10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
Screech-owls don’t actually screech. I suppose that sounds better than “tremulous”, “modulating”, or “little hooting” owls even if any of those names would be more accurate. One of the more recently, officially recognized screech-owl species is the Choco Screech-Owl.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2013
Perhaps because of threats to the ecosystems of the many places the Arctic Tern visits (Europe, Africa, South America, and North America), it may be on the decline. It probably helps that they weigh less than 5 ounces! You can learn more about their incredible journeys here.) .
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 10, 2020
but there are other birds, many stopping to stay, many others moving to South America. We don’t see so many on the ground but with both Yellow and Black-billed hightailing it to South America, you know that their long wings are carrying these caterpillar gourmands far overhead and straight on to Colombia.
10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2021
and Canada and winter in northeastern Mexico, while the sedentary wrens of central Mexico, Central America, and South America are now to be identified as Grass Wrens. Along with the Sedge/Grass Wrens Ignacio had reported, he had also posted some fine photos of a Great Horned Owl that had roosted on his property.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
At first, from a distance, I thought it was a hawk or an owl. A Chuck-will’s widow is extracted from a net at the South Florida Bird Observatory The size of the Chuck-will’s-widow is deceptive – until you get it in the hand. For example, last Sunday we found an unusually large bird in one of the nets.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 17, 2016
Green Thorntail – like I said, all hummingbirds are cute (except maybe the Giant Hummingbird of South America. Costa Rican Pygmy-Owl – Despite their rapacious ways and penchant to eat other cute birds, some owls fall smartly into the cute category. That one almost looks like a swallow with a super long beak).
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Manky Muscovy Ducks Manky Muscovy Ducks By Mike • March 2, 2011 • 6 comments Tweet Share The Muscovy Duck ( Cairina moschata ) attracts more attention than most ducks, at least in North America. Wicked, right?
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