10,000 Birds
APRIL 27, 2023
As sound photography has not been invented yet, I will therefore focus on the other birds encountered here. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900), a director to the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, whose study of bird fossils led to the discovery of tropical birds such as trogons and parrots from prehistoric France.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2024
The Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus has been one of my favourite birds since I was little. The bright yellow shrivelled-up skin of the naked head is most repulsive…and yet it must be repeated few birds present a finer sight when on the wing… ”. Look at it close up and it does look grotesque.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2015
Bird blogging in May always gives me the creeps. This ridiculous focus of the Birding Internet on North American wood-warblers is boring on a quiet day and highly annoying during peak migration. It visits bird feeders, making it a worthy spark bird to new birders as they may see it closely. And do they ever try so hard.
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2015
There are lots of great birding sites in Costa Rica. In fact, go anywhere with a good amount of natural forest and the birding is gonna be good. Visiting those out of the way spots is necessary if you want to add these and other choice “bonus birds” to the three or four hundred species ticked at the usual sites.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2020
One of these days, Jeopardy will feature a category called “Field Guides” and the first clue will be: “This landlocked South American country finally got its own bird field guide in 2016, but it wasn’t available in the United State until 2019.” Bolivia doesn’t come up much in discussions of birding travel.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2013
Confiscated from a poacher in Brescia, Italy, this robin will be released to fly away into an uncertain world, where habitat is threatened and predators and poachers await. If you are a migratory bird in Europe and western Asia, this is your sweet spot. A recent survey of the birds suggests that the effort has been a success.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 3, 2018
How many of us have heard that open-ended question while birding in the USA, Canada, and Costa Rica? Since we all know that what falls into the “good bird” category is relative, I guess you can answer it any way you want. Like if you feel that seeing a friendly chattering House Sparrow was a good bird, then it indeed was.
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