10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2024
There are beautiful beaches, a plethora of amazing food and drinks, a multitude of family fun locations, a world-renowned zoo, and one of the biggest birding festivals in the US. San Diego has a lot going for it. With a wide variety of field trips, excellent guides, and a solid vendor expo, it is no wonder that it attracts so many birders.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2012
The roost used to be in front of the “Stadtwerke” (the high chimney with breeding Peregrine Falcons) along Kurfürstenanlage a few hundred metres to the east, but the birds switched to the train station in January 2011. The zoo has a small colony of genuinely wild Grey Herons (watch them compete with the seals for the fish!),
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 8, 2012
” But a lot of birds of prey like to sample the lighter fare on the invertebrate menu: kites and small falcons eat dragonflies, screech-owls eat beetles and even Swainson’s Hawks will follow a tractor to get grasshoppers that are kicked up.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
Most of these birds are escaped/freed pets who have established breeding populations, and many of these populations are growing; others could be falconer’s birds, or part of a zoo or private collection.
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 naturalist got out of his car, picked her up, took the tape off her legs, and took her to a local zoo. She wasn’t about to leave her rabbit, and the driver figured something was wrong, so he picked her up.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 3, 2018
Ardastra Zoo & Gardens. Ardastra Zoo & Gardens. Ardastra Zoo & Gardens. Barred Forest-Falcon – Micrastur ruficollis. Collared Forest-Falcon – Micrastur semitorquatus. Laughing Falcon – Herpetotheres cachinnans. Brown Falcon – Falco berigora. Plantation Preserve.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2018
Ardastra Zoo & Gardens. Ardastra Zoo & Gardens. Ardastra Zoo & Gardens. Barred Forest-Falcon – Micrastur ruficollis. Collared Forest-Falcon – Micrastur semitorquatus. Laughing Falcon – Herpetotheres cachinnans. Brown Falcon – Falco berigora. Plantation Preserve.
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