Select this link to see bird photos photographed in Egypt
While in Egypt there were few different birds seen and their distance was usually from afar. The Hooded Crow was the one I most commonly saw.
May 2, 2022
Select this link to see bird photos photographed in Egypt
While in Egypt there were few different birds seen and their distance was usually from afar. The Hooded Crow was the one I most commonly saw.
December 16, 2019
August 12, 2019
Select this link to see bird photos photographed in Kenya, Africa
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September 1, 2018
Select this link to see photos of the rapture presentation
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The following birds were presented:
Harris’s Hawk
Great Horned Owl
Barred Owl
Red Eastern Screech Owl
Gray Eastern Screech Owl
Black Vulture
Northern Crested CaraCara
Bald Eagle
Falconer and veterinary technician John Karger, and founder of “Last Chance Forever” The Bird of Prey Conservancy headed the rapture presentation. All birds of prey were from the conservancy and were rehabilitated and were at one time sick, injured or orphaned birds of prey.
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August 29, 2018
Select this link to see photos of the Piping Plover
The Piping Plover is a small pale bird, the color of dry sand, with an incomplete dark ring around the neck, and throat, belly and undersides white, with yellow legs, yellow beak with a black tip. In winter the legs and bill are dark. It has a range of south Canada to northeast and central United States. It has a habitat of sand beaches and tidal flats. It has a diet of insects, marine worms, and crustaceans. It moves about in quick fashion and abrupt stops, and is hard to see when on the sand when foraging by pecking.
August 23, 2018
Select this link to see photos of the Harlequin Duck
The male Harlequin Duck is a small slaty duck with chestnut sides and odd white patches and spots. The female Harlequin Duck is a dusky brown with three white spots on the side of its head, and no wing patches. It has a habitat of mountain streams in summer and rocky coastal waters in winter, and favors extremely turbulent streams. Its diet consists of mollusks, crustaceans, plant material, and insects.
August 18, 2018
August 9, 2018
Select this link to see photos of the Gray Jay
The Gray Jay is a gray fluffy bird about the size of a Robin with a white forehead, black cap, and gray back and wings, a light striped gray breast, and gray legs. The juvenile is darker sooty gray all over with a whitish chin whisker. They have a range of boreal forests of North American, Canada and Alaska. They have a habitat of spruce and fir forests. It has a varied diet of insects, spiders, berries, seeds, fungi, small rodents, small bird eggs, and carrion. They can be fearless, a nuisance, and steal food at campsites.
July 13, 2018
Select this link to see photos of the Mew Gull
The Mew Gull is smaller than a Ring-Billed Gull with white head, breast and bottom, a gray back, small greenish yellow bill and greenish legs. Its wing tips are black with white spots. It has a range of Northern Eurasia, western North America-that includes the bottom half of Alaska and northwestern Canada. It has a habitat of coastal waters in winter, and lakes and rivers in summer. The diet is mostly small fish along the coasts, mostly insects along inland lakes and rivers, but also eats crustaceans, mollusks, earthworms, small rodents, young birds, berries, and grains. Nest may be on high ground, on top of a stump, or in a dense low spruce up to 20ft above the ground-all near water.
July 4, 2018
Select this link to see photos of the American Black-Billed Magpie
The American Black-Billed Magpie is a large, slender, black-and white bird with a long wedge-tipped tail and stout black bill. Large white patches flash in the wings. It has a range of Eurasia and west northern America. It has a habitat of rangeland, brushy country, conifers, forest edges, farms, and streamsides. It has a diet of rodents, insects (grasshoppers, caterpillars, flies, beetles), eggs, berries, seeds, nuts, and other vegetable matter.