10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

There are the endemics, which are odd in their own way, and then there introduced species, which are so varied in their type and origin that you get the feeling you’ve arrived at the aftermath of a small zoo that escaped. People have moved useful plants and animals around with them as long as they had the wit to do so.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2020

The De Grey River rest area is a good place to take a break if you are travelling the long journey between the two towns of Broome and Port Hedland in Western Australia. It does not completely solve the problem, because animals transport the burrs, but it will hopefully slow the spread. The rest area was reopened in April 2019.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2018

In Western Australia there has been a project running for several years now to beautify grain silos and several have now been painted with native wildlife. As for the Honey Possum in the artwork they are a species that I do not have a photo of! New Holland Honeyeater.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2019

In the end, I truly did set out to reduce the number of birds that I feature here from 1302, my years total species, down to 10-12. Spending time in Darwin Australia, has made that our #1 spot to return to after the year was done. Just off the coast of Caines Australia lays the Great Barrier Reef.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

There are always stray cattle to watch out for, but we prefer to minimize the risk of hitting animals by leaving on road trips until a couple of hours after sunrise. There is a variation in the colour of Galahs around Australia and the ones in the Kimberley are not as pink as some other areas.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

Colorful bills and heads seem quite popular among Letaba’s bird species – see the African Jacana (blue and black) … … the Striated Heron (yellow and blue) … … and the Yellow-billed Stork (yellow and red). The Latin species name vermiculatus (worm-like) refers to the markings on the upperparts.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2012

They have been a crucial part of the culture of the islands and forests where they are found for the last 50,000 years, and were amongst the first animals of the East to make it back to Europe with the earliest Portugese and Spanish explorations. There are, however, two species that are more accesible than the rest of the family.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The book is chiefly about how people have conceptualized and studied birds, but there is an underlying theme, the changing ways in which our Western culture has viewed animals, nature and God. ’ Ironically, this is from Birds of Australia , which scholars and art historians suspect was more Elizabeth’s work than John’s.*.

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JANUARY 11, 2012

It concerns the nature of wildlife in Australia, and is perhaps the most remarked about aspect of Australia’s wildlife, at least the impression you’d get if you’ve ever watched ten minutes of Animal Planet. The very dangerous nature of the wildlife. Stingers, or box jellyfish, are serious business.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2012

His passion for wildlife and traveling has led him all over the world, from the Amazon to Australia and even Madagascar. ” James states, “I am so excited for the premiere of Aerial Assassins and to introduce the world to the Harris’s Hawk , a species that has become popular among birders and others over the past two decades.”

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Critter News

MARCH 13, 2010

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or Cites that opened in the Qatari capital on Saturday will be discussing 42 proposals during the next two weeks. Australia and Japan are among the countries refusing to back a total ban. Tags: australia CITES marine life marine animals Japan. From Al Jazeera.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

Other species have certainly expanded their ranges, but never in such a rapid and global scale. They feed on insects stirred up by the herds, at times sitting on the animal itself picking off ticks and other insects. For reasons that are not quite clear, this species underwent a massive range expansion.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

Some differences in animal behavior are quite striking. I do not get too many comments on my blog posts, but it seems that whenever I write about jacanas – whether in Africa, Australia, or Asia – there is an unusually high number of reactions (well, maybe one or two rather than the usual zero) from female readers.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

The Ross Sea is the most productive stretch of water in the Southern Ocean, teeming with large predatory fish, whales, seals, penguins and other animals that form the last intact marine ecosystem on Earth. There are 11 species of birds that breed in the Ross Sea region. Enough History – Back to the Future. Finally – the Seabirds.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Although the class focused “on birds, students also pick up some botany, geology, hydrology, forestry, fisheries, meteorology, and wildlife management,” students also learned “the names, habits, and importance of local animals and plants.” and from Australia. And many become birders. I got about 50 email responses.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2017

I am not expert on our local wildflowers and scientists are constantly finding new species in remote areas of the Kimberley, so for some of the flowers I can only give you a family name. Thankfully they only prey on insects, because we have our fair share of dangerous animals in Australia without adding plants as a threat to our lives!!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2011

Australia is a dry continent and as such all bird-life needs to take advantage of any fresh water that is available. This may be a simple dripping tap, but one of the biggest attractions in Australia is the Poo Ponds. Here are some views from the air-thanks to Google Earth-so you can see how easy it is to find a Poo Pond in Australia!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2013

Keep River National Park sits on the border of Western Australia and the Northern Territory and it is entered from just over the border. At Cockatoo Lagoon you can take a short walk along the edge of the billabong and there are a variety of birds, but not necessarily large numbers of any particular species. Cockatoo Lagoon.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2022

