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.
10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2021
Volunteer Moya Kinnealy reached in nearly to her elbow and removed four tiny Red-bellied Woodpeckers. After a similar procedure, Moya’s watch-me-pull-a-rabbit-out-of-my-hat trick produced a fuzzy nestling Eastern Screech Owl. “The As the four nestlings were quickly placed into an incubator, sounds from the other hole continued.
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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. I played the hairy woodpecker call on my phone, a chick responded and creeped up towards the entrance. I left the Hairy Woodpeckers to their chicks and biked home.
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.
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.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 25, 2014
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. We also managed to find several more snakes, spiders, as well as a terrifying tail-less scorpion and even more terrifying scorpion. It happens.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
This relatively new technique has been used to study relationships among and within several groups of mammals, including lagamorphs (rabbits and hares), rodents, and cetaceans (whales and dolphins), but I couldn’t find many references to its application in avian systematics yet. Ringer Suh et al.
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