Collecting Raised Woodpeckers 
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Next stops offered White-crowned Parrot and Barred Parakeets , Chestnut-sided and Canada Warblers , Collared Aracari , half a dozen Purple-throated Fruitcrows … I heard a strong double-nock of a huge Pale-billed Woodpecker , but the bird didn’t present itself to our eyes. A group (maybe 4-5 ex.)
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
This was where I set up my bird feeders, just one at first, then expanding as everyone expressed delight in seeing the Carolina Chickadees, Dark-eyed Juncos, and Downy Woodpeckers. I picked up a Downy Woodpecker, an every-day visitor. I was shocked when I found the first body, a female Towhee. The window silhouettes were gone.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2015
Owls and eagles and ducks and hummingbirds and parrots and woodpeckers are all things that a regular nonbirding joe or jane can, with time and a few color photographs, see the appeal of. a sea gull.''” Of course, that raises an important question – what is the most interesting gull in the world?
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 28, 2014
This dirt road was the soybean truck-nightmare; about every 10 minutes we had large double-trailer trucks filled with soybeans drive very fast and raise a huge dust cloud that took another 5 minutes to settle. Another crested bird adding to my collection. Brown Cachalote. Crested Hornero. Lark-like Bushrunner. The cute couple!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2019
We stop again and search the leaves: Rufous Treepie (a rather handsome forest crow), Greater Racket-tailed Drongo with its long streamers, Lesser Goldenback woodpecker… We’re winding through the forest. Raising and lowering its head, like stretching. Several more Langurs, but not a trace of an owlet. Humbly, we approach on foot.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2017
This large woodpecker is one of Cuba’s rarest birds, with a small population of 600-800 individuals, who are mostly seen on the Zapata Peninsula.** There is one historical record in eBird, representing a specimen collected by Fermin Z. Unlike the Bee Hummingbird, we saw the Emeralds everywhere we went, even in Havana.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2015
In the all too brief introduction to the book, they state, “This book aims to shed light on the family lives of birds, a topic that has captured our collective imagination and enriched our language despite being shrouded in mystery.”. Both authors marvel at the diversity of birding reproductive and parenting behavior. Peregrine Falcon nests.
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