10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Steve Howell has spent decades of experience in the field studying the birds of Belize, Costa Rica, and especially Mexico. Checklist for Belize lists 622 species in 76 families, of which 104 are rare or accidental and four introduced. Fantasy is the key word here. Doing this work takes time! For context, the IOC version 13.1

Costa Rica 223

Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 223

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2014

Parrots captivate me more than any other bird family. Second, they occupy an astonishing variety of habitats from temperate Araucaria forests in Chile to alpine scree in New Zealand to seasonally flooded rainforests in Brazil to rocky sea cliffs in Australia. However, they do not occur evenly across their familial distribution.

Parrots 168

Parrots Brazil Mauritius Dominica 168

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

None fly, most are curious and social, which probably contributes to our cultural perception of penguins as one step away from human. There is also a great deal of biological and ecological information encapsulated within De Roy’s experiences. That’s a lot of books about a bird family that cannot fly.

Penguins 205

Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 205