10,000 Birds
JANUARY 27, 2015
One of the remaining birds is known to frequent Joe Overstreet Road, a dirt road that runs a few miles through sod farms and cattle pastures between Canoe Creek Road and Lake Kissimmee in Keenansville,about an hour south of Orlando. The first farm on the left, where all the cattle are? ” Was I? He likes it there.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
We had as our goals spotting the reported Cattle Egret and Blue Grosbeaks and as many shorebirds as could be found in the flooded environs. There were three of us that made the trip to the famed Black Dirt region of Orange County, New York yesterday. We were there for the birds!
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2015
Well-travelled birders will recognise Cattle Egrets following the steps of hippo or African Buffalo , and Black-crowned Night Herons , but more African species occur in the form of the massive Goliath Heron , the smaller Squacco Heron , and the highly distinctive Black Egret , famous for creating a canopy with its wings to hunt small fish.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 13, 2012
That Cattle Egret I found in Somerset County, August 2009? Development, conservation, and climate change have affected bird distribution in good ways (a record 282 Bald Eagles found on the January 2009 official count!) A scarce and very local summer resident in Salem County. No wonder people were excited by it.)
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2011
In fact, the very first person to guess, Nick , managed to get the third quiz picture correct by calling it a Bald Eagle. Of course, that was the easiest of the three because though the bird in the image is captive, a bird that was injured and can’t be returned to the wild, Bald Eagles do occur regularly and naturally in Queens.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 20, 2015
Cattle Egret: 133. Bald Eagle: 6. Tricolored Heron: 36. Reddish Egret: 1. Green Heron: 39. Black-crowned Night-Heron: 34. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron: 5. White Ibis: 2,727. Glossy Ibis: 21. Roseate Spoonbill: 4. Black Vulture: 290. Turkey Vulture: 2,197. Osprey: 26. White-tailed Kite: 2. Northern Harrier: 13. Cooper’s Hawk: 15.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 25, 2018
The sub-adult Bald Eagle ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus ) below was photographed from the same blind. Check out this image of a Great Egret ( Ardea alba ), Snowy Egret ( Egretta thula ) and Cattle Egret ( Bubulcus ibis ) together. I hope you enjoy it. Click on photos for full sized images.
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