10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2015
However very few birders ever venture to areas off this well-beaten track, so with this in mind, I decided to explore a fascinating but ornithologically little known corner of Ethiopia in January 2012, to see what surprises awaited me. A Konso village perched atop a terraced hill.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version. Bringing animals that would require feed and water at that early stage would have been unwise.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2014
Whales emerge from within the larger group of mammals that includes cattle, deer, pigs, camels, with camels being the most deeply rooted. (So PNAS 2012 109 (27) 10927–10930; published ahead of print June 4, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1204026109). The point is, of course, that whales are not cows. see: Matthew E. 1204026109).
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 5, 2016
Luckily, I have a copy of How to Be a Better Birder by Derek Lovitch (2012), also published by Princeton University Press, which covers the bird finding part–understanding weather, habitat, and geography, using radar. The two books together make a great combination.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 10, 2013
We did have the good fortune of finding an individually marked Bar-tailed Godwit that was marked in Yalu Jiang Nature Reserve in China last April 15th and was last seen there on May 11th 2012. I expect he has done some travelling in the period from May 2012 to February 2013! Cattle Egret and cattle.
10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2012
All the inhabited continents except Africa have experienced bird extinctions; however the 2012 update of the IUCN Red List shows a startling, but not altogether unexpected, trend in that more and more of our bird species are facing extinction.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 19, 2014
In a funny twist of fate, it seems that 2014 will be much the same as 2012 and 2013 have been, with family trips to somewhere in France and business trips to Indonesia and Kazakhstan. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis : Camargue, Provence, France, 2 Jan. Outlook and goals for 2014. Repetitions, repetitions, repetitons.
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