10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
This is the time of year that we rightfully contemplate the noble Turkey. I don’t believe, but this is subject to correction, that the wild and domestic Turkey were ever called by different binomials. Photograph of a Wild Turkey at Flatrock Brook Nature Center, in Englewood, New Jersey, by Corey. And it isn’t. It’s complicated.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2013
So, when Corey and Mike asked if I wanted to review the Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania , I jumped at the chance to write about this unique type of scientific reference book. I was also curious, as a birder of the northeast United States, to see what kind of avian changes have been going on in Pennsylvania.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 22, 2014
The only bird we saw in every state was the Turkey Vulture. But the turkey vultures would certainly leave the places we saw them – Montana, North Dakota, Illinois and Indiana, Pennsylvania and Ohio and eventually New York – and head south. Birds moving New York turkey vulture' Images courtesy of the USFWS.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 22, 2012
And as I’m digging into my Thanksgiving lentil loaf (and perhaps some turkey too) and considering the many things and people to be grateful for, I’ll be giving a special thanks for everyone who helped me see new birds this year and will be helping me next year!
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 14, 2014
I’d check my bank statements anyway,” cracked Michele Wellard, of Pennsylvania’s Schuylkill Center Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic , during one of our frequent Rehabber FaceBook Free-For-Alls. Eileen Wicker of Raptor Rehabilitation of Kentucky has an unreleasable Turkey Vulture who has a thing for hats. Hats are a big draw.
10,000 Birds
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.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2012
There’s Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania, of course, and that little known Cape May place in New Jersey, not to mention others like Fort Smallwood in Maryland and even Fort Tilden in Queens, New York, which gets some press on the occasions that Corey swings by. Hawkwatches on the northern half of the Appalachians get a lot of press.
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