10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2020
Foreboding superstitions about the waxwing persisted into the twentieth century: an irruption of this species in Great Britain during the winter of 1913-1914 was viewed in hindsight as a harbinger of World War I, which broke out the following summer, as depicted in Pestvogel (2016) by American artist Walton Ford (born 1960).
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 10, 2016
But enough of that, now for some highlights from the first count of the season in Costa Rica, the 2016 Arenal Christmas Count !: It’s a bio-energetic, organic farm. Since this is an organic farm, the growing areas also provide lots of habitat for migrants and many local species, and are thus very birdy.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2015
I had planned to reach that goal by the end of 2016, accounting not only for the impressive potential of the county, but also for the fact that birding with two young children at home is not the easiest thing in the world. I headed out to the corner of the county, a place I’d known from a survey I did on an organic farm.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2016
This weekend, we all enjoyed the sight of a Bald Eagle perched in a farm field along the highway, an uncommon spot for an uncommonly charismatic avian. I’m not dreaming of a white Christmas either… I’m dreading it. But we have splendid birds in Western NY all year long.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2016
But if I have to pick a living bird, American Kestrels hunting along farm roads always work for me. Speaking of summer, the coolest birds I saw this weekend were on the festive curtains (pictured above) in my son’s new cabin at sleepaway camp in the Finger Lakes. Pretty swanky, right?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 17, 2016
I did a bit of wind farm surveying, which forced me to spend hours at the same point. Toshitaka Suzuki, David Wheatcroft, and Michael Griesser (2016) Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls, Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10986. So I managed to finally understand what were they chatting about – me!
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 21, 2016
Since then, we have seen a marvellous recovery, with an estimate of 123 in 2012, 145 in 2013, 165 in 2014, 197 in 2015 and now in 2016, around 232 Great Bustards roam the wilds of Germany, nearly doubling their number within just a handful of years! Follow the track through a gap in the pine tree plantation and immediately turn right.
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