserves at least a little excitement, but I’m finding it difficult to get too worked up about another ice-rimed February weekend.

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Lamb 2015 New York Falcons 179

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2022

Keep birding in green space and you might hear a Laughing Falcon , might see a White-tailed Kite doing its “Holy Spirit” hovering moves. Bird at night and those same grassy fields could host Striped and Barn Owls. Listen for the subtle notes of Tropical Screech Owl. Any big trees nearby? Bobwhites persist.

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Costa Rica Farming Sparrows Birds 257

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Even though you know that you saw a Yellow-eared Toucanet and heard a Spectacled Owl the day before, you can’t really expect them on a rainy count day. Spectacled Owl from another day. But, keep birding because cold fronts also bring in other stuff.

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Costa Rica Birds Owls Bats 240

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

181 Barn Owl – Tyto alba. 182 Middle American Screech-Owl – Megascops guatemalae. 183 Crested Owl – Lophostrix cristata. 184 Great Horned Owl – Bubo virginianus. 185 Central American Pygmy-Owl – Glaucidium griseiceps. 186 Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl – Glaucidium brasilianum.

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Sparrows Woodpeckers Parrots Costa Rica 194

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Let us no more speak of this week’s extraordinary failure by a cast of Falcons to finish off their prey. This lucky youngster from Massachusetts has almost 300 ticks, but just added his favorite— a Great Gray Owl his supportive family drove hundreds of miles to glimpse. sports championships ).

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Massachusetts Eggs Falcons Rights 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2016

Back in October, ON A WING AND A PRAYER was brought an injured Great Horned Owl who had been found on the median of a rural interstate highway several hundred miles away She was a great big female, presumably hit by a vehicle. He visited her every night, sitting on top of her enclosure so they could sing owl-ey duets.

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New Mexico Wounded Owls Mexico 127

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

Current well-intentioned environmental pressures to emphasize harvesting large dead or dying trees, if realized, would have further adverse effects on such ecologically and esthetically important species as woodpeckers, swallows, wrens, nuthatches, and owls – to name a few 1.”

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North America America Barn Owls Falcons 207

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2020

During May migration, European Roller and few dozen strong flocks of Red-footed Falcons were observed on the wires. There is a small and highly localised population of Greater Short-toed Lark in this grassland. Getting there: From Belgrade through Pancevo, Kovin and Gaj. The area is accessible from several points off the Gaj – Dubovac road.

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Europe Serbia Woodpeckers Birds 217

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Hornbills, Paradise Flycatchers , day roosting Giant Eagle Owls or if we’re really lucky Pel’s Fishing Owl , the holy grail! We will explore the dry savannah for korhaans, bustards, lapwings, Ostrich and smaller birds like waxbills and firefinches and we’ll look for Dickinson’s Kestrel , Lanner and Red-necked Falcons.

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Botswana Africa Elephants Angola 170

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

While I know falcons mostly as grim reapers of pigeons, as a beer drinker, I also happily endorse any agricultural implement inspired by the raptor’s most fearsome anatomical feature, particularly when it’s put to good use in the barley mow. A Peregrine Falcon resting on its sickle-like talons, about to put the hammer down.

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India Falcons Austin Farming 114

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2018

A scan to my west with the dawn light behind me revealed a Snowy Owl sitting behind some beach vegetation, way down the beach. And, sure enough, I was right to think that the corvid that had been dive-bombing the owl looked big: it was a Common Raven and now it was flying along the boardwalk right past me! Yeah, I missed the focus.

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Owls Falcons Breeding Fish 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2015

I had the pleasure of having four yard birds that are globally threatened or near-threatened; the Kaka , Stitchbird , Saddlback and New Zealand Falcon. There are still falcons and Kaka to be seen, and I’ve already started hearing Morepork (our owl), a bird that isn’t rare but for some reason I rarely heard in Highbury.

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New Zealand Sanctuary Falcons Wildlife 157

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

Keep birding and you might see a White-tailed Kite hovering as it hunts rodents and one of the few Bat Falcons in the Valley might dash into view. Lesser numbers of other common birds also occur; birds like the Gray-crowned Yellowthroat , Inca Doves , saltators, Groove-billed Anis , and other species.

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Costa Rica Sparrows Birds Rodents 247

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Here we look for sandgrouse, bush-quails, francolins, wheatears, shrikes, Laggar Falcons , eagles, buzzards, and the endangered Stolikza’s Bush Chat. On night drives here looking for Eurasian Eagle Owl and nightjars you have a very good chance of seeing Striped Hyena.

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India Wildlife Tigers Eagles 181

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2019

Other uncommon birds for our 2019 list have included the likes of Marbled Wood-Quail, Spot-bellied Bobwhite, Barred Forest-Falcon, Lattice-tailed Trogon, White-flanked Antwren, Turquoise and Snowy Cotingas, Bare-crowned Antbird, and the endemic Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow. Owls and Other Creatures of the Night. and several owls.

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Costa Rica Species Birds New York 196

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2020

Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl ( Glaucidium brasilianum ). New Zealand Falcon ( Falco novaeseelandiae ). Eurasian Sparrowhawk ( Accipiter nisus ). Broad-winged Hawk ( Buteo platypterus ). Swainson’s Hawk ( Buteo swainsoni ). Red-tailed Hawk ( Buteo jamaicensis ). Common Buzzard ( Buteo buteo ). Lesson’s Motmot ( Momotus lessonii ).

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2020 New Zealand Woodpeckers Blackbirds 150

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

My Best Bird of the Weekend was a Peregrine Falcon gracing an enjoyable Rochester barbecue; good food, good company, and good birds make a powerful combination. Corey’s BBOTW was a Barred Owl that was flushed by a murder of American Crows near his parents’ house in Saugerties, NY.

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2012 Falcons Birds Owls 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2021

242 Barn Owl – Tyto alba. 243 Bare-shanked Screech-Owl – Megascops clarkii. 244 Spectacled Owl – Pulsatrix perspicillata. 245 Great Horned Owl – Bubo virginianus. 246 Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl – Glaucidium brasilianum. 247 Tawny Owl – Strix aluco.

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Woodpeckers Sparrows Ducks Parrots 176

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

But after spending time with experienced falconers in the field I have come to respect and admire the responsible practitioners of this, the sport of kings. It is only due to the strong bond (and association with food) between falconer and raptor that the birds return after a hunt. Survival of the fittest. “HO!!

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League Against Cruel Sports Rabbits Falcons Hunting 269