10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I had never seen a Peregrine Falcon soaring with Black Vultures before – interestingly enough I would later see the very same occurrence two days later on another part of the island. I’d excitedly raise my binoculars to only barely make out that bright yellow eye that screamed ‘Least Grebe’ uncomfortably loud.

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Trinidad Birds Parrots Falcons 205

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

His musings on falconry in Medieval times begin with the Bayeux Tapestry, which tells the story of the Norman Conquest and is full of birds, including hawks and falcons on the wrists of the main contenders.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 222

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JANUARY 15, 2013

Raise global awareness of Peru’s potential as a top-notch birding destination whilst highlighting the need to conserve bird habitat across the country. the Forest Falcons – UK. A huge surprise was the addition of an entirely new species for Peru, a Black Swift , found by the Forest Falcons team.

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Peru 2012 Birds Falcons 227

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MARCH 22, 2019

In fact, by all accounts, Mary adored sport and was an avid equestrienne, hunter, and falconer. The falcon hunt took place in the quiet, picturesque Flemish countryside south of Bruges, on the property of Adolph of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein. A portrait of Mary (ca. 1490) attributed to Tyrolian painter Michael Pacher.

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Hunting France Falcons Horses 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

Lately, I have been waking up to the vocal antics of Laughing Falcon , the newly split Gray-cowled Wood-Rail , Grayish Saltator , Melodious Blackbird , and this beautiful male Blue Grosbeak that sings about a block away. We raised bins, and voila, Collared Forest-falcon ! A juvenile Collared Forest-falcon looks for prey.

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Costa Rica Falcons Birds North Carolina 125

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

The hole-nesting population of peregrine falcons disappeared with the felling of the giant trees upon which they depended. According to the literature, Peregrine Falcons and Merlins both nested in tree cavities until the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries when most of the great trees were felled.

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North America America Barn Owls Falcons 216

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JANUARY 20, 2020

Luis Gonzalez is a Miami resident and IT major who was originally born and raised in Cuba. He has been an avid lover of the natural world since he was a kid, with a strong love for paleontology when he was younger, but he only took up birding in his last year of high school and hasn’t looked back since.

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Canada Cuba Miami Florida 167

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2012

It watched me, calmly, until I sat down about 7 feet away (almost at minimum focusing distance) and we both regarded each other, and I occasionally raised the camera and snapped off another frame. For sitting in the middle of a stream of the river was a Peregrine Falcon , eating the young Thayer’s Gull it had brought down.

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Falcons Killing Fur Owls 168

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2014

This dirt road was the soybean truck-nightmare; about every 10 minutes we had large double-trailer trucks filled with soybeans drive very fast and raise a huge dust cloud that took another 5 minutes to settle. These were less than ideal bird-watching conditions so we drove up the road and got out of the car when the dust settled.

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Argentina Farming Chile Birds 186

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2016

One bird was flying towards us and, just prior to avoiding us, only slightly raised its head (showing us its yellow throat) before picking up an insect in mid-air. Then, a Saker Falcon in the autumn fogs: CLs true colours allowed me to scratch off the chance of it being a young Peregrine.

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Birds Serbia Eagles Fish 187

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JUNE 14, 2017

I happen to think the Crested Cara cara is one of the most beautiful birds in the falcon family. They stay here in Mexico despite the heat, and raise their families. With that massive bill, it makes for a wonderful profile! We always have a few American Avocets that do not migrate back north.

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Seattle Mexico 2017 Falcons 108

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

A beautiful series of raised boardwalks have been constructed, allowing year round access to the area, thru the marsh area, all the way out nearly a half mile into the tidal flats. Northern Harriers, Peregrine Falcons, American Kestrels, and a fair number of Bald Eagles all can be found on the refuge year round.

