Gray Catbird will swallow the berry, not mash it. While I enjoyed photographing a few birds at a berry buffet, I thought…
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BACKYARD BIRDING IN MERIDA, YUCATAN AND BEYOND – HEAD SCRATCHING OVER OR UNDER THE WING?
Under the wing head scratch of Burrowing Owl with unidentified debris How awkward does it appear for a certain bird to balance…
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Baltimore Oriole Time to enjoy more tidbits about birds that may surprise you as they did me. Images were photographed in the…
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BACKYARD BIRDING IN MERIDA, YUCATAN AND BEYOND – CLEAN, COLOGNE, HONE, AGGRESSION : BIRD BILL WIPING
Red-lored Parrots with dirty bills Bird behavior fascinates me. I’m curious about how and then why birds act as they do. Often…
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BACKYARD BIRDING IN MERIDA, YUCATAN AND BEYOND – SMORGASBIRDS IN BOTH YUCATAN PENINSULA AND BELIZE, PART 2 of 3, SMALL to MEDIUM, MORE OR LESS
White-fronted Parrot Part 2 of 3 illustrates more feathered friends in two countries with a shared border in no particular order, where…
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BACKYARD BIRDING IN MERIDA, YUCATAN AND BEYOND – SMORGASBIRDS IN BOTH YUCATAN PENINSULA AND BELIZE, PART 1 of 3, SMALLER SPECIES, MORE OR LESS
Morelet’s Seedeater,Sporophila morelleti, Semillero de Collar (Spanish) Enjoy a few feathered friends in two countries with a shared border in no particular…
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BACKYARD BIRDING IN MERIDA, YUCATAN AND BEYOND – SUNNY FLOWERS ON A SUNLESS DAY WITH FEATHERS
Enjoy a few feathered friends among the sunflowers on a sunless day. Each species is a permanent resident of the Yucatan Peninsula…
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Looking through my binoculars while enclosed in a warm car and safely tucked in from brutal winds, I spied an immature Andean…
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BACKYARD BIRDING IN MERIDA, YUCATAN AND BEYOND-A YOUNG PUMA MEETS A YOUNG GUANACO IN PATAGONIA, CHILE
Imagine when three puma trekkers witnessed something they had never seen in each of their seven years experience among pumas in Patagonia,…
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BACKYARD BIRDING IN MERIDA, YUCATAN AND BEYOND-GRUBBERS, STRAINERS, SKIMMERS, AND SHEARERS: DUCK BILLS, MORE OR LESS, PART 1 OF 2
Doesn’t this title sound like cooking utensils found in a kitchen? Instead I will discuss tools for food gathering by duck-like bills…