10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic. I knew no falconers. ” Falcons could be taken from the nest just before they were able to fly or caught wild after maturity. The concern possessed him.
10,000 Birds
JULY 27, 2012
Just before Thanksgiving, 2010, a driver spotted a Red-tailed hawk sitting on a dead rabbit in the middle of the road. She wasn’t about to leave her rabbit, and the driver figured something was wrong, so he picked her up. And to prove it, there’s The Queen. When she didn’t fly off, he stopped his car and approached her.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
Last month, I wrote about hypothesized relationships between passerines, parrots, falcons, and seriemas , noting a need for further research on the subject. The post stimulated some great discussions but not really any additional commentary on the science behind these proposed relationships. Ringer Suh et al.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
North American Peregrine Falcons have also enjoyed an impressive population rebound in recent years. Raptors and other predatory birds have largely rebounded, and there seems to be be no shortage of Brown Pelicans, Peregrine Falcons and Bald Eagles. Brown Pelicans are not an unusual sight on the California coast. Half Moon Bay, CA.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 22, 2014
From Canada, this migration is more than 10,000 km each way, a distance second among raptors only to that of the Arctic Peregrine Falcon 1. Like most buteos, the Swainson’s Hawk feeds its young rodents, rabbits and reptiles but not so during non-breeding season. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7tVjohOIdI. v=Q7tVjohOIdI.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 19, 2012
I took a ride up to the Fall River Valley back in October and spotted both morphs in the large grasslands where we also usually see Rough-legged Hawks and Prairie Falcons. They are often seen on the ground since their prey consists mainly of rabbit, prairie dog and, you guessed it, ground squirrel. This is the light morph.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 22, 2011
I took home a few of the pellets and found that the owls were feasting on grey squirrels and cottontail rabbits. When you think of a bird eating raptor, you think of fast birds like Peregrine Falcons and Cooper’s Hawks. Check out the bones that are clearly visible, you wouldn’t find that with a hawk pellet.
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