10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2024
They are ridiculously unafraid of people there – so the cynic in me suspects that swan meat is not regarded as tasty by the Japanese (another explanation, that the Japanese just like animals too much, can presumably be discarded given the country’s very principled approach in insisting on the right to kill whales).
10,000 Birds
APRIL 23, 2013
Its amazing to me that there are still places on earth where wildlife is blissfully unafraid of humans. It was made a National Park in the 1980s and is a major breeding and nesting area for over 30,000 seabirds. Swimming with a whale shark on the boat-trip to Isla Isabel. Red-billed Tropicbirds nest on these craggy cliffs.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
Come September most of the summer seabird people had left, but there were a small number of seabirds still breeding and so I stayed behind for three years to continue their monitoring and do the migrant landbird surveys, as well as the Great White Shark surveys. The seas were glass still, and far out we could see whales, dozens of the things.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2012
Furthermore we have another very special stork-like bird, the regal Shoebill , previously known as the Whale-headed Stork but now placed in its own family. During breeding season, their white plumage turns a delicate pink color, a lovely sight indeed. The Saddle-billed Stork has a similar Africa-wide distribution as the Marabou.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
Penguins are flightless, but some species locomote over long distances on antarctic ice to travel between breeding grounds and the sea. Since all penguins have certain characteristics in common, it is interesting to contemplate which of those features arose first, in the earliest penguins, and which arose later. Salas-Gismondi, R.,
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2012
What I didn’t know was how this relationship actually works: the mechanics of Red Knot migration, the reduced digestive systems necessary for their long flighta, the need to fatten up quickly so they can fly to the Arctic and breed, how they compete with other shorebirds and gulls and, it turns out, humans, for horseshoe crab eggs.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
The descriptions of the territory’s birds, seals, whales, introduced mammals, invertebrates, and plants are written within the framework of the conversationist, so it is more than a field guide, it is a record of endangered wildlife and the efforts being made to protect it. Who can resist penguins and whales?
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