10,000 Birds
JUNE 15, 2016
It’s a bang-up breeding year for super-endangered birds! The species, which migrates from the Russian Arctic to Southeast Asia, is down to about 200 breeding pairs in the wild, due to habitat loss and poaching. For the past several years, getting the birds to breed has been an exercise in futility. Both photos by the WWT).
10,000 Birds
APRIL 29, 2020
Both species seemed content to observe each other though. Bon voyage , friend, may you traverse the next two thousand miles safely, may you not encounter any glass windows and may you find a mate and breed successfully! Surprisingly, a pair of Striated Herons in breeding plumage flew in as dusk tightened its grip.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 22, 2019
I had the beach to myself as is often the case and raised my binoculars to observe a lone Little Curlew at the back of the flock of shorebirds. I was quite content observing the shorebirds after high tide. One of the Curlew Sandpipers still has quite a lot of breeding plumage across its breast feathers. Little Curlew.
10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2014
Okay, they weren’t as fascinating as the birds of prey eating their, or the frankly still weird drawings of nightjars carrying eggs and woodcocks carrying chicks, but still, hornbills were cool because they sealed their mates up in holes in trees and then fed them as they raised the chick. We can hope!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2023
By raising awareness and advocating for responsible tourism practices, we can ensure that future generations will continue to marvel at the avian treasures that call Shanghai home. But anyway, my main point of contention is the style, not the facts. So, I tried again: “This sounds a bit too positive to me.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 23, 2015
Since discovering our first Pied Oystercatcher nest on Cable Beach in July 2000 we have observed the breeding of these local shorebirds along the coast between Gantheaume Point in the south and Willie Creek in the north, which is a distance of 23 kilometres. The last time they successfully raised a chick was in 2012.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2016
You can check the table of contents, or browse the “gallery of thumbnail images” in the Introduction (see image above) or use either of the two indexes—a Short Index on the inside back cover flap and a traditional Index of popular and scientific names. There is an important area I haven’t touched on yet—accuracy of visual content.
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