10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2011
Not that I don’t enjoy seeing new species myself, it’s just that they are an easy target and I am nothing if not lazy and mean spirited. But there is one kind of tick that I genuinely do enjoy, and as I do more and more birding it becomes harder and harder to get; new families.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 13, 2022
Honeyeaters are a large bird family (190 species) with a strong presence in Australia. According to the HBW entry for this species, it “has been claimed that loss of native mammals after European settlement created shortage of nesting material, explaining this species’ penchant for taking hair from humans.”
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 20, 2016
“Saltator” is another one of those “intriguing” names for certain bird species that live in Costa Rica and the Neotropical region. Although in Latin, “saltator” means “jumper”, these birds aren’t doing any kangaroo imitations. I hear this bird singing just about every morning.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 17, 2011
Chimpanzees and elephants grieve the loss of family and friends, and gorillas hold wakes for the dead. Paul’s family noticed that whenever he was about to have an attack, Tinker would get agitated. Caledonian crows live in small family groups and youngsters learn to fashion and use tools by watching adults.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 8, 2013
A couple of Island races exist on Kangaroo Is. Honeyeaters are an Papuo/Australasian specialty with only one species crossing the Wallace Line west, to Bali. Along with Australian Chats, Wattlebirds, Myzomelas, Friarbirds, etc, they make up 178 species in the family Meliphagidae. and in the Bass Strait.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2015
As you first walk down the paths (or even park) the dominant species is not a bird but Eastern Grey Kangaroos, and lots of them. It wasn’t long before I saw my first family of Superb Fairy-wrens as well as a very noisy Willie Wagtail. First was a family of fast-moving Silvereyes and a Spotted Pardalote.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 24, 2012
It’s actually a member of the family Artamidae, which includes the woodswallows (not actually swallows), the butcherbirds (not actually shrikes) and the peltops (which actually are peltops, since there are no others). The Australian Magpie is not actually a magpie, a fairly common state of affairs for birds from the colonies.
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