10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2014

The Cuckoo Roller — today found only in Madagascar and Comoros — is an oddball bird with a puffy head and a chameleon-eating habit. The Secretarybird is a powerful, long-legged terrestrial hunter particularly well known for killing snakes by stamping them to death but also perfectly happy to consume other animal prey.

Madagascar 275

Madagascar Comoros South America Ecuador 275

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

One study found that birds living in Botswana had elevated levels of lead in their bloodstreams during hunting season, presumably coming from lead bullets used on animals killed by hunters. .” (HBW). A slightly more surprising threat for the vultures comes from elephants. .” And I do not see much of a helmet either.

Elephants 147

Elephants Birds Congo Africa 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

The prehistoric extinctions most famously include the megafaunal assemblages of Europe, the Americas, Australia and Madagascar. And some of the extinctions were of small animals, like the many dwarf goats and elephants in the Mediterranean. The Mysterious Starling – “Killed Hopping About in a Tree”. Comebackers. 314 U.S.

Marsupials 166

Marsupials Costa Rica Elephants Cuba 166

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

As Mattison says, “Frogs are unlikely to be mistaken for any other type of animal.” The poison dart frog pictured here is the Golden poison dart frog, Phyllobates terribilis, known as the world’s most poisonous animal; its skin secretions are used by South American Indians from the Colombian Andes for their blowgun darts.

Reptiles 182

Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 182