10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2022

. “I am not bad-looking, I am just badly photographed”: A Bay Woodpecker (Fraser’s Hill, Malaysia) using a joke from “Roger Rabbit” The pinkish eyerings of the Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker (Tansa, India) make it look as if it is constantly suffering from a hangover.

Woodpeckers 230

Woodpeckers South Africa China Singapore 230

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

There’s a Three-striped Palm Squirrel by the side of the track, while Jungle Bush Quails are running across it in front of our Maruti Gypsy, almost the official safari vehicle of India. At least 274 tigers have died in India in the last four years, more than 70 per cent of them due to poaching. Some results may already be visible.

Tigers 243

Tigers India Killing 2012 243

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

In both India and Botswana, I was at the very edge of the tropics (under the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, respectively), but in dry semi-desert zones, never deep in the true, humid tropics. Cover photo : observing the rarest owl of India. And the final advice to lodge owners: listen to your guests.

Costa Rica 217

Costa Rica Birds India Botswana 217

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2018

Whitaker’s beautifully-composed example of avian portraiture – the like of which we see all too rarely on beer cans – was commissioned for Osprey’s Fresh Catch, a new India pale ale from Horus Aged Ales of Oceanside, California. A close-up of Spring Whitaker’s remarkable can art.

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New York Falcons Fish New Jersey 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

I bought my first 20 years ago from some Russian on the seashore in Greece, but have not used it much because of rather dark images (I even took it to India with me – and didn’t use it even once). This is not my first spotting scope. Similarly, I had a good clue what to expect from the STX scope. How to describe the experience in one word?

Greece 167

Greece Battery Experience Experiments 167

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2023

This resource participation, as the ornithologists call it, allows for relatively peaceful coexistence as long as both brands of confectionary are available. It seems this species occasionally moonlights as a flower pollinator, at least in parts of India and whenever the money is particularly tight ( source ).

Eggs 167

Eggs China Birds Mammals 167