10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2014

Though hardly common, Great Gray sightings are a yearly occurrence in Western Montana, and it is one of the twelve species of owl known to breed in the state. I can’t speak to the species’ popularity in Eurasia, although Jochen’s reaction to its appearance on my year list makes me suspect that it is also prized highly there.

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Owls Minnesota Montana 2014 242

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2011

I am sharing it again here, at the request of Corey Finger, who takes some sort of sick pleasure in seeing other birders squirm and suffer under the weight of their obsession with life birds. All the info I needed came in an e-mail from a Minnesota birder named Peder. Here is my story about a quest for the Connecticut Warbler.–Bill

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Connecticut North Dakota Ohio Owls 180

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2014

Over the least couple of weeks the best view I’ve had of Minnesota has been out my northward facing window. The birds were too far away to identify, and I know more than one species does this, but if I had to guess they were starlings. But if half of the species of goatsuckers go extinct, you’ve got a lot less left.

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