Many casual bird watchers, particularly those maintaining bird feeders, appear to assume that birds participate in a bimodal pattern of feeding, at least at bird feeders by seed eaters. That is, from early to late morning there is a feeding binge which drops off for the rest of the day and resumes in the early […]
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Just returned from a cruise on the North Atlantic. There are a number of seabirds nesting on cliffs during the short summer season such as murres, guillemots, gulls, kittwakes, and the colorful Atlantic Puffin. But getting away from the shoreline and traversing the open ocean there are fewer but perhaps more interesting birds like shearwaters,
I’m sure you have seen many television nature specials which were “red in tooth and claw” as nature is sometimes described. Perhaps you have personally seen a hawk or falcon pursue and snatch its prey. My most visit memory is that of watching a mature Golden Eagle pursue and carry off, a jackrabbit from a
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