10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

This is particularly poignant if the bird has disappeared during the course of my birding days or “on my watch” as I like to think of it. Islands, for various reasons, experience more extinctions than continents (with Africa being the only continent not suffering a bird extinction!).

Madagascar 242

Madagascar Lemurs 2006 Owls 242

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2012

Are humans a part of nature or a force (sometimes benevolent, more often destructive) that acts upon it? Finally, and of particular note to this audience, birds do not feature largely in the piece. For adventure and danger? For renewal or just plain fun? The answer, of course, is all of the above. It depends on perspective and context.

Madagascar 159

Madagascar Lemurs Humane Protection 159

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

There is a fantastic paper just out in Science : “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of birds” by Michael Lee, Andrea Cau, Darren Naishe and Gareth Dyke. So, for example, humans are apes. But birds are dinosaurs. and contains apes is referenced to indicate the complete clade.

Camels 201

Camels Whales Whaling Apes 201

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

– Birds are indeed dinosaurs, yet, are indubitably not. Knowledge is knowing that a bird is a dinosaur. Humans have always classified organisms in a variety of ways, depending on need. Some sort of ancient fish-with-feet is the ancestors of humans. Therefore, humans are fish with feet, right? Think about it.

Monkeys 140

Monkeys Gorillas Whales Whaling 140

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Adam Riley, owner and managing director of Rockjumper Birding Tours , is a world birder if ever there was one, but has a special place in his heart for his home continent. Adam will be leading 10,000 Birds readers on an amazing odyssey into Africa starting… now! And Africa is the ONLY continent without an extinct bird to boot!

Papua New Guinea 225

Papua New Guinea Madagascar Africa Equatorial Guinea 225