10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
Other species have certainly expanded their ranges, but never in such a rapid and global scale. I’d like to introduce you to a diminutive heron, the Cattle Egret Bubuclus ibis. The Cattle Egret is native to Africa, where it is a familiar sight among herds of large mammals. a Cattle Egret in Brooklyn.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
We typically celebrate sightings and not a change in air temperature or moisture content. The often overlooked Cattle Egret has legs that turn bright pink during this brief courtship period. Even species that do not undergo visible changes (to us, at least) begin to behave differently. Even its eyes change colour!
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2023
The Terns were quite content loafing on the highway and flying off when the limited traffic approached as you can see above. The cattle moved away from the flooded areas and the area beside the highway is home to many species of birds. We did not get the huge flocks of locusts this year like we did in 2021.
10,000 Birds
JULY 26, 2014
Perhaps our outrage at invasive species can be a bit hypocritical at times. Listers are quick to put aside their condemnation of invasive species once they attain that coveted status of exotic: not native, not fully naturalized, but established well enough to be countable by the prevailing authority. That’s where we come in.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2015
Its great diversity of habitats hosts an incredible bird count of over 900 species, including Africa’s 2nd highest list of endemics and near-endemics (after South Africa). Quality time was spent with a friendly Hamar family at their homestead of grass huts surrounding their cattle corral. Yellow-billed Stork.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 5, 2016
All species are from the ABA area, and all groups must meet at least one of these criteria: (1) the group “represented a good opportunity to build core birding skills,” (2) the authors thought it was a group that needed “a refreshed treatment,” (3) the authors were intrigued by the group and wanted to present it using their unique format.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2011
The field site I am assigned to is located in one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world and home to a particularly rich avifauna that numbers well over 500 species. Hundreds of riotously colored birds representing 14 species of macaws and parrots flock and frolic together in less than fifty meters of forest canopy.
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