10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2013
Africa has two resident pelican species, the huge and widely distributed Great or Eastern White Pelican and the smaller Pink-backed which is restricted to Africa, the southern Arabian peninsula and Madagascar (where it may now be extinct.) Great White Pelicans showing the pink flush of breeding plumage. Photo by Adam Riley.
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. They are often found roosting in small groups along the edges of lakes and riverine sandbars.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2017
and the Introduction offers descriptions of each habitat type and the three other bird groupings. Within each habitat section, birds are grouped by genus or other unifying trait (strange waterbirds, common camp residents, canopy gleaners). The authors also discuss the best time to visit Kruger N.P., Details vary for each species.
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
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. A few years ago, in the American Birding Association FB group I posted a question: Where would you go if funds weren’t a problem? Day after day went by, with much sound but no sight of the peacocks.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2012
These charismatic, colorful and finely formed birds are favorites amongst birders from experts to novices, and lie within the group of birds whose beauty even non-birders really appreciate. Carmine bee-eaters occur throughout most of Subsaharan Africa, and many populations migrate widely post breeding.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 22, 2013
But it seems sort of appropriate in hindsight that a family so strange would end up alongside a similarly unpredictable group of birds in the flamingos. But that’s a group for a different time. A Family of Little Grebes – YC Lee, Bird Ecology Study Group. Horned Grebe , photo by Julie Gidwitz. Grebe Miscellany.
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