Uganda Sees Resurgence of Rhinos, Elephants, Buffaloes
Reddit Animals
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
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Dreaming of Congo rainforest: Gabon, Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic
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. Perched on the banks of the Sangha River, Sanhga Lodge (above) is simple yet idyllic.
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A Year of Birding in Costa Rica- Highlights and a Few Birds Missed
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2023
Luckily, in one of the most unforgettable birding experiences of my life, at Curi-Cancha, I shared wonderful scoped looks of a male bellbird with old and new friends and birding mentors from Buffalo, NY. Lovely Cotinga – Once again, the continuing male at Rancho Naturalista was shared with the same group from Buffalo.
Soda Lake Shorbs
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2021
In fact, a herd of Cape Buffalo spotted us on the shore here and began gradually moving closer. Our guide wisely extracted us after noticing this – the temperamental buffalo are known for edging closer and closer until suddenly we would be the ones within their personal space and therefore deserving of an angry charge.
The Do-G-Bag, your new best friend!
4 The Love Of Animals
AUGUST 6, 2013
The fabric is hand selected and each bag is hand made in Buffalo, New York! It’s really quiet awesome, you will wonder how you ever walked your dog without it. The Do-G-Bag comes in a variety of colors. You can even email them if you want a certain color or different size strap. The post The Do-G-Bag, your new best friend!
Birding Dongfang and Dongzhai on Hainan
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2022
Here, nervous Cattle Egrets trying to quit smoking pace restlessly on buffalos. The closest we got to habitat similar to Dongfang was on the last day of the trip, close to Haikou airport, at Dongzhai. This is an area of narrow, slightly elevated roads passing muddy fields and the occasional fishpond.
Africa’s Big Five and Little Five
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2012
They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!).
From the Niagara Frontier: A Book Review of “Birder’s Break”
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 16, 2019
and the Buffalo native Fred Szatkowki. Rising himself is a retired mathematics professor at the University of Buffalo, and most of his essays are centered on the avifauna of the “Niagara Frontier.”
It’s 11 O’Clock. Do You Know Where Your Red-eyed Vireos Are?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2022
What I do remember is Irv Weinstein, Buffalo’s favorite news guy. 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.
Rancho Naturalista Lodge, Costa Rica, or When Harry Met Mercedes
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Did you know that Annie Oakley, an American sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, outgunned a professional sharpshooter – and then married him? By doing her Big Year, without a plan, Mercedes also performed the ultimate female display, excelling in Harry’s own line of work, even more, in Harry’s way of life.
Come to India With Babita Wildlife Tours!
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
You are certain to see Greater One-horned Rhinoceros , Water Buffalo and Hog Deer , and with a bit of luck Smooth-coated Otters. Travel onto the world famous Kaziranga National Park and you will have very good chances of more endangered species such as Pallas’s Fish Eagle , vultures, Swamp Francolin , and both species of Adjutant Storks.
Big Cat Week!
4 The Love Of Animals
DECEMBER 6, 2010
An entire lion pride battles a large buffalo to down the beast. Big Cat Odyssey chronicles their meticulous work over three decades of filming, photographing and documenting the behavior of big cat species in Botswana. Yes, you read that right, this has been 30 years in the making, and you don’t want to miss it!
Where Are You Birding This Fourth Weekend of November 2014?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 21, 2014
As someone who lives close enough to Buffalo to feel both tremendous fear and relief regarding the 7 feet of snow that engulfed that part of Western NY, I can assure you: November weather is WILD. No snow here!
Weavers
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2012
Bubalornis – the black Buffalo Weavers A male Red-billed Buffalo Weaver photographed in Tanzania by Adam Riley The two species of black buffalo weavers are large, noisy birds of drier areas of East and southern Africa. Image taken by Adam Riley in Tanzania. A Scaly-feathered Weaver takes to wing. Image by Adam Riley in Namibia.
Jumping out of my “Beat” today
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 26, 2016
In addition to the Grizzly Bears , I was able to photograph Woodland Buffalo , squirrels, deer, Red Fox , and even a herd of Yaks. While I was actually photographing a herd of buffalo, this Merlin buzzed my head several times. The number one bird on my list was the iconic Horned Puffin.
