10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2022
Not bad given that the 5 families in the inner circle of the laughingthrush family have a combined number of about 68 species. 36, if my counting is right and there has been no very recent split or lump. This post shows some of them.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Another member of the magpie family, the White-winged Magpie , makes do with far fewer colors. In providing this information, they quote extensively from an ornithology book that was published 3 years before I was born (and I am not a young man). Apparently, if exposed to sunlight, the green of the magpie plumage may turn blue.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
In the former, a female lays her fertilized egg in the nest of another species, in the hopes that her offspring will be raised by the unwitting hosts. In the latter, three or more adult individuals contribute to the raising of offspring. It turns out that the two strategies may be related.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
We’ve only recently begun to completely piece it together, using fossils and scientific analysis, but what is shows is that, once upon a time, the rail family was one of the most, if not the most, species rich family of birds in the world. But they are, as a family, prone to remarkable wandering.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2011
Nice. ((** all names have been changed to protect identities and have been substituted with (almost) randomly chosen substitutes suitable for a family of Alpine Accentors.)) to have and raise children. small families putting less pressure on the adult members of the family).
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 3, 2013
Which, when you do the math, means that the guide covers all resident and migrant Breeders, birds that “Occur Year Round”, regular migrants, and then some. Don’t forget, Richard Crossley was born and raised in Yorkshire, England! The text (new text, as we will see) is by Dominec Couzens, British birder and author.
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