10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2020
If I had known that these Amanita caesareas smell pleasantly of eggs, I would have taken a sniff. And while this poisonous species is usually red and spotted, older examples can lose their spots and take on an orange hue. The variety of their shapes and colors demanded that I turn my camera earthward. Then I saw its shiny partner.
Critter News
DECEMBER 12, 2009
The Calgary Zoo is again under scrutiny as details emerged Friday about how a capybara, a species of giant South American rodent, died after becoming caught in a hydraulic door last weekend as it was being moved from one area to another. In April 2009, unseasonably cold weather froze two whopping crane eggs.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 16, 2011
People also say that hyraxes are elephants, but they are so distant in their relationship that it is little different than saying that deer are a type of pronghorn antelope. One of the most interesting differences between birds and dinosaurs has to do with their eggs. The nature, distribution, and evolution of bird song is unclear.
10,000 Birds
JULY 16, 2012
Seuss’s Horton Hatches An Egg precedes Eastman’s book by twenty years. But since Horton is an elephant, and since the creature that hatches from the egg is an elephant-bird, I’m going to wait till 10,000 Birds does a Hybrid Bird Week before discussing this representative of the Seussiverse. In Are You My Mother?
Critter News
DECEMBER 23, 2008
In some parts of Africa, rangers receive military training and equipment to defend animals (and themselves) from poachers in pursuit of elephants, rhinos, gorillas, and other endangered species. In Nicaragua, the army patrols beaches to protect sea turtle eggs. But now there is increasing talk of more far-reaching action.
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 African Spoonbill is one of the six global spoonbill species, and the main African one (there are also some Eurasian Spoonbills in Africa).
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
We –participants of the ABA South Africa Safari—were on a small plane when one Lori Conrad looked out the window and screamed, “There are elephants down there!” Tall grass, grass in burnt areas, leaves stems, small mammals, large mammals, invertebrates, birds, bird eggs, even hyena feces (that’s the Leopard Tortoise).
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