10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2019
On a walk around Baisley Pond Park’s eponymous pond in Queens recently I heard a Gray Squirrel chittering away angrily at something. Tired of White-throated Sparrows and American Robins , I decided to stroll over and see what the squirrel was so upset about. But the hawk would not give the squirrel long to rest.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 12, 2024
I viewed them at dusk, through a telescope, from a ridge overlooking the area they were hunting. I’ve yet to see an English pine marten, but I once watched one hunting red squirrels in the Bialowieza Forest in Poland. My only wolf sightings have been in Spain, in December, and at great range.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 16, 2017
am, at the crack of dawn I am sitting in a car by the Suslik (European ground squirrel) pasture. Actually, I am not waiting for them, but for the Eastern Imperial Eagle to come here to hunt Susliks – an eagle from one of the last two remaining nests in Serbia. Some are eating, holding a morsel with front paws, so squirrel-like.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 14, 2011
Dirt hawking is a form of falconry that involves hunting rabbits and other small game with Harris Hawks (other hawk species also qualify). One of the primary reasons that these hawks make such excellent falconry birds is because they are one of only two raptor species (the other is the Galapagos Hawk ) that hunt cooperatively.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
The Aruban Burrowing Owl hunts primarily from the ground, hopping and running after lizards, insects, and small mammals. These owls use the tunnels of other species as their nesting burrows, and so can be found associated with ground squirrels, tortoises, and prairie dogs.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
The drongo perches above the flock, snatching insects that they disturb, and keeping an eye out for predators that might go unnoticed by its hunting flock-mates. The species is classified as Near Threatened for all the usual depressing reasons – pollution, drainage, hunting, and the collection of eggs and nestlings ( source ).
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2014
A bit alarming, given the events of the last few weeks in Missoula, but after years of close encounters with chipmunks and ground squirrels I have finally gotten to have a pretty good idea of a rodent when I hear one. A loud chirp rang from the side of the mountain, and a handful of stones skittered down the talus slope.
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