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I felt sorry for an American family that couldn’t understand anything said in our church services, so I started interpreting for them. These tail displays have earned them the Spanish name pavito , or “little turkeys”, as they remind one of turkeys with their tails open.) So that happened.

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JULY 6, 2022

A number of families exist on Trinidad but not Tobago. Most notably the family of New World Vultures. Both Black and Turkey Vultures dominate the skies on the larger island; any vulture seen on Tobago is a reportable species. Here, a Black Vulture is perched at the zenith, uninterested in the camera.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2012

My family and many others are looking forward to veritable feasts to honor the fall harvest, for which I am also thankful. Most Americans are enjoying an early Thanksgiving weekend, for which I’m thankful. I also give thanks today for 10,000 Birds, our awesome writers, and our awesome readers… love you guys!

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The Groove-billed Ani is an odd-looking member of the Cuckoo family. Meanwhile, if you get outside of the city center and don’t see at least one Turkey Vulture or Black Vulture , well, you’re just not trying. In contrast, it is always a nice surprise for me to see Mourning Doves down here. Inca Doves , in my garden.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

I will start by telling you about encounters in Turkey with two special bird families. I really should have encountered these families in Mexico, as they both occur here. But no, I had to travel to Turkey to meet them in the wild. The second family is definitely not one that you would find in an urban center.

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MARCH 5, 2023

First, we had our five-week trip to Spain, Turkey and Jordan in September and October. Then we threw together a semi-planned family-related trip to the States in early December. I assured him then, and assure you now, that I am fine. But my wife’s and my lives have been rather chaotic of late.

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AUGUST 19, 2015

Also interesting is that there is a relatively formal connection between historic families (you can think of these as “clans”) and regular use of specific trails or sets of trails. Many families or individuals live in the Twin Cities and have a cabin up north. Turns out this is true of Minnesotans as well. So remember.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice. Until turkey size or so. And smaller.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

It is worth pointing out that titmice belong to the family Paridae , an expansive international clan made up primarily of what we call “chickadees” in the states but are known as “t**s” in the Old World. What do you expect of those decadent, debauched Europeans? Just don’t make fun of its name.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

The third weekend of January, I travelled to the coastal city of Acapulco to give a seminar on family finances at a church there. These turkey-sized birds, named for their raucous calls, can muster an impressive level of volume. And my one lifer for the trip was a family of Rufous-naped Wrens that apparently live in the same garden.

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JULY 19, 2011

For 13 years now, friends and family have been gathering in an undisclosed corner of Potter County, Pennsylvania during the third weekend of July to create a glorious giant chicken of wood, straw, and gunpowder only to burn it. Turkey Vultures , American Crows , and Red-tailed Hawks continue to patrol the skies.

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Chickens 2011 Pennsylvania Birds 198

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NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Too many of us focus on the turkey, but bird watchers know that Meleagris gallopavo means so much more than a meal, no matter how stuffed and savory. Corey and I will both be spending long weekends with our respective families and the avifauna in their respective areas.

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JUNE 17, 2020

As were the Greenish Elaenias, birds in the Tyrant Flycatcher family. Chachalacas are about 3/5 as long as Wild Turkeys, but much less bulky, and spend almost all their time in trees. I know for a fact the “Black-eared” Bushtits were. This Bushtit was definitely eating fruit. So was this Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow.

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MARCH 14, 2020

This bird won’t really look like anything you have ever seen because it’s in a family all on its own. This is why it looks so unique and why a birder should be watching for a species around the size of a White Ibis or small heron but with an odd, almost turkey-like body shape. Is it a rail? Know where to look.

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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. The Australasian Figbird is a member of the Oriole family despite not being yellow.

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JUNE 18, 2014

While you can easily find drab representatives of the pheasant family across most of the world – dull uninteresting birds like partridges, quail, francolins, grouse, or, God help you, turkeys, pheasants are usually found only in Asia.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

We all have them: our favorite places to take friends and family when they visit, the bird-friendly areas we pop in on when we have the chance, the landscapes that entrance us. Both Black and Turkey Vultures swooped overhead, occasionally upstaged by a shrieking Osprey. Moving means finding your new birding haunts.

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MARCH 18, 2014

I’m in Orlando for what is supposed to be a family excursion, but as anyone who considers a pair of binoculars to be an every day accessory, if there are birds to be found I’m going to make an effort to see them. The birding in Florida is so easy that a kid can do it. Or so I planned to find out. Nothing, that’s what.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

Another California endemic, the Nuttall’s Woodpecker made an appearance… As did the family oriented Acorn Woodpecker. A Turkey Vulture was soaring above… And a bit later, a Red-tailed Hawk. There were a plethora of House Finches but not a Purple Finch in sight.

