10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
Nevertheless, only the most important news I did follow, those about the decision-making process on future sales of elephants and their ivory at a global wildlife summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, the first such meeting since 2013. In Africa, one elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. One may say so. Literally.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Tiphys died either of a snakebite or of a mysterious illness but he was not killed by either a tiger or a rhinoceros. A Crested Serpent Eagle , looking a bit ridiculous after a rain. Another “maybe this is” species: a possible Wallaces Hawk-eagle. Lucky him, right? Though he ended up dead anyway.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
But, the anticipation of everyone else in the group was contagious, and when California birder Lori Conrad looked out the window of the plane as we started our descent and screamed, “Elephants! There are elephants down there!” The leopards place their kill in a tree, protecting it from poaching by other predators.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 13, 2012
In 1856 Wahlberg was killed by an Elephant near Lake Ngami in Botswana without ever publishing an account of his travels, but fellow Swede Carl Sundevall catalogued his collection at the Stockholm Museum and described the birds Wahlberg collected. Sundevall named Wahlberg’s Eagle and Wahlberg’s Honeyguide in his memory.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2022
The one bird I did not see here, however, was the Bateleur Eagle … One highlight in the area is the Saddle-billed Stork , likely to be the tallest species in the stork family. The Natal Spurfowl forages on rhinoceros and elephant dung (HBW) and does so without complaining. Think about it when you feel hard done by life.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2022
Due to some misallocation of bird species, I saw the Bateleur Eagle near Malelane, not near Bateleur Camp, where a more professional marketing team would have located the bird. Wahlberg’s Eagle is named after the Swedish naturalist Johan August Wahlberg who first started studying chemistry (!) but later switched to forestry (?).
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
Seriema at the deepest branch of Australaves could be considered to belong to a raptorial taxon because they kill vertebrate prey and are the sole living relatives of the extinct giant “terror birds,” apex predators during the Paleogene. .’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. Ratites, Tinamous, and Fowl.
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