10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
Islands, for various reasons, experience more extinctions than continents (with Africa being the only continent not suffering a bird extinction!). Madagascar, however, has had more than its fair share of extinct or lost species and Madagascar Pochard was firmly on this list.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
” Landfill often made me wander off into some half-forgotten gulling experience of mine. At some stage, in the darkness with Claire and Callan, Tim Dee was stalking a nightjar in Madagascar. Caspian gulls have a strange quality: they’re more aggressive than herring gulls but also I think more beautiful.”
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10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2012
Yellow-billed Stork portrait (note the pink flush indicating breeding status), Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania by Adam Riley The Yellow-billed Stork has a closely-related sister species in Asia known as Painted Stork. During breeding season, their white plumage turns a delicate pink color, a lovely sight indeed.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2011
This is an endemic breeding bird in North America and much is now being done by various federal and non-profit groups to ensure and foster its conservation. Piping plovers are always a treat to see, whether at their coastal or inland breeding grounds or whether at their southern wintering grounds.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2018
A bit of background: Pink Pigeons are medium-sized, pink/gray/ brown birds found on the island of Mauritius, Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. Is this the type of avian experience we want? Pink pigeon near Le Pétrin, Mauritius by Michael Hanselmann, used under Creative Commons license. More about the Dodo in a minute.)
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 24, 2012
No, you see, the males are pretty defensive about their young, and in the breeding season will aggressively attack what they perceive as a threat to their nest. It’s an unnerving experience and not at all pleasant even if the bird doesn’t connect often, and I am no stranger to bird attacks.
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