10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
They became known as “Turkie Fowl” (spelling varies) because they were coming from the general direction of Turkey. The “Fowl” was dropped and the term “Turkey” was applied to other large Galliformes that were encountered in the New World. Diffusion to other european countries subsequently was very rapid.
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2020
And as the windblown birds settled down for the summer breeding season and the wind subsided, I found any concern for which way it was blowing died down with it. Of course, there may very well have been fowl-inspired weathervanes in ancient Greece and Rome. But none came.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2015
Each account contains a range map created by Weidensaul, utilizing diverse sources–breeding bird atlases, banding data, research articles. (It Lewis originated the term as a pun on Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls. A group of owls is traditionally called a parliament, though there is a line of thought that C.S.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2021
This book is essentially about those birds that breed on the continent south of the Sahara, a topic few birders are familiar with. And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
Also frequent escapees (or very free ranging domestics) are guinea fowl and to a lesser extent a number of other gamebirds up to and including peacocks. It persists in captivity at a breeding facility on Guam and in a number of American zoos. Or at least it was prior to the late 80’s when it was extirpated from the island.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2012
However, he went far afield to find a more familiar fowl. Secretive, silent and undetectable outside of its breeding season, found only in the U.S. Horned Guan by Adam Riley Mike was tempted to go with a guan as well, since he had the good fortune to encounter the Trinidad Piping Guan in the only country it can be found.
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