10,000 Birds
JANUARY 26, 2013
Back on 14 January Larry and Shari Zirlin were fortunate enough to come across an amazing three Northern Lapwings in a field in New Egypt, New Jersey, while out looking for a pair of reported Sandhill Cranes. It also seemed kind of silly to go that far out of my way for a species that I just saw in November in Montauk.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2011
We saw these birds in Egypt in 1994 and they were just great and Grant saw 5 in Busan, South Korea a few weeks ago, just after I got home to Broome. Thursday was a day off from counting shorebirds and so we were catching up on family news and four of the other shorebird counters went to look at the ephemeral lakes.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2014
And, I’ve passed through the Ancient Egypt exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum, where the Ibis is featured on pottery fragments, many times. It’s relatively easy to classify birds into family groups based on physical characteristics. I was surprised at how much and how little cultural significance different bird families hold for us.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2019
According to the 13 th -century historian and geographer of Al-Andalus, Ibn Sai’d al-Maghrib’ (1213-1286), the Gyrfalcon was so highly esteemed that the sultan of Egypt was willing to pay 1,000 dinars for birds delivered to him alive – and half that amount even if they were dead upon arrival.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
There’s the Neolithic era; Ancient Egypt (bird mummies!); Each of the 12 chapters focuses on a chronological era and sometimes a place, through the details within often jump around in time and space, echoing Birkhead’s personal and scientific associations with the topic.
10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2022
One of the most interesting aspects of watching birds in Africa is to see different members of bird families that I already know from China. An information for those Indian readers of the blog who only know “Kingfisher” as a brand of beer: It is also a bird family. Different bird families, I know.
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. Another member of the stork family, the African Openbill , looks like it is could benefit from a good orthodontist. Ostrich industry in Egypt.
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