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
JULY 28, 2022
Hot summer days, often reaching 40C/104F, time to open another beer and dream of birding some cooler place, a place where deep shade of tall trees controls the heat… Perhaps the world’s second largest rainforest? Mammals include Western Lowland Gorilla, Forest Elephant and Forest Buffalo, and eleven diurnal primates.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2022
The one bird I did not see here, however, was the Bateleur Eagle … One highlight in the area is the Saddle-billed Stork , likely to be the tallest species in the stork family. This bird is represented in an ancient Egyptian hieroglyph. Can’t say that it is a particularly obvious name from seeing the bird.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 30, 2020
Birds, butterflies, flowers, reptiles – you name it, Gehan has covered it. Further chapters detail wildlife watching opportunities for primates, birds, reptiles, turtles, butterflies and dragonflies; a description of the parks and reserves by habitat type; and a wildlife watching calendar to help plan a trip.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2016
Great Tit Telomeres, Baby Talk, Brainy Birds. This morning, I have three interesting scientific findings related to bird for you. First, birds may age more quickly in urban environments. Third, which we already suspected, bird brains are adjusted to provide extra smartness in a way not seen in mammals. urban or rural).
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
The vast majority of the 10,000+ living species of birds are passerines, and the vast majority of those have a similar system of breeding: Mom and dad bird make a nest and share parental responsibilities roughly equally, if not identically. There are variations on that theme, of course. fledglings per group per season.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2016
Man, there are so many birds. Each range is a 12,000 foot fence separating the birds on the coast from the birds in the Amazon, with additional fences in between. Not just birds, but also plants (Colombia boast the most orchid species, too), insects, primates, reptiles. Nearly 1,900 of them. Next time, I suppose.
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