10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2020
If I had known that these Amanita caesareas smell pleasantly of eggs, I would have taken a sniff. My Laurelito trip was topped off by my discovery, when I walked back to my car, that it had been turned into a turkey perch. The variety of their shapes and colors demanded that I turn my camera earthward. Then I saw its shiny partner.
10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2024
Birds that nest in southern Africa winter to the north in the tropics, while birds that breed in southern Europe and Turkey migrate south to, you guessed it, tropical Africa. Unlike the Common Cuckoo, the young GSC doesn’t eject its foster parents’ eggs or chicks from the nest, but is reared alongside them.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2016
While so many spent the weekend obsessing over eggs, others cast their eyes to the feathered fruit of eggs… not necessarily Easter eggs, but different, non-chicken eggs. I enjoyed observing Wild Turkeys , clearly feeling bolder on Easter than Thanksgiving, foraging openly along the Palisades Parkway.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2022
Going back to that assumption that birds don’t have a sense of smell, it can be traced to John James Audubon (of course), who performed several experiments with Turkey Vultures and concluded that the vultures used sight, not scent, to find food. Also tubenoses and Kiwis can smell very well. 241) that contribute to a bird’s odor.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2022
In my imagination, the job of a male Australian Brush Turkey is pretty similar – removing or adding bits and pieces to his pile of rotting vegetation in order to get the right temperature to incubate the eggs buried underneath to hatch.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 14, 2018
The rising alarm calls of Clay-colored Thrushes and screams of kiskadees often reveal the presence of a Brown Jay or toucans in search of eggs and nestlings. They do so in droves along with rivers of Chimney Swifts , swallows, Turkey Vultures , and Swainson’s and Broad-winged Hawks. A Swallow-tailed Kite in action.
10,000 Birds
MAY 17, 2017
This pair of Phainopeplas have built a beautiful nest, complete with two speckled eggs. Turkey Vulture. In the 45 minutes we were on the property, we identified 19 species, two of which are endemics, and located my first ever nesting pair of Phainopeplas right there on the property. Black-throated Sparrow. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher.
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