10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2023
One solution employed at Kinabatangan is the use of artificial nesting holes – they look fairly unattractive in my eyes but seem to be accepted by Rhinoceros Hornbills. Apparently, a single team of traditional dancers uses about 400 rhinoceros hornbill feathers, which involves killing 40 birds ( source ).
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 19, 2023
They raise their trunks, sniffing the air. Their presence indicates large mammals nearby – and only a few meters away, one Southern White Rhinoceros mother with a calf disappears among the bushes. A few dozen shots later, I stop and reach for binoculars – I want to observe and enjoy them. Sniffing us.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 11, 2020
They were chasing flies around a rhinoceros midden. Large clumps of droppings, yet to be broken down by bugs, bacteria, or a returning rhino, were used as slightly raised perches. A small flock of Merops bullockoides were feeding in Kruger National Park, South Africa.
10,000 Birds
JULY 16, 2014
The lodge is unusual in having a raised walkway behind the lodge, allowing those of us keen to bird or watch wildlife when most normal people are resting in the middle of the day. A Rhinoceros Hornbill ! I quickly stepped out and went around the block of rooms to get a better look! Orangutans never get old. What a bird!
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2015
We haven’t seen the reason yet, but suddenly you could have palpated a tension in the air that made the zebras step away and even one female Ostrich stand up… Then the Lord of the waterhole came, a young – although nine years old White Rhinoceros. Cover photo: White Rhinoceros, Wikimedia Commons.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2022
The Natal Spurfowl forages on rhinoceros and elephant dung (HBW) and does so without complaining. Each of these ‘families’ consists of a single mating pair and 1-5 ‘helpers’ who assist in raising the young. And I do not even want to think about which part of an old man’s anatomy the throat pouch reminds me of.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2016
Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. Raising and lowering its head, like stretching. The closer one raises her head, than lies back. It rotates its head 180 degrees to keep an eye on us. Humbly, we approach on foot.
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