10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
Cattle Egrets are very common outside of the most urbanized areas. The Groove-billed Ani is an odd-looking member of the Cuckoo family. Meanwhile, if you get outside of the city center and don’t see at least one Turkey Vulture or Black Vulture , well, you’re just not trying. ” (Yes, that was a shameless plug!).
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks , Muscovy Ducks and Blue-winged Teals were around us, together with Green , Great and Little Blue Herons , Cattle and Great White Egrets , Black-crowned and Yellow-crowned Night-Herons , plus one locally rare Pinnated Bittern in the floating vegetation, as well as several dozen Neotropical Cormorants.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2013
Maybe it’s important to note that Turkey Vultures , in particular, were well-loved by , and even inspirational to , the people that lived here before Europeans arrived. Old World Vultures are nestled within the family Acciptridae along with the hawks and eagles. Griffon Vulture , photo by Alan Tilmouth. millions years ago.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2019
The noble Blue Tit once ranged from Iran through Turkey and Europe to the Canary Islands (the Spanish Islands off North Africa – the other bird was named for the islands incidentally) and North Africa. Similarly when the Hoopoe and Cattle Egret were split, these are widespread birds with huge ranges even after the split.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2014
Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice. Until turkey size or so. And smaller.
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 ). I do have experience with this species from Bodrum, Turkey; it is daring, bold and cocky, and is impossible to forget.
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2019
Turkey Vulture – Cathartes aura. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Wild Turkey – Meleagris gallopavo. To get as close as I can to a true reflection of species collaboratively collected by the beats, I update the post just before kissing my family goodbye and heading to the airport. Laguna Lagarto Lodge.
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