10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

Hauber Hauber’s mini-essays focus on specific behaviors, enhanced by references to recent research yet written in a relaxed, personal way. Angell’s black-and-white methodology works well for crows, ravens and owls, his chosen subjects, and it also surprisingly well for more colorful birds, even Indian Peafowl.

Chicago 173

Chicago Barn Owls Penguins New Zealand 173

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

Exodus: The Migration of Saw-whet Owls in North America.Or The number of bird species that have been recorded from Puerto Maldondo to the Tambopata Research Center is around 620 species (all lowland elevations). Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity.

Peru 190

Peru 2011 Deer Birds 190

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

This is all in a day’s work and a typical morning here at the Tambopata Research Center in the Madre de Dios district of Peru where, on behalf of the conservation agency Earthwatch Institute , I have come to volunteer for two weeks for the Tambopata Macaw Project. And that’s just in the lowlands! Wicked, right?

Peru 254

Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 254

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. Or These Blasts From The Past What’s In A Name?

2011 241

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 241

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2016

Scouting can also turn up rare birds, fruiting and flowering trees, and maybe even an owl roost. For example, I recall some fine memorable mornings at the Tambopata Research Center where I walked into the forest, sat on a bench, and identified more than 120 species before breakfast, almost all of them by sound.

Costa Rica 100

Costa Rica Birds Species 100