10,000 Birds
JUNE 25, 2022
Take that same stroll in southern Brazil or other places and extinction is acres of burned rainforest, a walk through plastic decorated neighborhoods devoid of insects, massive forest fires, die-offs of animals, and millions of shellfish being cooked alive , in situ. Yellow-naped Parrot (Amazona auropalliata).
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2012
I ran across a couple of Southern Lapwings in Ibirapuera Park in Sao Paulo, Brazil recently and watched as they indulged in typical Vanellus behaviour. Then I saw the reason for their protective behaviour. If only it were so easy for humans to strike such a well balanced policy.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 12, 2011
As part of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil giveaway we asked readers of 10,000 Birds to name the bird in Brazil that they would like to see more than any other species. To see this bird in all its glory in the environs of Brazil would be my bird dream. It is a really neat bird that I have not seen before.
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2012
What I didn’t know was how this relationship actually works: the mechanics of Red Knot migration, the reduced digestive systems necessary for their long flighta, the need to fatten up quickly so they can fly to the Arctic and breed, how they compete with other shorebirds and gulls and, it turns out, humans, for horseshoe crab eggs.
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2021
Such is the story of his visit to Senhor Jonas D’Abronzo, whose home, at the end of that long, muddy, undulating track outside Ubatuba, Brazil, is also home to the Festive Coquette, a near-threatened species with a limited range along the southeast coast of Brazil. I had hoped for more.
10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2014
Meanwhile, forts were built to protect the island from invaders, war broke out between Spain and the United States, and the island became a U.S. In a few years they could only be found in El Yunque, a tropical rain forest in northeast Puerto Rico. And, the parrots almost, but not quite, disappear from the face of the earth. The birds thrive.
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