10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Sepilok is one of the best places I ever spent time birding at – I did so for a week and could have easily spent more time there. So, in order to economize a bit, the Sepilok birds are described in three separate posts. Maybe the HBW should be administered by a university with a stronger interest in birds than Cornell.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 14, 2021
This is the second post in the Birding crème de la crème series (the first, focused on southern Asia, is here ). The bird-richest region of Africa is its equatorial East: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi (unlike the rest, the last one, Burundi, is politically unstable and not recommendable). Lake Nakuru.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 5, 2019
In birding circles, certain stretches of road or trail attain mythical status, eliciting knowing smiles and satisfied grins when mentioned. Aficionados of American birding know all too well the wonders of Panama’s Pipeline Road. Africa boasts its own legendary birding road: Uganda’s Budongo Forest Reserve AKA the Royal Mile.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2021
And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. This book is essentially about those birds that breed on the continent south of the Sahara, a topic few birders are familiar with. Some are incredibly rare and hard to find.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 20, 2015
This is a key feature of birds. Not all birds fly, but all birds have flight related anatomy and at least descend from those that did. So, insects, the ultimate fliers of today’s world, probably took more time to go from terrestrial to flying than the period of time since the last non-avian dinosaurs to the present.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 16, 2012
A while back I asked the question, How much bird is there, anyway? which was a comparative look at apparent, visible, often in your face biomass we observe when we as diurnal primates look around us. I had noted that if you took a quick look around you’d think there were a lot of birds and very few mammals. Makes you think.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 18, 2016
One of the key features of birds, and I use the term “key” literally, is vocalization. Primates are exceptional among the mammals, living amphibians (which represent only a small part of the original amphibian family tree) are pretty noisy too. Vocalization is central to bird behavior and evolution.
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