10,000 Birds
JANUARY 21, 2016
The Ross Sea is the most productive stretch of water in the Southern Ocean, teeming with large predatory fish, whales, seals, penguins and other animals that form the last intact marine ecosystem on Earth. There are 11 species of birds that breed in the Ross Sea region. Enough History – Back to the Future. And the Mammals.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
She contributes regularly to Ontario Nature , reviews books for Birding, and also blogs about her misadventures in bird identification while offering trenchant analysis of avian coiffures on her own blog Birds and Words. We later signed up for a whale and birdwatching tour with Captain Wayne , who had a smallish 12-person boat.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
A lot of folks, including this very blog, are using this as an occasion to memorialize not just the Passenger Pigeon but the extinct birds of the Holocene as a group. So as some folks may have noticed, it seems that the centenniel of the Passenger Pigeon’s extinction is garnering a bit of press. Good, I say. We could do it!
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2014
And one that I have written about before when I was pleased to find Blackburnian Warblers like the one above breeding.). Check out my mom’s blog post where she has a nice shot of my father and I looking at the wood-warblers. You’ll remember Javi from whale-watching. In other words, it is an awesome place.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2011
Over the next few days, the Alpine Accentors ( Prunella collaris ) will arrive on their high-Alpine breeding grounds – it is time to start singing, despite that the treeless Alpine landscape is still under metres of snow. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 29, 2013
After taking an ornithology course last year, he was hooked and spends most of his free time birding or reading birding blogs. These cliffs are a birder’s dream destination, and with the promise of seeing millions of breeding seabirds in Europe’s largest bird cliff–all within close range–I knew it would be worth it.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 22, 2011
There is a very distinctive smell found on seabird colonies, where thousands upon thousands of birds come to breed and, coincidentally, deposit large quantities of waste. A great place to watch whales and pelagic seabirds. And finally, a view from that step. Note about images.
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