10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

India, February 2013. Birds included common species such as Black Drongos , Jungle Babblers and a Hoopoe. We are observing a Dhole , also called Asiatic or Indian Wild Dog. A hundred metres down the track, several more Dholes await us, totalling eleven dogs. Only in protected areas in southern and central India (e.g.

Tigers 230

Tigers Dogs India Snow Leopard 230

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

When I was first learning to bird in the summer of 2013, I spent a summer living with my fiance in Virginia Beach. It was here that I discovered my first White Ibis, my first Eastern Towhee, my first Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher , and while these species may be “common” to me now they filled me with wonder then.

Virginia 100

Virginia Branding 2013 Blackbirds 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2019

This species was discovered (shot, actually) in the 19th century, only to be lost through the entire 20th century. The Forest Owlet is an endemic species of this mountain range. Since this was written in 2013, “the Forest Owlet population was in 2015 estimated by Birdlife International at less than 250. Let’s go.”.

India 167

India Owls Tigers Cows 167

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2015

February 2013. The tropical dry deciduous jungle, or “jungle”, however you see it, covers almost 90% of 600 km2 (230 mi2) of this protected area. Other species I can recognize are colloquially called crocodile bark tree, due to the bark pattern, and paper bark. It is one of the ancestors of domestic fowl.

Tigers 244

Tigers Boars India Chickens 244

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2020

Even though a 2013 petition by the Royal Society of Protection of Birds failed to convince the Scottish parliament to make it official, the campaign to make the Golden Eagle Scotland’s national bird continues.

Eagles 157

Eagles Lions Hunting Lamb 157