article thumbnail

Birding the Rainforest Canopy

10,000 Birds

The lure of an staggering number of species at a particular location is a draw for many people. In fact, the number of “heard only” annotations next to a species names is more frequent in bird list resulting from rainforest birding than birding in any other habitat type. Birding in the Amazon Rainforest has its pros and cons.

Peru 181
article thumbnail

The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows

10,000 Birds

We know that the human mind has capacities that are not common in other animals. A number of research projects have sought to determine if some of these human brain abilities are found in other animals. It turns out, for example, that “Theory of Mind” is very rare in the animal kingdom.

Abandon 221
article thumbnail

Wild Sri Lanka

10,000 Birds

Throughout the book there are extracts from `A Naturalist’s Journal’, which in the form of a first person commentary take readers to specific habitats in search of the animals to be found there. 465 species have been recorded and the list keeps growing. Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom.

Sri Lanka 190