10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2018

North Bend State Park, West Virginia. Strong populations of birds reside in the hardwood forests and dense understories in this north-eastern location of West Virginia. Pileated Woodpecker. Sky Meadows State Park, Virginia. Photo by © Mike Kendrick. Photo by © Mike Kendrick. American Kestrel.

West Virginia 170

West Virginia Virginia Kentucky South Carolina 170

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

My personal preference is the block prints, which perfectly capture the spirits of western woodpeckers, jays, and even a Ruby-crowned Kinglet, but there is a Canada Jay watercolor at the end that would look very nice in my living room. 17); he was born in West Virginia and spent most of his life and career in Cincinnati.

Birds 143

Birds Eggs Laws Woodpeckers 143

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

We let a one-eyed Bald Eagle go after a year of battling state officials in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky. 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

Wildlife Rehabilitation 214

Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 214

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2017

Similar in size to West Virginia, thanks to a bunch of different major habitats, rain, and tropical biodiversity, it’s pretty easy to top 300 in a week or two, and even identify 500 over the course of three weeks. That said, not even 300 of those were identified in an area around the same size as Costa Rica.

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Costa Rica 2017 Birds West Virginia 112

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2011

Lots of great birds in this pine-spruce bog habitat: Purple Finches , Least Flycatchers , many wood-warblers, but no sign of my jinx bird (other life bird possibilities for me here included Great Gray Owl , Spruce Grouse , Northern Three-toed Woodpecker and American Black-backed Woodpecker ).

Connecticut 169

Connecticut North Dakota Ohio Owls 169

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

” Many of these images were new to me; with the exception of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, I don’t think they have been heavily mined for notecards or fabric. The Eskimo Curlew “ran the gauntlet of a hunter army, which stalked him from state to state to provision meat counters by the wagonload.”

Betty Crocker 170

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