Month: November 2014 - Page 6

Birds

Fall Migration on Facebook

November 6, 2014 by Alfredo Begazo 2 Comments

Fall migration comes and goes, in Florida, a little too fast. The first Semipalmated Sandpiper and Sanderling along the shores of Florida’s Treasure Coast...

Birds

The Spotted Towhee – One of the Five Towhees of the West

November 5, 2014 by Larry 3 Comments

The Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus) is probably the most common of the five western Towhees of North America. They occupy the scrubby thickets of the northern...

Birding, Trips

Python Caves and the Very Dangerous Bats

by Duncan 3 Comments

I had planned to do another story today, but my laptop, sick of endless David Attenborough DVDs, Skyrim and searches of birding in South...

Trips

Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

November 4, 2014 by Donna 11 Comments

I wanted Penguins. And Sunbirds. And Flamingos and Hornbills and a Secretarybird and birds with names like Hamerkop and Thick-knee and Eremomela (which I know...

Birds

Wallcreeper in New York!

November 3, 2014 by Corey 4 Comments

Well maybe it’s just a Brown Creeper on a wall. But that’s still interesting, right? Right? Fine. It’s not anywhere near as interesting as one...

Birding

Best Bird of the Weekend (First of November 2014)

by Mike 10 Comments

With this weekend consumed by Halloween excitement, bats were more easily encountered than birds. How did you fare? Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend...