10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2019

The resident Wild Turkey population is always ready for an easy meal at the feeders. I was quiet surprised to see this male Western Tanager show up right at dark for a quick drink of water. It is not often you can get two different grosbeaks in one picture, but here is a Black-headed Grosbeak, with a Blue Grosbeak.

Arizona

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

We get lots of birds passing through, like our regular band of Wild Turkeys that roam our parking lot. One day while I was a doing a field work, a goldfinch was at the feeder and one of my over-excited coworkers aimed and shot a rubber band that ricocheted right off the glass where the feeder was placed. Can’t hit that.”

Birds

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

At least most of the resident species can still be seen right along the road, you just have to keep an eye out for cyclists and vehicles on their way up and down the volcano. Either way, its all good, its still birding and if you try it in the right places on Poas, the avian treats will delight you.

Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

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.

2011

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2020

From there to the nearby Evros River Delta, at the very border with Turkey, with more easterly species such as the Spur-winged Plover. The local levee warden sometimes shepherds his cows here, and the eagle would stand right above him, giving him no second glance. I am a stranger in his realm. And what happened to my mood swings?

Greece

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

His work in Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey remains inspirational to researchers throughout the region. Birds of Cyprus” (BOC – left) vs. “Collins Bird Guide” (CBG – right). Colin Richardson is an ornithologist with a particular interest in bird migration in the Middle East. winter, 1st-w and the wing pattern.

Cyprus

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2022

Both Black and Turkey Vultures dominate the skies on the larger island; any vulture seen on Tobago is a reportable species. The Turkey Vulture at its lower right seems bemused at the antics of a displaying Crested Oropendola (which unlike the rest of birds mentioned in this article, is also found on Tobago).

Trinidad

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2019

If a large, powerful bird of prey capable of terrorizing a Wild Turkey comes to mind, that may be a fair definition of a hawk-eagle. Oh, and yes, some do also kill our local “turkey”, the Great Curassow. However, last weekend, fortune was in our favor when we managed a hawk-eagle sweep during just four days of guiding.

Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2018

This ‘road’ is dirt and gravel, bisects the cove right through this open valley, and is quite narrow. When you’re leaving the Visitor Center parking lot, look to the immediate right. It runs through a field, so watch for Wild Turkey (the bird, not the whiskey); cross a creek (I’ve seen black bear here); and wander into the mountains.

Louisiana

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2020

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. For some birds, just being in the right habitat results in a sighting. Oh, and then there is the head and neck that are sort of like a bustard/rail thing.

Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2022

I even picked up a species at a wedding on Sunday, since I had not previously been in Morelia’s historic center at the right time for the White-throated Swifts that fly there in the mornings and evenings. I never know quite what to think when Turkey Vultures show such a strong interest in me.

Turkey

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2021

The female isn’t quite so unreal but is still a cool little bird in her own right. Fortunately, as long as the right flowers are present, this special hummingbird isn’t adverse to foraging at eye level. King Vulture is regular and various other species are also possible, hawk-eagles included.

Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2023

These turkey-sized birds were everwhere! That’s a Stork on the left, and a Frigatebird on the right. I had expected something more like an Indigo Bunting , but the two birds really do not look alike at all. Further inland, the West Mexican Chachalaca is often heard, but rarely seen. Such handsome hummers!

Mexico

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

While this allows for the delightful prospect of Thanksgivingakkah, with attendant turkey dreidels and whatnot, it does raise certain perennial questions of the nature of time itself, as applied to birding. It is common and widely recognized and for those very reasons, to most of us it just feels right.

Livestock

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2013

In the end, it was birding that has taken him from his native Serbia, across the Balkans and Turkey, to the very borders of the Old World: East Anglia and Spain, southern Africa and India, where he chased that country’s rarest owl. right next to us. We look forward to many more missives from Dragan.

Spain

10,000 Birds

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. It breeds in tree holes, presumably explaining the more commonly used name for it.

Australia

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2014

And since that performance is not enough, they take to the skies and kettle with the flocks of migrating Turkey Vultures constantly passing overhead. I’ll be able to do some real birding later in the week, but for now, you can’t beat the birds right out your front door. Nothing, that’s what.

Florida

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2018

Kites aren’t the only birds in the air here; we saw all kinds of flycatchers, thrushes, swallows, parrots, and—-making us Americans feel right at home—- Red-winged Blackbirds and Great-tailed Grackles. Don’t ignore those vultures though, as flocks of those familiar Black and Turkey Vultures usually hide some Lesser Yellow-headed Vultures.

Honduras

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2012

New studies are beginning to show that smell may be an important part in these birds finding the right nest and/or partner under cover of darkness. Turkey Vultures have an exceptional sense of smell Corey Finger Bills in birds are also very sensitive to touch.

Mammals

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

This came as rumor of a turkey-like bird occurs in the steep canyons on the foothill of the western Andes. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again. What a horror! What a disaster! What a wrong!

