Cats Family Solomon Islands Species 
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. One species alive today offers a glimpse of such behavior: the Nicobar Pigeon ( Caloenas nicobarica ). .’s
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2017
Like if a chickadee calls while a family member is making his or her wedding vows, the covert birder won’t even blink. Dates of past glimpses of cuckoos on a winter migration mission guarantee that several of both species are somewhere in Costa Rica right now (!). That usually happens when we are confronted with the unusual.
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