10,000 Birds
AUGUST 20, 2015
This map shows the distribution of the World’s bird species, based on overlying the breeding and wintering ranges of all known species. Thailand (925 / 948). It makes me think what is the meaning of life, the universe and everything? Why am I here? And where all those birds are? Map by BirdLife International. The Oriental realm.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2023
Such programs are somewhat inefficient anyway – in one study , the breeding success of wild male pheasants was 2-5 times higher than for hand-reared and released ones while for females, hand-reared birds were 3 times as vulnerable to predation as the wild ones.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Apparently, when breeding, the two parents divide incubation duties, with one bird taking over the daytime duties and another one the nighttime. With a picture of the then-queen of Thailand on it, if I remember correctly. At between 4 pm and 6 pm, to be exact. Of course, many people still know exactly what they did when this happened.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2012
A lovely looking and distinctive sounding bird (so they say, I sadly have not seen one…yet), the Kirtland’s Warbler can only be found during its breeding season in Jack Pine forests 5 to 20 years old in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Previously, even researchers had problems getting access to nesting Kirtland’s Warblers.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2019
My review copy (well, actually a contributor’s copy—more on that later) was waiting for me when I returned from the ABA birding tour of Thailand and Malaysia (more on that in a separate post) in early March. As I expected, there is a lot to talk about here. Range and Geographic Variation. in German, and a Labrador Retriever named Gellert.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2022
’ Gorman has read and distilled probably every research study ever written about Wrynecks or related to them; my quick count of the citations in the 16-page References section came to 295. My Wryneck, Fang, Thailand, February 2019; copyright © Donna L. and the rural Austrian folk name natterzunge or ‘adder tongue.’
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 31, 2019
Perhaps you don’t know it yet, but with more than 1000 bird species, palm-fringed sandy beaches, developed tourism infrastructure, moderate prices and political stability, Thailand is a country you definitively want to visit. Binoculars and a field guide, perhaps a scope and anti-leech hiking socks too. Everything else is secondary.
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