10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Kinabalu (at 13,455 feet the highest peak in southeast Asia), and human development that has resulted in freshwater rice fields, secondary forest, and oil palm plantations, this means that Borneo offers an incredibly high degree of biodiversity. Browsing this field guide is a visual pleasure.

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Brunei Birds Asia China 172

Reddit Animals

DECEMBER 15, 2023

When they walk, their tail hangs down, but when they run, their tail sticks up, with the bushy tip hanging down. They are the heaviest and largest living birds, with adult common ostriches weighing anywhere between 140-320 lbs and laying the largest eggs of any living land animal. Ostrich eggs have been used by humans for millennia.

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Africa Buffalo Ostriches Animal 40

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

I used to play Subbuteo as a kid … a kind of tip-kick football game that was named after this species (apparently, the inventors first wanted to name the game “Hobby” but that was rejected as too generic, or so the story goes). Thank god that this does not apply to humans.

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Birds China Eggs Owls 191

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. It holds the large food item at the tip of its bill and throws its head back quickly, swallowing it whole. Now pairs of hornbills feed outside this correspondent’s window”. Indeed, this species seems to be the equivalent of weeds among the hornbill species.

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 124

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

They can reach heights of up to 5 ft 7 inches, taller than many adult humans. In fact, in South Africa they occurred in wetlands all the way to Cape Town at the southern tip of the continent. This is worrying because paired birds generally only lay one egg and the breeding cycle can be very irregular. www.youtube.com/watch?

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Botswana South Africa Africa Ethiopia 145

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

There is also a third element, only hinted at in the opening–the environmental and scientific necessity of gathering this data to document the importance of keeping the Pacific Northwest waters healthy and uncontaminated by human elements. In the water I find a single black-tipped feather as their only trace.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2016

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Big Egg Marsh. White-tipped Plantcutter – Phytotoma rutila. Breezy Point Tip. White-tipped Dove – Leptotila verreauxi.

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2016 Sanctuary Ghana Australia 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Breezy Point Tip. White-tipped Dove – Leptotila verreauxi. White-tipped Sicklebill – Eutoxeres aquila. Breezy Point Tip.

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2016 Sanctuary Australia Ghana 154

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2016

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Big Egg Marsh. White-tipped Plantcutter – Phytotoma rutila. Breezy Point Tip. Breezy Point Tip. Los Cartagos. 14 May 2016.

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2016 Sanctuary Ghana Australia 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2016

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Breezy Point Tip. White-tipped Dove – Leptotila verreauxi. White-tipped Plantcutter – Phytotoma rutila. Breezy Point Tip.

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2016 Sanctuary Ghana Australia 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Breezy Point Tip. White-tipped Dove – Leptotila verreauxi. White-tipped Plantcutter – Phytotoma rutila. Breezy Point Tip.

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2016 Sanctuary Australia Ghana 101

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Juvenile retrices are narrower, more pointed at the tip, and often have a ‘V’-shaped notch cut out at the tip. Perhaps the most positive reaction came from noted bird photographer Marie Read, who noted that the information about waterfowl reaction to humans and decoys would be of great interest to nature photographers.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 114