10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2012
Even red list species are being exported under the claim that they are captive bred despite the lack of breeding facilities in the archipelago. Amazingly, CITES is actually getting on the case after the practice has been going on for only ten years… a.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2023
A rather small black bird moved about, making short hops to and fro until finally it stopped for a couple of seconds, lowering its head to the side watching us inquisitively. That’s how it is with most smaller Amazonian birds. The post The Cocha Antshrike first appeared on 10,000 Birds.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
All of the birds within Raphini are highly specialized for island life. It’s a spectacular pigeon with long neck plumes and blue, green, and copper iridescence in its feathers (I mean, look at this bird ), and it lives on islands from the western Indian Ocean all the way out through northern Melanesia.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2015
She runs Birds of Texas Rehabilitation Center in Austin County, Texas. This attitude of superiority and arrogance can be seen in the recent story about a researcher on the Solomon Islands who mist trapped a bird not seen by scientists for fifty years. Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 24, 2014
There are four species in the family, ranging from India to the Solomon Islands. In flight they basically look like just another swift, and I don’t find swifts particularly inspiring birds (needletails perhaps excepted). Birds Borneo Danum Valley treeswift' She’s looking to your left. Canopy walkways rock!
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
One new Pacific island form is the Mariana Kingfisher ( Todiramphus albicilla ) from the Mariana Islands in Micronesia. I’m not sure why Australian birds are given this name, but the Australian subspecies is the Torrresian Kingfisher ( Todiramphus sordidus ). Saipan, Micronesia. Torrresian Kingfisher. SE Queensland.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2012
As 10,000 Birds’ New Zealand beat writer, I sometimes should write about New Zealand birds, but today I thought I’d talk about a bird that people thought was one but almost certainly wasn’t. So what were these Australian birds doing in New Zealand? And, sometimes, New Zealand.
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