10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2013

Speaking of hawks, two talented and extremely knowledgeable falconers, Marie Gaspari Crawford and Chloe Bowen, shared with us their birds and their experiences. Also on hand were an Aplomado Falcon and a Red-tailed Hawk who was so mellow that he allowed Bowen to stroke him on the back, a gesture which we were told raptors ordinarily detest.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2021

An Aplomado Falcon came in like a bullet late one evening and made off with an unlucky Lesser Yellowlegs in a wetland only 20 minutes from where I live. I was saddened when I saw a White-lined Tanager feeding a Shiny Cowbird , but felt relieved a few weeks later when I saw her raising young of her own species.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

Lately, I have been waking up to the vocal antics of Laughing Falcon , the newly split Gray-cowled Wood-Rail , Grayish Saltator , Melodious Blackbird , and this beautiful male Blue Grosbeak that sings about a block away. We raised bins, and voila, Collared Forest-falcon ! A juvenile Collared Forest-falcon looks for prey.

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Costa Rica Falcons North Carolina Birds 181

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2021

Thankfully, they now have a home here where they can court, build their nest, and raise their young. In a couple weeks I’ll be keeping my ears alert for the flight calls of incoming shorebirds, they shall definitely be followed by a Peregrine Falcon.

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Opossums Barn Owls Reptiles Hunting 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

And we did , for the Peregrine Falcon and Osprey , the Brown Pelican and Bald Eagle. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. We could do it! Then the 80s happened. We must fight to save every species we can, every ecosystem, every niche.

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California Condor Guam Whales Whaling 255

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2024

The festival headquarters is located on the southwest side of Mission Bay, overlooking a marina with nearby Black-crowned Night Herons and frequently plays host to several falcon species, and a short walk to the San Diego River. This makes it a prime spot for bicycle-birding, our niche at the festival.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2011

They thoroughly enjoyed the experience, especially the live raptor display by well-known Master Falconer, Jonathan Wood. This book explains how we are all at risk of raising kids with nature deficit disorder. I recently took my children -- all 3 of them -- up to the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival in Florida.

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Birds Game South Africa Wildlife 279

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DECEMBER 20, 2014

“New World” vultures (in scare quotes because they have fossil relatives from the Old World) and hawks (including Osprey and Secretarybird but, importantly, not falcons) are sister taxa and split off from other members of the Afroaves clade early on. Australaves: Songbirds and Their Kin. Eight years ago, Ericson et al.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

His musings on falconry in Medieval times begin with the Bayeux Tapestry, which tells the story of the Norman Conquest and is full of birds, including hawks and falcons on the wrists of the main contenders.

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Dissection Birds Europe Eggs 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Fortunately, the very abundant 2018 rains raised the water level to heights I had never seen, and so far, that seems to be making up for this year’s poor rains. None were as satisfying as a Red-tailed Hawk that flew in lazy circles just overhead, and, to my amazement, a Peregrine Falcon that did the same.

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Ducks 2018 Pelicans Europe 175

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JANUARY 20, 2020

Luis Gonzalez is a Miami resident and IT major who was originally born and raised in Cuba. He has been an avid lover of the natural world since he was a kid, with a strong love for paleontology when he was younger, but he only took up birding in his last year of high school and hasn’t looked back since.

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Canada Cuba Miami Florida 235

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Peregrine Falcon nests. So, the 49 subject species include birds with interesting family behaviors that we might not see every day (Cedar Waxwing, Great Blue Heron, Peregrine Falcon), migrant songbirds (Tree and Barn Swallows, House Wren), and common, everyday birds (Northern Cardinal, Downy Woodpecker, and, yes, Rock Pigeon).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2016

This may help songbirds successfully raise their families without worrying about invaders. This part of the theory doesn’t entirely jibe with the growing numbers of, say, Peregrine Falcons that make skyscrapers and urban bridges their home, but it’s interesting to contemplate nonetheless.

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China Europe Falcons Eggs 112

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2016

Raising $67,000 plus for conservation! : The real reason for the Champions of the Flyway Bird Race is to raise money for desperately needed conservation efforts in the Mediterranean. A small sampling of the many young birders who participated in the event. And yes, the need is desperate.

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Israel Costa Rica Eagles Raised 189

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2016

One bird was flying towards us and, just prior to avoiding us, only slightly raised its head (showing us its yellow throat) before picking up an insect in mid-air. Then, a Saker Falcon in the autumn fogs: CLs true colours allowed me to scratch off the chance of it being a young Peregrine.

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Serbia Birds Eagles Fish 190

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2017

I happen to think the Crested Cara cara is one of the most beautiful birds in the falcon family. They stay here in Mexico despite the heat, and raise their families. With that massive bill, it makes for a wonderful profile! We always have a few American Avocets that do not migrate back north.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

The ability of knots to successfully raise their chicks is very sensitive to snow conditions, the availability of insects as food, and the presence of predators, all of which are affected by climate change. The knot’s breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic are experiencing pronounced effects from climate change. Birds in Delaware Bay.

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Endangered Species Protection Delaware Species 160

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

There are 28 chapters—“Waders,” “Large Waterside Birds,” “Owls and nightjars,” “Birds of prey” (pulling together vultures, hawks and falcons), “Aerial feeders” (swifts, swallows, martins), etc.—plus So, how do you find the species account for Kestrel if falcons are not placed between woodpeckers and parakeet?

