10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

This is a cruise like no other, full of scientific lectures, over forty guides spread out on deck, bird-themed parties, and a lights-off mandate to protect birds at night. So, I anxiously followed the “Flock to Marion 2022” Facebook group in anticipation for open cabins to come up for sale.

South Africa 264

South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

Fortunately, as I found out over the next four days, High Island, the Bolivar Peninsula, the whole east Texan Gulf coast area is a place of diverse habitats, some protected, some accidental, all offering fantastic avian opportunities. Corps of Engineers to protect Galveston Bay at the end of the 19th-century. Eastern Meadowlark.

Houston 220

Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 220

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2023

And of course, some Chinese researchers worked on the complete mitochondrial genome of the Greater Coucal. Are these the paper mills one occasionally reads about in relation to Chinese research papers? I think they just got what they deserved. A fairly obscure paper reports on the Greater Coucal feeding on a Common Myna chick.

Woodpeckers 218

Woodpeckers Birds Eggs India 218

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.)) While studying, he also worked on various conservation/research projects (parrots, wagtails, vultures, and anything else that flew) and ringed thousands of birds.

2011 217

2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 217