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There are many birds that are active nocturnally. Some, like owls and nighthawks, are predominantly nocturnal whereas others do specific tasks, like migrating, nocturnally. North Island brown kiwi, Apteryx mantelli [1] Black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax [1] Short-eared owl, Asio flammeus [1] Long-eared owl, Asio otus [1]
If you see Duckie, or if you have any information that could help lead to her return, Doyle asks you to call her at (617) 221-6288 or call the Ogunquit Police Department at (207) 646-9361.
Accipitridae is a family of birds of prey which includes hawks, eagles, kites, harriers, and Old World vultures. These birds have very large powerful hooked beaks for tearing flesh from their prey, strong legs, powerful talons, and keen eyesight. Seventeen species have been recorded in Maine. Swallow-tailed kite, Elanoides forficatus (R)
The chickadee (specifically the black-capped chickadee Poecile atricapillus, formerly Parus atricapillus) is the official bird for the US state of Massachusetts, [5] the Canadian province of New Brunswick, [6] and the city of Calgary, Alberta. [7] The chickadee is also the state bird of Maine, but a species has never been specified. A proposed ...
xeno-canto is a citizen science project and repository in which volunteers record, upload and annotate recordings of bird calls and sounds of orthoptera and bats. [2] Since it began in 2005, it has collected over 575,000 sound recordings from more than 10,000 species worldwide, and has become one of the biggest collections of bird sounds in the world. [1]
A Maine bobcat demonstrated her incredible hunting skills, stalking and nabbing an unfortunate duck in the snow.Video taken by Randall Ellicott, who told Storyful he filmed it in Greene on January ...
Oliver announced his campaign for the strange bird in the New Zealand Bird of the Century contest during Nov. 5 episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO.
Chipping sparrows migrate by night, and their flight calls are a characteristic sound of the night sky in spring and fall in the United States. In the southern Rockies and eastern Great Plains, the chipping sparrow appears to be the most common nocturnal migrant, judged by the number of flight calls detected per hour. On typical nights in ...