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.

2011 155

2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 155

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

Solomon Islands 278

Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 278

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2013

But the thing is, while the animals may not want to kill you, it sometimes feels as if the land itself does. As it has moved north, buffeted by the Australian plate on one side and the enormous Pacific plate on the other, it has carried a cargo of animals and plants from that now lost super continent of Gondwana.

New Zealand 170

New Zealand Vanuatu Australia Hawaii 170