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Thirty-two bird species were spotted at the October First Saturday Bird Stroll led by Chris Dunford and Joshua Greenfield. They included many newly arrived white-crowned sparrows and yellow-rumped ...
Shawn Hawks, coordinator for the Iowa Raptor Project, uses a telescope to identify a bird for the winter raptor survey in Morse on Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette) ...
The hordes came running and the snow-white raptor became the latest celebrity bird of Manhattan. By Andy Newman In the winter of 1890, a snowy owl was spotted in New York City’s Central Park ...
The white-tailed eagle, also known as the sea eagle, is the UK’s largest bird of prey, with a wingspan approaching 8 feet - for this reason they are sometimes referred to as “flying barn doors”.
A raptor enclosure caught fire on Feb. 16, killing the birds Cal, age 3, Isabow, age 24, Elsa, age 18, and Saguaro, age 16. At the site of the fire, Raptor Project staff put four boulders with red and ...
Raptor Rehabilitation Project manager Lizette Somer said it appears the bird was hit by a car, but staff doesn't know for sure. Perdita is a red-tailed hawk — who isn't red-tailed at all.