10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2022

It is hard to imagine any birder not liking woodpeckers – they are the “motherhood and apple pie” of the avian world. The Bearded Woodpecker (Mkuze, South Africa) does not really look any more bearded than many other woodpeckers. It is the most widespread woodpecker in Africa, claims the HBW.

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Woodpeckers South Africa China Singapore 229

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2013

I hid behind my futon while my pet rabbit Dougal peered up at my from beneath it. I heard Hairy Woodpeckers , at first I thought an adult, but then also young. To the birds trapped in the dark, a chainsaw is terrifying, they could flutter right into its path as he cut. “I Birds Hairy Woodpeckers Storms'

Minneapolis 219

Minneapolis Birds Woodpeckers Baltimore 219

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Then, to finish the week, we visited the famous, and not necessarily for all the right reasons, Malhuer Wildlife Refuge. The first part of the week, we parked the RV at a campground right on the water, of Dog Lake, 20 miles southwest of Lakeview, Oregon. I only ran across this one Clark’s Grebe mixed in with in the groups of Westerns.

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Oregon Owls Wildlife Barn Owls 115

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I’m now petting my rabbit Dougal, 6 more birds dead. Hawks (or Merlins like the above bird eating a Red-bellied Woodpecker) come to feeders but they would be killing birds whether there is a feeder or not. I just looked over at my husband–bam 5 birds dead. I don’t deny that feeders can cause bird deaths.

Rabbits 154

Rabbits Killing Canada Farming 154

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I’m now petting my rabbit Dougal, 6 more birds dead. Hawks (or Merlins like the above bird eating a Red-bellied Woodpecker ) come to feeders but they would be killing birds whether there is a feeder or not. I just looked over at my husband–bam 5 birds dead. I don’t deny that feeders can cause bird deaths.

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Rabbits Killing Canada Farming 113

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2014

At any rate, my brief visit to Sepilok showed me that it is a worthy destination in its own right. We heard, but didn’t see, a Brown Wood-ow l, and best of all a massive cat-sized Red Giant Flying Squirrel and a rabbit-sized Sunda Stink-badger. It isn’t worth worrying about too much. It happens.

Badgers 160

Badgers Skunks Squirrels Rabbits 160

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

THEY’VE BEEN FEEDING HIM LOW-SALT HAM,” she wrote, all in caps, then added some choice commentary which I can’t seem to locate right now, but which inspired all her rehabber friends to add their two cents. “A Perhaps she had been watching Monty Python’s Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.). “I wrote Maryjane Angelo.

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Squirrels Hamburgers Chickens Wildlife Rehabilitation 250