10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2021

Sometime back in 2018, I started sharing some of my photos by e-mail with my sister and aunt. But most of our forest has a combination of both pines and oaks, with dozens of species from each family growing in the state of Michoacán. It’s all about the avocados. The driest slopes may be covered with pines, almost exclusively.

Costa Rica 149

Costa Rica Birds Mexico illegal 149

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

Wrynecks are fascinating because they are woodpeckers, taxonomically and evolutionarily, yet they do not share many behaviors and anatomical features of most members of the Picidae family. But they are woodpeckers: the genus Jynx of the subfamily Jynginae of the Picidae family. They are beautiful, but in a different way.

Woodpeckers 232

Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 232

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

Hence, the experiment was created: a plot was fenced off to keep the animals away and now willow saplings did survive being submerged for half a year. Naziridis explained: “In late summer, when there is no grass left to graze, some ranchers cut the fencing to let their animals into enclosures.” Then, there was a herd of buffaloes.

Greece 193

Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 193