10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2015

Owls are among the birds with the greatest power to fascinate non-birders, for good and ill. One such person is Scott Rashid, who early in his tome The Great Horned Owl: An In-Depth Study recounts his own first owl sighting at the age of sixteen. The Great Horned Owl: An In-Depth Study is available now from Schiffer Publishing.

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AUGUST 31, 2016

Snowy Owl at Breezy Point photographed by Corey. Irruptions of Snowy Owls in 2011 and again in 2013 found these Arctic birds wintering well south of their usual range , in some cases straying down to Bermuda and even Hawaii. (I But new research, published in The Auk , suggests that this narrative may not provide the whole story.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2024

The researchers speculate that this is because of the contrast against the green canopy background – an explanation that seems a bit spurious to me if applied to captive birds. Given the small size of the owl (23-25 cm), the eBird characterization as a medium-sized owl is also a bit strange.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2015

It’s hard to be a Northern Spotted Owl , inhabiting old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. The Condor has just published research quantifying significant population declines in Washington, Oregon, and northern California. The principal culprit appears to be competition with Barred Owls for space, food, and habitat.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2016

As I opined in my post back in 2010 (and continue to preach) the Western Burrowing Owl needs a conservation plan. A pair of Burrowing Owls fledged six young! After all, the Western Burrowing Owl is listed as “ Climate Endangered ” by the Audubon Society. In the summer of 2015 our investment paid off.

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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.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Owls can fly with incredible stealth thanks to evolution, which caused all kinds of changes to their wings to allow them to sneak up on prey. Now researchers are trying to find a way to use the adaptations owls come by naturally on airplanes to make planes quieter. Hat-tip to my mom, Jill Finger.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Blakiston’s Fish Owl (image by Robert tdc/Wikimedia Commons) . In the hardcore “news” department, scientists from the United States and Russia have managed a successful study of the foraging and nesting habits of Blakiston’s Fish Owl , the largest owl on the planet and one of the rarest. ” side.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2017

I asked Virginia Guhin, Education Programs Coordinator of the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve (ES NERR). Acorn Woodpeckers squeaked to each other as they moved up and down bare tree trunks, and a soft owl hoot echoed from the distance. “What’s that?”

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

He also believes that we are living in an era of incredible scientific research, one in which new genetic technology and findings from diverse scientific disciplines have turned assumptions upside down, opened up new lines of thought, and provided answers, or at least probable answers, to many of our questions about why birds do the things they do.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2022

For you, there are two Sentient chapters of special interest titled, respectively, “The Great Gray Owl and Our Sense of Hearing” and “The Bar-Tailed Godwit and Our Sense of Direction.”. Now, we know that owl hearing is extraordinarily acute, able to perceive the faintest rustlings of a vole under heavy snow.

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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.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Owling on Christmas Bird Counts is a peculiar business. There’s the whole role of chance in owling, too. In birding, perhaps only the proverbial wild goose chase and snipe hunt rank below owling in terms of expected success. A pair of Great Horned Owls ( Bubo virginianus ) painted by John James Audubon for The Birds of America.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

The Snowy Owl account focuses on irruptions. The material on Boreal Owl is a wonderfully condensed account about the species’ sexual dimorphism and its relationship to breeding plus the link between the species’ cyclical abundance and the red-backed vole. Boreal Owl, p. I really like the photographs of Justin S.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2014

We went because Desi, my four-year-old son, wanted to see a Snowy Owl after hearing about and seeing pictures of all of the owls his dad had been seeing this winter. He brought with him Snow, his stuffed Snowy Owl , so Snow could see his “real owl friends.” Snowy Owl being harassed by an American Crow.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Apart from the crane, some Long-eared Owls were the highlight of this short trip for me. Global population decline in the Rustic Bunting Emberiza rustica “ Fortunately, the Little Bunting – which looks a bit like a sanitized and, ahem, less rustic version of the Rustic Bunting – does not seem to be threatened.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Pel’s Fishing Owl, where were you? Poor researchers Nicola Coumi and Rob Slotow failed to find anything particularly interesting about vigilance in Bronze Mannikin groups. Mind you – it is indeed a description, not a video, as the research was done in 1952. ” I wish I had this kind of optimism.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Not only did my research show a lot of promising sites to visit, but I also have two good birding friends in the region, Laura and Brad. The prairie areas have Burrowing Owls amongst the bison and there’s Lark Buntings galore. My sincere apologies. At the end of last summer, I had to make a business trip to Denver, Colorado.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2023

Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird. THIS IMAGE NOT IN THE BOOK. Schulman, 2023.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

