10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 28, 2021
Given that it is hard to mention one of my favorite bands, the Mountain Goats, in a birding blog, these photos of blue sheep are probably the best opportunity I will ever get. Blue Sheep. At least they are cute. Listen/watch their “This year” here. Tibetan Fox. Kind of cute, too. No nice blue flowers. Moupin Pika.
10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2020
Chamois is an agile goat-antelope with short hooked horns, found in mountainous areas of Europe from Spain to the Caucasus. Distribution of the Ural Owl in the Tara NP in the breeding season (Rajkovic and Pantovic). Turn-off to a macadam road winding through the forest and… there’s a Chamois on the road!
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10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2015
I didn’t spot a Spotted Owl , or catch a glimpse of a Marbled Murrelet – both North Cascades National Park breeders. I didn’t see the mountain goats that lend the town of Mazama its logo, though I did buy a water bottle as a souvenir. Now, none of these are great rarities.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2022
This behavior is described in a paper covering pellet casting by many species in Singapore, including many non-owls. “I’m doing this for revenge” sing the Mountain Goats in their most recent song, “ Training Montage “ It is very good, though I feel it could be even better without the last 50 seconds or so.
10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2013
Heading out of Ecclesdown Road on the second day of my trip, I had nailed all of my targets save four species ( Caribbean Dove , Yellow-billed Parrot , Jamaican Owl , and Stolid Flycatcher ). I told her that I had three target birds left to see, and she gestured at a tree near the guesthouse where three Jamaican Owls were roosting.
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
It should surprise no one that someone brought horses, or goats, or chickens. 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. But hedgehogs? Greenfinches?
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 21, 2017
The notion of sly birding reminds me of being a lone birding kid and noting my lifer Prairie Warbler during a grade school walk-a-thon at Goat Island. To this day, I can’t help but wonder what else was using the woods of Goat Island on that wet September, 1984 morning? At least, that’s how I see it.
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