10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

Most days, that seemingly random place is right at home. Known as Calle Los Viquez , this sizeable area of farm fields flanked by housing, its coffee bushes, hedgerows, and weedy fields has become a haven for birds. Their songs could cease any day now; their brushy field home is being steadily converted to housing.

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Costa Rica Sparrows Birds Rodents 255

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2020

Where can I see Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow followed by a fantastic meal ? Local guide and birder David Mora Vargas has been spending much of his time at his family’s farm in the Sarapiqui lowlands. As it learns to hunt and live on its own, the young bird has taken up residence in a tree right in front of the farm.

Costa Rica 216

Costa Rica Birds Thailand Family 216

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. Useful species were ones you could eat, or hunt, or preferably both, which is why New Zealand had several species of deer, the alpine goat-antelopes known as the Chamois and the Himalayan Tahr introduced.

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New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 161

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The combination of over hunting, and the native animals susceptibility to diseases carried by domestic livestock that were allowed to graze there, completely eliminated these Bighorns by 1915. This small group of Pronghorn Antelope were right at the refuge entrance. A White-crowned Sparrow is always a beautiful subject!

Sheep 115

Sheep Oregon Mules Livestock 115

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2011

Julie has seen or heard several on our farm here in southeast Ohio! A dirt road lead off to the right, past a sign for a gun club. I got out of the car, climbed a small hill where the shooting benches were and realized I was looking at a fabulous patch of habitat for a great gray owl to hunt. The day shift, hunting the meadow.

Connecticut 172

Connecticut North Dakota Ohio Owls 172

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The first surprise came, as we were driving into town, and not one, but two Scissor-tailed Flycatchers flew right across the road in front of us. American Kestrels, Cooper Hawks , and Northern Harriers also found the hunting here to their liking. This one flew right over my head. This one happened to pass right over my head.

Albuquerque 122

Albuquerque New Mexico Mexico Sparrows 122