10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Owling on Christmas Bird Counts is a peculiar business. There’s the whole role of chance in owling, too. In birding, perhaps only the proverbial wild goose chase and snipe hunt rank below owling in terms of expected success. Other birders are – quite understandably – less keen about the whole ordeal.

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2017 Owls Game California 136

10,000 Birds

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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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 200

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

— and link that to something abut the Great Grey Owl and my BFF Analiese Miller who is an amazing, emerging, photographer who has recently trained her 300mm Cannon F4 lens on the birds (including the Great Grey) at Sax Zim. Researchers are wondering if the die-off might spread to other birds or even fish.

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Science Iraq Research Birds 151

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

As I explained to my nephews when they were younger, “The Burrowing Owls don’t think we’re their friends. People on one side of the rope, owls on the other.” Substitute Snowy Owl here if you’d like the modern version). We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 205

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2019

commented further: “With a little work some species can be seen quite easily such as the divers, scaup, scoter, Goosander , Garganey and Long-eared Owl. Eurasian Scops Owl is a bird of open forests and scattered trees, parks, orchards, abandoned houses, etc. Another British expat birder, G.L.,

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Serbia Birds Woodpeckers Breeding 247

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

And so, Fuller embarked on a new initiative—locating and researching photographs of lost birds and, expanding his scope, of mammals. Laughing Owl, 1909, New Zealand, photo taken by Cuthbert and Oliver Parr, pp. Their photos are the only known ones taken of the owl in the wild. more than there really was to see!” (p.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

It was already a relict species living in isolated populations long before man brought deforestation, coffee plantations, wood extraction, hunting, trapping and other risks to its world, further decreasing its range and population and further fragmenting populations.

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Guatemala Mexico San Diego South America 162

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

His second book on migration is a tale of many birds and many research studies all connected by the theme of migration and by his thoughtful narrative voice. Even if you have read about these research projects, Weidensaul’s accounts offer fresh angles and updated information. is through the personal and the specific.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 244

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

You see, in German we have three distinct words for different groups of owls. The eagle-owls of the genus Bubo are all called “Uhu“. As a rule of thumb, with quite a number of exceptions, if the species sports feathery ears and is not an eagle-owls, it’s an “Eule“. Yupp, you read that correctly.

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Germany Birds Hunters Owls 172

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public comment on a proposal to hunt sandhill cranes in Kentucky. Kentucky Dept.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 239

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Crested Serpent-eagle is not a vulture, but that does not keep me from mentioning a recent Economist article here, “The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people” And while this article is behind a paywall, the original research paper is not. It deserves a lot better than being caught and locked in a cage.

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Los Angeles Birds Woodpeckers Owls 176

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2016

A portable speaker is placed on the top of the car, playing Tawny Owl calls from a smartphone. Although we do enjoy it immensely, we are not doing it for fun, but to gather information on distribution, habitat choice and density of breeding pairs of owls for the first national and second pan-European atlas of breeding birds.

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Owls Birds Investigation Breeding 174

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We made several stops along the way, hoping our eBird research would give us local hotspots that might turn up a few gems. Once we were checked in, we headed straight out to begin our hunt. That lovely little owl represented bird number 34 for the run thru Texas! Here that Eastern Screech Owl. Eastern Screech owl.

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Texas Tucson San Antonio Owls 127

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. As Sibley tells us in the Preface, he originally intended to write a children’s book.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 262

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Others are only known from a specimen or two sitting in the drawer of a research institution. Most people oppose large-scale, indiscriminate, hunting of birds but it still happens all over the world. Mauritius Owl. Of those nearly two hundred there are very few that people would recognize. Olson’s Petrel. Maupiti Monarch.

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Mauritius Djibouti Guam Birds 171

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2023

Another Nanhui trip also brought a Northern Boobook , which eBird nicely describes as a “slender brown owl with comically expressive golden eyes” While one would think that such a fierce-looking bird mainly lives off larger prey, this is not the case. It did not seem to bother the owl much though. Oh, the excitement.

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Monkeys Birds South Korea Owls 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

They are large passerines and research has shown them to be an ancient basal offshoot from the passerine tree (at approximately the same time as rockjumpers, were even placed in the same family until quite recently). The rare Rufous Fishing Owl was one of the many species seen by the group here.

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 188

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2015

Props on the sweet Barred Owl call, too. “I Severe weather can stress birds and even influence the coloration of their feathers , new research finds. Researchers have figured out where the thought-to-be-extinct Bryan’s Shearwater is roosting. What kind of miscreant kicks a Barn Owl in mid-flight? No, you didn’t.

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Malta Barn Owls Cyprus Fowl 180

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2013

To assess their populations, draw their blood, test them for lead, and discover what kind of impact feeding on gut piles might have on these iconic raptors, particularly the young ones, as hunting season begins in Montana. Sara, one of the researchers, explained that it was a newish bird. To understand, and thus to protect.

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Eagles Tethering Science Wounded 170