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MARCH 15, 2011

Or These Blasts From The Past Steller’s Jay – Mysteries of the Common Birds A Different Flavor Of Turkey Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis Happy Fiesta de las Golondrinas Lets talk about ducks About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

Two other countries we visited, Morocco and Turkey, have recently experienced catastrophic earthquakes. The addition of a family of Least Grebes was a nice touch. Some of this tourism occurred because we were supposed to visit Jordan, but recent geopolitical events have made Americans rather unwelcome in that corner of the world.

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APRIL 30, 2019

He is the author of an internationally distributed book in Spanish about family finances and has recorded four albums in Spanish of his own songs. Mexicans call Redstarts “ pavitos ” or “ little turkeys ” because of the way the constantly spread and display their white-tipped tails like turkeys do. But it’s the best one I have.

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DECEMBER 30, 2013

Turkey Vulture* Eurasian Wigeon* Black Vulture Western Kingbird*. We had a family picnic at Fort Tilden less than two weeks after my last set of predictions and a single Purple Martin was flying low over the fields with Barn Swallows and Tree Swallows. Number 300 in Queens!

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JANUARY 1, 2023

But he regularly visits family in Morelia. A small hawk circling overhead among some Turkey Vultures would not, in my uninformed opinion, have deserved much attention; it was clearly a common Cooper’s Hawk. I have the good fortune to see my fourth biologist/ornithologist, Jonathan Vargas, several times each year.

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JANUARY 6, 2021

By this time, the rest of the group had arrived and we were busy counting Silver-beaked Tanagers darting across the roadway as well as a family group of Smooth-billed Anis. Safe to say no species was left behind! Smooth-billed Anis are sociable birds and are rarely found alone.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2018

You’d think that a long weekend launched by Turkey Day would prove popular for birding in the United States. I’m traveling down to NYC for some family fun, just as Corey is vacating the city for parts north. Plus, birding is never all that popular in these parts. Plus, birding is never all that popular in these parts.

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AUGUST 6, 2017

I was so crippled with envy over Corey’s current Neotropical sojourn (with a few family commitments thrown in) that I could barely bring myself to look at birds at all. However, I did spot a curious assemblage of House Sparrows perched in a row along the roofline of one specific house. How about you?

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Ackerman surrounds each individual story with background facts and studies on other birds who mimic, play, parasitize nests, engage in complex cognitive routines, parent in unusual ways–presenting a complex mosaic of avian behaviors amongst bird families and the scientific histories of trying to understand them.

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MAY 19, 2015

If only you could make fine adjustments to the expression of existing DNA you could hatch a dinosaur, starting with, for example, a turkey. See: Are Birds Really Dinosaurs? That was a long time ago and we’ve made nearly zero progress in this area. Here’s the thing. However, both birds and Alligators actually use this pathway.

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JUNE 1, 2023

Then we detoured into the center of Villahermosa, to see the Northern Potoo that spends each day in the garden of one of Rolando’s family members. Much more surprising, however, is that freshwater snails are also the preferred food for a local member of the hawk family. This was a lifer I had long hoped for! Go figure!

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The burgeoning population of Turkey Vultures in eastern Long Island gives me hope. Say’s Phoebe – A self-found rarity at Edgemere while accompanied by my family made my day back on 05 October 2014. Turkey Vulture, 3 Jul 2010, 26 Mar 2011. White Ibis – They wander after they fledge. I must stare at the ocean a lot.

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JANUARY 7, 2013

March was very slow so I took the time to enjoy the common birds , especially woodpeckers and turkeys. We had a wonderful family vacation in Germany and the Czech Republic during which I managed to do a bit of birding. I also found my own Cackling Goose , one of three I would end up finding in 2012. Indigo Bunting. Pied-billed Grebe.

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2012 Czech Republic Hedgehogs Hungary 185

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

This is one of several families of Western Grebes stayed out in the middle of the lake all day. A couple of old Ponderosa Pines, killed in a recent fire, served as a gathering spot for nearly 100 Turkey Vultures. It was good to be back! I am pretty sure that they were staging here for their trip south.

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MARCH 9, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Thrilling Turkey Facts What Makes You Stare So, Bufflehead? Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. Central Park White-Throated Sparrow Slaty-backed Gull (?)

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JANUARY 18, 2015

Birders from the Western Palearctic are very favourably positioned for such a split because three of the six suggested species occur within the WP at various sites around the Mediterranean: The African Swamphen occurs along the lower Nile and its delta into the Mediterranean, while the Grey-headed Swamphen makes southern Turkey its home.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

A map of Ontario is reproduced on the inside front covers and the Quick Index, a one-page listing of bird families, is on the back inside cover. I find it amazing that after 19 guides, it is still possible to describe a Great Blue Heron or Turkey Vulture with new words, and Earley certainly does that here. by 1 by 7.5

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AUGUST 21, 2017

While in Belize for my family vacation one of the birds I most wanted to see was a Jabiru. That might not sound scary but when your whole family is tooling along in a golf cart and a giant dump truck comes roaring up behind you and overtakes it is a bit unsettling. Snowy Egrets. Great Egrets. Yellow-crowned Night-Herons.

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