10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The poster bird of this area is the near-threatened Black-necked Crane. Godlewski’s Bunting is an attractive bunting species with a rather broad distribution in Russia, Mongolia, China, and other countries. Not sure how I (or the bird itself) feel about the bird being named after a bird collector, though.

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China Mongolia Birds Russia 225

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Birding was tougher. There are no trees throughout the landscape, so it is either looking up for birds passing overhead or stomping through the scrub to flush hiding birds. I have seen documentaries of yak herders in Mongolia, but I never thought I would see something similar with my own eyes.

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Lesotho Sheep South Africa Africa 246

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.

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Mongolia Science Reptiles Indiana 225