10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2024
This is the home of the Rusty-naped Pitta , admittedly one of the less glamorous of the family, particularly the subspecies found in Yunnan, but still a nice sight and still a pitta. No doubt, the Lesser NLT will be relieved not to be bossed around by its erstwhile bigger family member anymore.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
The Plain Sunbird is the plain vanilla version of the otherwise often very colorful family (ok, a very low-budget sort of joke). One paper suggests that the Ruby-cheeked Sunbird primarily feeds on insects rather than on nectar, the more common food of sunbirds.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 29, 2012
While eating lunch with Daisy and her family at a picnic area in Joshua Tree National Park the other day a small chipmunk-looking creature ventured out of the rock formation we were eating next to. The cute little critter was clearly looking for a handout which we did not provide.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 7, 2013
I finally managed to get some photos as I found a pair of fantails in the Marlborough sounds that were very interested in me as a source of bugs (they will often follow trampers in the forest to collect flying insects) and being out in the open there was a limited supply of perches and plenty of good light.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2016
The English language, or at least the adherents thereof with more time on their hands than sense, has bestowed us a great number of names to collective nouns for groups of birds. This adult still has some brown on the neck, but fully developed wattles.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 9, 2012
And prejudice should not be what determines constitutional rights in this country … Because they can suffer from the prohibitive conduct of being enslaved, the 13th Amendment protection against that conduct should be extended to them.”.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2013
Got to finish browsing for the fawns and collecting chiggers,” wrote Becky, from an island off North Carolina. They’d also have to pay for every aspect of care the injured bird requires, as well as the emotional suffering of the wildlife rehabilitator!”. “I don’t want to be too hasty in my response,” wrote Gay in Virginia.
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