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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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2012

Typically these birds hunt at night and are very shy. We also stumbled upon the largest of Africa’s owls, the colossal Giant Eagle Owl (more recently named Verreaux’s Eagle Owl ) and often heard its pig-like grunting both during the day and at night. In full sunlight, at eye-level and eating a freshly caught fish.

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Fish Owls Botswana Barn Owls 262

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

When I reached the levee earlier that morning, I met an elderly hunter from whom I learned that there was an ongoing duck and pheasant hunt, but no one was shooting from, nor towards the embankment, hence I should be safe there. Photographed within Beljarica: five White-tailed Eagles by Snezana Panjkovic.

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Serbia Otters Boars Hunters 246

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Two more aspects contribute to bird diversity: these are the inner city waters, so hunting is forbidden, and the Danube rarely freezes, and even then it would be the last water to freeze. Also, a rare Greater Spotted Eagle was spotted here in December (only about a dozen of them overwinter in Serbia).

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Serbia Woodpeckers Ducks Birds 306

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2014

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Bald Eagle that he watched (and photographed) hunting and eating a Blue-winged Teal at Viera Wetlands. Sure, Corey saw rarer birds, more colorful birds, and birds that he wanted to see more than a Bald Eagle but the experience of watching such a show was amazing. How about you?

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Bald Eagle 2014 Eagles Hunting 210

Critter News

MARCH 21, 2009

Portuguese environmental groups - including SOS Lynx, A Nossa Terra and Almargem - have denounced the deliberate shooting of the country's only nesting male Iberian Imperial Eagle. Tags: Stupid eagle portugal fox hunting. Irrational attitudes? That's a diplomatic way of saying that it's ignorance, pure and simple.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2022

Logging roads have opened up vast areas to commercial hunting, leading to industrial-scale poaching and a more than 60 per cent drop in the region’s Forest Elephant population in less than a decade. At the same time, 50% of the Congo Basin forest has now been allocated for logging and this region loses close to 1.5

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Central African Republic Congo Gabon Gorillas 317

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2012

Specials include birds like African Pygmy Geese, Racket-tailed Roller and Western Banded Snake-eagle. This breathtaking part of the world is home to a dazzling array of bird species including many species that are easiest seen in the Okavango – birds like Pel’s Fishing Owl, Slaty Egret and Wattled Crane.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Travel onto the world famous Kaziranga National Park and you will have very good chances of more endangered species such as Pallas’s Fish Eagle , vultures, Swamp Francolin , and both species of Adjutant Storks. On night drives here looking for Eurasian Eagle Owl and nightjars you have a very good chance of seeing Striped Hyena.

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India Wildlife Tigers Rhinoceros 246

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Kosutnjak Park , a former royal deer-hunting forest, is located to the west of the Topcider Park. Some of the birds you might see in these areas include the Eastern Olivaceous Warbler , Hawfinch , Black Woodpecker , Golden Oriole , Savi’s Warbler , and the White-tailed Eagle.

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Transported Woodpeckers Serbia Birds 278

10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2020

This D usky Eagle Owl is blind on one eye but still seems to be doing ok. Well, it mostly hunts at night, when it is dark anyway. This Indian Eagle Owl was relentlessly mobbed by some crows. The Brown Fish Owl is the most common of all Fish Owls. Its ear tufts seem to be almost horizontal rather than vertical.

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Owls Eagles Fish Hunting 198

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2012

Red-tailed Hawks often hunt through dusk in San Francisco. Carrizo Plain harbors shrikes, meadowlarks, eagles, falcons, etc… oh, and flowers. Varied Thrush habitat on Mount Tamalpais. Peregrine Falcons frequent the sheer rock faces of Tennessee Valley. I imagine them beaming through this shortcut too.

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San Francisco Tennessee Falcons Owls 221

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As I am already familiar with CL Companion, ELs and NLs, as well as the ATS/STX scopes, now I had a chance to try those toys I am not familiar with, such as hunting EL Range binoculars with built-in electronics telling the user the distance and an azimuth angle (interesting, but I still prefer my binoculars without batteries).

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Austria Factory Asia Battery 299

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2011

Two new studies “add scientific evidence that hunters’ lead ammunition often finds its way into carrion-eating birds, such as eagles and turkey vultures.&# So when will conservation-minded hunters stop using lead ammunition? Why, then, is lead still used to hunt?

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Hunters Hunting Turkey Laws 145

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

By the other end of the marsh, there is a flock of Greylag Geese in the grey sky, Common Goldeneye on the water, Western Marsh Harrier above the willows, several Common Reed Buntings on the wire and the White-tailed Eagle in the distance. A few kilometres along tarmac and back onto the sandy tracks among the snow covered sand dunes.

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Killing Mali Serbia Geese 250

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

A shot or two coming from the opposite bank, but they do not sound like geese shooting – more like boar hunting. A goose hunt sounds like a WWII battle. We counted more than 35 of them, relaxed and fearless, clearly not hunted. Easy – it is forbidden to hunt at night. Labudovo okno reserve, photo (2) by Marko Sciban.

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Geese Boars Hunting Serbia 189

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

And more importantly for us, unlike Zywiec, 313 Polish Lager features a bird: the orzel bialy , the white eagle that adorns the national coat of arms of Poland. Poland, of course, is just one of many lands that claims an eagle for its national avian symbol. An eagle (a White-tailed?) as drawn by Walery Eljasz-Radzikowski.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. It includes stunning photographs by Tipling of eagle hunters (as in Kazakhs who hunt with eagles), Stellar Sea Eagles in Hokkaido, Japan, and Black Kites at the dump near New Delhi, India. Eagles are national symbols of the U.S.,

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Egypt Birds Albania Eagles 243

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Americans of a certain age will recall how close their country came to losing the Bald Eagle.). The sighting suggests that for all its struggles with habitat loss and hunting, the species is still managing to reproduce. But that tragedy is compounded when the species at risk is a country’s national bird.

