10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The forests are home to Kalij Pheasants , Crested Tree Swifts , Ashy Wood Swallows , owlets, woodpeckers, spider hunters, barbets and bulbuls, laughingthrushes and hornbills. On night drives here looking for Eurasian Eagle Owl and nightjars you have a very good chance of seeing Striped Hyena.

India 182

India Wildlife Tigers Eagles 182

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Keep watching and more will appear, maybe a flock of high flying Barred Parakeets , maybe even the hidden bird hunter of the dark woods, the Costa Rican Pygmy-Owl. These are a small sampling of the birds possible while birding in place on Poas. The post Birding in Place on Poas Volcano- What can You See?

Costa Rica 255

Costa Rica Birds Cows Hunters 255

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2012

As I’ve posted before they are efficient and merciless hunters. And they cough up pellets just like hawks and owls! They are aided by excellent binocular vision that lines up with their dagger-like bill. This one was so good it caught two fish at a time (just once though). They are true generalists.

San Francisco 231

San Francisco Gophers Reptiles Hunters 231

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2016

I was smart enough to chase a Snowy Owl at Sodus Point. The very handsome bird wasn’t hanging out where expected, but I was lucky enough to spy it chilling (literally) on an ice-encrusted pier, unperturbed by the duck hunters that chased everything else away! Make smart choices, people!

2016 100

2016 New York Hunters Birds 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2018

7AM – Corey: Snowy Owls are Superior in Every Way to Great Gray Owls. 1PM – Larry: Hunters are not Conservationists. You can see our full week’s worth of scheduled offerings below: SUNDAY. 7AM – Intro Post. 1PM – Clare: Cameras with AA Batteries are the Best.

Bald Eagle 103

Bald Eagle Battery Monkeys Hunters 103

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

In answer to the oft-asked question, “What is your favourite bird”, I can usually only narrow it down to three families; Rails, Cuckoos and Owls. The names are supposed to pertain to various odd behaviours observed by cold, wet bittern hunters. To that three, I would add a fourth, if only they really existed.

Hunters 103

Hunters Owls Family Animal 103

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2012

One eyed birds often get put down or aren’t released but they can survive and can be fierce hunters, like this big female Redtail. Heermann’s Gull bills can appear in Great Horned Owl pellets. Red-tailed Hawks eat worms. This one gets up early and finds them on the wet sidewalk. Redtail as Turkey Vulture ?

Rats 219

Rats Hunters Turkey Hunting 219

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2011

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2011 145

2011 Deer Cuba Hunters 145

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. I suspect it’s quite possible. Over time, the word “decoy” has lost its fowling connotations and has come to mean any kind of trick or fakery.

2016 105

2016 Ducks California Hunters 105

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

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Cats 166

Cats 2011 Deer New York Times 166

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

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Experience 162

Experience Experiments Deer 2011 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2011

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Sparrows 193

Sparrows 2011 Deer New York 193

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

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2011 157

2011 Deer New York Cats 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2011

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Deer 140

Deer 2011 New York New York City 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

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2011 152

2011 Deer New York Owls 152

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

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2011 145

2011 Deer Fish Cows 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

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2011 145

2011 Deer New York Birds 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2011

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Honduras 145

Honduras 2011 Deer Denmark 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

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2011 140

2011 Deer Utah Cows 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

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Brazil 140

Brazil Deer 2011 Peru 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

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Deer 124

Deer 2011 Oklahoma New York 124

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2014

Can you use a drone to get footage of snowy owls in cornfields? If you have a drone and fly it over a field and it finds a Short-eared Owl that you didn’t know was there and you only saw it after you uploaded your video…does it count on your list? How close is too close?

Bald Eagle 191

Bald Eagle Mississippi Eagles Ducks 191

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

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DC 145

DC Washington Deer 2011 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

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Ethiopia 145

Ethiopia 2011 Deer New York 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2011

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Colombia 145

Colombia 2011 Deer Brazil 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

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2011 140

2011 Deer New York New York City 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

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2011 133

2011 Deer New York Obama 133

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

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Squirrels 145

Squirrels 2011 Deer New York 145

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Research done on (live) Barn Owls provided proof that the hearing of juveniles is not mature until they are about four months of age, so under no circumstances do I release ones any younger. Researcher” is a term that should differ greatly from the term “trophy hunter.” Researchers can and do provide valuable information.

Collecting 240

Collecting Wildlife Rehabilitation Solomon Islands Texas 240

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. I guess I’m one of those pervs. Wicked, right?

Ducks 205

Ducks 2011 Deer Brazil 205

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

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Brazil 150

Brazil Wildlife 2011 Deer 150

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Here are some of the questions that were running through my mind as I read Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl : (a) Is ornithological research always this dangerous? (b) The fish owl is Jonathan Slaght’s grail and also, more prosaically, his dissertation topic.

Owls 132

Owls Russia Fish Research 132

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

I’ve long advocated for a habitat stamp strickly for birders as some of us don’t want to be labeled as hunters. Personally I’m very stubborn on this issue (not that I have anything against hunters)…but the minute they make a birding stamp, I’ll buy two! Wicked, right?

2011 140

2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

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Denmark 161

Denmark 2011 Honduras Deer 161

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

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Nicaragua 181

Nicaragua El Salvador 2011 Deer 181

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

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Honduras 150

Honduras 2011 Deer Birds 150

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Laughing Owl, 1909, New Zealand, photo taken by Cuthbert and Oliver Parr, pp. The Laughing Owl of New Zealand exhibited an apparent lack of fear of strangers and a propensity to spend time on the ground, making it easy pickings for introduced predators. Their photos are the only known ones taken of the owl in the wild.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 265