10,000 Birds
JUNE 18, 2014
One of the less talked about draws of visiting Asia for birders is the opportunity to check out some of the many pheasants that lurk there. Usually pheasants are located deep in the jungle, where they tend to avoid people due to their close resemblance to the highly edible chicken (itself derived from an attractive Asian junglefowl).
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 5, 2013
It usually refers to an unleavened bread of the type made in south Asia. In Trinidad and Tobago, various wrapped “roti” are served, including chicken, conch, beef, and vegetable. Let me tell you, a wrap of curried chicken and potatoes was both delicious and filling. What, exactly, is roti?
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10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. A housecat in Buenos Aires got its start in Africa, a sheep in Australia to the Middle East, a chicken in Ireland can trace its origin to the jungles of Asia. But hedgehogs? Greenfinches?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2014
Later the continents broke up into smaller regions such as South America, Africa, Asia and such, an a few smaller pieces like Madagascar and New Zealand as well. A flying but biggish (as in chicken-turkey-size) bird gave rise to a basal non-flying bird that broke up through vicariance into the diversity we see today.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 21, 2015
Close to 5% of turkeys being farmed in Minnesota have been or shortly will be destroyed , and the virus is also affecting chickens. In the past, most variants of this virus were not especially bad, but the current, recently emerged variant causes severe health effects in domestic turkeys and chickens.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
The bird flu, in Asia, has been out of the news but that’s just because the news ignores anything that happens for more than three days in a row that is not an election. A throat swab sent to the Taiwan Centres For Disease Control helped scientists identify H6N1, a subtype of avian flu that has been spreading in chickens.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
The “Owls and Albatrosses” chapter, for example, begins with Doug’s personal experiences observing of the nesting strategies of Malleefowl and a Moluccan Megapode, Australasian “chickens who lay their eggs in unusual ways and do not parent. What does it mean that a hummingbird fossil was found in southeastern France?
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