10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2023
Then there were a few Hawfinches and two young Black Storks , Little Bittern , Great White Egret , Glossy Ibis , Common Kingfisher , Syrian Woodpecker , Peregrine Falcon , Red-backed Shrike , Lesser Grey Shrike , Collared Flycatcher and a family of Western Yellow Wagtails.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2022
While rails are generally described as secretive, the Common Moorhen – also a member of the rail family – certainly is not. Here, nervous Cattle Egrets trying to quit smoking pace restlessly on buffalos. Fine with me – I am always for reducing complexity, whether it makes sense or not.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
Moreover, the pair I saw was feeding from a livestock trough alongside a group of cattle. In 1938, they were reduced to only 18 birds in the Aransas-Wood Buffalo flock and only 11 remaining in the non-migratory Louisiana flock. Hardly the elegant, natural picture deserving of some seriously stunning birds!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2015
But I do have rules about whether I can have said to have visited a country, ie does the country “count” which I have inherited from my family, particularly my Dad. Hippo and attending Cattle Egret. Generally, I need to have cleared immigration and/or spent some time in the country actually visiting it. Yellow-billed Stork.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2015
These vast and rugged lands of savanna, hills, gorges and rivers still protect some of Ethiopia’s largest extant herds of typical African savanna game, including African Elephant, African Buffalo, Giraffe, Lion, Leopard, African Wild Dog and numerous species of grazers. Yellow-billed Stork. A Konso village perched atop a terraced hill.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2019
We are entering the mixed colony of 11 species ( Grey , Squacco , Purple and Black-crowned Night Herons ; Great , Little and, recently, Cattle Egrets ; Eurasian Spoonbill (below) and Glossy Ibis ; Pygmy and Great Cormorant ). Out of some 4000 buffaloes still being kept in Greece, about 3000 are at this lake.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2011
Nowhere else in Africa do the preconceived ideas of the continent really exist in such living detail; tall, red-robed Maasai herding their skinny cattle, endless grasslands studded with flat-topped Acacia trees and grazed by herds of zebras and wildebeest, and dramatic volcanic calderas brimming with big game and fierce predators!
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