10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2014
They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. The Horned Guan is not just one of, if not THE standout birds of Mexico and Guatemala, but of the entire world. Their first contribution to 10,000 Birds is here. Their second is here.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2019
There are more than 50 regional endemics to choose from, and many birds are easier to see in Costa Rica than many other places because of access to habitat and/or lack of hunting pressure. Thanks to better protection from hunting, this fancy bird is tame and easy to see at many sites in Costa Rica. Buff-fronted Quail-Dove.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2015
But I have visited Guatemala, Lesotho and Zimbabwe to actually visit them and count them, even though I spent less time in them than I did Zurich. I slept in hotel in Zurich but didn’t leave the airport or even clear immigration, so I can’t really say I’ve been to Switzerland either. It’s arbitrary, but there you go.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2011
Here in New Zealand te only potential big tick would be a lost vagrant painted snipe, and we’ve already established that I don’t enjoy that kind of vagrant hunting. At this point if I want to make any dent on the remaining families I haven’t seen I’d really need to go to either Madagascar or South America.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
Crawford, in “Introduction to Europe and Diffusion of Domesticated Turkeys from the America (sic)”: A document dated 24 October 1511 was an order from the Bishop of Valencia for each ship from the Islands and Tierra Firme to bring to Seville ten turkeys, half males and half females, for breeding. According to R.D. Which would be weird.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
The 6 th edition of the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America , for example, includes “extinct” and “probably extinct” species in a chapter, mixed in with accidentals.) Other species are less known. Their stories are related by Morris in a narrative style that combines facts with anecdotes, dates with speculation.
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