10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic. I knew no falconers. ” Falcons could be taken from the nest just before they were able to fly or caught wild after maturity. The concern possessed him.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 19, 2012
I took a ride up to the Fall River Valley back in October and spotted both morphs in the large grasslands where we also usually see Rough-legged Hawks and Prairie Falcons. They are often seen on the ground since their prey consists mainly of rabbit, prairie dog and, you guessed it, ground squirrel. This is the light morph.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 5, 2015
Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. I had a finder bring me a bird he’d correctly ID’d as a merlin – a not-too-common falcon – but when he brought him in, I could see he’d been trying to feed it BIRD SEED!” People walk in and hand you a box, which you know will contain the wildlife and some bizarre food item.
10,000 Birds
JULY 27, 2012
Just before Thanksgiving, 2010, a driver spotted a Red-tailed hawk sitting on a dead rabbit in the middle of the road. She wasn’t about to leave her rabbit, and the driver figured something was wrong, so he picked her up. And to prove it, there’s The Queen. When she didn’t fly off, he stopped his car and approached her.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Fish and Wildlife Service. On the short list of wins for wildlife during the Bush II era, Short-tailed Albatross were officially listed as Endangered in 2000. North American Peregrine Falcons have also enjoyed an impressive population rebound in recent years. Brown Pelicans are not an unusual sight on the California coast.
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