10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

The gulls that spent months attacking any human on the place are content to loaf around and ignore you. Visiting this area for the first time after seeing it for month was a crazy experience. It’s a liberating feeling on a tiny island. A view from the West End, an area completely closed even to the biologists during the summer.

Whales 157

Whales Whaling Sharks Bats 157

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

They are part of the scarab beetle complex and over 300 species have been described, occurring not only in Africa but also Europe, Asia and the Americas. They are harmless to humans and their horns are used for wrestling other males for mating rights. In Asia they are even commonly kept as pets!

Buffalo 195

Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 195

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

I got to see a beautiful female and owlet on a trip to a secret nest location near Howard Prairie Lake (human-made nest structures have enhanced local breeding for these huge owls whose nest success is boosted to 83% on artificial platforms vs. 66% at natural sites). The experience, the place, and the bird combine to make this my BBOTY.

2014 183

2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 183

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Within the Chiffchaff’s rather coherent continental range from Western Europe to East Asia, we can observe a gradual change in colouration and song. This is all easy stuff because the populations are geographically isolated, and you can analyse their songs and DNA and thus come to more or less convincing conclusions. There’s more.

Kazakhstan 156

Kazakhstan Europe Russia Asia 156

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. 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. Humans were drawing owls 36,000 years ago, as Ackerman points out! They are also hunted.

Owls 200

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 200

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences. I had hoped for more.

Costa Rica 264

Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

There are a lot of other large Galliforme birds around the world, and before the Spanish were busy conquering the New World, one of these, from Central Asia most likely, was already being imported as a food product and as live birds into Europe. The Spanish Colonial Experience and Domestic Animals. This is where they got their name.

Turkey 198

Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 198

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. For all of recorded history, humans have classified other living things by their physical characteristics.

2011 151

2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 151

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The four authors, themselves field ornithologists, conservationists, birders, and writers with years of experience in southeast Asia, researched scientific studies ranging from early 19th-century descriptions of the birds of Java to the latest phylogenomic studies. Where is the Indonesian Archipelago?

Indonesia 121

Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 121

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I get my own idea of the lunacy of Gooddie’s quest when I talk to a friend who has birded Asia and Africa. Beer looms large in Gooddie’s daily routine, and much text is devoted to finding beer in the middle of rural Asia and evaluating its quality. The books work best when the birding is coupled with the human element.

Hunters 187

Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 187

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It seems the ones I got decent photos of are all juveniles – it generally seems to be easier to get photos of juveniles as they have not quite learned to avoid humans. Thank god that this does not apply to humans. Sometimes being a member of the human race feels very embarrassing. Not this one though.

Birds 191

Birds China Eggs Owls 191

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

That was a wild cat, a wild Wildcat, the cat that lives in the wild because that is where it is from and where it belongs, at the southern end of its pan-African range that extended at one time well into Europe and Asia. It isn’t like not killing the cat is in any way humane, considering the number of animals it will kill over time.

Feral Cats 252

Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 252

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2023

The Grey-backed Shrike apparently prefers locations close to human settlements – not because humans are particularly nice (we are not), but “because these habitats offer a better foraging substrate and places safe from large predators” ( source ). This male Plumbeous Water Redstart tried to ignore its chick.

Hamburgers 198

Hamburgers Birds Science China 198

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2014

In my mind, nothing beats traveling to memorable destinations to experience the grandeur of both human culture and natural beauty. Destinations Asia India' You’ve probably enjoyed shopping for the birders in your life, carefully choosing amazing optics , books , apps , or assorted gifts to impress female friends.

Tigers 170

Tigers India Litter Asia 170