10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

I visited Tengchong in late 2020 and wrote about it – but I also went there earlier, in 2017, and this post shows some photos I took during that trip, along with the usual comments that seem to be much more about ridiculing my fellow humans (especially ornithologists and the like) than providing useful information on birds.

China 193

China 2017 Birds Indonesia 193

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Signaling theory comes up frequently in bird literature (one example I can think of off-hand is Nick Davies’ Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature, Bloomsbury, 2015), but if you’re not familiar with its basic ideas you must read the Introduction. This is a beautifully designed book. The Pieplow titles will help you identify a bird sound.

North America 279

North America Research Birds Groups 279

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

There was a cut-off point at which birds could not be added, which explains why the Temminck’s Stint found by our own Clare and Grant in November 2015, a first for Australia, nor the recently found Nicobar Pigeon are, are not included. ” The result is an organization that is sort of but not always arranged taxonomically.

Australia 109

Australia Birds Penguins 2015 109