10,000 Birds
JULY 28, 2022
The Congo Basin is the only place to shelter all three subspecies of gorilla: the Western Lowland Gorilla, the Eastern Lowland Gorilla and the endangered Mountain Gorilla. The region also provides food, fresh water and shelter to more than 75 million people of nearly 150 distinct ethnic groups.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 15, 2014
They also migrate to and from the High Arctic, crossing the Atlantic to Europe, but they keep going, down across the Mediterranean into Africa. This tiny passerine winters in Africa, places like Tanzania, Nigeria, Somalia. Nests are usually made in a sheltered cleft in rocks. From the Tundra to the African Steppes.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
The Falcon Thief is the sometimes exciting, sometimes horrifying story of Jeffrey Lendrum, an African-born adventurer who has been arrested multiple times for raptor egg and chick poaching and smuggling in southern Africa, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Brazil. wrote a lengthy article in Outside magazine (Jan. 2019), and now this book.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2013
Let’s explore some of these far-off places and the birds that find shelter here. Saint Helena Island, situated in the south Atlantic ocean between the continents of Africa and South America, is one of the remotest inhabited islands in the world. Eaton’s Pintail by N.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
Ackerman understands how to set a scene, fill it with charismatic real-life characters, and top it off with magic–the hoot of a distant Great Gray Owl, a Burrowing Owl evading capture, an old barn sheltering young Barn Owls, a tree full of Long-eared Owls in the middle of a small town in northern Serbia. They are also hunted.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 25, 2013
Also from BirdLife International: In general it prefers areas where vegetation, boulders or other landscape features at ground level provide tunnels in which to shelter and to breed. It is a small bird of the rail species, I think, wingless, unable to fly, but can run with great speed, shelters in the tussock, and lives in a burrow.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 19, 2012
In reality this is not true and they can easily succumb to the venom of many of Africa’s poisonous serpents. On several occasions I’ve seen animals that are making a beeline towards shelter double-back when the wings are spread straight into their waiting talons.
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