10,000 Birds
AUGUST 16, 2015
Because “duck, duck, goose” is a little too wintry (at least in the Northern Hemisphere) for a post written in the dog days of August. In Australia, ornithologists have finally gotten their hands on a Night Parrot , the first such capture in more than 100 years. The bird is so rare and elusive that it was thought to be extinct.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 21, 2014
Parrots are smarter than Nebo the dog. ” The dog’s name came from the direction of the enclosed front porch of the tin-roofed concrete block home of my friend Bwana Ndege, in Isiro, Zaire. ” The old woman was calling the dog, in Swahili. .” ” The old woman was calling the dog, in Swahili.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2022
So, the basic idea is to show 15 species of Australian birds in each post and give you the usual trivia about them. This species has also eliminated the need for childcare – the chicks emerge from this pile on their own and never even get to see their parents. would be cats for me, but you get the general idea).
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
She’s a lover of all things geek and is happiest when cuddling with her dogs and catching up on the latest Marvel movies. Conservationists at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) have been using remote controlled drones to watch the nests of endangered breeds and monitor the progress of reintroduced species.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 21, 2014
There is a huge variety of bird-life and by visiting at different times of day I have found over 65 species, with the highlight so far being the Black Bittern that I wrote of last week. Other parrots and cockatoos include Galahs , Little Corellas, Red-tailed Black Cockatoos and Sulphur-crested Cockatoos. Red-collared Lorikeets.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 5, 2012
Despite the dogs, leaf blowers, golf carts, and other disturbances, I still find this to be one of the most exciting and reliable places in suburban Miami-Dade to see a varied subset of birds (143 species recorded by myself in just over four years of birding here) with the occassional rarity thrown in.
10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2019
So, for example, Essay #15, “Individual Variation,” uses Herring Gulls to introduce the concept that one species, even one species at a specific age, can vary widely in appearance. The Checklist is more than a taxonomic listing of species and chapter number and title; it also contains useful notes on each bird family.
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