Bats Family Groups Hunting 
10,000 Birds
JUNE 5, 2024
A Jabiru disappeared up a small stream around one corner, another corner was attended to by a small family of Amazon Kingfishers. Around another bend, we came upon a small group of Pale-vented Pigeons on the sand, standing suspiciously close to the water’s edge.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 12, 2024
I remember the guide on my first Kenyan birding safari remarking that “birding groups always see far more mammals than those who come just to see animals. I viewed them at dusk, through a telescope, from a ridge overlooking the area they were hunting. Why the weasel should be the head of the family doesn’t really make sense.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2021
Ranging in color from off-white to dingy black, with pastel to gelatinous shades of yellow, orange, purple, and brown in-between, found in moist crevasses, decaying trees, rain-soaked pastures, mushrooms lack the beauty of butterflies and wildflowers cannot equal the action of bats, or flying fish, and certainly lack the spiritual zest of birds.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2015
Over a dozen distinctive ethnic groups exist here, many of whom live lives little touched by the modern world. The Turmi area is home to the Hamar tribe who numbering nearly 50,000 are one of the largest ethnic groups living in the Lower Omo Valley (with an approximate population of 200,000 tribal people). Hamar mother and child.
10,000 Birds
JULY 27, 2023
A group of five spectacular White-throated Magpie-Jays made a raucous appearance. Like all members of the Nightjar family, the Buff-collared Nightjar hunts for insects on the wing, at night, and rests immobile during the day, protected by its subtle camouflage. Nacho assured me that these bats are fruit-eaters.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 18, 2012
The lake was filled with families of Dusky Moorhens and Purple Swamphens (or Pukeko as we call them in New Zealand), all tending small groups of black chicks. Magpie-larks are neither magpies nor larks but are the largest of the monarch-flycatchers, and the most terrestrial of the family.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2014
When you read trip reports of birders going to remote and interesting locations to see interesting (and not so interesting birds, I’m looking at you LBJs), these accounts are typically written by people who have either gone with groups of like-minded people or those that have gone it alone. Poring Hot Springs.
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