10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Many countries have private reserves and concessions, run for tourism or hunting, that provide outstanding wildlife watching opportunities. Red-crested Korhaans are attractive members of the bustard family. Brown-hooded Kingfishers hunt far from water. Spotted Eagle Owls are one of several owls that can be seen here.

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Zimbabwe Botswana South Africa Endangered Species 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

In other words, millions of people got together with family and friends for a cozy day of mashed potatoes, gravy, apple pie, naps, football, and some serious turkeyliciousness. The turkeys I’m talking about up in here are three of the five members of the Cracidae family that occur in Costa Rica. The Near Threatened Black Guan.

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Costa Rica Turkey Ecuador Hunting 175

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2016

After the Common Starling , my second bird of the morning becomes the largest eagle of Europe, the White-tailed Eagle , this one with a fairly white tail, yet still dark beak, that I estimate to be in its 3rd calendar year. Looking miserable with its feathers soaked, one yellow and blue European Bee-eater sits on a dead branch.

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Sheep Serbia Eagles Mammals 132

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2019

A birder needs access to large areas of mature forest that also offer up chances at seeing glittering flocks of tanagers, checking out the tail bobbing behavior of cool antbirds, and glassing a hawk-eagle or two. This is what a Black Hawk-Eagle shape looks like. Ornate Hawk-Eagle. Buff-fronted Quail-Dove. Wrenthrush. Black Guan.

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Costa Rica Panama Birds Nicaragua 203

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2015

But I do have rules about whether I can have said to have visited a country, ie does the country “count” which I have inherited from my family, particularly my Dad. Perched high above the river were a number of birds of prey, including the one with the most evocative call of the African bush, the African Fish-eagle.

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Botswana Lesotho Bald Eagle Elephants 162

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Here and there, spits of pale sand became playgrounds for families and dogs, or hunting areas for Great Blue Herons. We watched a Bald Eagle soar on the warm updrafts over the marsh, while another actually stood on a mudflat, looking for prey. A view of East Bay.

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Bald Eagle Florida Alligators Pelicans 154

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2016

The birding at Eilat is so dynamic in so many ways, you can’t just use that easy “gen” to zip over and see a Bar-tailed Lark , that Greater Spotted Eagle that flew overhead, or even the Wryneck hanging out in Eilat’s very own Central Park. Lesser Spotted Eagle was also seen several times along with Steppe Eagle.

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Israel Costa Rica Eagles Raised 176

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

I love the challenge of “the hunt” and the satisfaction of the find but I also have the ones I want to see the most, my biggest targets if you will. Bald Eagle. When I was a kid, I remember asking about the possibility of seeing a Bald Eagle around western New York. I’ll start with some global ones. A quetzal?

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Costa Rica Bald Eagle Eagles North America 101

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

If you want to learn more about avian visual field, the essay cites two related essays in the book on Eagles and Meadowlarks (though there is a typo–it should be p. They portray the nesting cycles of Mallard, Red-tailed Hawk, and American Robin, illustrating the various ways in which birds create families. How are they different?

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2020 Birds North America Sparrows 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

We were able to take a thoroughly enjoyable boat ride on Lake Chamo, whose shores teem with birds, including such typical African species as African Fish Eagle, Goliath Heron the world’s largest, Yellow-billed Stork and the incomparable Hamerkop , a species in its own family.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Cattle 244

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

As the national bird of Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, the African Fish Eagle is usually very busy whenever it stays in these countries, giving speeches, opening shopping centers, etc. While hoopoes are in their own family, DNA studies suggest that the hoopoe diverged from hornbills, and the wood-hoopoes and scimitarbills from the hoopoe.

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Zimbabwe Benin South Africa Gabon 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2013

Here, thousands of Amur Falcons hunt for insects during the southern summer, Wattled Cranes and Denham’s Bustards may be seen, impressive Long-tailed Widowbirds display over the grasslands and the waterbodies are a haven to many hundreds of waterbirds, including Maccoa and White-backed Ducks. Photo by Adam Riley. Photo by Adam Riley.

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Lesotho Rats Africa Woodpeckers 172

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

At the far end of the lake stands a tall, dry tree with an eagle that we are struggling to determine and it remains a dark silhouette far too far. Somewhere below that mysterious eagle, at the far shore of the lake, lies one Bengal Tiger … and further to the right – two more! He has earned his tip. Very dusty Swarovski CLs.

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Tigers India Killing 2006 248

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

I saw two Pitta species at Hongbenghe, both among the slightly less glamourous among the pitta family: The Blue-naped Pitta … … and the closely related Rusty-naped Pitta. The Crested Serpent Eagle is another species bound to suffer from a naming error in perpetuity. A worrying trend.

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Myanmar Birds China Chicago 147

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. millions years ago.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 184

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Not a great place for a family vacation, though I think Duncan will disagree. Species Accounts are grouped by family, following what appears to be Sibley and Monroe’s 1996 taxonomy. (I The plates show differing plumages as required by the individual families and species. Artwork is by Karen Phillips.

