10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In the 1960s, Efraín Chacón constructed a dirt trail [from San Gerardo de Dota] to the Pan-American Highway, and brought his family to build a house, to farm and fish for trout. Volcano Hummingbird male, Talamanca race There is a bit of history attached to the status of the most popular birding area in Talamanca. “In

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2023

Swamp Harrier There are still a lot of fish present, especially in the culverts that run under the highway and the Egrets and Herons continue to take advantage of the ample food. White-necked Heron Little Egret Australian Pelicans have arrived to feed on the fish and can be observed very close to the highway.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 25, 2010

Assuming that the fish are kept in a large aquarium that mimics their natural habitat, and that the keeper treats the fish as family (as they would a rescued dog, cat, rabbit, etc.), would you see keeping these fish confined in an aquarium as a rescue effort or as a selfish act by humans that interferes with Nature?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2023

Then we detoured into the center of Villahermosa, to see the Northern Potoo that spends each day in the garden of one of Rolando’s family members. Much more surprising, however, is that freshwater snails are also the preferred food for a local member of the hawk family. I wish I could have seen one fishing.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Wetland Halfway between bustling Belgrade and sleepy Zrenjanin, River Tamis floodzone contains abundant oxbow lakes (turned into fish farms) and salt marshes filled with birds. Fish farms in Baranda and neighbouring Sakule villages, about 40 km / half an hour north of Belgrade, offer likely the best wetland birding near the city.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Recently, a group of nature photographers were spotted using live fish to bait a family of Grey-headed Fish Eagles in Singapore, where the species is listed as Critically Endangered, with only about 12-18 breeding individuals left in the wild. A Grey-headed Fish Eagle photographed ethically.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2021

The very best wetland birding around Belgrade, Serbia, is not to be found in the locally famous and tourist-promoted Obedska or Carska Bara Ramsar areas, but at Beljarica Backwaters and the fish farm triangle of Centa, Baranda and Sakule villages, in the Tamis River floodplain. If there were rains recently, this section of 0.3

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10,000 Birds

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.

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Reddit Animals

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Every since I went on fishing trips with my family, the birds are my favorite part of the trip. I love taking photos of them. But I don’t think just my phone is enough. Especially for far distances.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2020

We woke to a New Year in Fish Creek , Victoria and our birding year began. Grant then dropped me twenty kilometres from Fish Creek on the Great Southern Rail Trail and I walked back to Fish Creek. An Australian White Ibis flew in whilst I searched for the family of Dusky Moorhen that I have observed there recently.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2020

Whenever I walked from Foster to Fish Creek or Foster to Toora I encountered several family groups of Australian Magpies. There is a variation in the plumage of Australian Magpies across Australia and as such they looked different in Victoria.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

I tried to get a better idea of what exactly the definition of cuckoo-dove is but am still not very clear about it – Wikipedia only offers the rather formal definition “any of several species of bird in the genera Macropygia , Reinwardtoena, and Turacoena of the pigeon family.” But I may well be wrong.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2022

Presbycusis is age-related hearing loss in humans, but I have also discovered that birds, fish and amphibians do not experience presbycusis due to the fact that they can regenerate their cochlear sensory cells. So, whilst we get older and start to struggle to hear the birds they can still hear us!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In August, we took a family trip to beautiful San Diego, seeing SeaWorld , LegoLand , and the San Diego Zoo. On August 13, 2022, I woke up early, snuck out of the hotel room without waking the rest of the family, and was at Seaforth Landing on Mission Bay by 7:00 a.m. This was much larger.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2022

Even in January, the place is hot, humid, smelly (with dead fish being the dominant flavor, though there are also subtle undertones of other rotting things as well as chemicals), cramped, muddy, and full of plastic trash. ” (She then warns that this difference is not consistent).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2017

I walked the breadth of the nesting area before finding a tern family that was a little bit away from the densest part of the colony and looked interesting. Mothers tend to bring smaller tidbits of fish, according to the Birds of North America database (BNA), so I’m thinking that this is the mom.). Or, maybe brunch.

