10,000 Birds
AUGUST 11, 2011
Seriemas are long-legged terrestrial hunters related to extinct terror birds (phorusrhacids). I think this proposal has a good shot at passing, at least in South America. Peregrine Falcon ( Falco peregrinus ) © David J. Ringer It’s exciting and mind-bending to ponder a seriema-falcon-parrot-passerine relationship.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2019
But in the fall (with plumage as in the photo on the left, above) they take an entirely different, and heroic, route, first to Massachusetts and then, after a rest, south over the Atlantic Ocean. The blackpoll, “a bird with a body just a little larger than your thumb,” doesn’t stop until South America. Eighty hours of flying.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2016
” Panama hosts the largest breeding population of Harpy Eagles, though they were once “found from southern Mexico through Central and South America all the way down to northern Argentina.” Because they like to hunt in the tree canopy , they will also eat “iguanas, parrots, porcupines, coatimundis, and raccoons.”
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
Lead shot injured and killed condors young and old, lead in the carrion they ate, lead in the bullets that hunters shot at them. .” California Condors are thriving now, mostly, but Osborn’s experiences in the early 2000’s were years of triumph and heartbreak.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2014
The Oilbird today lives only in South America, but fossils of similar species are known from Wyoming. I wrote about the Hoatzin here a couple of years ago when Gerald Mayr published a paper hypothesizing that Hoatzins invaded South America from Africa by raft. The story just keeps getting better.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2012
…Sure, we got lots of ‘em javelina and wild hogs too” But I explained to him that I was a hunter of a different kind and that I was looking for tiny owls and not wild pigs. I went on to tell him that I’d seen these birds in Central America but that I needed to see them in the US too. “Indigenous pig sows?…Sure,
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2020
Accidentals is published by the ten-year old Torrey House Press, which has an impressive-looking roster of books, fiction and non-, about the outdoors and the American West, including The Plume Hunter, previously reviewed here. Accidentals. By Susan M. Torrey House Press, 342 pp., March 10,2020.
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