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. Look to the right… A bit more to the center… There, just right. His reaction was most unusual. I feel brilliant!

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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. And yet, it is surprisingly easy to see here in the right season (if you look in the right places).

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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. You can park by the side and check the Boljetinska River Canyon at your right, a true geological history book. But, as I said, keep right, down the northern slope and into the forest for the next 11 kilometres.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2013

But then we get a few heroes who do everything right, who go far out of their way to help an injured wild creature, and who restore … well, maybe not our complete faith in humanity, but at least our confidence that we won’t end up in jail for the rest of our lives. Leaving the injured owl in her car’s grill. I kid you not.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

According to Wikipedia, “A l owl ife is a term for a person who is considered morally unacceptable by their community” The local Nanhui shrikes are well aware that the word “lowlife” has an owl hidden inside, and mark the appearance of owls in their territory with harsh protests. It just looks stupid.

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10,000 Birds

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

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

For years now, Victor Emanuel Nature Tours has included among its birding excursions a group of tours that acknowledge the breadth of birders’ horizons, taking full advantage of both the natural and the human richness of some of the birdiest destinations on the planet.

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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 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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10,000 Birds

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. So right from the beginning, none of this makes any sense.

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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. Teach her to do the right thing, even if it makes her a little sad, because help without knowledge is no help at all.

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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

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. But birds can fly so they’ll be fine, right? Also opposed to that wall: The Owls of Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Texas. 27, August 2018, Vol.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

Most days, that seemingly random place is right at home. A few spots manage to persist and welcome them in this human-dominated landscape. Although I prefer to be immersed in the challenge of quiet and unpredictable deep forest birding, I’ll watch birds wherever and whenever.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2022

While it is laudable to point out the plight of homeless woodpeckers, this is hardly the right subject for an upbeat bird photo contest. There are much better metaphors for mind-body dualism than owls with fake eyes on the backside of their head. Every bird photo should tell a story, not just show a bird.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

THEY’VE BEEN FEEDING HIM LOW-SALT HAM,” she wrote, all in caps, then added some choice commentary which I can’t seem to locate right now, but which inspired all her rehabber friends to add their two cents. “A We had a Barred Owl they were feeding Doritos.”. “We Human breast milk – no, don’t get me started.

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

However, I’m applying those adjectives not to my fellow bird lovers, but to the panoply of humanity that descended upon the other hall at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center for the “Walker Stalker” convention of Walking Dead fans.). And maybe I’ll bring my little guy to see his first owl! feel different types of feathers!),

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2016

I was waiting at the entrance gate for everyone in our group to gather, when I remembered that someone had told me about nesting owls at the Taj. Luckily, I didn’t have to look hard to find the Dusky Eagle-Owl’s nest. It was a big owl. Soon, it was time to leave the Taj Mahal. Target: Tigers.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2020

In Costa Rica, a lot of those birds fly right overhead. Listening for birds on Poas Volcano and other high mountain areas would require cool weather clothing but it would be much more quiet and peaceful and could also come with the side benefits of Dusky Nightjars, Bare-shanked Screech-Owls , and maybe even Unspotted Saw-whet Owl.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

, you may have noticed that adorkable little Burrowing Owl who’s been peeking out of the right sidebar for the last few days. Owls are kind of superheroes, and as it happens, this little character’s superpower is solving gift-buying woes. That’s right … and … BAM! Gift worries solved!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Owls and eagles and ducks and hummingbirds and parrots and woodpeckers are all things that a regular nonbirding joe or jane can, with time and a few color photographs, see the appeal of. Even sparrows, if you choose the right species and play your cards right, can be elevated to ‘cute’ status.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2019

We see a closer shot of the river itself, hawks flying across the span, and then we see that brown line again, close up, a wall of brown panels filling the right side of the screen, continuing into the distance, no end in sight, while a white pick-up truck drives parallel to it at the far left of the screen.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Larry starts us off right with an owl that makes birders drool: I was able to see and photograph many great birds in 2014 but my Best Bird of the Year would have to be the Great Gray Owl , the largest Strix in North America. Larry’s BBOTY – Great Gray Owl. Larry’s BBOTY – Great Gray Owl.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Many birds sing local dialects, and human languages are dynamic, they can’t help but change, evolve over time. Keel-billed Motmot has even made an appearance and sometimes, there is a roosting Black-and-white Owl. A Striped Owl from another site in Costa Rica. This is the shape of a calling Barred Hawk.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2022

A Barn Owl slept peacefully on the inside of the roof of a well-visited tourist cafe. It warned me not to order the latte though – overpriced and not very good, according to the owl. If you want to get some irrelevant information on hornbills, please read my previous post on them. With Red-billed Quelea.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2017

They can be easy, they might be a challenge, or they may even require super human feats of extra ambition but however those goals might be categorized, make plans now because we have reached the downhill side of the year birding spectrum. Unless you go to the right places and/or get lucky, all of these can cause trouble with the year list.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Those of us who chase rare birds for our counties, states, or other human-made geographical distinctions watch birds for more reasons than the twitch. Cope usually knows where a pair or two of Crested Owls are spending the day. If a birder in Costa Rica plays the birding cards right, heck, he or she might even hit 300 in a day.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

An Ashy Drongo apparently spends approximately 71% of its time scanning (what non-scientists would probably call looking around), 9% eating (less than a typical Chinese human but much more than me), calling 7%, flying 7%, and 6% preening. Another – much rarer – drongo at Nanhui is the Ashy Drongo.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Everyone talks about human rights and there exists so many groups that are either governmental or non-governmental who work toward that cause. But, what about the rights of those who cannot defend themselves? A three generation family in Choluteca checking out a Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl in their backyard Better yet.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2014

Many gringos make their way to Baja California Sur every year, although the majority are probably heading to Cabo San Lucas to party and test the human limit of tequila endurance. Gray Thrashers are not as conspicuous as the hummingbirds, but should not be difficult to find in the right places. Many migrants winter in the area.

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MARCH 28, 2010

Commerce vs. conservation is often at the center of environmental battles, whether they involve global warming or the spotted owl. I like this opinion piece from the Christian Science Monitor which calls for an "Endangered Species Hour." It's in response to the pathetic CITES conference which basically screwed marine animal protection.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

What right do we have to even exist when our very existence as humanity is what has caused a rate of extinction not seen except during cataclysmic events? Mauritius Owl. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. How can we stand it?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Our trusting GPS took us through the dawn hours right to the lake where I had previously programmed some points that I wanted to visit from E-bird maps. Soon we had to decide to go left or right and the GPS had two points, one to the left, and one to the right, so we turned to the right and drove towards a school and then some houses.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It was already dark in mid-October when we arrived to the Costa Rican birding mecca of Rancho Naturalista to have dinner on the veranda but then were interrupted with a call: There’s a Mottled Owl at the other side! You can imagine the rest: everyone jumped from the table to look for the owl.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2019

Birds may have taken to these artificial perches like ducks to water, but human reactions to the newfangled poles and wires were hardly as appreciative, especially in the early day. We humans tend not to think of utility poles and wires as “beautiful” or “natural” elements of the environment, when we notice them at all. As Daniel L.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

What does a Flammulated Owl do all night? Non-human beings have traditionally thought of on a basically immoral level…they lack any intrinsic values, are incapable of thoughts and emotions, and are only worth how good of a coat they make or how good they taste. What seeds does a Baird’s Sparrow eat? But I digress.

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