10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Furthermore we have another very special stork-like bird, the regal Shoebill , previously known as the Whale-headed Stork but now placed in its own family. Ethiopia’s Rift Valley lakes such as Lake Ziway and Awassa are famous for the gangs of Marabous that hang around the fish markets and allow close approach in the hope of a smelly handout.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 243

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2012

Among the Efe (Pygmy) people that I lived with in the 1980s, the young men would in fact disappear from the bosom of their families and spend a lot of time, perhaps months, living on their own in the forest. Frogs and fish and insects and rodents yes, but not birds. Not birds, though.

Birds 170

Birds Collecting Rodents Wounded 170

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

A little longer than its predecessor (by eight pages to be exact), the East Coast guide is your handy dandy, pocket-sized, all-in-one guide to the seabirds, marine mammals, sea turtles, fish, and other creatures you are likely to encounter on pelagics or whale watching trips, from Bar Harbor, Maine to Ponce de Leon Inlet, Florida.

Pennsylvania 172

Pennsylvania Texas Whales Whaling 172

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

Marybeth learns as she birds, embraces listing goals as a means of engaging with community, unabashedly enjoys a little competition, struggles to balance her absolute joy in birding with unexpected, life-and-death family obligations. ’ “Is this going to be a collection of essays?” ” I wondered.

Louisiana 264

Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2021

Ranging in color from off-white to dingy black, with pastel to gelatinous shades of yellow, orange, purple, and brown in-between, found in moist crevasses, decaying trees, rain-soaked pastures, mushrooms lack the beauty of butterflies and wildflowers cannot equal the action of bats, or flying fish, and certainly lack the spiritual zest of birds.

North America 264

North America America Species 2018 264

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APRIL 13, 2015

It lies adjacent to Nechisar National Park, where the lone wing of the mysterious Nechisar Nightjar was collected in 1990. Quality time was spent with a friendly Hamar family at their homestead of grass huts surrounding their cattle corral.

Ethiopia 246

Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Birds 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. I also like that 200-córdoba note, if every country had a note like that then I would cenrtantly collect them all! Surfing for Birds at Pipeline Road The Doctor Bird.Or

Nicaragua 190

Nicaragua El Salvador 2011 Deer 190

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

If you liked this post featuring Bufflehead images why not check out 10,000 Clicks , our collection of photo-galleries? Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. Get yours today! The proposal from U.S.

2011 150

2011 Ducks Deer New York 150

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2014

There were opportunities to go to far flung places like the islands of the Pacific or the coast of Canada or the Yorkshire Dales… Anyway, as I was obsessed by Africa at the time, I leapt at the opportunity to go to Namibia to collect samples of bat DNA for a biogeography project. And the guano from a million Wrinkle-lipped Bats.

Bats 154

Bats Birds Vanuatu Namibia 154

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

Hearing and seeing a bluebird bring to his mind the process of tapping trees and boiling the sap collected down to syrup. … *From his essay, also called “The Bluebird&# that appeared in his famous collection of nature essays, Wake-Robin. Get yours today! Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. The proposal from U.S.

2011 165

2011 Deer New York Peru 165

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

Many thanks to Jason Kopp for the photos above taken during last year’s courses held at Explorer’s Inn Tags: banding , peru , tambopata • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Guano Still Collected in Peru Counting Birds: Will Microphones Replace Nets? The proposal from U.S.

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Peru 2011 Deer Birds 201

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Fish and Wildlife Service desperately needs your feedback as they craft a new vision for our National Wildlife Refuge System. Tags: national wildlife refuge , north america , parks • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! More important, they WANT your feedback!

2011 140

2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

Golf courses, swimming pools, restaurants and a diverse collection of accommodation options. Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled.

Dominican Republic 190

Dominican Republic 2011 Birds Deer 190

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The distance to the coast for the pair of Brahminy Kites to collect fresh fish is not far. Brahminy Kites can often be seen perched on our street lights around Broome as they feast on recently caught fish too! As you can see above the Brahminy Kite does have some serious talons for catching fish! Brahminy Kite.

Fish 210

Fish Eagles Australia Falcons 210

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

He collected in … the Belgian Congo, where he died of hemorrhagic fever at Bangala … According to his obituary in The Times (8 November 1890), he witnessed a cannibal banquet in the Upper Congo and was accused by Stanley of instigating it.” students comes in handy). And I do not see much of a helmet either. .

Elephants 147

Elephants Birds Congo Africa 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

He roots the theft in the history of collecting bird skins, in the brief life history of Edwin Rist, in the secretive world of classic fly tying, and in his own efforts to follow up on a police investigation that got the man but not all of the loot. Are these flies actually used for fishing?

Collecting 104

Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 104

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

Even collecting one piece after another, I didn’t manage to see the whole picture, but after a lot of effort, I collected enough pieces to ID the Eastern Olivaceous Warbler , only the first of a dozen that will be chock chock chocking from fruiting mulberries. Below legal size for humans is still legal for pelicans.

Greece 198

Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 198

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

The species are taxonomically divided into two families: Tytonidae, Barn-Owls, and Strigidae, Owls, encompassed in one order, Strigiformes. When you look at Clements latest taxonomic spreadsheet, you get a sense of the depth of their relationships to each other and the world. This is a great summer read.

Owls 219

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 219

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

Collectively, they’re referred to as the Herring Gull complex. Dan is an active member of BirdLife Cyprus and goes birding whenever his career and family allow. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. This wiki looks good too.] The proposal from U.S.