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Brunei Asia Birds China 176

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Furthermore we have another very special stork-like bird, the regal Shoebill , previously known as the Whale-headed Stork but now placed in its own family. Sometimes they have to protect their catches from piratic African Fish Eagles who swoop down as soon as they that see a Saddle-bill has successfully caught a fish.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 242

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

The proprietor of our ecolodge guides my small group of birders up a steep slope where we see, just at the point where a scope view deteriorates into pixels, a huge bird—a Chaco Eagle, also known as a Crowned Eagle—on a huge nest. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret. 2019), and now this book.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 214

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s relatively easy to classify birds into family groups based on physical characteristics. We view them as our enemies when they eat our crops and as an extension of our family when we see them at our feeders. We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. Eagles are national symbols of the U.S.,

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Egypt Birds Albania Eagles 217

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2024

If you see a flock of kestrels in southern Europe, then the chances are that they will be Lessers, for the Common Kestrel never flocks, though occasionally in summer you will see a family hunting together.

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Falcons Spain Europe Portugal 201

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2018

Wedge-tailed Eagles roam the skies, along with Brown Falcon, Black Kites , and Nankeen Kestrels. When we were at an amazing rock formation, called the Olgas, or Kata-Tjutas as the locals call them, this Nankeen Kestrel hunted all around me for well over 30 minutes before drifting away in search of better hunting grounds.

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Australia Camels Kangaroos Hunting 114

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2023

An Englishwoman, she thought, originally, that she would stay within the British Isles, to see the five or six native species. Readers of this site already know about this extraordinary place from Dragan’s evocative post of November 2018, “ The 701 Long-eared Owls of Kikinda.”)

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Barn Owls Owls Finland Serbia 113

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2021

So, while I am lucky enough to live with my wife and family near the village of Mapleton, in the Blackall Ranges, first join me for a little journey to part of the coast. We were also lucky enough to see a beautiful pair of Sacred Kingfishers hunting along the coastal edge. One is pictured below.

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Australia Cooking North America Fish 256

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 249

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2014

There were good numbers of Green Pygmy-geese, Comb-crested Jacana, Great and Intermediate Egrets, Magpie Geese and a family of Black-necked Storks. There was a lot of disturbance, with almost everything taking flight, as a pair of White-bellied Sea Eagles soared over the lagoon on dusk. View back across to the picnic area.

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Geese Pelicans Ducks Hunting 162

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2020

I also often observe a pair of Wedge-tailed Eagles towards the hills on my left as I follow this section of trail. There is a family of feral foxes that I often encounter near Bennison Creek. Foxes were introduced to Australia in 1855 for hunting and have established themselves far and wide. Bennison Creek Bridge.

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Fox Feral Ducks Horses 154

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2014

First off as we drove in was the Crested Serpent-eagle I’ve shown you before. As if this wasn’t enough, we also managed to see, distantly, a family of White-crowned Hornbills , one of Borneo’s rarest hornbills. A Bat Hawk hunting bats. For starters, the cave is surrounded by some rather nice forest.

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Bats Vanuatu Birds Namibia 154

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

Young raptors like the above Bald Eagle chick are a different matter. If you find a young hawk or eagle out of the nest and it is covered in down and is unable to stand on its huge feet, it needs to get back in the nest. Try to get it too another family group or contact a wildlife rehabber. Owls are a little different.

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Fox Birds Raised Geese 265

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

The species are taxonomically divided into two families: Tytonidae, Barn-Owls, and Strigidae, Owls, encompassed in one order, Strigiformes. They are also hunted. When you look at Clements latest taxonomic spreadsheet, you get a sense of the depth of their relationships to each other and the world.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 216

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Nineteen days later we had racked up an amazing list of 436 species, including some of Africa’s least known birds such as Congo Serpent Eagle , Yellow-footed Honeyguide , Tessmann’s Flycatcher , Yellow-bearded Greenbul , Black-collared Lovebird and much besides. And wow, what a trip we had!

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Ghana Hunters Gambia Guinea 194

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Plain Sunbird is the plain vanilla version of the otherwise often very colorful family (ok, a very low-budget sort of joke). Of course, there should be a photo of a vulture here, not of a Crested Serpent-eagle. The only explanation I have for this unequal treatment is that it must be a witch hunt.

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Los Angeles Woodpeckers Birds Wounded 190

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

This outstanding member of the wattlebird family is unique among songbirds in having different shaped beaks for each of the sexes. We’ll also keep our eyes open for several members of the New Zealand wren family. It certainly has no known relatives. Also easy to find here is the Moho , North Island’s version of the Takahe.

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New Zealand Ducks Mountain Goats Australia 204

10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2013

But it wasn’t birding that brought me on this trip, but the family bach owned by the family of a friend of mine. They are generally small holiday homes or cabins, simple and basic constructions built to keep you warm and dry a night while you have your holiday outside swimming, tramping, fishing, hunting and the like.

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New Zealand Charlotte Penguins Hunting 165

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2014

This is not to say, however, that birders on holiday are, should they choose to travel with family, friends or other assorted loved ones, resigned to seeing nothing, or even nothing except the common stuff. I was thus able to pick an off-the-shelf ecotourism route and, having selected a company, customise it to my family’s needs.

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Bats Birds Elephants Badgers 185

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2011

Orlando is so rich in roadside and overhead birds that I kept a list of species seen from the car which ran to 30+ on the first morning and included a Bald Eagle nonchalantly sitting on a street lamp by a Target store. I had to do all three as we headed to Universal’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

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Alligators 2011 Deer Florida 116