10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2011

I don’t get a lot of life birds in North America any more, but this confiding little gent offered himself up to the list: a Florida Scrub-Jay. Gaily color-banded, I’ve no doubt each individual is well-known to science. From the tail band, it looks like an immature. What a sight. It’s a three-year seagle.

Florida 145

Florida Tail Banding Ohio Ducks 145

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). Clue: El Yunque is featured on one of the coins in the America the Beautiful Quarters program.). Special nesting boxes are built in the wild, a wild chick damages its wing in the nest, (it is rebuilt).

Puerto Rico 247

Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 247

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Yet, it is amazing how many identification features are evident in his bird pictures—the fire-red head, streaked back, white wing bars, and white-tipped tertials of the Western Tanager, the white tail band on the Eastern Kingbird, the black-bordered white eyebrow of the Red-eyed Vireo.

Betty Crocker 170

Betty Crocker 2008 Birds 2007 170

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

But, before Jerry Liguori’s wonderful photographic guides of Hawks at a Distance (2011) and Hawks from Every Angle (2005) and before Clark and Wheeler’s classic Field Guide to Hawks of North America (2nd ed., The original Hawks in Flight treated 23 raptors, the major hawks that migrate through North America.

North America 254

North America Bald Eagle Eagles Tail Banding 254

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2017

For me, the key to identifying the difference, comes with the banding on the tail, and when a bit closer, the yellow legs and cere. The tail bands on the adult birds consist of three bands with the third, or lower band much wider and cleaner white.

Tail Banding 100

Tail Banding Paraguay Turkey Bolivia 100