10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2024
Given that according to the HBW, the species prefers dense primary and secondary montane forests, the note that the bird also forages among kitchen waste (in the same HBW entry) seems somewhat incongruous. Fish & Wildlife Service has a web page for this species – but it contains absolutely no information.
10,000 Birds
JULY 19, 2018
Birders follow different patterns of bird migration and their local activities and travel accordingly. It illustrates the bird richness per country. And what does it tell us, other than the obvious “head for South America” or perhaps Indonesia? 1401-1600 sp: Ecuador, Bolivia; Indonesia. But – where? 801-1000 sp. –
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
You know there is probably some evil backstory if Wikipedia talks of a “complex” legacy of Raffles – further detailing that “he was ultimately an imperialist benefiting at the expense of the indigenous peoples” So, I guess this is another bird name that should be changed eventually.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 17, 2022
And in my customary environmentally friendly approach to recycling bird photos, I have collected some of them in this post. Apparently, soloensis stands for “Discovered in or native to the Solo River valley” (Wikipedia; the Solo river is a river in Indonesia). It is not a bird I am ever likely to find boring, though.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2012
As 10,000 Birds’ New Zealand beat writer, I sometimes should write about New Zealand birds, but today I thought I’d talk about a bird that people thought was one but almost certainly wasn’t. So what were these Australian birds doing in New Zealand? And, sometimes, New Zealand.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2013
This new analysis again suggested that Snowy Owls (and the fascinating fish-owls ) are embedded within the eagle-owl complex. So I wasn’t aware there was any controversy about the matter, until I saw a passage in a new monograph on the bird, The Snowy Owl , by Eugene Potapov and Richard Sale. And that’s a marvelous gift.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 18, 2012
It is an adherent to fresh water lakes, canals and swamps from India through East Asia, Indonesia and New Guinea. On each occasion the bird clambered into position and held itself between two reed stems above the water. The photos in this post are of three individuals.
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