10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Last week I wrote about the interesting hunting habits of our local Harris’s Hawks. Their territory also includes portions of Central America, down into eastern Columbia, Ecuador and Peru. Today I will cover another one of Mexico’s Baja Peninsulas characters, the Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo Albonotatus.
10,000 Birds
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As it learns to hunt and live on its own, the young bird has taken up residence in a tree right in front of the farm. It’s such a great resource, I can go over woodcreeper songs, test myself to see which vocalizations I still remember from the ridiculously diverse rainforests of Tambopata, Peru.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
He continues with images found in illuminated manuscripts such as Catherine of Cleves’s Book of Hours and Frederick II of Germany’s On the Art of Hunting With Birds. Egyptian tomb painting depicting duck hunting in the marshes, from the eBook version of Birds and Us, © 2022, Tim Birkhead and Princeton University Press.
10,000 Birds
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10,000 Birds
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10,000 Birds
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10,000 Birds
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