With snow still filling the landscape the male Mountain Bluebirds have arrived to stake out their territories and find the best nest boxes along a quiet bluebird trail. This handsome gentleman was quietly sitting on a fence post looking as blue as blue can be but in a very good handsome bluebird way. via As blue …
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A cassowary, a giant bird with long claws on each foot, killed its owner after he fell in the backyard of his Gainesville, Florida, home, officials told CNN. The bird’s owner, Marvin Hajos — who is 75, according to CNN affiliate WCJB — made the initial call to 911 Friday about 10 a.m. ET. A …
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/5b2dUgK6VV4?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent Big Bear Lake welcomed a new bald eaglet over the weekend, and a second appeared to be working its way out of its shell early Monday. A bald eagle named Jackie laid an egg on March 6 and another one on March 9 on National Forest land near the north shore of Big Bear Lake,… …
https://www.youtube.com/embed/hC4ZizXm3aU?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent Tune into the live webcam of a bald eagles’ nest in Illinois, and you may see a rare sight: two dads and one mom tending three eaglets, reports the Washington Post. The webcam is courtesy of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife Refuge, and a post at Audubon explains just how unusual the situation …
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Nombre en español: Vencejo Palmero Nombre en ingles: Fork-tailed Palm-Swift Nombre científico: Tachornis squamata Familia: Apodidae Foto: Daniel Orozco/Vincent Vos Canto: Andrew Spencer El vencejillo tijereta (Tachornis squamata), también denominado vencejo palmero y vencejo tijereta de las palmas,3 es una especie de ave apodiforme de la familia Apodidae que vive en Sudamérica. Tachornis squamatailustración de …
Last Sunday the wind was blowing hard but that did not deter these little Tree Swallows from spending their day looking for a suitable summer residence and it sure seemed like box 29 was high on their list of desirable homes. The competition was high and words of caution we flying as freely as these […] …
West Peruvian Doves © HJ Ruiz – Avian101 via Photo Capture # 70 – West Peruvian Doves — H.J. Ruiz - Avian101
Greetings all! Just sitting here waiting for the deluge of rain to pass through so I can get to a ridiculously long training run. Was supposed to get back on the trails, but by the looks of it, going to be too muddy – no reason to risk an injury less than a month from […] …
While getting ready to go for a hike a while ago we were pleased to have the company of numerous Pinyon Jays buzzing about in the parking area collecting seeds. According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Pinyon Jays are highly social birds of the lower mountain slopes of the western United States, the Pinyon […] …
Spring has finally sprung in Chicagoland! If you look to the sky, you’ll occasionally see hundreds of sandhill cranes, geese, ducks, and other migrating birds as they travel north (from their winter homes in northern Mexico, Texas, New Mexico, and other places) to their warm-weather breeding grounds in the upper Midwest, Alaska, and Canada. The […] …
The Northern Herper 
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