10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2014

They gradually spread to the Atlantic Ocean by way of the southern coast of North America (before it was joined to South America) and gained the ability to pursue prey by diving in cool waters (see Pereira and Baker 2008 ).

Penguins 224

Penguins Puffins 2008 Sharks 224

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2013

This Short-tailed Shearwater is a passage visitor from Australia, on its way up to see America! The rocks here are particularly good for New Zealand Fur-seals, but we also saw Variable Oystercatchers , Black-fronted Terns, Caspian Terns , White-fronted Terns, Red-billed Gulls and Kelp Gulls. A New Zealand Fur-seal.

Albatross 165

Albatross New Zealand Seals Fur 165

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2012

Unlike North America, Germany has never had naturally occurring psittacines that went extinct, and the one we have is a true and complete invasive alien introduction. Heidelberg Zoo to the south-west of Neuenheimer Feld, all over the place but most often at the seals enclosure and the adjacent kiosk. Common Redstart and Fieldfare.

Germany 246

Germany Netherlands Zoos Geese 246

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

It does not include near-shore, coastal species, like Brown Pelican, Elegant Tern, and Harbor Seal. Petrels, Albatrosses , and Storm-Petrels of North America, Howell’s definitive book on these species, of course gives the most information, including the fact that the bird is rare to uncommon off the west coast in mid-June to July.

Dolphins 162

Dolphins Whales Whaling Porpoises 162

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Even the names we give to some birds reflect their dependence on the cultivated landscape – we have Barn Owls ( Tyto alba ) and Barn Swallows ( Hirundo rustica ) over much of the world, and Orchard Orioles ( Icterus spurius ) in the Americas really do have a fondness for fruit groves.

Vermont 119

Vermont Belgium Farming Europe 119

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2012

I live in one of the few places in North America where both species breed and occur regularly. I’m going to show you some of the things I look at to tell the two species apart, and explain why I try and get good photographs of their feet to seal the deal when I get home.

Seals 190

Seals North America Breeding Species 190

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

August arrived and I was releasing birds knowing they’d need time to adapt prior to making that long flight across the Gulf of Mexico, headed to South America. It was so great, and it sealed my admiration for Veronica’s amazing dedication and skill.”. Finally, it was just Sophie left.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 223

Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 223

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

And, I started daydreaming about encountering something a little different, maybe a Horned Frog, Ceratophrys cornuta, a large, squat green and brown frog of South America, with a wide mouth large enough to eat other frogs as well as reptiles.

Reptiles 185

Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 185

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Observing it negotiate swaying and swishing palm fronds was akin to seeing a seal swim through a kelp forest. This striking bird is a strange character and supposedly confused ornithologists for many years even though it was a common sight throughout marshes and open areas in much of South America.

Farming 221

Farming Guyana Birds South America 221

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The descriptions of the territory’s birds, seals, whales, introduced mammals, invertebrates, and plants are written within the framework of the conversationist, so it is more than a field guide, it is a record of endangered wildlife and the efforts being made to protect it. Surprisingly, South Georgia is not all ice and snow.

Georgia 173

Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 173

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2019

Certainly, boxed wine has none of the rarefied cachet of its bottled cousins: there’s no lovingly hand-pasted label, the anticipation in prying a cork from the bottle for the first time since it was sealed at the vineyard, or the aesthetic appeal of the red wine sloshing out from its dark emerald glass enclosure. A Spanish bota de vino.

Goats 121

Goats Seals 2003 South America 121

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Ever the moral perfectionist, Franklin argued that the turkey was a much more honorable and determined fowl, and suggested the bird – as an “original Native of America” – would make a decidedly more fitting avian mascot for the United States (seemingly implying – incorrectly – that the Bald Eagle is not an indigenous New World species).

2017 151

2017 Bald Eagle United States Turkey 151