10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2022
Despite its 8% strength, Skylight Double India Pale Ale is a wonderfully refreshing – if potent – summer beer in the hazy New England IPA style. But it does earn points for whimsy, depicting a warbler-ish bird with a pale eye-ring and dark mask peering into a nest with three little hop cones as “eggs”. Good birding and happy drinking!
10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2018
It was the final day of my two weeks long first passage to India. The only person I asked before the trip was one seasoned Canadian traveler who has spent some time in the subcontinent: “Do you have any advice for an absolute beginner in India?” And in the process, I fell in love with India. Let me see, when was it?
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2024
The scientific species name of the Rusty-naped Pitta oatesi honors Eugene William Oates (1845-1911), an English civil servant in India and naturalist. He published a number of books on birds of India and Burma, making me wonder how hard all these overseas civil servants really worked in their day jobs. ” ( source ).
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
I guessed that his mate was close by, incubating her eggs. In England clutches of 15 or 16 eggs are usual, but clutches of as many as 28 eggs, all laid by a single hen, have been recorded. Such big clutches are essential for survival, as there’s hardly a predator around that won’t eat an egg or chick given half a chance.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2023
If the male’s color fades after the first egg, the female reacts by laying a smaller second egg – seemingly deciding that it is better to cut her losses as the male apparently is the avian equivalent of a deadbeat father. At Sepilok, it can be hard to avoid taking photos of some non-birds, such as primates.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 27, 2023
The Latin species name mcclellandii refers to John McClelland (1805-1875), a British zoologist and geologist who – as you might expect for a British person – in 1835 was sent to north-eastern India to check if tea could be grown there ( source ). In one group, they added a blue egg to their nests.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
This individual was photographed in India There’s one problem with this approach, as it can lead to birds being ignored. A pair did lay infertile eggs in Iceland in 2018, but that’s about the only record I can find). Here in Suffolk we now have impressive wintering flocks of Barnacle Geese, often numbering 1000 birds or more.
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