10,000 Birds
JULY 19, 2018
And what does it tell us, other than the obvious “head for South America” or perhaps Indonesia? 1401-1600 sp: Ecuador, Bolivia; Indonesia. It may be slightly impractical to focus on big countries such as Brazil or Indonesia. I discovered this cover-photo map somewhere at the BirdLife International’s website.
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.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 16, 2021
In fact, the best known member of the family, Central America’s aptly-named Resplendent Quetzal , looks less like Michoacán’s trogons than, say, Africa’s Narina Trogon , or the Red-naped Trogon of Indonesia. Honesty requires that I confess to having seen none of these species. Wikipedia has been used.).
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2021
Anyway, even this lower number puts China at rank 8 in the list of countries with the most bird species, surpassed only by Indonesia outside of the usual suspects in South America.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 26, 2014
However, the Sunda islands span over a large region, and if the teal’s range is projected onto North America, it covers the area between Los Angeles and the panhandle of Florida. Birds dabbling ducks Indonesia waterfowl' Now, “restricted to the islands of…” does not sound very extensive.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2011
It is not limited to North America, as many of my other quizzes are. This week’s quiz is geographically GLOBAL in nature. Your objective is to determine the correct country and then answer the questions shown at the bottom of the quiz. 2. On one list, it is the 27th country with the most number of different bird species.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2013
In the meantime, those of us in eastern North America have another chance to observe (ethically and respectfully, of course) these powerful white tundra dinosaurs and contemplate their connection to the mighty brown forest-dwellers of our own latitudes, and all other life on our planet. We may learn more tomorrow, and that would be exciting.
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