10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2024

Recently, there has been a Burrowing Owl hanging around that is easy to spot amongst the riprap near the river mouth. Digiscoped Burrowing Owl San Elijo Lagoon is a county park north of San Diego and is one of the region’s largest wetlands. Whether you want a short walk or a longer hike, San Elijo Wetland can offer that.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

According to Wikipedia, these birds are good at multitasking, being “in some parts of its range … known as a symbol of luck, longevity, and fidelity” As in humans, “the social implications of dancing [among the cranes] are complex in meaning” ( source ). If everybody did this, the result would be chaos.

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Birds Eggs Bald Eagle Owls 211

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2021

I’m not a great imitator of birdcalls, but Pygmy-Owls (both Mountain and Ferruginous ) are easy to imitate, and can draw in all sorts of birds — not just the owls themselves. In this case, the bird that came to investigate was a lovely male Berylline Hummingbird. His reaction was most unusual.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. Among humans, there is a tendency to dress very young humans up in the most colorful way possible. Humanity is not very human.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2015

She has a captive-bred education bird named Xena, a Eurasian Eagle Owl. They immediately went to investigate it, and quickly learned to move when cars were coming. For a while I was afraid they were too friendly and might turn to humans if they needed food, but I’ve seen no sign of that.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

I very much enjoyed the first section, which relates the history of the bird and its relationship with us, humans, from its discovery in 1851 up to the fateful Lake Mack fire and its aftermath in the 1980’s. Most of the chapters are in the first two sections; the future is a brief, open question.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet. That’s right – birds eating clay. Wicked, right?

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