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. ” ( source ).
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2019
A discarded pigeon’s egg reminded me that spring is just around the corner and that nest boxes should be readied in anticipation. Each family of birds have different requirements, so make sure that you match the box with a corresponding opening, site and height. What’s this? Where did winter go? Think like a predator.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
When there are cuckoos around – which parasitize Daurian Redstarts – the females have a higher rate of egg rejection. The Yellow-bellied Tit suffers a bit less from such jokes. Better safe than sorry, I guess. But fortunately, I also found the real thing this month – always worth seeing.
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2014
Skye wore a long-suffering expression, while Bau-Hien – whose parents had settled in Texas after leaving Vietnam – regarded me with a mixture of fascination and alarm. A half-hour boat cruise around Eastern Egg Rock gave me a glimpse of seabird paradise, then yanked it away. Soon the girls emerged. There’s one!”.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2017
They emerged from their bloody rampage leaving fifteen adults dead, and fifteen destroyed nests with either smashed or missing eggs. They were simply sent to Family Court. Between the adults and their eggs, the three of them killed 32 live albatrosses. Who suffers for these crimes? Gutierrez was 18.
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2023
The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society is not particularly sensitive to the feelings of kingfishers, calling them a “stockily built birds” The Black-capped Kingfisher is among the more attractive ones, which is not an easy feat among this bird family.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2022
I saw two Pitta species at Hongbenghe, both among the slightly less glamourous among the pitta family: The Blue-naped Pitta … … and the closely related Rusty-naped Pitta. The Crested Serpent Eagle is another species bound to suffer from a naming error in perpetuity. “It is not deep enough yet!
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