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Samoa Bald Eagle Campaign Hunting 196

Critter News

MARCH 19, 2012

A federal government decision to allow a Wyoming tribe to kill two bald eagles for a religious ceremony is a victory for American Indian sovereignty as well as for long-suppressed religious freedoms, the tribe says. The Northern Arapaho decline to say specifically what they will do with the eagles the federal permit allows them to kill.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Killing Wyoming 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2011

There was also a group of Bald Eagles ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus ) soaring nearby, including this juvenile, who seemed to be enjoying aerial maneuvers with its sibling. My eye followed this young eagle as it circled its way to the ground, just over a small rise and out of sight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cFKUm5lPpM

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2014

There is a breeding pair of White-tailed Eagles at the Veliko Ratno Island and they can be seen year-round, but the best chances are in winter, when they hunt ducks around the island. Pygmy Cormorants are regular, occasionally a White-tailed Eagle and during cold spells, Goosanders.

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Serbia Ducks Birds Eagles 255

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

This means that they probably can’t withstand any sort of hunting pressure, and given the lack of Great Curassows in most accessible parts of their range, that is probably the case. Although this big bird isn’t on our menu, Ornate and Black-and-white Hawk-Eagles relish it. The Near Threatened Black Guan.

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Costa Rica Turkey Ecuador Hunting 189

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. White-tailed Eagle breeds along large rivers, wherever water mingles with forest. White-tailed Eagles can be seen above the city, too, in areas closer to rivers. Hence, I asked my friend B.C.,

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Serbia Woodpeckers Albania Eagles 250

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2016

The name “Harpy Eagle” was coined by South American explorers, and is based on the harpies of Greek Mythology. A Harpy Eagle. At 3-4 inches long , they rival those of the great Grizzly Bear, and allow the Harpy Eagles to go after prey unavailable to many other birds. Like Woods, I can’t get over their talons.

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Panama Grizzly Bear Porcupines Monkeys 102

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. Black Guan.

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Costa Rica Panama Birds Nicaragua 203

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2013

For a much larger Eurasian Eagle Owl, it compresses to look like a branch, even aiming it’s more bark like wing feathers towards the predator and closes its eyes, to complete the disguise, small owls will do that with us too. If you have an owl that is oblivious to your presence like this hunting Boreal Owl , you’re doing ok.

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Owls Barn Owls Agenda Zoos 273

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 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2024

It was like so many other places where the young birds were stolen from nests, habitat was destroyed, and adult macaws occasionally hunted. Prefer a White-fronted Nunbird or an Ornate Hawk-eagle? At one time, Scarlet Macaws in Costa Rica were greatly reduced. Thankfully, In Costa Rica, that ignorance ended some time ago.

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Costa Rica Birds New York Parrots 246

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2013

I could hardly contain my excitement as I gazed at a Great Gray Owl and watched it hunt through someone else’s scope. It was the Snowy Owl, taking no chances while an immature Bald Eagle was passing by. On the third day, we finally connected with the species I wanted to see the most and just could not miss.

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Minnesota Owls Bald Eagle Hoarding 226

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2018

It is a fascinating world of swampy forests of willow and poplar, inhabited by Black Storks , White-tailed Eagles , Eastern Olivaceous and Icterine Warblers (above), among more than 200 other species. And that was the time when all 400 km2 were still open to annual rhythms of flooding and represented a famous waterbird hunting ground.

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Beavers Serbia Hungary Eagles 160

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

I reveled in the multiplicity of Rock Pigeon plumages, watched the Ring-billed Gulls slice the air over a Mets game, and as I headed for the Olde Homestead, I was delighted to note how many Bald Eagles are now happily hunting along the over-civilized Hudson.

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New York City Bald Eagle New York Birds 162

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2023

I always undertake a number of short timed surveys for the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust’s Big Farmland Bird Count in February, and though the counts didn’t add anything to the year list, they were memorable for finding big flocks of finches and buntings, while a daylight-hunting Barn Owl was a pleasing sight.

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Estonia Portugal Greece Barn Owls 246

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2019

And I didn’t pay enough attention because one very dark eagle flew by at the same time, an adult Greater Spotted Eagle. Two hundred yards further, we found another Greater Spotted Eagle! Several poachers were waiting in ever thickening darkness (Serbian legislation forbids night hunting).

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Geese Serbia Estonia Ukraine 190

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2012

Like several of my favorite NWRs, this one was established as a haven for migratory birds, most notably waterfowl, during the bad old days when uncontrolled hunting and habitat loss had put the future of even species we now think of as common in doubt. As a result, early migration season is an excellent time to visit.

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Wildlife Montana Bald Eagle Geese 193

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Many friends and guests enjoyed seeing this particular bird soar, hunt, or even sit for hours in the valley. A massive shadow caught our eye on the opposite end, by the time we whispered “ Black Hawk-Eagle ” to each other it already was in view almost overhead. Definitely a hawk-eagle, but which? Was it this bird?

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Trinidad Eagles Bears Litter 162

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2013

In the grass, Desert (bellow) and Isabelline Wheatears await us, together with Tawny Pipits and large flocks of Greater Short-toed Larks ; while Booted Eagle , Lesser Kestrel and even one Critically Endangered White-rumped Vulture fly above us. Off the tarmac we go, into dry turf intercepted by bare ground, where we follow wheel tracks.

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