10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. I imagined walking right up to them. High Island in April requires Weather, so I was told. American Avocets.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2023
with some additions, namely South Texas, The Gambia, and Goa (India). Dave Gosney’s Finding Birds Series covers mostly the Western Palearctic and describes birding in various regions of Portugal, Spain, Morocco, France, Finland, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, etc., No more, no less.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2018
At the top of those destinations is the stretch of Gulf Coast Texas barrier islands starting at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in the north, through Padre Island National Seashore, to South Padre Island near the country’s border. Many fly through these Texas hotspots, transforming physics into magic right before our eyes!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 29, 2014
That’s right…I used the punchline from one of the worst jokes in history for this one, but it seems strangely apt. One thing I’ve learned birding south Texas this spring is that birds are extremely fond of oranges, including birds you just wouldn’t expect to be into citrus (like the Swainson’s Thrush above).
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
Henry Philemon Attwater was born in Brighton, England and spent his early adult years in Canada, but the state of Texas – which he first visited at 30 and made his permanent home at 35 – has embraced him. This last is particularly poignant, if not a bit eerie, for the modern conservationist.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2018
But birds can fly so they’ll be fine, right? It has since become common year-round in native woods of far southern Texas.”. According to Audubon, “In native woodlands and brushy country of far southern Texas, this large oriole is an uncommon resident.”. 27, August 2018, Vol. Audubon’s Oriole song. Audubon’s map.
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2022
Maybe author Sy Montgomery is right when she says that “birdwatchers often look down on falconry,” and maybe not. Harris’s are also, according to Cowan, smarter than other hawks; they hunt in packs and, for that reason, may welcome humans as hunting partners more so than other raptors.
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