Birds

This is one big bird, with a maximum wingspan of 10 ft. 6 in., which is the largest of land birds and fourth in the world only behind two species of albatross and two species of pelican.   The Andean condor inhabits the Andes of South America stretching from Venezuela and Colombia through Ecuador, Peru, Chile, […]

…the most wonderful singer of all the birds is the water-ouzel that dives into foaming rapids and feeds at the bottom, holding on in a wonderful way, living a charmed life. —John Muir 1894 This is North America’s truly aquatic song bird.  It is a chunky little bird that lives along fast moving streams and rivers

And when at Night – Our good Day done – I guard My Master’s Head – ‘Tis better than the Eider-Duck’sDeep Pillow – to have shared          -My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun – Emily Dickinson This is a large and stocky duck found along the coastline of North America, Europe, and eastern Siberia – it is

The Tinian Monarch is a flycatcher found only on the 39 square mile island of Tinian, which is adjacent to the island of Saipan and part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (CNMI).  The species was listed as endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1970 because of persistent low populations

“I think he’ll be to Rome/As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it/By sovereignty of nature.” Coriolanus, William Shakespeare The more common name for this bird is osprey, but it also is known as a sea hawk or fish hawk.  Osprey have a wide distribution across North America and are found along the coasts