10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2018

Here are a few of my recommendations for some such esteemed members of the Costa Rican avifauna: Forest Football Chicken or FFC (Great Tinamou) – Since tinamou sounds like the perfect representation of an oddly-shaped bird with a small head that gives beautiful tremulous vocalizations, I am sorely tempted to leave this one off the list.

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Costa Rica Chickens Birds Soreing 158

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Today we speak of the not-so-distant past, the present, and the history in between. Rumor has it that the sorely-needed authoritative book on flycatchers is in the works…it can not be published quickly enough. Hello my birding sons and daughters. This post is meant to serve as a flashback to 1998, 15 years ago. 6) Taxonomy.

San Diego 170

San Diego California Condor California Bald Eagle 170

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

And he presents a pretty compelling argument by basically describing how little regard Emily really has for me and how quickly she'll shred my hand (although she behaves very differently with Baby Sky, interestingly. As much as I might love Emily (our kitty), the way Masson sees it, she doesn't love me back in the same way.

Dogs 100

Dogs Pit Bulls Greyhounds Kennels 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2016

And, of course, lots of birds were present in the yard that did not come to the feeders. Gorgeous animals, and amazingly graceful, but a bit worrying when they are sitting a foot or two from your six-year-old who was sorely tempted to give them a snack. Mountain Chickadee heading off with a sunflower seed.

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Birds New York Fox New York City 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Eventually, I found the lone whooping crane present at the refuge by its call. And whooping cranes in bad light, say dawn and dusk, when hunters are most likely to be out after sandhills, can look startlingly dark. I heard a sonorous trumpet coming from a large flock of feeding sandhills, and I jolted to attention.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 242