Africa America Branding Experiments 
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2022
The Bearded Woodpecker (Mkuze, South Africa) does not really look any more bearded than many other woodpeckers. The species name “tukki” is not derived from a beloved but now extinct Eastern European car brand but from the Sumatran word for woodpecker. It is the most widespread woodpecker in Africa, claims the HBW.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2011
But meanwhile, let’s look at the four avian families that comprise the brand new order Suliformes. Ringer Anhinga and Darters (Anhingidae) The Anhinga and three darter species inhabit warm, freshwater regions of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australasia. Corey Mar 12th, 2011 at 8:29 pm Now wait just one second.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
(That’s Pitta, people, not Antpitta, which is what I foolishly first envisioned, having never birded beyond the Americas.) I get my own idea of the lunacy of Gooddie’s quest when I talk to a friend who has birded Asia and Africa. If it were just the birds, I’d grab my bins and be on the next plane to Asia or Africa. And leeches.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2024
Elizabeth’s experience and ingenuity, for example, can be seen in her lithograph of Langsdorff’s Aracari; there was only a single specimen in a German collection and its tail was mutilated, so she obscured the tail in her plate by placing it behind a large leaf (pp. but not too large, and not overwhelmingly heavy.
10,000 Birds
MAY 15, 2011
It made us reach for our field guide for North America, but that really does not compare to the real thing. I did not get to appreciate all that America had to offer for the birder until I returned with my husband, Grant, in 1989. We have never been to South Africa, but it is a lovely book to look at and dream!
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