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.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. The Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2018
Common Ostrich – Struthio camelus. Burchell’s Starling – Lamprotornis australis. Kruger NP Central Park. 23 May 2018. African Pied Wagtail – Motacilla aguimp. Kruger NP Central Park. 23 May 2018. 23 May 2018. Speckled Pigeon – Columba guinea. 23 May 2018. Blacksmith Lapwing – Vanellus armatus. 23 May 2018.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2018
Common Ostrich – Struthio camelus. Burchell’s Starling – Lamprotornis australis. Kruger NP Central Park. 23 May 2018. African Pied Wagtail – Motacilla aguimp. Kruger NP Central Park. 23 May 2018. 23 May 2018. Speckled Pigeon – Columba guinea. 23 May 2018. Blacksmith Lapwing – Vanellus armatus. 23 May 2018.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2018
Common Ostrich – Struthio camelus. Burchell’s Starling – Lamprotornis australis. Kruger NP Central Park. 23 May 2018. African Pied Wagtail – Motacilla aguimp. Kruger NP Central Park. 23 May 2018. 23 May 2018. Blacksmith Lapwing – Vanellus armatus. 23 May 2018. El Tapir hummingbird garden. 01 Jan 2018.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 5, 2019
Common Ostrich – Struthio camelus. A big thank you must also go to eBird whose listing software makes it possible. Best wishes to you all for 2019, keep safe and keep birding. Alphabetic Taxonomic. 23 May 2018. Highland Tinamou – Nothocercus bonapartei. Road to PN Volcán Poás. 12 Jun 2018. Great Tinamou – Tinamus major.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2018
Common Ostrich – Struthio camelus. The year and life lists have been pushed to 2214 and 3564 respectively. Clare and Grant’s Partridge Pigeon should perhaps be worth 2? Alphabetic Taxonomic. 23 May 2018. Highland Tinamou – Nothocercus bonapartei. Road to PN Volcán Poás. 12 Jun 2018. Great Tinamou – Tinamus major.
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