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First, that new pair of bins for testing arrived, of which you will be reading in a due time, and two days later, the Global Big Day. While my Big Day was already over by mid-afternoon, it did help my mood and provided a lot of opportunities to test the new binoculars. And then things got a bit faster. Where to go? The same eagle?
The morning I first tested them was filled with migrating flocks of European Bee-eaters and their constant bubbling voices. And all the time I was testing the CLs, I was wondering what the difference was between them and their big brother, the ELs. Still, testing binoculars on a bright sunny day? Photo by Senka Puhalo.
Here we look for sandgrouse, bush-quails, francolins, wheatears, shrikes, Laggar Falcons , eagles, buzzards, and the endangered Stolikza’s Bush Chat. Once the private hunting preserve of the Maharaja of Bharatpur, this fabulous wetland gave us a list of over ninety species in a very relaxed day on a recent trip!
“We’ll take the Peregrine Falcon ,” at least seven voices said at once. ” But the others were back to talking over each other, and me, and mostly what they were saying was Peregrine Falcon, Peregrine Falcon. “The Peregrine Falcon isn’t even that rare anymore!” You know it does.*.
The guide presents 69 species and 1 subspecies, from “NEW WORLD VULTURES: Cathartiformes” to “OSPREY: Pandioninae” to “FAMILY: Accipitridae” (Kites, Hawks, Eagles, Hawk-Eagles), to “FALONIDS: Falconidae” (Falcons, Forest-Falcons, Caracaras, Kestrels, Merlin). Here’s a sample of Plate 30, Bat Falcon and Orange-Breasted Falcon (pp.
Now nearing 50 and duly lost in a mid-life crisis, Dragan Simic took to birding rather late – only half a lifetime ago, after successfully testing his inadequate skills in other life threatening activities, such as rock climbing and vertical caving. I think that this one is probably my best looking Peregrine ever.
New World Vultures are their own family, Cathartidae, that has moved around a bit with the proliferation of genetic testing such that for a while they were thought to be allied with storks, but is now pretty well within, but not too within, the other diurnal raptors.
For long it was assumed that the saplings cannot survive being under water half a year, from spring to August, but recently another theory was tested. Barely outside of it, the quarry near Sidirokastro rewarded me with Alpine Swifts , European Honey Buzzard , Peregrine Falcon , Eurasian Crag Martins , Red-rumped Swallows and Blue Rock Thrush.
Chris has spent several years conducting bird research in Mongolia, including with the Saker Falcon project. I particularly like the large falcons and the two-page spread giving you a chance for easier comparisons. Here treated as a subspecies Falco cherrug altaicus , the Altai Saker Falcon got a separate entry from the Falco cherrug.
Although there’s no way to test this idea, we wondered if so many had gone down to ground on the coast because Volcan Turrialba has been pumping so much ash into the skies over the middle of the country. Once they do that, they disperse far and wide and you only see a very small percentage of the birds that were present.
There are very few that stand the test of time. I do have an outline for a peregrine falcon book…and a birder erotica book. The Online Birding section talks about listservs , e-mail, local bird clubs, and the ABA. Have I somehow overlooked another section? If not, why the omission? Most blogs are fleeting. We’ll see what happens.
When we scuff our knees and test the resiliency of our joints to peer into a bush at a Swainson’s Warbler in an urban park? How can we say that magic is a farce when the May blossoms are backdropping bright, breeding plumaged Canadas , Magnolias , Chestnut-sideds , chocolate Bay-breasteds , and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks ?
Bird Watchers and Technology A Way of Jungle Birding A Brief Interview with Al Levantin Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of August 2009) About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist.
“I don’t know anyone else crazy enough to try 12s,” Dragan’s friend said when he was told that Dragan was about to test the Swarovski NL Pure 12×42 binoculars. Donna). ==. But craziness is not a requisite. Just like the ELs in 1999, the NL Pure series represents another significant milestone in birding optics.
Then we relocated to a spot where people were seeing several and arrived just in time to see the last one present get snatched by a Peregrine Falcon. It’s a horrible photo but if you squint you may be able to make out the dead Dovekie in the falcon’s talons in this image. That was close!
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