10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
Other species have certainly expanded their ranges, but never in such a rapid and global scale. For reasons that are not quite clear, this species underwent a massive range expansion. In the east, this species can be found along the east coast of Africa, the Nile Valley,and into parts of the middle east and India and southeast Asia.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
The very first thing we notice about this large member of the Galliformes is that there is a wild version and a domestic version, and although the two are rather different, they are both given the same species name, Meleagris gallopavo. This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2011
On the last day we headed towards the border with Spain to the west and the village of Barrancos. In May 1992 European Union governments adopted legislation designed to protect the most seriously threatened habitats and species across Europe. Noudar has recorded 184 different species since 1999.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 26, 2022
This is a rather photographer-friendly species, staying on the same branch for quite a while and even returning to it after catching some insects – you can see this on video here and here. While the source does not say so directly, it hints that this means the species is not as intelligent as Eurasian Magpies (which pass the test).
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2020
The robin’s famous red breast really is more of a rusty orange, but the word “orange” wouldn’t enter into English from Old French as a color name until the 1510s (and it was probably even later that the Welsh adopted the cognate oren ). As for the robin’s famously ruddy plumage, Christian folklore attempts several explanations.
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