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Fox Washington Geese Sparrows 127

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2013

Speaking of hawks, two talented and extremely knowledgeable falconers, Marie Gaspari Crawford and Chloe Bowen, shared with us their birds and their experiences. Also on hand were an Aplomado Falcon and a Red-tailed Hawk who was so mellow that he allowed Bowen to stroke him on the back, a gesture which we were told raptors ordinarily detest.

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Nevada Birds Barn Owls Cows 173

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2012

The maintenance man declared that his father was a falconer, and that he would take her home so he could care for her. The grand old bird became a surrogate mother, and raised them herself. She wasn’t about to leave her rabbit, and the driver figured something was wrong, so he picked her up.

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Rabbits New Jersey Neglecting North America 239

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2021

With what seemed to be extreme caution, they slowly moved into sight, raising and lowering their orange crests as they ninja walked onto the trail.

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Costa Rica Chickens Pennsylvania Litter 264

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

The ability of knots to successfully raise their chicks is very sensitive to snow conditions, the availability of insects as food, and the presence of predators, all of which are affected by climate change. The knot’s breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic are experiencing pronounced effects from climate change. Birds in Delaware Bay.

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Endangered Species Protection Delaware Species 160

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MAY 14, 2016

It was organized to boost eBird use, raise funds for bird conservation, and just get more people out birding. Last year, the Cornell Lab Of Ornithology had this really cool idea to get as many people counting as many birds as they could, in as many places as possible.

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Costa Rica 2016 2001 Battery 100

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JUNE 2, 2015

Peregrine Falcon nests. So, the 49 subject species include birds with interesting family behaviors that we might not see every day (Cedar Waxwing, Great Blue Heron, Peregrine Falcon), migrant songbirds (Tree and Barn Swallows, House Wren), and common, everyday birds (Northern Cardinal, Downy Woodpecker, and, yes, Rock Pigeon).

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

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MARCH 31, 2012

The World Center for Birds of Prey ( The Peregrine Fund ) in Boise, Idaho, most famous for its Peregrine Falcons , also has a vital population of California condors. They reside there at the top of a small mountain sanctuary as mythical as my first remembrances of ancient thunderbirds, living, mating, and raising young.

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California Condor California Idaho North America 209

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

There are 28 chapters—“Waders,” “Large Waterside Birds,” “Owls and nightjars,” “Birds of prey” (pulling together vultures, hawks and falcons), “Aerial feeders” (swifts, swallows, martins), etc.—plus So, how do you find the species account for Kestrel if falcons are not placed between woodpeckers and parakeet?

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 145

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

The original organization of chapters on Buteos, Accipiters, Falcons, Kites, Northern Harrier, Eagles and Vultures, and Osprey has been kept, with additional chapters on Crested Caracara, Southwestern Buteos and Kin, Florida Specialties, Regional Specialties. Yes, I saw the bird and it was incredible.) It’s Hawk Watching Season!

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North America Bald Eagle Eagles Birds 225

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APRIL 5, 2011

They thoroughly enjoyed the experience, especially the live raptor display by well-known Master Falconer, Jonathan Wood. This book explains how we are all at risk of raising kids with nature deficit disorder. I recently took my children -- all 3 of them -- up to the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival in Florida.

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Birds Game Wildlife Family 278

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

An Aplomado Falcon came in like a bullet late one evening and made off with an unlucky Lesser Yellowlegs in a wetland only 20 minutes from where I live. I was saddened when I saw a White-lined Tanager feeding a Shiny Cowbird , but felt relieved a few weeks later when I saw her raising young of her own species.

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Birds Falcons Raised Species 240

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MARCH 3, 2020

And, that increased bird tourism and sales of this guide will increase interest in and support of projects aimed at protecting nesting habitat, empowering indigenous communities to work as conservation allies, raise awareness of the dangers of Macaw trafficking, and continuing ornithological research on threatened species.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 174

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2021

Thankfully, they now have a home here where they can court, build their nest, and raise their young. In a couple weeks I’ll be keeping my ears alert for the flight calls of incoming shorebirds, they shall definitely be followed by a Peregrine Falcon.

