10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Forget lions, tigers, and bears – if Internet listicles are to be believed, all of Oz is full of crocodiles, sharks, jellyfish, snakes, spiders – even magpies – that are dead set on killing, maiming, or injuring any humans they encounter. Suffice to say, their 2019 Teal Lake Shiraz is a far cry from your bubbe’s Manischewitz.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

On my 21-day Kenyan safaris we reckoned to find around 600 species of birds and around 60 mammals, both impressive totals. Incidentally, encounters with both aardvarks and zorillas are rare – it’s much easier to see lions and leopards. My shutter speed was slow, so it’s not the sharpest of photographs.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2020

© 2019 Jennifer Ward, © 2019 Alexander Vidal. Each activity builds on these basics–observation, documentation and action–introducing concepts like migration, nesting, and conservation, and also teaching specific ways bird behavior may be different for different species. © 2014, 2019, Brooklyn botanic Garden, Inc.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

In 2019 I joint-led my seventeenth safari in twelve years with Capture Africa, we are a good team. The birdlife here is wonderful, a ten-night safari should give you over 200 species, (2018 & 2019 both gave us 242!). The Okavango Delta is also one of the best places to see the endangered African Wild Dog.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2017

My recent trip was fantastic, and really re-kindled my love of diving, so much so that I’ve started planning and saving for a diving (and birding) trip to Costa Rica in 2019. In fact, puffers are pretty antisocial, and this species is noted as being that and solitary on the Wikipedia page of the species.

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