10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Lucky him, right? A Crested Serpent Eagle , looking a bit ridiculous after a rain. This is a juvenile Grey-headed Fish Eagle , unless it is another fish eagle like the Lesser (the lack of any grey head makes me doubt the identification a bit, but it seems juveniles cannot afford a grey head yet).

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Birds Eagles Elephants Rhinoceros 214

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2017

Dunne is a compelling writer, and if he’s fond of long, multi-clause sentences and elaborate descriptions that might seem outright poetic to people used to terse field guide species accounts, well, I’m right there with him. Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America by Pete Dunne with Kevin T.

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North America Falcons America Eagles 102

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Photographed within Beljarica: five White-tailed Eagles by Snezana Panjkovic. Two hundred metres further on, two young White-tailed Eagles were soaring. Yet, the primary job of Beljarica is not to support eagles and otters, but to control the floods. I barely started when some sulphur (a.k.a. Easily enough, they got it here.

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Serbia Otters Boars Eagles 244

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Watch the streams for fish, we saw a few, unidentified yet cool looking tropical species! During our visit, one was sleeping high in a tree right next to the parking area. Short-tailed Hawk, Black Hawk-Eagle, Brown-capped Tyrannulet , and other species. Black Hawk-Eagle from another day. Want to see a roosting potoo?

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Costa Rica Puerto Rico Birds Owls 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2023

Fortunately, late June is the right season for the locally brewed snake-cold Vergina lager in the deepest shade by some gull-filled beach. Soon after it, singing Black-headed Bunting awaited me on a wire at the right, with two Woodchat Shrikes in the bush at the left-hand side of the road.

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Greece Pelicans Birds Otters 181

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2020

Not too many raptors, but at least an African Fish Eagle. Some more Mkuze birds for which I cannot come up with a semi-interesting caption right now … African Jacana. . … or Blue Waxbill. There seem to be more hornbills at Kruger NP, but Crowned Hornbill is also nice. African Pied Wagtail. Bearded Scrub-Robin.

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South Africa Giraffes Birds Africa 188

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2020

A few paddle strokes down the river and on the right bank there were four Impala antelopes ( Aepyceros melampus ). albiventris ) and fish eating Pied Kingfishers ( Ceryle rudis ). Among 60 or so heron species in the world this is the only one using this peculiar fishing technique. African Fish Eagle 1. Hamerkop 1.

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Botswana Africa 2001 Fish 186

10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2015

One Common Raven is disappearing towards its nest among the branches of the poplar plantation, only to reappear a few minutes later to give a good chase – aerial acrobatics included – to its first neighbour, the White-tailed Eagle which breeds in the vicinity. The water is misty-golden and the fishes are all glossy in the early morning sun.

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Otters Serbia Fish Mammals 175

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In a huge crown of an old ash, two adult White-tailed Eagles await us, posing confidently for some time. White-tailed Eagle by Snezana & Slobodan Panjkovic. A Black Redstart on the fishing cottage rooftop, Mistle Thrush in a distant tree, European Greenfinch and the Eurasian Siskin right in front of us.

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Serbia Geese Eagles Louisiana 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2020

If you intend to spend the whole day in the sands, you may chill out the hottest part of it in the shade of one of several fish restaurants in Stara Palanka, about 7 km south of the Vracev Gaj Village. mi after the village of Gaj and spreads at the right-hand (southern) side of the road. It was gazetted as a nature reserve in 1977.

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Europe Serbia Birds Woodpeckers 224

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

These consist of Red-crowned Crane , Blakiston’s Fish-Owl , and Steller’s Sea-Eagle – all among the most massive and spectacular representatives of their families. Several more hours of driving on icy roads took us to Washi-no-yado, a traditional Japanese B&B near Rausu, the ‘place to be’ for Blakiston’s Fish-Owl.

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Japan Massachusetts Birds Eagles 178

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

People whoever they are (even the most experienced of hawkwatchers) love Bald Eagles – it’s just a given. In my experience if you show a non or novice birder their first Bald Eagle and they will be amazed, show someone their first Thayer’s Gull and they aren’t likely to gasp (sorry, larophiles)!

