Birdwatching
epub |eng | 2014-04-11 | Author:Mark E. Hauber

Once the sexually dichromatic female and male have established their nesting territory, they must find a suitable mud or sand bank into which they can carve a brand new nest ...
( Category: Ornithology May 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-05 | Author:Donald Kroodsma

Daytime caroling songs Dawn song with carols and hissellys EASTERN BLUEBIRD (Sialia sialis) Summer Year-round Winter HABITAT: Open areas with sparse ground vegetation, often using nest boxes: farmlands, orchards, clear-cuts, ...
( Category: Ornithology May 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-13 | Author:Robert Clark [Robert Clark and Carl Zimmer]

gray junglefowl PENINSULAR INDIA gallus sonneratii If it weren’t for its remarkable gold and black crest, the Gray Jungle-fowl would look very much like a common farm Chicken. Its colorful ...
( Category: Plants & Animals April 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-10 | Author:Marianne Taylor

Black-headed Gulls breed inland as well as on coasts, favouring marshy wetlands. Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla Against the light, Kittiwakes show markedly translucent primary feathers. The Kittiwake is a part of ...
( Category: Birdwatching April 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-09 | Author:Euan Dunn

Puffins are essentially mariners who traverse the boundaries of sea, air and land in the breeding season. Wings must work hard to generate the lift needed for getting a stocky ...
( Category: Birdwatching April 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-07 | Author:Simon Harrap

MEDITERRANEAN GULL • Larus melanocephalus • 37 cm Once an extreme rarity, now an increasingly common breeding species and widespread on passage and in winter, but finding a ‘Med Gull’ ...
( Category: Birdwatching April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-10 | Author:Mark W. Lockwood

Golden-fronted Woodpecker, male. Photo by Tim Cooper. YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER Sphyrapicus varius BACKGROUND Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers and the other species in the genus are well known for drilling rows of relatively shallow ...
( Category: Ornithology April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-21 | Author:David Callahan & David Callahan

51 : Ernest Holt newspaper cutting 1928 Further inspiration for the travelling birder and photographer came from illustrated reports of bird-seeking expeditions like those of Ernest Holt, which demonstrated the ...
( Category: Birdwatching April 7,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-04-04 | Author:Jim Crumley [Jim Crumley]

THREE THE POSSIBILITIES OF broken-open tree trunks were the barn owl’s first resort for nest sites, as now (after centuries of dependency on the cast-off buildings of the people, and ...
( Category: Birdwatching April 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-02 | Author:Sy Montgomery

An eager hunting partner flies to master falconer Nancy Cowan’s glove. In her short lifetime, Smoke has not yet killed a pheasant, but she has chased three. Her first time ...
( Category: Ornithology April 3,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Irene Pepperberg

Not too long before we left Chicago, Alex gave me a terrible scare. In early September 1990, I returned from a short trip and found a message from a student ...
( Category: Ornithology April 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-27 | Author:Vernon R L Head

Ian I first knew only through his many books. The day I first met the great Ian Sinclair I was nervous, and also humbled by his presence as part of ...
( Category: Birdwatching April 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Campbell, Iain; Woods, Sam; Leseberg, Nick

2 EASTERN GROUND PARROT Pezoporus wallicus 29–33cm/11.5–13in A long-tailed green parrot usually seen flying low over heath after being flushed. The back is green mottled with black and yellow, the ...
( Category: Ornithology March 26,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ber van Perlo

56 Murrelets, Auklets, Puffins, Sandgrouse & Pigeon 56.1 ANCIENT MURRELET Synthliboramphus antiquus [Guillemot à cou blanc] L 27cm. Note white underwings, short pale bill and distinctive white patch at neck ...
( Category: State & Local February 2,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sam Keen [SAM KEEN]

In addition, there is the everyday cacophony of automobile horns, airplanes, cell phones ringing, fire engines, ambulances, police sirens, boom boxes, jackhammers, and occasional bombs bursting in air. For anyone ...
( Category: Birdwatching January 21,2016 )