10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2020

Parasites penetrate the skin, travel through the blood vessels and finally (if you’re lucky) settle in the urinary tract where they happily breed, doing irreversible damage to it (and if you’re less lucky they might get confused and settle inside your spinal cord or even your brain). Cattle Egret 16. Vervet Monkey c. Hamerkop 1.

Botswana 180

Botswana Africa 2001 Fish 180

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2014

There were grumpy old fishermen, fishing through the closed season when the fish enter the backwaters to spawn, but also carrying handguns on their belts and assuming that, being armed and dangerous, they have every right to the area. Hence, I had the be equally grumpy to explain to them that I had an equal right to be there (equal right?

Serbia 235

Serbia Stray Dog Protection Botswana 235

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2019

We were met by several Cattle Egret in beautiful breeding plumage feeding on the grass right next to the train station. There was something “not right” about it. If the train did not go all of the way then we took a connecting bus or walked. It was not a Milky Stork or a Painted Stork.

Singapore 114

Singapore Transported Boars Malaysia 114

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

But if we want to continue to throw a monkey-wrench into this all too cut and dried scenario, there’s also the fact that the Old World vultures had a foothold in North America up until the Neogene about 2.5 And when you think about it, that seems right. millions years ago.

California Condor 175

California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 175

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

We sailed right into a group of more than a dozen Hoatzins (cover photo, by Tyler Ficker) with their orange mohawks and blue facial skin. We found Black-collared Swallows breeding in cracks among the lower riverside rocks. Indigenous community of El Remanso, right underneath the imposing monoliths of Cerros de Mavecure.

Dolphins 256

Dolphins Colombia Otters Birds 256