10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2022
A family motel and passion for responsible ecotourism brought her home to the Oregon Coast where she and her husband, Erik, adventure and record a podcast ( Hannah and Erik Go Birding ), created in an effort to inspire others to get out and bird. About half of all breeding Wandering Albatross nest on the Prince Edward Islands.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 6, 2018
About six-and-a-half years ago I had the privilege of watching a young Waved Albatross on the Galapagos island of Española learning how to fly. It’s not often that we have the opportunity to glimpse the home life of albatrosses, nor of any seabird species. So, what did I learn from Far From Land ?
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2011
And the famous Wandering Albatross has the largest wingspan of any living bird, nearly 12 feet across in the largest individuals. — penguins. Four families are often recognized: storm-petrels, albatrosses, shearwaters and petrels , and diving-petrels. Do you get far enough from land to see tubenoses?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
Vagrants are rare but this miserable Emperor Penguin did wash up once. Any birder seeking every bird family on Earth would have to come here, as no less than six bird families are endemic – the kiwis, New Zealand parrots, New Zealand wrens, Stichbird, wattlebirds and mohouas (more families formerly found here are sadly now lost).
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Penguins here! <pause> There are few bird names that will elicit great big smiles and Penguin is one of them. I’ve been fortunate to see two Penguin species in the wild (African and Galapagos) and have dreamed of seeing more–maybe even all! <pause> Do I have your attention now?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
The “Owls and Albatrosses” chapter, for example, begins with Doug’s personal experiences observing of the nesting strategies of Malleefowl and a Moluccan Megapode, Australasian “chickens who lay their eggs in unusual ways and do not parent. that’s three birds). This is a book that requires attention.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
The inner side of the front cover contains the visual Quick Reference with paintings of one representative of the family followed by the relevant page number. I particularly like the albatrosses and owls, shrikes and boubous. The next page contains an alphabetical Quick Reference.
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