4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

Cats and dogs are the most popular pets, along with hamsters, rabbits and guinea pigs also being amongst the favourites. If, on the other hand, you opted for females of a dairy breed, these would require milking twice a day whilst they are lactating. Have you considered keeping goats as pets?

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Goats Pets Guinea Pigs Hamsters 100

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AUGUST 17, 2011

The Bronze Shining Cuckoo migrates to New Guinea and the Long-tailed Cuckoo disperses widely across the Pacific. Only two of New Zealand’s landbirds are strongly migratory, both of them cuckoos. A third species, the Welcome Swallow , is apparently partly migratory.

New Zealand 113

New Zealand Sanctuary North America Guinea 113

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MARCH 11, 2011

Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Ringer Gannets and Boobies (Sulidae) Black-and-white gannets breed on the cold, rocky coasts of the northern and southern oceans. They can soar for hours, or plunge and twist after another bird with spectacular power and flair.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 151

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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?

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Congo Africa South Africa Kenya 264

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

Shore Plover by Duncan Wright Adam couldn’t choose just one: I must admit I’m a sucker for big, colorful, showy birds and although New Guinea rightly claims the prize in this category, I haven’t had the privilege of journeying to that magical island this year, so for my bird of the year I have chosen Cock-of-the-rock.

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2011 Birds South Korea North Dakota 175

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APRIL 9, 2013

The amazing Ribbon-tailed Astrapia of Papua New Guinea sports the longest tail in proportion to body size of any bird in the world. At the end of each winter I keenly await the spring announcement from the pair that annually breed in my back yard. The remarkable Resplendent Quetzal photographed in Guatemala by Adam Riley.

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Papua New Guinea South Africa Africa Zimbabwe 230

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MARCH 6, 2013

White-faced Herons are attractive medium sized herons, originally from Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and New Caledonia. And now that you’ve been subjected to my hideous photos of non-breeding birds, here’s a shot of a breeding bird by a far more talented individual, Wikipedia’s Bejnamint444 ( GNU Free ).

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New Zealand Indonesia Cattle Guinea 147

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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.

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Puerto Rico Guam Virgin Islands Feral 181

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

We’re looking at an area of Asia southeast of the Malay Peninsula and mainland Southeast Asia, southwest of the Philippines, north and northwest of Australia, west of Papua New Guinea (a boundary called “Lydekker’s Line”), intercut by the equator.

Indonesia 121

Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 121

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

Australian Magpies are found across Australia, southern New Guinea and have been introduced to New Zealand (along with just about everything else). 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.

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New Zealand Birds Australia Kangaroos 146

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

And I’ve always assumed that the Dusky Moorhen, found in Sulawesi, New Guinea and Australia was basically more of the same, but I was wrong! They may breed as a group, but monogamy is the general rule. Common Moorhens are, like most birds, monogamous breeders, and may bond for a number of years in the same territory.

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Pythons Guinea Breeders Australia 165

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APRIL 15, 2015

Most importantly the Upper Guinea forests, one of Africa’s two major rainforest regions (the other being the far more extensive Lower Guinea forests of the Congo basin and surrounding areas). However they will not and cannot breed, and once these individual’s natural lifespans are over, these bird populations will be lost forever.

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 187

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JULY 28, 2022

The Congo Basin, second in size only to the Amazon, spans six countries: south-eastern Cameroon, portions of southern Central African Republic, the north and central Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the Republic of Congo. million hectares of forest cover each year.

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Central African Republic Congo Gabon Gorillas 278

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OCTOBER 9, 2012

Each male builds numerous nests, most of which are rejected by the female, who will eventually select a nest she is happy with, allow the proud architect who usually hangs under his masterpiece to mate with her and then begins the breeding process. Red-headed Malimbe is the most widespread species in the genus.

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Tanzania Buffalo Kenya Namibia 212

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JUNE 21, 2018

And the results are indicative, representative and nothing short of surprising: Brunei, The Gambia, Belize, Jamaica, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Rwanda, Equatorial Guinea, Panama and Haiti top the list. Best timing here is the dry season, June to September, when most birds are breeding (3). And now you finally know where to travel next.

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Rwanda Equatorial Guinea El Salvador Costa Rica 204

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APRIL 27, 2012

One of the more interesting aspects (in my opinion) of breeding in birds is their mating strategy. In this system, females mate and lay eggs with multiple males over the course of a breeding season, leaving males to incubate the eggs and raise the chicks. of all bird species, is polyandry. Polyandry is found mostly in shorebirds (e.g.

2002 163

2002 North America 2000 2009 163

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OCTOBER 22, 2014

I had barely made it far into the place, and was about to start photographing some breeding Australian Pied Shags when I heard a call to my left that I didn’t immediately recognise. I went back to the sanctuary on Sunday, in spite of early rain, figuring it couldn’t hurt to try again. Note the contrasting stripey belly.

New Zealand 170

New Zealand Solomon Islands Sanctuary Vanuatu 170

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

This is a migrant from New Guinea, which breeds mostly on small offshore islands and flies each day to the mainland to feed. Figbirds , a type of oriole (Old World oriole, mind, the proper kind), were common in the fig trees, astonishingly. Early in the morning the trees were also filled with Torresian Imperial-pigeons.

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Alligators Guinea 2012 Australia 166