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. Two years ago we got a call about an eagle hit by a car. When we arrived we looked and there was our one-eyed eagle, eating a raccoon that had been hit. That was 9 years ago.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 228

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

The Cherokee nation called them “Peace Eagles” owing to the fact that they never killed a living thing – and also that they tended to show up in numbers after battled when peace treaties were being signed, though admittedly that may have been for a slightly more macabre reason.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 186

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

to the ongoing conservation of breeding Lesser Flamingos at Kimberley’s Kamfers Dam to the Albatross Task Force, which works with fishermen to find solutions to seabird bycatch (birds caught in fishermen’s nets). Verreaux’s Eagle-Owls are amongst the heaviest and longest owls in the world.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 254

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2012

When it comes to breeding, Yellow-rumped Warblers are a good example of what many people regard as a “regular” bird. Male and female Yellow-rumps pair up on their breeding grounds, share duties in raising chicks, then politely part ways when fall migration comes.

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Albatross Lifestyle Birds Raised 198

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

They reach breeding maturity at four to seven years of age, produce only one chick per nesting season, and only one in three offspring survive to fledging age. Ohio has tracked two families of their state-endangered breeding sandhill cranes and found them to have wintered over in Tennessee in 2010. It’s free!

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 251

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2024

This one on birding in Skåne claims that “ in winter, golden eagles, buzzards and werewolves are often seen ”. I dipped on both the Golden Eagle and the werewolves, which left me with mixed feelings. I went to Väko Myr to test my luck and although the Black Grouse were a no-show I did see a pair of Bullfinch in the parking lot.

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Sweden Geese Portugal Minnesota 130

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

This display is called strutting and the purpose of this display is to attract hens for breeding. Air Force test runs in breaking the sound barrier, nearby turkeys dropped dead from sudden cardiac arrest. The fleshy growth under a turkey’s throat is called a wattle. Turkeys can have heart attacks. During U.S.

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Turkey Bald Eagle Game Alaska 250

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

ospreys are mostly right-“handed,” and carry their food, while flying, in one foot only, to fight off kleptoparasites like bald eagles with the other), and of detail, as well, of the process involved in taking that particular photograph. Each image is accompanied by a page of prose detail on the bird (e.g., Donna). ==.

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Colombia Birds Bald Eagle Guyana 245

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

I wonder what Americans would think if, in a Wikipedia entry, a Bald Eagle would be illustrated using a photo taken at an Albanian zoo. One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. There was a breeding pair at Binjiang Forest Park this June. Sometimes it works.

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Birds Sparrows Mountain Goats Protection 192

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Black-capped Chickadees , Song Sparrows , and Dark-eyed Juncos start testing their breeding songs as well, though they have a longer wait before things get serious. A pair of Bald Eagles scopes out the Clark Fork for likely snags. Walking home at night, I hear a Boreal Owl calling from the conifer-coated mountains.

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