10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2020

This boldness isn’t restricted to exchanges with other grouse, either: in some locales, members of this circumpolar family are astonishingly foolhardy around humans. But there’s at least one night on the Scottish calendar when the grouse enjoys a reprieve, at least from human appetites.

Sheep 189

Sheep Branding Ireland Fowl 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. For all of recorded history, humans have classified other living things by their physical characteristics. He could not say the same today.

2011 151

2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 151

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

So little is known about Green-breasted Pitta, that he cannot get a definite location for the bird, or a recording of its display call. (He The books work best when the birding is coupled with the human element. There is little factual material here about global conservation and protection, but that is not the book’s purpose.

Hunters 187

Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 187