10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2015

It’s a family vacation, sure, but there’s always time for birding and in Florida, the birding often finds you. There are a few places where that is especially obvious, and one of those is the town of Cape Coral, just north of Naples along the Gulf of Mexico. I’ve spent the last week in southwest Florida.

Owls 212

Owls Florida Tenant United States 212

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. He sat…his crown giving searing shafts of violet as the light caught the feathers at just the right angle.

Costa Rica 264

Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The last weekend of January found me in the frosty Pacific Northwest, meeting some long over due work and family obligations. This wonderful piece of birding real estate can be found 8 miles east of Olympia, and an hour’s drive south of Seattle Washington, right along the I-5 corridor. Nisqually Wildlife Refuge.

Wildlife 107

Wildlife Seattle Bald Eagle Geese 107

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2017

The cactus are not the only things down here that are protected in this manner. When it comes to a one stop shopping for food and shelter, no other plant is as widely used as the Cardon Cactus family. At some point the female landed right on top of the cactus that contained the nest, and let her wins droop down.

Elephants 108

Elephants Woodpeckers Squirrels Shelters 108

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

This does not include the various changes made to Latin names, taxonomic ordering, nor changes to families.: Seen Green Violetear in Mexico and Costa Rica? But, birds in eastern Mexico have even more blue and are now their own species so Lesson’s Motmot it is. Not every list has Great Tinamou on it. Hummingbird changes.

Costa Rica 202

Costa Rica Birds Owls South America 202

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

With shore side access limited to the northern end of the lake, that protection allows for a large population of water based birds. Mule Deer have always been pretty common in this area, but I got quite a surprise when I cleared a small hill in the road, and nearly ran over a male Pronghorn Antelope , right in the middle of the road.

Dogs 105

Dogs Mules Deer Oregon 105

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

So right from the beginning, none of this makes any sense. If you see an owl,” wrote Mikal Deese, “someone in your family is going to die. That’s why I can’t take owls to a lot of my education programs out here in New Mexico.”. You simply feel relieved to have your baby back. Here’s one,” wrote Debbie Lefebre.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 185

Wildlife Rehabilitation Porcupines Raccoons Birds 185

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The conservation need is urgent: great attention has rightly been paid to Brazil’s Amazonian rainforest but not enough resources have gone to the Pantanal and the Cerrado, of which only 4% and 5%, respectively, are protected. Each family of birds has a short introductory paragraph and most genera get a sentence or two of description.

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Birds 212

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2011

It didn’t take long to be set right though, as I managed to get my first native species, the Polynesian Starling , while drinking a Coke on the waterfront of Nuku’alofa, the small town on Tongatapu which is Tonga’s capital. Whereas Tongatapu was flat, ‘Eua was quite hilly and had a great deal more forest.

Tonga 166

Tonga Fiji New Zealand Parrots 166

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

That larger clade is in turn sister to a clade containing the four remaining totipalmate bird families, which do still seem to be related, and which needed a new order name once pelicans were removed. But meanwhile, let’s look at the four avian families that comprise the brand new order Suliformes.

2011 155

2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 155

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Further, the crane take in Mexico is a free-for-all: neither regulated nor recorded. Sincerely, Julie Zickefoose Tags: cranes , sandhill crane hunting , sandhill cranes • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more!

2011 254

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 254

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

Or, to keep the priceless feathers hidden away in drawers, protected in small plastic bags, prized in secret. Johnson is not a birder or a naturalist; he was fly fishing to get his mind off the stress of working on the List Project, an advocacy organization he founded to aid Iraqis who had helped the U.S.

Collecting 105

Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 105

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2011

The vast majority of Baltimore Orioles that breed in North America return to the tropics between Mexico and northern South America for the cold half of the year. Wicked, right? Tags: baltimore oriole , half hardy , Terminology • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! The proposal from U.S.

North Carolina 140

North Carolina 2011 St. Louis Baltimore 140

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

This is how, I think, the “Crossley technique” works best—coverage of specific bird families that pose identification challenges to birders at all levels of skill. And Hybrids: Waterfowl tend to hybridize to a greater degree than most other bird families, and the guide does an excellent job of covering hybrids.

Ducks 124

Ducks North America Geese Hunters 124