10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

Growing up within an hour of one of the world’s premier shorebird destinations -- West Coast National Park in South Africa -- helped for sure. We filmed these particular birds in early 2008 and this was when my videographer, Aderman, was still getting to grips with bird filming.

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Florida South Africa 2011 Africa 183

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2013

A dusty-red road leads me through Marico bushveld deeper into the 750 square kilometers large wilderness of the Madikwe Game Reserve – the 4th largest reserve in South Africa, home to 350 bird and 66 mammal species, some 4 hours’ drive from Johannesburg. Trips Mammals South Africa'

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Africa South Africa Elephants Rhinos 185

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Islands, for various reasons, experience more extinctions than continents (with Africa being the only continent not suffering a bird extinction!). As you can imagine, I was champing at the bit to get to this lost paradise and when I finally obtained the necessary permissions in 2008, it didn’t fail to astonish!

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Madagascar Lemurs 2006 Owls 231

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

2008 and this video recommended by the Ted Talk people: The Early Birdwatchers ), or the social behavior of Common Guillemots (what we North Americans call Common Murres) ( Bird Sense: What it Is Like to Be a Bird , 2012).

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 209

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2011

Originally from Scotland, Mark has lived and worked in continental Europe and North Africa before settling in Australia’s “Red Centre&# to work for the Northern Territory Parks Service. In 2008 Mark founded the annual Red Centre Bird Week and Twitchathon which occurs each September/October in Alice Springs.

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Chile Australia Monkeys 2008 187

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

There’s the Goliath frog from South Africa—up to one foot in length and over 6 pounds in weight. Mattison writes that in 2008 the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) identified 30% of all amphibian species as endangered, including 1,626 species of frogs. If you don’t live near a science museum, then read this chapter.

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Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 182

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The book is produced by WILDGuides, Ltd, the excellent book company responsible for over a dozen photographic guides on Britain’s natural life ranging from dragonflies to plant galls as well as books on Africa, Australia and other areas we all want to visit, and was published this summer by Princeton University Press.

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 140

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2013

I grew up in one of the most beautiful cities in the world – Cape Town, South Africa. In fact, there is no other region in Africa that offers such a fantastic level of endemism in such an accessible location. But their endangered status is belied by the fact that they are one of the easiest rare birds to find in Africa.

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Penguins South Africa Africa Sharks 207

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2019

To paraphrase Keith Barnes, who wrote on world birding in 2008 ABA’s Birding magazine, if you can afford only one big tropical bird tour, let it be Ecuador. Birds of Ecuador” is a heavy book, but only marginally more than e.g. Helm Birds of East Africa. Still, this does not mean that we have no equivalent of those tourist guides.

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Ecuador South America 2006 Birds 142

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2014

The year 2008 saw me move back to Germany’s south-west, and my job required me to travel extensively throughout the country from then on. Of course I considered it to have been blown there from the Netherlands. This was to be my first and only encounter of an Egyptian Goose on Germany soil for the next decade. I was in shock.

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Germany Geese Netherlands Kenya 150

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

It confirms many of the once-radical notions put forward or refined by Shannon Hackett and her colleagues in 2008, and several since, and it proposes solutions to some of the most deeply unresolved questions about how major bird groups are related to each other. ( In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al.

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Family Parrots Birds 2014 279

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Ken also had a very dry sense of humour … and we definitively enjoyed his wry take on life… Despite being only in his twenties [in 2008], Ken seemed to have been birding for at least forty years, so good were his birding skills.”. This man is driven, but he gets the birds…”.

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Rwanda Primates Wildlife Gorillas 201

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Adam will be leading 10,000 Birds readers on an amazing odyssey into Africa starting… now! To the uninitiated, Africa conjures up images of underdevelopment, poverty and hardship. I was fortunate to have been born and raised in Africa, and although I have traveled extensively around the world, it remains my home and in my blood.

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Papua New Guinea Madagascar Africa Equatorial Guinea 212

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The Silktail, ( Lamprolia victoriae ) by Tom Tarrant (CC) A 2008 paper on the phylogeny of the species and several others came to a surprising conclusion, that the species was actually related to the fantails. Indeed it was part of that family.

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Horses France North America Fiji 165

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

I was in contact with a group of birders for whom I arranged and guided an annual tour to Africa. We already had South Africa, Zambia and Uganda under our belts, but my clients’ request for the next year came right out of the blue: Ghana! During each trip we would discuss a destination for the following year. million hectares in 2007.

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 188

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

The reality is that it’s if pretty difficult to see most penguin species, excepting the wonderfully accessible African Penguins at Boulders Beach outside Cape Town, South Africa and the Galapagos Penguins, ironically one of the rarest and most commonly seen species.

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Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 191

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Duncan has been in Africa, sweeping all before him like a brush fire. Contributions this month have come from; Costa Rica, USA, Australia, Mexico, Serbia, South Africa, UK, Botswana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Iran. South Africa. South Africa. River Lapwing – Vanellus duvaucelii. 11 Feb 2016. 16 Feb 2016.

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2016 Sanctuary Australia Ghana 154

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

But our pin-up for August and worthy of a double-page-spread, is Duncan who is currently sharing from South Africa. South Africa. South Africa. In so doing, he has helped to push us through the 1900 milestone. It is a dream, nay, a mission statement of 10,000 Birds to see as many of the World’s birds as possible.

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2016 Sanctuary Australia Ghana 101