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Bald Eagle Los Angeles Connecticut Eagles 237

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Right now, though, I’m excited about cardinal song. Because they’ve started singing right on cue and the days grow longer. In Latin in was first applied to birds who gave omens through their vocalizations, as opposed to birds like eagles and vultures who gave omens through the direction of their flight.

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Eagles Fish Owls Wildlife 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Photo: This area holds 3 to 4 breeding pairs of White-tailed Eagles , which represents the biggest density per square mile anywhere in the country. White-tailed Eagles are numerous and I observed five – four of them at once (3 imm. Beljarica floodplain, from the Danube at the left to the embankment at the right hand side.

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Serbia Protection Eagles Ducks 165

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Still, this way or another, the year is ending with some glorious species, e.g. a rare Greater Spotted Eagle. I observed my first GS eagles in India some 8 years ago, then the first for Europe in Greece only last December , and finally I have them in my home country list.

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Moldova Birds Serbia Greece 118

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2014

When discussing this topic for local media, I often say that because of their White-tailed Eagles , the Scottish island of Mull makes 2 million pounds per year from birders alone. By the end of a day, the best bird was the White-tailed Eagle that caught and ate a fish right in front of us – a species they have seen in the UK only once.

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Serbia Eagles Birds Sparrows 175

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

To reach Prespa Lakes, from Niki continue through Florina, from there right for Albania and veer right for the lakes. If heading to the Kerkini, two kilometres after the border take the left turn for Serres and drive until you spot the lake on you right hand side. Head for the sea only when you fully recharge your batteries.

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Greece Albania Macedonia Europe 177

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2016

Around one kilogram – heavy like a brick, it offered powerful magnification, but somehow never felt right. Instead of buying a new pair, I started to use the one I already had but never used: 12×40. While we were checking possible heronry sites along the Danube (trying to think like: If I were a heron, would I nest here?),

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Birds Serbia Eagles Fish 186

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2011

It’s one thing to add some seed, suet and fruit to the grocery list right before a snow storm hits…but if you feel stressed because you have to make your own personal mix of seed for your birds six times a day or you have personally failed and perhaps sentences some birds to certain starvation in your yard?

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Bald Eagle Birds Deer Minnesota 243

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2014

There were grumpy old fishermen, fishing through the closed season when the fish enter the backwaters to spawn, but also carrying handguns on their belts and assuming that, being armed and dangerous, they have every right to the area. armed with binoculars only?)

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Serbia Stray Dog Protection Botswana 240

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2020

Usually, maize is on the menu, only occasionally carrion or dead trout from a nearby fish farm. That is the trickiest moment for him: what if there’s a bear right next to the dirt track? We are in the Tara Mountain in western Serbia, ranging from 1,000-1,500 m / 3,000-5,000 ft above sea level.

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Serbia Bears Birds Mammals 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Hornbills, Paradise Flycatchers , day roosting Giant Eagle Owls or if we’re really lucky Pel’s Fishing Owl , the holy grail! It takes six months from where the seasonal floods enter the north of the Delta to where they reach these rivers, which then flow into the Kalahari and evaporate. Those waters never see the sea!

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Botswana Africa Elephants Angola 174

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2019

a British expat birder who was living in Belgrade, for a suggestion: “The top species is undoubtedly White-tailed Eagle. Squacco Heron – the same as previous, from the left Danube bank levees, also the Veliko Blato Lake (Mika Alas fish farm in the suburb of Krnjaca, #3). Hence, I asked my friend B.C., That’s for the city itself.

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Serbia Birds Woodpeckers Breeding 249

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2018

So, we move right on into Week 28, and we have hit the road. Another fish loving species, the Bald Eagle made an early morning appearance at Wickiup. Without a doubt, the biggest surprise of the day came when four Sooty Grouse , a lifer for me, walked right in front of us, near Little Cultus Lake.

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Oregon Bald Eagle 2018 Eagles 101

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2016

Luckily, I didn’t have to look hard to find the Dusky Eagle-Owl’s nest. Lunch, some time to get to know our rooms (I loved mine, right next to a tree that housed a Spotted Owlet), and we were off again for Ranthambhore National Park, right down the road. Target: Tigers. It was a big owl.