Whooping Crane Ancestry
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
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. The Aransas-Wood Buffalo flock’s numbers hovered on the edge of collapse until the 1960s, never numbering more than 34 birds in total. By 1950, the Louisiana flock was gone.
Where the buffalo roam: world's longest wildlife bridge could cross the Mississippi -- "Conservationist aims to replace old bridge with bison preserve, benefiting environment and spotlighting Indigenous history" [United States of America]
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JUNE 28, 2021
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What Makes You Stare So, Bufflehead?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2012
Bufflehead comes from the now archaic word buffle , meaning ‘buffalo.’ ’ Bufflehead is the condensed version of ‘Buffalo Head’, the name these ducks were originally given. I suppose the densely feathered, black and white head of the drake does slightly resemble a buffalo’s head.
The European bison or the European wood bison, also known as the wisent, the zubr, or sometimes colloquially as the European buffalo, is a European species of bison. It is one of two extant species of bison, alongside the American bison.
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
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African Skimmers at the Kazinga Channel
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 12, 2014
Some African Skimmers pass by some African Buffalo. At any rate there are three species, the Black Skimmer (which isn’t that much blacker than the others) which is found in the Americas, the Indian Skimmer, which is the most vulnerable member of the family, and the African Skimmer, which is widespread but nowhere common in Africa.
Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2015
So now there are lots of lions, and they like buffalo, so now there are less buffalo. And since the lions like the big buffalo and not the smaller Nyala, the Nyala have increased in numbers.
CBC Shenanigans
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Access is restricted, and the livestock referred to are highly temperamental water buffalo. Visitors to T&T may be familiar with the area – the famed Aripo Livestock Station. Birding here is interesting as it is a mix of wet pastures along the foothills of Trinidad’s Northern Range.
Birding Nanhui, Shanghai in October 2021
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
in psychology from the University of Buffalo. Oriental Scops Owls are quite possibly my favorite bird at Nanhui. Bird-shaped cuteness. Of course, this would probably get me a telling off from Mark J. Estren, a Ph.D. Interestingly, striving for cuteness has also changed the appearance of Mickey Mouse.
On Objections to Slaughterhouses Not Sandwich Shops
Animal Person
MARCH 31, 2009
The inaugural winner would be John Carbonaro, who found an article called " Slaughterhouse in Buffalo Wins Zoning Approval." Briefly: Zoning board in Buffalo unanimously approved plans for a slaughterhouse (as in, a place where chickens, goats, lambs and calves will be killed and chopped up).
The Kerkini Lake, Greece: Dipped One, Got One
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Cows and water buffaloes grazing the dried up lakebed under the imposing shadow of Mt. Scattered Pied Avocets , Spotted Redshanks in good numbers, cows and water buffaloes grazing, two Black Storks , bare mudbar and… a perched eagle! I opt for the bird richest section of the lake, visible from the eastern dyke.
New Book Shows Mark Twain an Early Advocate Against Animal Cruelty
Critter News
OCTOBER 16, 2009
Twain wrote a searing account of an English earl’s behavior on a buffalo hunt (in “Man’s Place in the Animal World”) and wrote an impassioned anti-bullfighting novella (A Horse’s Tale). Interesting. The book also contains writings by Twain against vivisection.
Cooper’s Hawk Eating a Road-Killed Canada Goose
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 20, 2014
On the same day that I journeyed out to eastern Long Island to enjoy birding Shinnecock Inlet in the fog I also explored the fields of Riverhead, where large flocks of geese congregate and where a Yellow-headed Blackbird had been reported recently amid a large flock of icterids at a Buffalo farm.
Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest
10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2014
On the website he reminisces fondly about his “best hunt,” where he killed 3,125 crows in 9 days, bringing to mind the days when people slaughtered seemingly endless flocks of passenger pigeons and herds of buffalo. Read your own headline, take a look at the buffalo skulls pictured at right, and wake up, Rip Van Winkle.
Do Birds Have Penises?
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. They do not have lengthy love making periods, but fast 1 to 3 second copulations that can happen hundreds of times a day.
