10,000 Birds
JANUARY 29, 2017
The hours are ticking down to Super Bowl LI, a hotly anticipated contest between perennial contenders New England Patriots and the upstart, high-flying Atlanta Falcons. Will the Atlanta Falcons actually win the Super Bowl? nationalist, holy person, or some species of pirate has won it all. Go Falcons! But will they?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
Peregrine Falcon ( Falco peregrinus ) at Delevan NWR (click on photos for full sized images). The name Peregrine means “wanderer,” and northern-nesting Peregrines are among North America’s long-distance migratory species, some moving 25,000 kilometers every year. Peregrine Falcon at Delevan National Wildlife Refuge.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
It was Montagu who first realised that the “Ring-tail hawk” and the gray male Hen Harrier were the same species, and that the bird he called the Ash-coloured Falcon was a different species to the Hen Harrier, an impressive achievement at that time. Eleonora’s Falcons still breed on Sardinia today.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
A number of species use Chongming as a wintering spot, not just the Cinereous Vultures I already mentioned in a previous post. Ferruginous means rust-colored, but I have yet to see any rust looking as good as this species. Several species of buntings are using the Chongming fields and the roadside scrub as wintering ground.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 12, 2019
I like seeing as many species as possible on my life list, year list, state list, patch list, any kind of list. But even in summer I can usually count on 60+ non-endemic species per visit, and in winter, a decent effort can usually result in 80 or more species. I confess: I am a lister.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2014
Despite more than 50 kite, hawk, eagle, and falcon species on the list, nope, we don’t see raptors all that often! That’s because most are forest-based species and are naturally rare. I didn’t even include owls in the 50 plus list species of raptors. Fogged optics! : The Trip was Too Short!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2016
One website I found suggested a few others that may be true but I hadn’t encountered before, are young cranes actually called colts, or falcons eyas? Like the Huia and kokako the Saddlebacks suffered with the introduction of mammalian predators, and in fact the South Island Saddleback came breath-takingly close to extinction.
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