10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
But “Hawk”’s active ingredient, a deadly second-generation anticoagulant, bromadialone, has been implicated in the deaths of Red-tailed Hawks, Red-shouldered Hawks, Cooper’s Hawks, and other raptors : American Kestrels, Barn Owls, Golden Eagles, Great Horned Owls, and Turkey Vultures. Thanks for your concern for wildlife, Syngenta.).
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
Wintering Wallcreepers are always a possibility, too, generally in quarries where Eagle Owls are resident. Rock Nuthatches can be elusive Mention of Eagle Owl brings me to to rich variety of raptors to be found here in winter. One year we found an impressively big calidus Peregrine, feeding on a Wigeon that it had killed.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2014
A poisoned rodent can kill whatever eats it, and death by poison is a very bad way to go. Kudos to this awesome group, which has changed minds, laws, and continues to raise awareness of an environmental disaster which too many people don’t even realize has been taking place. as well as a rare mammal, the California fisher.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Other than these missing items, the book is well-designed and I love the cover, a silhouette of Dorian cycling, his four panniers visible in the outline, against the image of a giant Snowy Owl against a sky-blue background. Big Year Books are the niche genre of birding.
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2023
While having somebody else raise your chicks like an attractive strategy to me, it is not without dangers. A paper reports on how a female Common Cuckoo was mobbed and killed by Oriental Reed Warbler hosts. The photos of the dead cuckoo published in the paper would not look out of place in a horror movie for a cuckoo audience.
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.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2015
The newest find of this extremely scarce bird was a male, and was “collected” (an innocent-sounding euphemism for “killed”) for the American Museum of Natural History. How it raised its chicks? And is the amount of knowledge gained anywhere near the amount of knowledge lost by the deliberate killing of this bird?
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