10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Most notably of which was a pair of Blood-colored Woodpeckers. Blood-colored Woodpecker Another sighting that got everyone running was of a Point-tailed Palmcreeper. Observing it negotiate swaying and swishing palm fronds was akin to seeing a seal swim through a kelp forest. In a palm tree, obviously.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2015
Owls and eagles and ducks and hummingbirds and parrots and woodpeckers are all things that a regular nonbirding joe or jane can, with time and a few color photographs, see the appeal of. If you would kindly ignore the fact that it eats putrid, bloating seals, it’s adorable. For that matter, what about the Ross’s Gull ?
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2012
Heidelberg Zoo to the south-west of Neuenheimer Feld, all over the place but most often at the seals enclosure and the adjacent kiosk. The zoo has a small colony of genuinely wild Grey Herons (watch them compete with the seals for the fish!), Common Redstart and Fieldfare. Yes, the Egyptian Geese there are countable.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2019
Each spread presents two birds of a color–Red (Scarlet Tanager and Northern Cardinal), Pink (Greater Flamingo and Roseate Spoonbill), and so one, with the last spread presenting two colors–Black and White (Downy Woodpecker and Black-and-White Warbler). And, for the hornbills above, an old tree hollow: Mama built a sealed nest.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 24, 2014
Maggie Rufo, who works with Veronica at NSCC in Sebastopol, remembers a juvenile Pileated Woodpecker she agreed to release where it had been found in Mendocino. “I I picked up the woodpecker and all the way there he pounded on the hard plastic carrier – the whole two hours. “I She returned for two more seasons.”.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Audubon’s Hog Island Audubon Camp attracts birders of all skills levels every summer and Acadia National Park, Monhegan Island, Machias Seal Island, and Scarborough Marsh are nationally known birding hotspots. There are 461 species on the Maine checklist.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2020
Her editorship list includes Antarctica: Life on the Ice ( Travelers’ Tales, 2007 ), Solo: On her Own Adventure (Seal Press, 1996/revised 2005), and Two in the Wild (Vintage, 1999); she’s also written a memoir about her own kayak adventures, My Reach: A Hudson River Memoir (Cornell Univ.
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