10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 25, 2021
Anyway, so I started checking my bird photo collection for photos of species starting with an A (after all, this is a bird photo blog, though I sometimes tend to forget this). Like the Australian Ringneck (Alice Springs, Australia). A minor variation is a name starting with Australasian, as in Australasian Darter (Brisbane, Australia).
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2022
It has been more than 5 years since I last went to Australia, and I was even less of a qualified bird photographer then than I am now. However, the lockdown forces me to go deeper and deeper into my photo collection, if I want to write anything at all. And that seems to be the only vaguely satisfying thing left to do at the moment.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2022
According to Wikipedia, the national bird of Australia is the Emu – which I have not seen yet. On the other hand, some websites state that the Laughing Kookaburra is Australia’s national symbol. It was among the first birds to be scientifically described in Australia.
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
OCTOBER 21, 2018
All along the eastern coast of Australia there are Satin Bowerbirds Ptilonorhychus violaceus. Instead of collecting green and white items they have an obsession with blue. The Satin Bowerbirds that we have encountered have been close to human habitation and as such the items have been mostly man-made. Male Satin Bowerbird.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2013
We often see them flying from place to place collecting items for their bowers and they are rather clever at imitating other birds vocal sounds. In a period of a week it had filled up the inside of the bower with a collection of brand new shiny tech screws. The green glass collection.
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