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Are there so many birds that cats don’t matter?

10,000 Birds

which was a comparative look at apparent, visible, often in your face biomass we observe when we as diurnal primates look around us. In short, the answer is that in the United States there are 20 billion birds at the end of the breeding and fledging season, which gets winnowed down to 10 billion by the following early spring.

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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area

10,000 Birds

Blog readers sharing their house with a noisy teenager may consider replacing him or her with a Brown-headed Parrot , given this statement on a pet website : “Brown-Headed Parrot boasts another very desirable trait – these are very quiet parrots! Can’t say that it is a particularly obvious name from seeing the bird.

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Africa’s remarkable long tailed birds

10,000 Birds

However Africa has more long tailed species than any other region, and this blog post celebrates a few of these fabulous birds. They follow troops of monkeys through the forests, swooping down to snatch insects that the primates flush from the leaves. Image by Cuan Rush/Rockjumper Birding Tours.