Joy for Orphan Elephants
4 The Love Of Animals
SEPTEMBER 2, 2011
She’s reared abandoned baby buffalo, dik-diks, impalas, zebras, warthogs, and black rhinos, among others, but no creature has beguiled her more than elephants. Her husband was David Sheldrick, the renowned naturalist and founding warden of Tsavo East National Park who died of a heart attack in 1977.
Return of the Waders
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2022
While grazing cattle and buffalo may look idyllic to us, the Oriental Pratincole has a very different view. While Shanghabirding claims that Grey-headed Lapwings are rare in Shanghai, I see them quite regularly. The photo on the Shanghaibirding site is much better than the one below though.
New Place in Costa Rica, New Yard List
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2019
Although it was nothing like going from New York to California or even Buffalo, New York to North Carolina, a change of location, however slight, can bring new birds especially in Costa Rica. As is usual for a birder moving to a new place, I couldn’t wait to see what the new yard would bring.
Dreaming of Africa
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2016
also the crime rate lower than in developed countries, stable politics, reasonable prices and landscapes as green as can be.
Birding Eastern Zimbabwe
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2012
He had mistakenly walked into a nice clump of buffalo bean whilst chasing a Singing Cisticola. Buffalo bean will make grown men cry and literally drives you insane for hours. Just make sure to carry extra fuel and watch out for buffalo bean! I’ll never forget the sight.
Birding the Ndumo area, South Africa
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2022
I am a riddle, and I am a Hadada Ibis “ T he HBW gives the following explanation for the Latin species name Lebonyana of the Kurrichane Thrush : “Tswana name Lebonyana for the Red-billed Buffalo Weaver Bubalornis niger, given erroneously to the Kurrichane Thrush which also has a red bill” Then, in the field identification part (..)
The Altruistic Pigeons
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 10, 2013
This is beyond a parent bird trying to lure a predator away from the nest, or a group of buffalos driving off a pack of lions from a calf. This is clearly the most altruistic behaviour I have ever seen, and I fail to explain it.
Week 16: South Africa and Kruger National Park
10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2018
In the first full day, we have seen dozens each of giraffes, zebra, warthogs, elephants, 12 rhinos, 30 hippos, 3 Cape Buffalo, crocodiles, jackals, monkeys, baboons, literally a thousand impala, and at least 10 different antelope type animals.
Week 17: Kruger NP, Crocodile Bridge to Lower Sabie
10,000 Birds
MAY 31, 2018
Crocodiles, Cape Buffalo and Hippos are plentiful. Lunch has been at the Lower Sabie camp, where there is a pretty incredible view of the Sabie River, and the many sand bars that form in front of the restaurant.
Animal Rights Zone Launches Today
Animal Person
APRIL 21, 2009
The goal is to provide blogospheric content that is easy to find, and from a variety of sources. On the left, you'll see this: Concepts. Project Treadstone. Responsible Policies. More >> Animals. More >> Category. More >> Players. New York Times. More >> Places.
Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2012
He interpreted the bones, also at Klasies but other sites in South Africa as well, to indicate that human ancestors hunted only Eland until they became fully modern very recently, then they started hunting the much more dangerous and harder to hunt Buffalo. Any buffalo bones from prior to that transition were obviously scavenged.
Nature’s Ambassador: The Legacy of Thornton W. Burgess, by Christie Palmer Lowrance
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 18, 2013
When I was a preschooler, I wasn’t allowed to watch much television, but I did get a double-dose of public programming — the PBS station out of Buffalo and the CBC beaming across the border from Ontario both showed a lot of material that met with my mother’s approval and my own.
The Dove Who Came In From the Cold
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 18, 2013
It is responsible for some of the happiest moments of my childhood, the trips to the Buffalo Museum of Science that kindled my passion for nature; and yet, the quest for specimens ushered some of my favorite species of birds out of the world. Taxidermy is a bizarre art. It is driven by love for animals, but relies on their deaths to exist.
Awesome Birding at Aripo Savannah
10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2012
The lush pastures of the Aripo Livestock Station sustained herds of happy Buffalypso , a special breed of T&T beef cattle named for their Water Buffalo heritage and Calypso-happy country. Where we entered the area, the savannah seemed more like Aripo Ranch. In fact, it was. In that regard, Aripo was amazing.
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