For many of you I doubt you have heard of the expression “Bush telly” In Australia the term is generally used to describe what you watch when you have no electricity and you are camping and you have to find something else to watch other than a television. It is mostly associated with watching a campfire burn or the night sky.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 26, 2008

I came across this 2005 book from the Society & Animals Journal titled Confronting Cruelty Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement. Why and how do people campaign on behalf of a species that is not their own? Tags: animal cruelty books. Sounds interesting.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 26, 2010

SeaWorld worked with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) to develop a program to sustain the species’ growth. Tawny frogmouths are native to the forested savannas and open woodlands of Australia. originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on May 26, 2010. To discover more, visit SeaWorld.org.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Nat Geo WILD takes viewers around the world to follow dedicated people working to save Nature’s Miracle Babies – often the last hope for critically vulnerable species. Each animal they raise to adulthood is a step away from extinction, with the ultimate challenge to return them to the wild. Miracle Babies: Baby Pandas.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2008

Whoever thought President Bush was a pro-animal environmentalist? People like Adolf Hitler are pro-animal environmentalists! The point, of course, is that there is no necessary connection between (1) a person's attitude toward animals or the environment and (2) his or her normative political theory.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2021

It is also strange, perhaps, that the subject of this short excellent video series, is not from Australia but from the true ‘land of birds’ across the ditch from Australia – New Zealand or Aotearoa. It is a story of recent and future conservation efforts within New Zealand to conserve their endemic bird species.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

When going to Australia, one of the two birds I wanted to see most was the Tawny Frogmouth. Gisela Kaplan has written a book about the species, and how they seem unperturbed by humans: “It’s one of their most successful defense strategies. They just sit and pretend not to be there to avoid interaction.”

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

Type it in and you’ll find articles about a showy South African plant, trailers for two films (one of which was pre-Code and apparently created a sensation), eleven novels, a romance novel series, an animated children’s film, socks, and no less than nine coloring books. Introduction.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Frigatebirds (Fregatidae) Five species of frigatebird ply the planet’s tropical skies and seas. Ringer Cormorants and Shags (Phalacrocoracidae) Cormorants are more speciose than other families in the order; 30-40 species range widely on every continent and many islands. • Explore These Related Posts What is a raptor?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This makes it a particularly exciting time in New Zealand as the Rugby World Cup begins in two days, and the competition is being held right here in New Zealand (I would imagine they might be more excited if they hadn’t just lost two matches to Australia and South Africa, their big rivals in the Tri-Nations).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2022

Rufous Whistlers are a common species in our garden and live in the bush just over the back fence, but they are not too keen to be photographed! All of the streets in this area of Broome have either native bird or native animal names. However, not every bird species has a street. It is also a good camouflage! Rufous Whistler.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

” Writing about owls means writing about roughly 250 species (I counted 245 on the 2022 Clements spreadsheet, but I might have missed a few, and we all know that each classification system is different). These are behaviors that are most likely to vary across species and topics that make for compelling stories.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Penguins are cartoons, emoticons, animated films, children’s books (though owls really take first place here), sports teams, a book publisher, and a Batman villain (a rare example of penguin negativity, though Burgess Meredith did bring an endearing attitude to his 1960’s TV portrayal). © Otto Plantema, used with permission.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

One of these clades holds a diversity of Old World species in several distinct groups, including an Australasian clade, the green-pigeons, the emerald- and wood-doves, the imperial-pigeons and fruit-doves (favorites of mine), and the subjects of our investigation today, the 15 known members of the Raphini. ” Beehler et al.’s

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2021

This particular bird species is not common around Broome, but easily found in Derby. The tide was out and we were hopeful of a Great-billed Heron , but luck was not on our side for this species on this visit. Both of these bird species are easier to find in Derby than in Broome. Little Egret. Kimberley Flycatcher.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

We nature lovers, celebrants of life in all its exquisite multiformity, feel more keenly than most the loss of even the most undifferentiated species. The prehistoric extinctions most famously include the megafaunal assemblages of Europe, the Americas, Australia and Madagascar. Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2015

On our trip to the north of Western Australia we took the opportunity to visit the Pentecost River, which is south of Wyndham and is near the start of the infamous Gibb River Road. It is not generally advisable to travel from dusk to dawn due to the risk of animals crossing the roads. The start of the Gibb River Road from the east.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2012

The wonderful family Meropidae contains 27 dazzling species, of which Africa is endowed with no less than 20 species, the balance occurring across Asia and with one as far afield as Australia. We have both resident and migratory species, and this post will briefly discuss each of the 20 species of African bee-eaters.

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