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10,000 Birds
MAY 26, 2024
By Clive Finlayson Growing up in Gibraltar, it is impossible not to notice large birds of prey, in the thousands, overhead. That, and his father’s influence, got Clive hooked on birds from a very young age. Pu blishing papers, articles, and books on birds aside, Clive is also a keen bird photographer.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2022
The main attraction for birders here are the hornbills – I have written about them before , so this post will be more on the other birds I saw there in 2017. ” The Latin name of the Collared Falconet , Microhierax caerulescens , indicates that the bird should be a bluish microfalcon. “It is not deep enough yet!
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2018
In 1850, the Passenger Pigeon ( Ectopistes migratorius ) was the most abundant bird in North America and possibly the world. ” Contemporary environmentalism arrived too late to prevent the passenger pigeon’s demise due to market hunters, but the two phenomena share a historical connection. A newly created U.S.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
I am preparing for the new census of one of the rarest birds of Serbia, the globally threatened Great Bustard , taking place two days from now. Together with African Kori Bustard (which I observed on a camping trip in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve), this is the heaviest flying bird in the world. m–8 ft 10 in).
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 3, 2015
In my runs through the dinosaur halls with Jake and Zach, I’m pretty sure I saw Deinonychus , the small fossil that inspired the velociraptors in Jurassic Park and, more importantly (in some minds), revived a 19th century theory that birds are descended directly from dinosaurs. Like birds. Ostrom resurrected the 1868 theory of T.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
The lack of people does not mean we have any less extinct or threatened bird species than other countries. Even the first explorers to Australia documented there was a risk of extinction of birds and animals into the future and subsequently decided to collect as many specimens as possible! Handbook to The Birds of Australia, 1865.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
Larger, denser with avian information than your typical field guide, a Crossley Guide bursts with bird images, photographic plates that verge on the surreal of birds in all plumages and poses against real-life habitats, informing, sometimes overwhelming us with visual and, if you can take your eyes off the images, textual information.
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