10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2024

Above is a buck with antlers in velvet , while the animal below has clean antlers A Muntjac on the run. Note the short legs, stout body and white rump and tail I see Muntjac on virtually every birding (or dog-walking) outing, as these small Asian deer are now very numerous around my home in the Suffolk Brecks.

Fur 221

Fur Deer Boars Estonia 221

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

People have moved useful plants and animals around with them as long as they had the wit to do so. They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. But hedgehogs? There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either.

New Zealand 162

New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 162

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!).

Buffalo 213

Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 213