10,000 Birds
JANUARY 14, 2021
Geographic patterns of species richness for birds (1,558 species) in East Africa at 0.25° resolution (blue indicates low species richness, while brown indicates high species richness). At the time of writing, Uganda has 16 hotspots with 400+ so far eBirded species, of which one has almost 600 species.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 23, 2013
I deal with this sort of illness by lying in a hot bath drinking wine and revisiting beloved books of my youth, and this time out I chose Unexplained! , Birds are less compelling to human interest than our fellow primates, in many regards, but surely they are more arresting than a big wad of tentacled whale chow.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2016
Not just birds, but also plants (Colombia boast the most orchid species, too), insects, primates, reptiles. In fact, the field guide that many birders bring to the country, an older book by Steve Hilty, it is listed as possible gone. This Chestnut-crowned Antpitta was one of four species we’d see this way.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2013
International teams compete for 6 days and 5 nights with the express purpose of recording the most bird species, by sight or by call, while the clock ticks down. A huge surprise was the addition of an entirely new species for Peru, a Black Swift , found by the Forest Falcons team. An Andean Flicker on the ground in the Peruvian Andes.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2021
When was the last time you chose a book by its covers? And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders.
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2019
Presuming that you want to bird Costa Rica, you would book a southbound flight (from N. In such a case, you might opt to book an eastbound flight, or a series of flights, from Lisbon to Sao Tome and Principe, Ghana, Rwanda, Uganda, then Sri Lanka, Thailand, Borneo, PNG, Tahiti, Ecuador, Guyana and finally to Costa Rica….
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. The African Spoonbill is one of the six global spoonbill species, and the main African one (there are also some Eurasian Spoonbills in Africa).
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