Black Oystercatcher
(Haematopus bachmani)
The Black Oystercatcher is an eye-catching black bird seen on the shores of western Canada and USA and part of Mexico. It is found from the Alaska Aleutian Islands to the southern coast of the Baja California.
This bird is the only example of the family (Haematopodidae) covering most of its area, joining slightly beside the American Oystercatcher (Haematopodidae palliatus) on the shores of Baja California. Locally, it is mostly mentioned to as the Black Oystercatcher, even though this name is likewise used regionally for the African Oystercatcher and also the Blackish Oystercatcher.
Although the species is not thought to be in danger, its world population is estimated between 9,000 to 11,000.
It feeds on offshore invertebrates, especially mollusks like chitons, mussels and limpets. It will also eat barnacles, crabs and malacostracan crustacean.
Black-billed Cuckoo
Coccyzus erythropthalmus
- She will find other bird's nest and lay her eggs in it.
- They family east of the Rockies along the edge of wooded areas.
- South America is their choice to migrate.
- This cuckoo will occasionally be a visitor to Europe.
- Their nest can be found in shrubs or in a small tree, even found near the ground.
- These birds wander and feed in trees or shrubs.
- They mostly eat insects, particularly tent caterpillars, but in addition they like some snails, berries and other birds eggs.
- Their call is a fast continual cuucuucuu
- Adults have a black beak and a tail that is long and brown.
- The head and the upper parts of its body is brown and the breast underparts are white.
- The eye has a red ring around it.
- Youngsters are dull, and the ring around the eye is green.
Red-shouldered Hawk
Buteo lineatus
Red-shouldered Hawks will come back to same area every year and usually same nest. Story has it that one lived in a territory every year for 16 years in south California.
Both male and female will build each nest or freshen up a previous year’s nest.
The American Crow will often attack this hawk, however payback has been known to happen. They have a rivalry at which they take food from each other and take after each other. And both will team up to chase a Great Horned Owl out of their area.
When they reach 5 days old, these nestling hawks are able to shoot their poop out of their nest. If you find the poop on the ground you know that an active nest is around.
The Red-shouldered Hawk has 5 subspecies. The 4 forms in the eastern USA reach out to each other, however the western form are over a 1000 miles away. Largest is the northern form. The southern Florida form is the palest, having a gray head.
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They live in bottom land hardwood stands in the eastern USA. Also in deciduous swamps, and conifer forests.
They hunt and kill other animals in the forests. These hawks eat mostly small mammals, amphibians, lizards and snakes.
