Africa America Experience South America 
10,000 Birds
JUNE 29, 2023
After 3 months of South and Southeast Asia, Indonesia and Australia, Arjan’s count stood at 2,060 species. He happily commented: “I am now well ahead of Noah’s pace, while I haven’t even started my journey through Africa and, last but not least, the most bird-rich continent of all, South America.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2022
The Bearded Woodpecker (Mkuze, South Africa) does not really look any more bearded than many other woodpeckers. The name of the Cardinal Woodpecker (Letaba, South Africa) is misleading, as not all of them are Catholic or even cardinals. It is the most widespread woodpecker in Africa, claims the HBW. ”).
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 4, 2014
Where did the Coney Island Gray-hooded Gull come from, Africa or South America? I kept wishing I had Rare Birds of North America , by Steve N. In this book, rare birds are species “for which, on average, only 5 or fewer individuals have been found annually in North America since around 1950.” And, not very often.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 10, 2019
Perhaps just once in a decade, the UK experiences an invasion of Painted Ladies , Vanessa ( Cynthia) cardui. Anyone in North America might know them as Cosmopolitan Butterfly. Any individuals found in Britain are immigrants or progeny of emigrants from Europe and Africa and thus receive exalted status.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Each chapter focuses on a specific geographic area of penguin population: (1) Antarctica, (2) South Georgia, (3) Falkland Islands, (4) South Africa and Tristan de Cunha, (5) New Zealand and Australia, (6) South America and Galapagos. © Otto Plantema, used with permission. Press, 2011).
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 15, 2014
Typically, at least here in North America, we think of migration as a north-south affair. As summer ends these same birds (and the new year’s broods) then escape the snow and ice and head south for the austral summer, finding warmth, long days and abundant insect life. A male Northern Wheatear. Sexes are highly dimorphic.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
He is also a serious birder (and a birding friend), and his birding observations and adventures are used throughout the book to introduce evolutionary questions and illustrate the mental interplay between personal experience and scientific curiosity. Why are all the real tanagers in tropical America?
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