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Opossums Barn Owls Hunting Reptiles 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2018

On the opposite side is a smallish falcon, obviously too short-tailed for a Common Kestrel, a Eurasian Hobby first comes to mind… but a male Red-footed Falcon on migration it turns out to be. Two European Rollers await us on the wires, while one Eurasian Hoopoe flies by.

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Serbia Eagles Falcons Farming 124

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Orange-breasted Falcon : Since there aren’t any specimens of this regal neotropical Falco from Costa Rica, we actually aren’t even sure if it used to live here. Hope for a vagrant comes in the form of an Orange-breasted Falcon sighting from west-central Panama.

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Costa Rica Species Panama Birds 219

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2022

Our weather is starting to change and the Torresian Crows that have been silly enough to raise Channel-billed Cuckoos over recent months are now free of their responsibilities. They include Brahminy Kite , Ospreys , Little Corellas , Australian Magpies, Great Bowerbird , Black-shouldered Kite and Brown Falcon.

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Birds 2010 Falcons Raised 213

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JULY 26, 2012

Falcons split from hawks to join parrots and songbirds Unanimously, the committee voted to remove falcons (Falconiformes) and parrots (Psittaciformes) from their current positions in the list and place them before the songbirds (Passeriformes), more closely to reflect the relationships between these three great orders.

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Falcons Parrots California Breeding 172

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Fortunately, the very abundant 2018 rains raised the water level to heights I had never seen, and so far, that seems to be making up for this year’s poor rains. None were as satisfying as a Red-tailed Hawk that flew in lazy circles just overhead, and, to my amazement, a Peregrine Falcon that did the same.

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Ducks 2018 Pelicans Europe 133

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Those of us who were raised in the four-season north (here in Michoacán one could define, at the most, three seasons) tend to think of avian migration in terms of seasonal temperatures. For us, it’s all about birds moving north during the warm season to breed, and south to escape the winter cold. May the two never meet.

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Mexico Alaska Falcons Species 181

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

North American Peregrine Falcons have also enjoyed an impressive population rebound in recent years. Raptors and other predatory birds have largely rebounded, and there seems to be be no shortage of Brown Pelicans, Peregrine Falcons and Bald Eagles. Brown Pelicans are not an unusual sight on the California coast. Half Moon Bay, CA.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 206

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DECEMBER 20, 2014

“New World” vultures (in scare quotes because they have fossil relatives from the Old World) and hawks (including Osprey and Secretarybird but, importantly, not falcons) are sister taxa and split off from other members of the Afroaves clade early on. Australaves: Songbirds and Their Kin. Eight years ago, Ericson et al.

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Family Parrots Birds 2014 279

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JULY 7, 2020

The essays are arranged in almost AOS taxonomic order, with changes made to lessen confusion for new birders–falcons are grouped with hawks, all water birds come before land birds, etc. His art is beloved (if you have owned a Sibley calendar at least once in your life, raise your hand) and his bird expertise is widely respected.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

And we did , for the Peregrine Falcon and Osprey , the Brown Pelican and Bald Eagle. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. We could do it! Then the 80s happened. We must fight to save every species we can, every ecosystem, every niche.

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California Condor United States Guam Whales 199

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APRIL 2, 2016

Raising $67,000 plus for conservation! : The real reason for the Champions of the Flyway Bird Race is to raise money for desperately needed conservation efforts in the Mediterranean. A small sampling of the many young birders who participated in the event. And yes, the need is desperate.

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Costa Rica Eagles Birds 175

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DECEMBER 7, 2019

He raised his binoculars above his head and cried out with courage and clarity, “I am Sparticus!” Red-necked Falcon – Falco chicquera. Lanner Falcon – Falco biarmicus. Bat Falcon – Falco rufigularis. Collared Forest-Falcon – Micrastur semitorquatus. Something needed to be done.

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2019 Farming Sparrows Charlotte 139