10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2015
Here are some things I’ve learned from the Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean by Scott Weidensaul: The Burrowing Owl is the only North American owl species where the male is larger than the female, albeit, only slightly larger. There are distinct differences between Eastern Screech-Owl morphs.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2024
He is also a sculptor and a naturalist and has combined his observations with his art in past titles, notably House of Owls (2015), In the Company of Crows and Raven s (2005), and Marine Birds and Mammals of Puget Sound (1982). The Barn Owl sweeps down in darkness at midnight, moonlight illuminated his wings and face.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Owling on Christmas Bird Counts is a peculiar business. There’s the whole role of chance in owling, too. In birding, perhaps only the proverbial wild goose chase and snipe hunt rank below owling in terms of expected success. A pair of Great Horned Owls ( Bubo virginianus ) painted by John James Audubon for The Birds of America.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2019
There’s nothing to be afraid of: Landscape with Grave, Coffin, and Owl by Caspar David Friedrich. With enough imagination and superstition, some birds can be absolutely frightening – as the multitude of spooky fowl haunting the darkest corners of human culture throughout history will attest.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2018
I’ll admit to being momentarily faked out by the plastic owls that people put out in a futile attempt to ward off crows, which demonstrates that decoys work on birders, if not on birds themselves. Over time, the word “decoy” has lost its fowling connotations and has come to mean any kind of trick or fakery.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
Ratites, Tinamous, and Fowl. Sister to this group is the Strisores : the “night birds” (excluding owls), swifts, and hummingbirds. Even in the with full-genome analysis, owls posed a bit of a problem, which the authors attribute to the rapid diversification following the K-Pg boundary. Open Jarvis et al.’s
10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2011
’ Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning – little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door - Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as `Nevermore.’
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