10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2014
Obviously, I am talking of Feral Pigeons (also called city, town or street pigeons). The scientific name of the Feral Pigeon is Columba livia domestica and that last world tells the story. The scientific name of the Feral Pigeon is Columba livia domestica and that last world tells the story.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2015
Under that impossibly blue sky of Africa. The Feral Pigeon and the House Sparrow came the day after, when in the lush green oasis of the Sanitas nursery tea garden I noticed the announcement of the next meeting of the Botswana Bird Club. Everything around you is new and the World is exciting again, or was it simply Africa?
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
And so, I went on the American Birding Association Safari to South Africa. That was easily fixed by adding a post-Safari trip to Eastern South Africa, led by dashing Rockjumper guide Clayton Burne, to my itinerary. They range from the successful eradication of feral cats from Marion Island (hear that, Corey?)
10,000 Birds
MAY 13, 2015
Thanks to a relatively feral childhood I have been left immune to the power of poetry, so I shall dismiss the poetry (a form of art comparable at best to interpretive dance) with a simple dismissive wave of the hand. They are birds at their most composed, soaring effortlessly on thermals across the sky, and birds at their most feral.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
The Collins Bird Guide covers Europe, North Atlantic islands, much of North Africa and the Middle East. Forget occasional escapees, there is an established feral population successfully breeding in the north of Germany, which was 131 birds strong last year.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2012
The Rose-ringed Parakeet naturally occurs in two isolated areas: a thin strip across Africa just south of the Sahara, and south Asia where it is mostly found in India with smaller ranges in adjacent countries. This is what happens when people choose their pet birds on visual factors alone without taking vocalizations into account.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2012
White-backed / Striated Munia Lonchura striata Munias or mannikins (but not manakins), are small, seed-eating finches from Africa, Asia and Australia. They are popular as caged birds and escapees have established a number of feral populations beyond their normal ranges.
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