10,000 Birds
AUGUST 16, 2015
Because “duck, duck, goose” is a little too wintry (at least in the Northern Hemisphere) for a post written in the dog days of August. In Australia, ornithologists have finally gotten their hands on a Night Parrot , the first such capture in more than 100 years. The bird is so rare and elusive that it was thought to be extinct.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 21, 2014
Parrots are smarter than Nebo the dog. ” The dog’s name came from the direction of the enclosed front porch of the tin-roofed concrete block home of my friend Bwana Ndege, in Isiro, Zaire. ” The old woman was calling the dog, in Swahili. .” ” The old woman was calling the dog, in Swahili.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2022
When I read the description of the Mulga Parrot on a pet website, I first thought it was an advertisement for Thai mail-order brides: “The exotic appearance of the Mulga Parrot might be what attracts you first, but it’s their personality that will win you over” ( source ).
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
She’s a lover of all things geek and is happiest when cuddling with her dogs and catching up on the latest Marvel movies. Conservationists at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) have been using remote controlled drones to watch the nests of endangered breeds and monitor the progress of reintroduced species.
10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2019
Finches, for example, are “especially prone to nomadism,” and Falcons, as many experienced birders know, are more closely related to parrots and songbirds than to hawks and eagles. .” The essays are arranged in thematic order grouped in six sections: “Spark Bird!” He received a B.A.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 5, 2012
Despite the dogs, leaf blowers, golf carts, and other disturbances, I still find this to be one of the most exciting and reliable places in suburban Miami-Dade to see a varied subset of birds (143 species recorded by myself in just over four years of birding here) with the occassional rarity thrown in.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2016
And, although these days I like to switch it around, sometimes using National Geographic or Stokes or a specialty guide or my Sibley phone app, that creased, dog-eared, red library tape bound book is still the field guide I keep in my car or slip into my suitcase for a trip to anywhere east of the Rockies.
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