10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2019

The tendency of birds to alight onto the wooden posts, steel towers, and metal wires that constitute our power and communications infrastructure turns any car ride into exciting and endless game of drive-by identification. And we move on to the next speck looming ahead and the game repeats itself, over and over. As Daniel L.

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United States Game North America New York City 119

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2011

Today Mark owns and operates the wildlife guiding and biodiversity survey company Desertlife.com.au. Yes, fellow birders, I keep a detailed list of all the species I have seen whilst I have been on the throne, peeing behind trees, or making like the proverbial bear in the woods. I call it the Loo List. My first Princess Parrot ?

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Chile Australia Monkeys 2008 209

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2022

In the usual human-centric way of thinking prevailing then (and maybe now – Alstroem’s Leaf Warbler, anyone?), But they seem to enjoy each other’s company even in the rain. It was named after the American ornithologist Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915), the founder of the American Ornithologist Union.

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Birds China Species Bears 147