But, he continued, some – but not all – of the researchers drove him nuts. Their attitude was “the rules don’t apply to me, I’m a researcher.” Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song? Researchers can and do provide valuable information. Or how gracefully it flew? Who its predators were?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2015

In this study, the males who slept in weren’t slackers—the researchers manipulated their circadian rhythms with melatonin implants. The researchers hope to expand their focus to see how females respond to similar disruptions, and point out that there is a lot to learn on the relationship between mating habits and circadian rhythm.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The first two chapters make clear that although environmental concerns were a factor, his major reason for doing a big year was personal–his work as a postdoc in research neurobiology was at a crisis point, he needed to change research direction or…do something else. Big Year Books are the niche genre of birding.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

— and link that to something abut the Great Grey Owl and my BFF Analiese Miller who is an amazing, emerging, photographer who has recently trained her 300mm Cannon F4 lens on the birds (including the Great Grey) at Sax Zim. Researchers are wondering if the die-off might spread to other birds or even fish.

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Reddit Animals

DECEMBER 1, 2023

I have been thinking about this for awhile after I saw some people online with things like a pet skunk and even someone with a barn owl. However, the same people with these ducks, owls, armadillos, skunks, raccoons, etc are always showing clips of them with their little guys and they are just so happy, the animal and the owner.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Oriental Scops Owl is possibly my favorite of all bird species (though I may have said that about other species as well) – so, here’s a post with just some photos of this owl taken this autumn migration season. ” According to this book, scops (?) It comes in two morphs – one greyish, one reddish.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2020

But I also dabbled in topics such as Snowy Owl eruptions, urban ornithology, window strikes, and eBird (of course). Faaborg was the first in a line of ornithologists who have graciously responded to my emails about their research, in that case leading to a short article on declines of Puerto Rican migratory birds.). by Eliza M.

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MAY 9, 2023

I did some research and what animals it might have been such as foxes, racoons, owls etc, though I had to dismiss them because 1. I don't have any recordings or footage, all I have is my 3am memory, but I was pretty awake and aware cause I was freaked out. the recordings of these animals did not sound similar to what I heard, 2.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Alarm calls are paired with the calls of owls — not only that, but the Great Horned Owl evokes a mild alert note while the Northern Pygmy Owl brings on a shrill of terror. Naylor introduced this, the first public performance of the piece, together with UM professor and bioacoustics researcher Erick Greene.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

This lucky youngster from Massachusetts has almost 300 ticks, but just added his favorite— a Great Gray Owl his supportive family drove hundreds of miles to glimpse. Project FeederWatch data prove that woodpeckers are at the top of the backyard bird feeder pecking order.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2013

Let’s take a look at some of what lurks inside: Pygmy-owl split. Proposal 2013-A-2 would split the “Guatemalan Pygmy-Owl” ( Glaucidium cobanense ) of southern Mexico and northern Central America from the widespread Northern Pygmy-Owl ( G. gnoma ) on the basis of vocal differences and a discrete range.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Guiding aside, Howell is a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences and the author of many books, including Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America (Princeton). And that is what recommends Steve N. Howell and Fabrice Schmitt: both of them are international bird tour leaders with WINGS.

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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. And their pest control services are free.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Further exploration of academic facilities, experimental fields, and random trees can produce some exciting sightings, from flocks of Crested Caracara to ridiculously confiding Ferruginous Pygmy-Owls. You know these owls are chill, if I can snap a shot this good (pardon the epiphyte!). ECO-SENDERO. Oliver, along with Yobani A.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2021

A quick study as I researched this post revealed that fully 37 Arizonan “specialties” are common birds right here where I live. Residents of southeastern Arizona that you can also see here are the Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl, Yellow-eyed Junco , and Elegant Trogon. I took this photo of a Grace’s Warbler just this Monday.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Checking out Red-breasted Blackbirds at the Aripo Agricultural Research Station. The Snowy Owl invasion and everything that came with it. The most exciting part of 2013 was the insane numbers of Snowy Owls that irrupted to the eastern and midwestern United States. Not only that, but I learned that Snowy Owls can fly !

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2014

In the past there has been a lot of research done using satellite tracking to find out the exact routes that a variety of larger migratory shorebirds take and there were some amazing discoveries made. In the USA Project Snowstorm has been able to get underway at very short notice to discover the movements of Snowy Owls.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Here are some of the questions that were running through my mind as I read Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl : (a) Is ornithological research always this dangerous? (b) The fish owl is Jonathan Slaght’s grail and also, more prosaically, his dissertation topic.

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