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 14, 2023

I would like a social pet that is fun to have ( have tried fishes but after 2 years we gave them away to a family that could take better care of them then we did) I would like an animal that isn’t afraid of people or stuff like that. I would like to be able to pick up my pet without the pet to be scared.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2017

Here in the Sea of Cortez, we have a fairly decent population of a family of a fish called Tetratdontidae , or more commonly known as Pufferfish. With this remarkable defense, there are very few predators, bird or fish, that bother with them. I am sure most of you are fully aware of these real life, self inflating balloons.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2020

The third weekend of January, I travelled to the coastal city of Acapulco to give a seminar on family finances at a church there. And my one lifer for the trip was a family of Rufous-naped Wrens that apparently live in the same garden. My schedule was not too full, so there was lots of free time to check out the local fauna.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2022

Food We had breakfast in the hotel (tropical fruit, omelette, natural juices and Colombian coffee), and almost all other meals in a small, family run Moro’s Restaurant, fully booked for our group, so in the times of Covid we enjoyed a certain level of isolation. In general, local, river fish was unbeatable. Photo by Juan Carlos.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2020

Hey, in 1959 Walt Disney set up a studio on the island and filmed Swiss Family Robinson there! Each day, the smaller seabirds leave their roost to fish in the rich waters offshore – under the watchful eyes of the frigatebirds. The island of Tobago in the southern Caribbean is much wilder than one could imagine.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

This is the home of the Rusty-naped Pitta , admittedly one of the less glamorous of the family, particularly the subspecies found in Yunnan, but still a nice sight and still a pitta. Fish & Wildlife Service has a web page for this species – but it contains absolutely no information. ” Even more strangely, the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2011

I am reminded of the ducks’ perilous and arduous existence on each family outing to Heidelberg Zoo. He doesn’t go there for the ducks, but for the fish. For some reason my son is absolutely into fish, and the duck pond might hold ducks of various species and sorts and shapes and colours, and pink flamingos too.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Over President’s Day weekend my family and I took a much-needed break in Jamaica. Brown Pelicans were always present and regularly dove for fish, as you can see in the above photo. A couple of Willets joined the flock of turnstones on the last day of our stay.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2012

One of the sweetest subsections of the duck family has to be the sawbills, formally known as mergansers. Mergansers are a family of diving waterfowl in Merginae , the seaduck subfamily of Anatidae. Mergansers primarily feed on small or medium-sized fishes which they capture underwater by swift pursuit.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The species is fairly widespread in the Western Pacific, ranging from New Zealand to Japan, and contrary to its name it isn’t actually a true snapper (family Lutjanidae), but is instead a member of the porgy and sea bream family (Sparidae). They were also part of the diet of early European settlers.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

For example, this study showed that Malachite Kingfishers spent more time hunting in locations with more fish. In the language of a scientific paper, this is phrased as “Fish density turned out to be the most important ecological parameter” Sounds a bit more impressive, I guess. students comes in handy).

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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.

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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.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2022

There was also a noisy family of Nutting’s Flycatchers to keep me company: Yum! Meanwhile, the fish guts around a fishermen’s landing zone caused the local Egrets and Night Herons to break out in dancing. But the road from Araró to Iramuco, shaded by their beloved mequite trees, is crawling with these cuties.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2018

It had learned that people feed bread to the ducks and small fish gather beneath the ducks to mop up any crumbs that are missed. It is a member of the sawbill family of ducks which contains the mergansers and the “teeth” of the serrated bill assist in gripping prey which consists predominantly of fish.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

It was Thursday when we arrived and every Thursday at Chrisochorafa square is a fish-free evening at two fish taverns. It is a popular event with the locals and the foreigners alike, where you pay for the drinks and salads, while the main dish, well prepared lake fish, is free.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Among some other species of the kingfisher family, this species is a bit of a laughingstock. They tease the Brown-hooded Kingfisher by quoting a part of the HBW entry to it: “Rare attempts at fishing seldom successful.” ” Instead, it mostly feeds on insects captured on the ground.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2024

The result is a description of the Velvet-fronted Nuthatch like this: “One of the few nuthatches to break the general neutral color scheme of the family, this stunner can be quite common …” This species is a cavity nester but unable to build its own cavities. But I do not hold that against the species.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Where a birder goes in the Caribbean determines which birds are seen including toy-like todies, Carib hummingbirds, cool pigeons, quail-doves, unique avian families and outrageous woodpeckers. One such special place is the Centro Manu, a small family run reserve that features several star bird species of Costa Rica’s Caribbean lowlands.

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Reddit Animals

MAY 11, 2024

I only taxonomy from phylum to family, since i feel like there wouldnt be much reason to include genus, since a lot of genuses only have a couple of species and since you should be able to guess the animal by knowing the family and where it lives, size etc.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2022

For some reason, the largest member of the heron family is not called the Great Heron nor the Giant Heron but rather the Goliath Heron. The shrike family (Laniidae) has two genera, one (Lanius) with 32 species and one (Eurocephalus) with 2 species. Consistency is overrated. Sorry to disappoint you.

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