10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

Great Tit Telomeres, Baby Talk, Brainy Birds. This morning, I have three interesting scientific findings related to bird for you. First, birds may age more quickly in urban environments. Third, which we already suspected, bird brains are adjusted to provide extra smartness in a way not seen in mammals. urban or rural).

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Mammals Zebras Birds Primates 115

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2014

For obvious reasons it has listed under “other names” in field guides “Zebra Duck” and it is easily identified from all other duck species in Australia by its distinct stripes. The Pink-eared Duck is very nomadic and there can be hundreds of these birds at a particular location one day and all gone the next.

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Ducks Zebras Australia 2014 171

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

And Flamingos and Hornbills and a Secretarybird and birds with names like Hamerkop and Thick-knee and Eremomela (which I know is a scientific term, but which, when pronounced correctly, reminds me of a Yiddish term of endearment my grandmother used). And so, I went on the American Birding Association Safari to South Africa.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 255

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2016

The ephemeral lakes are struggling to fill up this year and the birds are dispersing in search of water and places to breed. The lack of rain last year meant that the birds were soon concentrated around what water did remain and although it did make for some excellent bird watching at those areas it was worrying.

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Australia Zebras Family Species 104

4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 29, 2011

The breeding program has been a great success. Busch Gardens’ 65-acre Serengeti Plain is a naturalistic habitat featuring a diverse population of free-roaming African animals including giraffe, zebra, white rhinoceros, eland antelope and several other species of hoof stock and birds. That’s a big baby!

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Giraffes Gestation Tampa Rhinoceros 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2012

Last week a mystery bird from New Jersey rightly caused a fair bit of confusion among birders of the Garden State and beyond. The bird was a sparrow, that much was clear, but it didn’t seem to fit any of the easily boxes the other North American sparrows can be fairly easily sorted into. New Jersey mystery sparrow.

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New Jersey North Carolina Sparrows Connecticut 238

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 15, 2010

These births are part of a successful long-term breeding program at Busch Gardens. Busch Gardens’ 65-acre Serengeti Plain is a naturalistic habitat featuring a diverse population of free-roaming African animals including giraffe, zebra, white rhinoceros, eland antelope and several other species of hoof stock and birds.

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Giraffes Gestation Tampa Rhinoceros 100

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 23, 2010

These births are part of a successful long-term breeding program at Busch Gardens. Busch Gardens’ 65-acre Serengeti Plain is a naturalistic habitat featuring a diverse population of free-roaming African animals including giraffe, zebra, white rhinoceros, eland antelope and several other species of hoof stock and birds.

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Giraffes Gestation Tampa Rhinoceros 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2021

One of the more vocal birds at the Boab Quarry is the Great Bowerbird. They are often flying about in groups and the bower that has been built to attract female birds is mostly natural items. The only birds on the water in the quarry on our visit were Australasian Grebes. A good variety of birds drop by.

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Collecting Zebras Parrots Groups 152

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Nowhere else in Africa do the preconceived ideas of the continent really exist in such living detail; tall, red-robed Maasai herding their skinny cattle, endless grasslands studded with flat-topped Acacia trees and grazed by herds of zebras and wildebeest, and dramatic volcanic calderas brimming with big game and fierce predators!

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Tanzania Africa Stud Leopards 232

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2012

But Gotham’s many parks have some very suitable habitat for birds from the family Picidae and a birder in any borough of New York will generally find at least a couple of species during an average morning’s birding. Otherwise, their coloration is a simple black-and-white like in the female bird above this paragraph.

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New York City New York Woodpeckers New Jersey 256

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Early every morning we have birds in our garden getting a bath and drink, but the hottest days bring in the birds of prey and one of our most regular visitors is the Brown Goshawk. When it is extremely hot the other birds will also enter the garden using an alternative water source despite its presence.

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Birds Zebras Australia Breeding 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2021

It was our first encounter of Yellow-billed Spoonbills breeding and they had found the perfect environment. Of course, it was not just perfect for them, but many other birds. We only walked about 700 metres from the Fortescue River Bridge, but encountered a lovely variety of birds. Little Black Cormorant and Pacific Black Ducks.

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Pelicans Australia Ducks Zebras 149

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2012

There have been a lot of different birds around this year for various reasons, which mainly involve the climatic changes we experience from year to year. We have never seen as many Zebra Finches as we have this year and there are a lot more Budgerigars and Diamond Doves in the Broome area.

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2014 Zebras 2005 2008 155

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Last month we decided to head north to go camping and birding and top up the 2018 Year List. It is now very hot and dry inland and the temperature does not drop much at night, so you go to bed early and get up early like the animals and birds. We were woken by birds at 4am every day, so we were inside our tent early each night!

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Shelters Geese 2018 Ducks 114

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Our plan was to head north for a few days and observe the concentrated bird-life around the remaining ephemeral lakes and observe some of the birds that had arrived in the north of Australia over the past few weeks. We don’t “twitch” birds, but it would be a bird to look out for during our visit.

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Australia 2006 Japan Cambodia 103

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2021

After spending Christmas Day birding around Broome and observing 92 species we spent the week making a mental note of what bird species were where. Every time the weather changes or you observe a bird you did not see on Christmas Day you wonder where it will be on New Year’s Day. Royal Spoonbill and Australian Pelicans.

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Geese Ducks Breeding Zebras 227