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Long-eared Owls have long eluded me. Two winters ago Will found some roosting at Five Rivers, one of my favorite local birding spots, while I was in California. When I came home I scoured Five Rivers in the freezing cold and snow three times and never found a single owl but later found out that [...]
After reading Mike’s post on Long-eared Owls at Croton Point Park a couple of weeks ago I was eager to get there for a shot at seeing the owls that have repeatedly eluded me. These owls were supposed to be steady, having roosted in the same stand of pines in autumn and winter for at [...]
Bird watchers have come to expect nearly endless variations of a small number of familiar forms throughout the world’s 10,000 species. For example, there are over 400 species of warblers worldwide, even though the differences between some of these species seem superficial at best. Still, the prolific diversity of avian archetypes spoils us sometimes. There’s [...]