10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2014

You especially need to watch out for drunken owls driving cars. Or maybe you need to watch out for drunken humans who think they are owls driving cars ? News owls' Though, honestly, I think he should be shown some leniency for not just flying away.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2013

.” My question that I hope you can help me with is what would be considered a safe distance to photograph Northern Saw-what Owls? Would this be considered a threat to these owls?” First I applaud the photographer for actually asking the question of how close to get to a Saw-whet Owl. Six feet from a saw-whet?

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FEBRUARY 5, 2014

I’m to the point that I wish all the Snowy Owls in the US this winter would head back north. There’s been some confusing info because Project SNOWStorm also captured and put a transmitter on a first winter female Snowy Owl around the same time in the same area. As Tracey Ullman said at the end of her show, “Go home!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2022

The subtitle of Jackie Higgins’ book Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses , aptly sets forth her thesis – though the “wonder” it refers to could equally well be used to describe animal (not just human) senses, as she shows in fascinating detail.

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DECEMBER 9, 2013

STATEMENT FROM THE PORT AUTHORITY ON SNOWY OWLS. The Port Authority is working with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to move immediately toward implementing a program to trap and relocate snowy owls that pose a threat to aircraft at JFK and LaGuardia airports. Do it for the owls! 1 Commerce Plaza.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Blakiston’s Fish Owl (image by Robert tdc/Wikimedia Commons) . In the hardcore “news” department, scientists from the United States and Russia have managed a successful study of the foraging and nesting habits of Blakiston’s Fish Owl , the largest owl on the planet and one of the rarest. ” side.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

The relatively flat and open grassland of Ruoergai is also good raptor country – raptor here being used in the broadest sense of the word, i.e., including owls and vultures. At sky burial sites, human corpses that are intended for consumption by Himalayan vultures are broken up by burial priests.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2023

Miriam Darlington determined to take on an owl quest, to immerse herself in their world, as she says, and also to find out how they are immersed in ours – to “look into the mythology, kinship, otherness and mystery that wild owls offer.” Thus her story becomes “braided with two ecologies – the ornithological and the personal.”

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2012

Western Screech-Owl ( Megascops kennicottii ) photos by Larry Jordan It’s been an interesting winter in my neck of the woods. Personally, I’m waiting for the irruption of Snowy Owls to reach northern California! Once the Jays moved on, the owl closed its eyes and went back to sleep, seemingly unconcerned with our presence.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

But birds don’t seem to care about what ails us humans. My daughter and I visited Owl Woods in search of winter finches but were surprised to find owls instead; obviously, the name of this legendary birding site suggests otherwise, but encountering both a Saw-whet and Barred Owl on the same autumn day was both unexpected and thrilling.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2020

As we humans are animals, like birds are, it often seems to make more sense to me to assume that their and our drivers are similar, not different. Of course, we humans tend to give slightly elevated terms to our motives – but that does not generally mean that they are really different from those of other animals.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2021

Both were too small for a human hand and too deep to see what was inside, so he called PMWC and was asked to bring the entire section of trunk to the center. After a similar procedure, Moya’s watch-me-pull-a-rabbit-out-of-my-hat trick produced a fuzzy nestling Eastern Screech Owl. Sounds like a sitcom!

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

I have been thinking about this for awhile after I saw some people online with things like a pet skunk and even someone with a barn owl. However, the same people with these ducks, owls, armadillos, skunks, raccoons, etc are always showing clips of them with their little guys and they are just so happy, the animal and the owner.

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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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JULY 4, 2023

How much do you know about owls? I’ve been fortunate to encounter many owls in my birding life, sometimes because I’m looking for them, sometimes happily by happenstance. What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds is a joyous, fascinating read. I don’t think so.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2019

My pause for thought came when I found a Stygian Owl in a city park in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Despite his limited English and my non-existent Portuguese, Renato managed to communicate that there was an owl close by. The Portuguese believed that the owl was a portent for bad luck and despised them. Then came the bombshell.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2021

It was an unexpected bird tour, without too much planning and aimed at a few target species, of which we saw most, but the main one eluded us… Early morning, leaving the last houses behind… and a Little Owl awaits us on a traffic sign. Despite the rainy forecast, the weather was pleasantly tropical: sun, a short shower and more sun.

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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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MARCH 31, 2022

Through public presentations and meet-and-greets with his raptors, Stotts has introduced thousands of people to the wonder we all feel when spotting a hawk, falcon, or owl. ” I encourage everyone to click here and order your copy!