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India Tigers Birds Owls 188

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2014

The national park ranges some 100 km in length along the right bank of the Danube (the left bank is in Romania), where the river varies in width from 5 km / 3 mi to only 150 m / 500 ft and the mountains rise up to 800 m / 2600 ft a.s.l. The turn off from the main road is east of Dobra. The Woodchat Shrike, Boljetin, June 2014.

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Serbia Turtles Birds Eagles 186

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The catch is, the station often pumps some small fish into the pool, hence the jolly bird party. The Dalmatian Pelicans line the lake shore, especially by the small beach opposite Limnochori village, where local fisherman tie their flat-bottomed boats and, after fishing – feed the birds with small fish, not worth taking to the market.

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Greece Pelicans Serbia Eagles 183

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2014

When, in my junior year of high school, this wrong was righted, I was very pleased. I was caught up in a world of magpies and Golden Eagles and sadly-still-lumped Northern Flickers with luminous red underwings, of American Dippers and Western Tanagers and winter visits from Barrow’s Goldeneye.

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Baltimore California Condor Montana Cleveland 171

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2018

Well, it took about ten minutes to find out, as I was sitting in the RV, right at water’s edge, photographing a lovely pair of Rufus-banded Honeyeaters , when a small, 2-meter-long Crocodile came rushing up out of the water, right at my door! And this is the White Sea Eagle. Crocodiles, smockodiles, how bad could it be?

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Geese Birds Australia Ducks 129

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2013

As for nice clothing … right! Speaking of which, Michele Wellard had an imprinted young Fish Crow she was teaching to be an education bird, part of which entailed getting him used to wearing leather anklets so he wouldn’t fly away during outdoor programs. People who work with wildlife wearing nice clothes?

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Bald Eagle Wildlife Rehabilitation Vet Birds 220

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2018

The boat Captain got us right in close. When were visiting Smoo cave, this one was right in the cave entrance. I gave up on visiting the cave, and just watched this bird washing, preening and then jumping right in, and catch this small flat fish. The show stopper was his Eagle-owl.

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Puffins Wildlife Reserve 2003 Farming 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

Bald Eagle. When I was a kid, I remember asking about the possibility of seeing a Bald Eagle around western New York. I was of course elated, I even wondered if I had actually, truly seen a Bald Eagle because how could that be? I’ll start with some global ones. Cedar Waxwing. At least we have the Black-and-white Owl.

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Costa Rica Bald Eagle Eagles Birds 101

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

En route, the teenagers were chatting away when suddenly I screamed “Eagles!”, yanked the steering wheel to the right, slammed on my brakes, grabbed my binoculars, and threw myself out of the car. Bald Eagles ,” I said encouragingly/defensively/lamely. Soon the girls emerged.

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Puffins Eggs Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle 274

4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

You will see everything from bald eagles, wolves and deer, to wild turtles, baby ducklings and other animals. Fishing With Alligator Snappers. Fishing With Alligator Snappers. Be sure to watch the mini-series to find out just how right he was in saying this! Who knew our country was so diverse in just one region?

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Mississippi Bald Eagle Alligators Wolves 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2017

Some of you have been counting on federal funding or habitat protection that now looks shaky; some of you have mates who never made it back from migration; some of you just can’t catch enough fish. Especially those of you with an all-fish diet. And I think you do. Anyway, what I’m saying is we’ve all been under a lot of stress.

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Bald Eagle Belize Iowa Eggs 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2016

And, in that process, the initially drawn borders started to expand to include some new sites, such as the heronry at the nearby fish farm, a few more territories of White-tailed Eagles and the roost of up to 10 percent of the European population of Pygmy Cormorants , right inside the city.

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Protection Eagles Jamaica Farming 119

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2018

It is incredibly hard to pick a highlight, but the Lilac-breasted Rollers, Southern Yellow-billed Hornbills, Green Wood Hoopoe and the Kori Bustard are all right up there. The African Fish Eagle was a great first day bird. In the same first day plus a couple of hours, my Africa bird count is at 66 species.

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South Africa Africa Rhinos Mongoose 112