10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
Europeans must use these to come and bear away in the name of civilization all these dregs of the human race. A thousand of our soldiers would be enough to subdue all Asia from Lake Baykal to the Himalayas … Here the exploits of Cortez can still be repeated.”
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2022
I do not get too many comments on my blog posts, but it seems that whenever I write about jacanas – whether in Africa, Australia, or Asia – there is an unusually high number of reactions (well, maybe one or two rather than the usual zero) from female readers. This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway). How efficient.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2022
The Blue Whistling Thrush is presumably named for its loud human-like whistling, and possibly for being blue. The Latin name “ chinensis ” is somewhat misleading as is much more common in Southeast Asia than in China – apparently, it was chosen in the mistaken belief that the type specimen had come from China.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
But, getting the nest set up, amorous acitivites, the laying and hatching of the egg, all that, happens earlier. 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. But individual birds are not migrating sooner.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 2, 2014
Kinabalu (at 13,455 feet the highest peak in southeast Asia), and human development that has resulted in freshwater rice fields, secondary forest, and oil palm plantations, this means that Borneo offers an incredibly high degree of biodiversity. Borneo, the authors say, is under-birded. I think we need to do something about that.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. As the names and habitats imply, not all owl species are alike, in behavior, adaptation, relationship to humans, and in how humans perceive them.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2022
Oh, and maybe humans need to be a bit less destructive to your habitat, too. It also seems the species is good at keeping its nest hidden – while the bird was named in 1821, its nest and eggs were only discovered in 1958 ( source ). No wonder that Oriental Pratincoles generally encourage humans to eat more beef.
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