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

In Oregon, the Barred Owl is taking over Northern Spotted Owl territory and threatening that smaller bird’s survival. On the other hand, the extinction of the Spotted Owl is completely unacceptable. There is evidence that toxoplasma leads, in humans, to an elevated risk of mental illness and depression.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Oriental Scops Owls are quite possibly my favorite bird at Nanhui. Estren said that humans should be mindful of their bias for cute animals, so animals that would not be considered cute are also valued in addition to cute animals. Bird-shaped cuteness. Of course, this would probably get me a telling off from Mark J. Estren, a Ph.D.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2013

This past winter was very good for the chance to see boreal owl species in the United States. Owls are cool looking birds that appeal to a mass audience, even people who are not birders. When people started heading out to see these owls and then get photos, some disturbing videos showed up. Was it because the owl flew on him?

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MAY 6, 2016

Bats just love to fly into human hair!” Two: Humans are diurnal, which means they are normally active during the day. Three: Why would anyone , no matter what their species, want to become tangled in human hair? million-year-old early human. Porcupines throw their quills! The same goes for raccoons. On to the avian world.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Flashy of look, brash of attitude, and strident of voice, they bomb around announcing every discovery – ripe acorns, sleeping owls, snakes in need of scolding – to the world. There’s a certain suburbanization of the natural as well as the human world.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2021

Would Barred Owls chuckle and admit that, for the record, “No, we really aren’t saying ‘Who cooks for you’?” Even if the birds could speak like humans, their instincts would still come into constant play. Which would travel to tourism conventions, give fun presentations and hand out cultural knick-knacks?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2022

We might have a few small farms nearby and the gift of a narrow riparian zone out back but in general, the main habitat is that of the modern human kind; housing and streets (lamposts included). Bird at night and those same grassy fields could host Striped and Barn Owls. Listen for the subtle notes of Tropical Screech Owl.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2021

Influence in high places helps, too, such as when, to his delight, McMullan, a mere corporal at the time, discovers that his Brigadier (the boss of McMullan’s boss) is avid to see a Tengmalm’s Owl that McMullan had photographed (in Germany), and gets McMullan to guide him.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Why does this little Screech Owl look so horrified? We receive nestling owls who have been fed nothing but hamburger, whose bones are so brittle from lack of calcium that they break when they try to stand. Birds injured wildlife orphaned wildlife screech owl wildlife rehabilitators' In a perfect world, people would know better.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2020

I remember seeing a Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl sitting on our fencepost just after sunset when I was not even ten. Not being a fan of human structures in my images, I’ve never done much bird photography at home. I’ve always birded from home for as long as I can remember. Tropical Mockingbirds on a neighbor’s tree.

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MAY 9, 2019

And the only birds known to actually attack humans, not just try to scare them with screeching and low flights, but to establish a full contact in protection of their offspring, were owls. The panicky human parents are the worst kind. Usually they expect some service to come, catch and remove the pesky birds.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

The Weekly Reader had shocked everyone in class with news of Bald Eagles dying – and humans were to blame! Fast forward to the next decade and humans were at it again. Also opposed to that wall: The Owls of Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Texas. Borderlands Campaign – Sierra Club Facebook group for this issue.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2022

The American Birding Association has declared that 2022 is the year of the Burrowing Owl, but if Rosemary Mosco has her way, it will also be the year of the Rock Pigeon. Watcha looking at, human?” They’re apparently not a sensitive species either, because this derision doesn’t seem to bother them at all!

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MAY 31, 2013

Xena is a Eurasian Eagle Owl. Rehabbers have to grin and bear it during baby season; we raise incredibly cute wild birds behind masks, give them no human attention, and make sure they bond with each other and not us. And considering Eagle Owls are capable of taking down young deer, we don’t want her throwing too many tantrums.

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JUNE 16, 2015

I wonder how this applies to humans, though. Do night owls or early birds seem to get more play? The researchers hope to expand their focus to see how females respond to similar disruptions, and point out that there is a lot to learn on the relationship between mating habits and circadian rhythm. Great Tit above by Mike Bergin.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2022

But there was one more thing I evaluated, the human infrastructure, the potential guides among the national park employees. Somewhat less common but realistic birds include Wood Warbler , Collared Flycatcher , Marsh Tit , Stock Dove , Tawny Owl. Horned) Lark and the Woodchat Shrike.

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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.

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