10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2012

The bird eluded me for nearly 20 years until I stumbled across one at Phinda Private Game Reserve , where I worked in northern KwaZulu-Natal. It was early afternoon and myself and a few of the other game rangers were out birding a productive fig forest close to Mkuze Game Reserve, our neighbor to the north of Phinda.

Owls 242

Owls Fish Botswana Barn Owls 242

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. However it is now one of the world’s rarest animals after decades of relentless hunting and poaching. Black Rhinos are best sought in South Africa, Namibia and Tanzania. to the far reaches of freezing Siberia.

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 197

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

Anyway, the story is not quite how I remembered it, to be honest, but fitting enough to describe the almost claustrophobic birding experience in ever-shrinking Nanhui. This is partly due to hunting in China, where about 90% of the species winter (HBW). And it does not even live in reeds.

Raccoons 207

Raccoons Birds Oregon China 207

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Recent publicity about these remarkable tribes has resulted in tourists wanting to experience this wild land and its attractions for themselves. They are traditionally pastoral people, but have from necessity accepted agriculture, fishing and crocodile hunting as means of survival. Yellow-billed Stork.

Ethiopia 237

Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Game 237

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Plasticity in humans is probably modulated primarily through experience and enculturation. As I’ve noted elsewhere, it was really Darwin’s experiences on the Falklands that first congealed many of his evolutionary insights. Presumably the humans keep away the predators.

Birds 117

Birds Research Humane Pets 117

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2012

Fortunately, cooler heads (and the threat of being hunted down by angry Austrians) prevailed and instead I just looked at Great Crested Grebes , Black-crowned Night-Herons , Eurasian Coots , and other birds. As cool as watching the birds was I also enjoyed watching my fellow birders test out the new optics.

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Hungary 2013 Groups Game 220

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Hare could run a very profitable shell game. Wolves, for example–the probable ancestors of dogs–live in packs that hunt together and have a complex hierarchy. See TIME’s video “ The March of TIME: Hunting Dog Field Trials.&#. Ancestors of dogs could cooperate to hunt, but the cooperation had limits.

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Wolves Fox Dogs Puppies 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Later, Harry Fuller, President of the Klamath Bird Observatory, led us to an open meadow where we saw a pair of Great Gray Owls hunting in a meadow. The experience, the place, and the bird combine to make this my BBOTY. Larry’s BBOTY – Great Gray Owl. Carlos’s BBOTY – the Nicobar Pigeon.

2014 184

2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 184

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The trip was probably reasonably well planned and it would have been known to these travelers that game birds, as well as deer and fish, were abundant in the region they were traveling to. They may have also had hunting dogs with them as well. The Spanish Colonial Experience and Domestic Animals. Kiva 78(1):37–60. Thornton, E.,

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 199

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Whangarei New Zealand’s most northerly city and smack bang in the middle of the Northland region, those seeking to experience wild New Zealand have a dizzying array of choices here. Auckland Finally, New Zealand’s largest cities and the places hosting the opening game and the final.

New Zealand 157

New Zealand Penguins Sanctuary Birds 157

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

When I first started birding 25 years ago and asked what the rarest bird in my province was, the answer received was the Woolly-necked Stork, with just 3 or 4 breeding pairs in the big game reserves of Zululand. This stork is named in honor of Bey El-Arnaut Abdim, a 19th century Turkish Governor of Wadi Halfa in Sudan.

Africa 235

Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 235

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2014

even before I took binoculars, I was always chasing, hmm… impressionable experiences. The intensity of experience is not the same, but, e.g. focusing on a single bird and trying to solve the puzzle… or finding the rarest owl of India , that was a mind-blowing one. More of a hunt? Museums – majority of them?

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Farming Serbia Europe India 231

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2012

What this land-locked country lacks in endemic birds it more than makes up for in accessibility of tough species, numbers of birds and the overall wildlife experience. Okavango sunset Almost 40% of all land in Botswana is under conservation either as wilderness areas, game reserves or national parks.

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Botswana Zebras Lions Elephants 201

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

One of Africa’s truly exhilarating experiences is watching and listening to a honking flock of these massive birds as they appear out of the early morning mists over a wetland, to land nearby and start their wing-flapping and jumping displays. A pair of Hooded Vultures in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania by Adam Riley.

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Endangered Species Species Morocco South Africa 185

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2019

While the hunting of game with trained birds of prey can be a controversial topic among birders , falconry was a valuable early source of information on birds, and its history, culture, and imagery continue to fascinate bird lovers, as we shall see.

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2015 Italy Falcons Europe 113