10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2015

Well-travelled birders will recognise Cattle Egrets following the steps of hippo or African Buffalo , and Black-crowned Night Herons , but more African species occur in the form of the massive Goliath Heron , the smaller Squacco Heron , and the highly distinctive Black Egret , famous for creating a canopy with its wings to hunt small fish.

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Botswana Birds Lesotho Elephants 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

It was Thursday when we arrived and every Thursday at Chrisochorafa square is a fish-free evening at two fish taverns. It is a popular event with the locals and the foreigners alike, where you pay for the drinks and salads, while the main dish, well prepared lake fish, is free.

Greece 193

Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 193

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2019

In North America, the United States Fish & Wildlife Service estimates that up to 57 million birds perish every year in collisions with electrical utility lines. Quite aside of aesthetic concerns, this new infrastructure could be dangerous as well – even deadly.

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United States Game North America New York City 117

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.

Ethiopia 240

Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Birds 240

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2014

For dinner, there are several taverns at the village square, some 100 metres away, which, among other dishes, serve local specialty – water buffalo sausages. Dalmatian Pelicans – nesting platform.

Greece 161

Greece Pelicans Breeding Buffalo 161

Animal Person

MARCH 11, 2010

The same is true for cows, pigs, fishes, turkeys, chickens, buffaloes, sheeps, goats, and many other nonhuman animals whom we call "food." To kill Violet Rays so I may eat her (or for any other reason other than to relieve her suffering) would be a betrayal, not to mention unnecessary. This is indeed a matter of conscience.

Killing 100

Killing Vegan Buffalo Goats 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2022

If a reporter would have rambled on about fishing or bird migration or the biggest, oldest trees in the area, I would have been all ears but no, I don’t recall any reporting on such esteemed subjects as those. What I do remember is Irv Weinstein, Buffalo’s favorite news guy.

Costa Rica 209

Costa Rica Buffalo Rights Sparrows 209

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Donna Fernandes, president of the Buffalo Zoo, witnessed a wake for a female gorilla, Babs, who had died of cancer at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo. Dog and Fish: Improbable Friends. Fish are often difficult to identify with or feel for. Photos courtesy of iStock.

Emotional 100

Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2012

For example, the Red-billed Buffalo Weaver has a pseudo-penis, not quite a cloaca, not quite a penis. Cassowaries give the Buffalo Weaver a run for his money as both sexes have a penis and clitoris. … A fish may love a bird, but where would they live? However, for a few species, things gets…weird.

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Buffalo Birds Ducks Eggs 279

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Fish Crow – Corvus ossifragus. Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver – Bubalornis niger. African Fish-Eagle – Haliaeetus vocifer. Rufous-browed Peppershrike – Cyclarhis gujanensis. Jardines El Rey De Cocora. 22 Oct 2019. Yellow-faced Grassquit – Tiaris olivaceus. Jardines El Rey De Cocora. 22 Oct 2019.

2019 114

2019 China Battery Jamaica 114

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2022

Mammals include Western Lowland Gorilla, Forest Elephant and Forest Buffalo, and eleven diurnal primates. The Sangha Baï, a large mineral-rich forest clearing, offers Forest Elephants, Forest Buffalo, Red River Hog, Bongo and even Lowland Gorilla.

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Central African Republic Congo Gabon Gorillas 287

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

Of course, no ordinary chicken would do, but the Red Junglefowl is the primordial progenitor of poultry, the wild source of cutlets, nuggets, and Buffalo wings. I traveled to the other side of the world just to see a chicken!

2012 147

2012 Birds Guatemala Florida 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

John James Audubon first heard the sparrow in July, 1944, on a buffalo hunt in North Dakota. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed relocating the 14 Whooping Cranes that live in Kissimmee Prairie, which includes the pair I saw, and relocating them to Louisiana. It has always been a difficult bird to find, even when abundant.

2018 155

2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 155

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Tirat Zvi fish ponds. African Fish-Eagle – Haliaeetus vocifer. Pallas’s Fish-Eagle – Haliaeetus leucoryphus. Gray-headed Fish-Eagle – Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus. Tirat Zvi fish ponds. Brown Fish-Owl – Ketupa zeylonensis. Fish Crow – Corvus ossifragus. 18 Feb 2016.

2016 154

2016 Sanctuary Australia Ghana 154

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

It also includes one of the world’s largest known populations of hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) (18,200) and buffalo (Syncerus caffer) (204,015). I’ve certainly met my share of conservation professionals that hunt, and while I don’t hunt myself, I’ve done quite a bit of fishing while working on marine projects.

Lions 183

Lions Killing Hunting Hunters 183

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Despite all of the dangers we have-snakes, spiders, crocodiles, deadly jellyfish, deadly fish, leeches, ticks, mosquitoes and then a pandemic-we still have a population of almost 26 million people. Foster to Fish Creek. Fish Creek to Buffalo. Sandringham to Mordialloc along the coast. Foster to Toora. Toora bird hide.

Australia 147

Australia Singapore Birds Battery 147