Collecting

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

You step out on the rock and see nothing but for the lazy circles of Turkey Vulture. It has earned the right to stand among the big boys, and is well worth your time should you find yourself in western South Carolina on a windy September day. It’s an incredible thing to watch. And Caeaser’s Head is definitely good.

South Carolina

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2019

Several come to Costa Rica and a lot of those are, right at this moment, on the move. These species are the ones that form an avian river along the Caribbean coast and other parts of the northern lowlands and include literally millions of Chimney Swifts, Cliff and Barn Swallows, Turkey Vultures, and Swainson’s and Broad-winged Hawks.

Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2012

Dark as night with attractive white markings and an electric blue face and wattle, this charismatic tree turkey is close to extinction in Trinidad. Consequently, I was well-positioned when THE TRINIDAD PIPING GUAN FLEW RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY FACE! Now let me tell you, friends: I rarely run for birds.

Trinidad

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2017

Similarly, the Turkey Vultures stayed Turkey Vultures. We headed back downslope to the car and continued on with our exploration, eventually finding our way to a mangrove-lined lagoon on a side road to the right. Mike and I desperately tried to turn the Royal Terns we could see over the ocean into tropicbirds but had no luck.

Puerto Rico

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2017

All rights reserved. All rights reserved. Drew Lanham draws on years of field experience to give us birders a feeling for what it’s like to hunt wild turkey (noting that he always takes “a bird list from the woods; seldom a life”), concluding with the exact same point. All rights reserved. Braunfield.

2017

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Turkey Vulture* Eurasian Wigeon* Black Vulture Western Kingbird*. Somehow, I am just never in the right place at the right time. Sooner or later I will see one though considering that even seeing Turkey Vultures in Queens is noteworthy it will be tough.

2012

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2012

On the ride there we spotted a Ruffed Grouse almost getting run over by the truck in front of us (not surprisingly it kept running so no picture) and a single Wild Turkey that we almost squished. Three steps later my right foot broke through and I was up to my thigh in snow. female White-winged Crossbill (look at the crossed bill!)

Oregon

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Turkey seems to be having a moment right now. As I mentioned last week, our trip to Turkey was work-related. A surprising number of our Mexican friends would like to go there — get this — because they love Turkish soap operas. And there are, amazingly enough, direct flights from Mexico City to Istanbul.

Mexico

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2023

It also seems to host a population of Red-breasted Chats right next to the highway; I had previously struggled to find this species reliably, and always in a more remote site. “Nacho” couldn’t spend the morning with us, but he was kind enough to give us access to his property, and point us in the right direction.

Mexico

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

“Nothing is more humbling,” he sighs, “than spending a few hours in a boat or on a riverbank, unsuccessfully trying to catch a fish, and then seeing an Osprey dive and catch one right in front of you” (p. Photographs, most by co-author Brian E. It’s designed for carrying about in the field, sized 4.5 by 1 by 7.5

North America

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

I love turkey vultures, too, so … make of that what you will!) Wicked, right? The Ridger Mar 2nd, 2011 at 8:58 am There are a few living in Oak Ridge, on the lake at the marina. I’ve sent you some shots. They range pretty dramatically in color. They are ugly, but I like them. (I I sent a couple of pics your way.

Ducks

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2013

They will meet you when you come — so long as you come during the right few weeks in June. Along this journey from pass to valley and back again, we spotted Wild Turkey and Western Wood Pee-wee , Ravens and Red-tailed Hawks , mule deer and elk, even the white-striped tail of a Dark-eyed Junco disappearing into the shadow of the trees.

Idaho

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2019

From there you go one mile and make a right at Whitehouse Road. The fame of this resident trogon was diminished a bit, when right after the first of the year, a “first ever” for Arizona, White-throated Thrush showed up. This bird’s arrival sent ripples thru the bird world all across the country.

Arizona

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Mule Deer have always been pretty common in this area, but I got quite a surprise when I cleared a small hill in the road, and nearly ran over a male Pronghorn Antelope , right in the middle of the road. Finally we came to a cross road, where I went straight, and he turned right.

Dogs

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2012

A closer look at the individual suggests that, with that white edging right under the bill, this bird probably has a bit of Myrtle in it. All save one were the expected eastern Myrtle populations, but that one, discovered by Doug Gochfeld and Todd Day, was a very exciting bird to those of us eastern US based birders.

Virginia

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2019

It wasn’t until about five years ago that I realized my next home, the city of Morelia, is right in the middle of one of the world’s great zones for endemics. Mexicans call Redstarts “ pavitos ” or “ little turkeys ” because of the way the constantly spread and display their white-tipped tails like turkeys do.

San Francisco

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2020

Overhead soared Purple Martin s, Turkey Vultures, and Anhingas. We could have continued along the paddle trail, but I’m still building my kayaking muscles and didn’t want to overdo it right out of the gate. Nosing our kayaks between the trunks of bald cypress trees, we watched two Osprey eating fish on their large, stick-filled nest.

Georgia