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Ireland Birds Falcons Turtles 200

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2021

With what seemed to be extreme caution, they slowly moved into sight, raising and lowering their orange crests as they ninja walked onto the trail.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2016

It was organized to boost eBird use, raise funds for bird conservation, and just get more people out birding. Last year, the Cornell Lab Of Ornithology had this really cool idea to get as many people counting as many birds as they could, in as many places as possible.

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MARCH 3, 2020

And, that increased bird tourism and sales of this guide will increase interest in and support of projects aimed at protecting nesting habitat, empowering indigenous communities to work as conservation allies, raise awareness of the dangers of Macaw trafficking, and continuing ornithological research on threatened species.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2013

It is barely visible, but on it there seems to be an endangered Saker Falcon. We were searching for the territories of Saker Falcons. Okay, but falcons do not nest in the grass? Raising the binoculars to teary eyes, I am trying to see the bird in the nest on a nearby pylon. An adult to raise its head. March 2007.

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Falcons Serbia 2007 Europe 255

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2017

Seriously, Panama raises the art of under-communication to new, deplorable heights. Collared Forest-Falcon. Collared Forest-Falcon. Let’s be honest: driving around Panama sucks. The main problem, one that makes no sense to those accustomed to well-designed road systems, is an appalling lack of signage. Lineated Woodpecker.

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Panama 2017 Monkeys Family 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. 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.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 214

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2017

Falcon Wild is a new book in that long tradition, and this one features a more realistic (though still very slightly romanticized) portrait of a human/animal partnership. Stark, a white Gyrfalcon , is a falconry bird born and raised. Falcon Wild by Terry Lynn Johnson, $16.99, Charlesbridge Publishing.

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Falcons Wolves Dolphins Montana 152

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

Raise global awareness of Peru’s potential as a top-notch birding destination whilst highlighting the need to conserve bird habitat across the country. the Forest Falcons – UK. A huge surprise was the addition of an entirely new species for Peru, a Black Swift , found by the Forest Falcons team.

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Peru 2012 Bears Falcons 258

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

While I know falcons mostly as grim reapers of pigeons, as a beer drinker, I also happily endorse any agricultural implement inspired by the raptor’s most fearsome anatomical feature, particularly when it’s put to good use in the barley mow. A Peregrine Falcon resting on its sickle-like talons, about to put the hammer down.

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India Falcons Farming Austin 172

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2014

This dirt road was the soybean truck-nightmare; about every 10 minutes we had large double-trailer trucks filled with soybeans drive very fast and raise a huge dust cloud that took another 5 minutes to settle. These were less than ideal bird-watching conditions so we drove up the road and got out of the car when the dust settled.

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Argentina Chile Farming Birds 237

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2012

It watched me, calmly, until I sat down about 7 feet away (almost at minimum focusing distance) and we both regarded each other, and I occasionally raised the camera and snapped off another frame. For sitting in the middle of a stream of the river was a Peregrine Falcon , eating the young Thayer’s Gull it had brought down.

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Falcons Fur Killing Owls 189

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

The hole-nesting population of peregrine falcons disappeared with the felling of the giant trees upon which they depended. According to the literature, Peregrine Falcons and Merlins both nested in tree cavities until the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries when most of the great trees were felled.

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North America America Barn Owls Fur 256

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The original organization of chapters on Buteos, Accipiters, Falcons, Kites, Northern Harrier, Eagles and Vultures, and Osprey has been kept, with additional chapters on Crested Caracara, Southwestern Buteos and Kin, Florida Specialties, Regional Specialties. Yes, I saw the bird and it was incredible.) It’s Hawk Watching Season!

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North America Bald Eagle Eagles Tail Banding 260

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2012

The maintenance man declared that his father was a falconer, and that he would take her home so he could care for her. The grand old bird became a surrogate mother, and raised them herself. She wasn’t about to leave her rabbit, and the driver figured something was wrong, so he picked her up.

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Rabbits New Jersey Neglecting North America 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

A beautiful series of raised boardwalks have been constructed, allowing year round access to the area, thru the marsh area, all the way out nearly a half mile into the tidal flats. Northern Harriers, Peregrine Falcons, American Kestrels, and a fair number of Bald Eagles all can be found on the refuge year round.

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Fox Washington Bald Eagle Geese 182

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JULY 7, 2020

The essays are arranged in almost AOS taxonomic order, with changes made to lessen confusion for new birders–falcons are grouped with hawks, all water birds come before land birds, etc. His art is beloved (if you have owned a Sibley calendar at least once in your life, raise your hand) and his bird expertise is widely respected.

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2020 Birds North America Sparrows 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2022

Our weather is starting to change and the Torresian Crows that have been silly enough to raise Channel-billed Cuckoos over recent months are now free of their responsibilities. They include Brahminy Kite , Ospreys , Little Corellas , Australian Magpies, Great Bowerbird , Black-shouldered Kite and Brown Falcon.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2019

In fact, by all accounts, Mary adored sport and was an avid equestrienne, hunter, and falconer. The falcon hunt took place in the quiet, picturesque Flemish countryside south of Bruges, on the property of Adolph of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein. A portrait of Mary (ca. 1490) attributed to Tyrolian painter Michael Pacher.

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France Hunting Horses Falcons 113

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

But after spending time with experienced falconers in the field I have come to respect and admire the responsible practitioners of this, the sport of kings. It is only due to the strong bond (and association with food) between falconer and raptor that the birds return after a hunt. Survival of the fittest.

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