10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2023

Great White Pelicans by Kostas Papadopoulos We devoted the afternoon to the small, abandoned and revitalised quarry behind the hamlet of Chimarros. We sat outdoors, shaded by old plane trees and cooled by a short shower falling in the bright sunlight.

Greece 229

Greece Pelicans Birds Stray Dog 229

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2012

This forced us to abandon the vehicle and walk the 15 miles to the nearest village where a bush-mechanic walked back with us at night to our vehicle and temporarily patched the hole. He had mistakenly walked into a nice clump of buffalo bean whilst chasing a Singing Cisticola. I’ll never forget the sight.

Zimbabwe 194

Zimbabwe Buffalo Mozambique Birds 194

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

She’s reared abandoned baby buffalo, dik-diks, impalas, zebras, warthogs, and black rhinos, among others, but no creature has beguiled her more than elephants. Sheldrick is fourth-generation Kenya-born and has spent the better part of her life tending wild animals.

Elephants 100

Elephants Kenya Wounded Rhinos 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

Soon after, Williams retired and moved out of state, and Eric was arrested by the Texas Rangers for a combination of credit card fraud (something about a fake field school for high schoolers in Orange Walk Town) and child abandonment. Any buffalo bones from prior to that transition were obviously scavenged.

Humane 165

Humane Lions Buffalo Hunting 165

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Donna Fernandes, president of the Buffalo Zoo, witnessed a wake for a female gorilla, Babs, who had died of cancer at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo. Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon.

Emotional 100

Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2012

It’s often considered wasteful that so many nests are abandoned and left to degenerate, but my theory of one of the reasons for this behavior is related to predation. A typical arid zone weaver colony, the large messy stick nests of Red-billed Buffalo Weaver, together with the smaller cylindrical nests of Southern Masked Weaver.

Tanzania 221

Tanzania Buffalo Kenya Namibia 221