10,000 Birds
JANUARY 29, 2014
Small birds will take shallow dives with little or no head start (terns and some gulls) whereas other will take impressive head starts for deeper dives and generally larger fish. Unlike an ill equipped diver like me, Boobies have adaptations for a plunge-diving lifestyle: forward-facing eyes and streamlined heads and body.
10,000 Birds
MAY 13, 2022
The only bird-related activity I can think of is looking at bird photos I took in Singapore in 2015, and adding some irrelevant comments to them. Presumably, birds living in Singapore do not understand German. Writing this post, I have been in lockdown in my Shanghai compound for 60 days. “Odd, me?”
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2021
He found some solace when, at age eleven, he became entranced with birds – specifically, with a Green Woodpecker — and that sighting, he says, “took me to another, safer world.” . More Birds Than Bullets: My Life With Birds is his account of the centrality of birds in all of these endeavors, and in his life.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2021
Anyway, after a long walk, getting very wet (the dog even more, as he likes splashing around in the rice paddies that are currently flooded), I decided to do a bit of birding. Later, using the car as a hide, I could approach the bird quite closely (I love the feeling of being invisible to birds in a car), and watched it for almost two hours.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2019
“Target birds” The term can foster excitement but is easily contentious. Aren’t all birds worth watching? There’s nothing wrong with appreciating and watching every bird but there’s also nothing wrong about going to great efforts to see lifers only found in dreams. Fiery-throated Hummingbird.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 14, 2013
Based on their physical attributes and lifestyle, falcons enjoyed a very long run as a founding member of the order Falconiformes, along with the rest of the diurnal raptor-y type birds like vultures and eagles and hawks and hawk-eagles. Come check out the newest I and the Bird ! What is a falcon, really? Like falcons?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2021
Last year there was a spate of books specifically about bird “behavior” – though one might well say that every book about birds, from field guides on up, is about behavior in some way or another. The page or two of text for each bird has some good stuff, not all pertaining to migration. A “broad spectrum,” indeed.
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