2011 157

2011 Cyprus Species Deer 157

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JULY 2, 2021

So, while I am lucky enough to live with my wife and family near the village of Mapleton, in the Blackall Ranges, first join me for a little journey to part of the coast. Today we were lucky as the first of the mainly wintering Australian Gannets had appeared and were fishing as I remembered.

Australia 258

Australia North America Cooking Fish 258

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

In other words, you can’t say something like, “humans, gorillas, chimps, and bonobos are all in the same family and equally related to each other.” Some sort of ancient fish-with-feet is the ancestors of humans. Therefore, humans are fish with feet, right? So, here’s the thing. Monkey is a common, not scientific, term.

Monkeys 141

Monkeys Gorillas Whales Whaling 141

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Plain Sunbird is the plain vanilla version of the otherwise often very colorful family (ok, a very low-budget sort of joke). One paper suggests that the Ruby-cheeked Sunbird primarily feeds on insects rather than on nectar, the more common food of sunbirds. It deserves a lot better than being caught and locked in a cage.

Los Angeles 194

Los Angeles Birds Woodpeckers Owls 194

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Primates are exceptional among the mammals, living amphibians (which represent only a small part of the original amphibian family tree) are pretty noisy too. Fish are mostly silent on the matter. Very few other vertebrates use sound so socially and so critically. That is a fair thing to say about any find like this.

Groups 170

Groups Collecting Primates Bats 170

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2012

When I wish to entertain people with the eccentricity of my book collection, I don’t point out that I own As I Lay Dying AND Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone , even though that’s a bit like keeping Prairie Falcons and Rock Pigeons in the same aviary. In short, what we have here is a minor, eccentric, but unique work.

Denver 168

Denver Birds 2000 Collecting 168

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

If you liked this post featuring Ruddy Duck images why not check out 10,000 Clicks , our collection of photo-galleries? Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. The proposal from U.S.

Ducks 143

Ducks 2011 New York New York City 143

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Lake Corella was formed in 1959 when the Clem Walton Dam was built to collect water for the mining town of Mary Kathleen and is now a popular camping area, especially in the height of tourist season in the cooler months. Little Black Cormorants fishing. Silver Gulls are not restricted to the coast and were also present.

Pelicans 101

Pelicans Zebras Fish Collecting 101

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The main goal of the game is to explore gorgeous lands, play mini-games (fishing, star jumping, bug dodging, and music writing), and solve puzzles in order to collect parts to fix up a broken spaceship so that Furdiburb may return home one day. Family/kid-friendly. The pet never dies. Free / Freemium game.

Pets 100

Pets Game Neglecting Adoptable 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2012

Dipping for fish An extinct endemic form of pelican in New Zealand would have represented another family lost, like the odd form of owlet-nightjar and New Zealand’s lost members of the hawk and eagle family. But it seems the story wasn’t so clear cut. And the fossils themselves were vanishingly rare.

New Zealand 181

New Zealand Pelicans Solomon Islands Palau 181

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2019

Fish Crow – Corvus ossifragus. To get as close as I can to a true reflection of species collaboratively collected by the beats, I update the post just before kissing my family goodbye and heading to the airport. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. 01 Jun 2019. Osprey – Pandion haliaetus. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh.

2019 121

2019 Jamaica Eggs Woodpeckers 121

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2011

If you liked these images make sure to head on over to 10,000 Clicks , the 10,000 Birds photo-galleries page, and see our growing collection of galleries. Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family.

2011 150

2011 Ducks Deer New York 150

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

For millenia, many of the world’s collective cultures have had an exceptionally strong anthropocentric bias when looking at the value of life. This young Western Gull seems to have no idea what to make of this Mola Mola (Ocean Sunfish), or perhaps it prefers the company of unusual fish. But I digress.

Emotional 211

Emotional Science Birds Mammals 211

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2012

Hope you made the most of a precious May weekend… I took my kids down to the family gravel pit for some fishing. Happily, both of them caught their first fish (sunnies, naturally) and subsequently released them. Save your fears for another day, since May is as magical a month as there is.

2012 159

2012 New York Fish Birds 159

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

I birded parks, landfills, fields, backyards, skies, oceans, lakes, ponds, and roads in 15 states–some familiar haunts and patches, some as part of family visits, some while passing through, some adventures with friends (three trips with N.J. In the meantime, it’s a good topic for holiday family gatherings. ” [[link].

2018 162

2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 162

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

The authors pay far less attention to photographing and collecting adult dragonfly specimens. There are many more British species that resemble ours, but belong to different subfamilies or even families. High Brown Frit belongs to the Argynnis family and Variegated Frit is part of the Speyeria family.

Ireland 177

Ireland France Breeding Eggs 177

10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2013

This scraggly collection of islands and deep long bays forms the tip of South Island closest to to North Island, but till this point my only experience of the area had been the long passage down Queen Charlotte Sound to reach the ferry terminal of Picton. Lochmara Bay with Queen Charlotte Sound in the background.

New Zealand 165

New Zealand Charlotte Hunting Family 165

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2011

Monday A walk by the river, Mum and Dad hold hands, Dad points out the fishing boats on the river, children climb, run and tumble down grassy slopes in fits of giggles. Lunch provided by the freshest locally caught fish along with the ever so British chips in a down to earth, back to basics fun day.

Fish 170

Fish Horses Family Collecting 170

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

I am also writing it on the tails of an excellent review by Corey who, although he termed his post a collection of “impressions,” really did nail down the great content of The Sibley Guide to Birds, Second Edition , by David Allen Sibley, as well as the minor items that need to be improved.

North America 244

North America Birds Species America 244