10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Take Madagascar, for example, one of the world’s highest-priority Biodiversity Hotspots: that island-continent is most famous for its penguins. Well, sort of, as there are no penguins in Madagascar, indigenous or otherwise. Yet, those bird guides are hefty.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
Islands, for various reasons, experience more extinctions than continents (with Africa being the only continent not suffering a bird extinction!). Madagascar, however, has had more than its fair share of extinct or lost species and Madagascar Pochard was firmly on this list.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 9, 2023
And understanding habitats in detail is essential to any birder who wants to get the most out of his experiences in the field. Behrens is a co-author of Birds of Kruger National Park and Wildlife of Madagascar (both Princeton WILDGuides). Habitats of the World is the first field guide to the world’s major land habitats—189 in all.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
” Landfill often made me wander off into some half-forgotten gulling experience of mine. At some stage, in the darkness with Claire and Callan, Tim Dee was stalking a nightjar in Madagascar. Caspian gulls have a strange quality: they’re more aggressive than herring gulls but also I think more beautiful.”
10,000 Birds
JUNE 10, 2020
Every other year or so, we experience the lightest of frosts, nothing killing, and our warmest temperatures (in the 80s and 90s) occur in late spring. Jacaranda: The jacaranda, from Madagascar, is a spectacularly beautiful tree when in bloom here in March and April. My climate is very wet in the summer, and bone-dry in the winter.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2012
Its range also extends to nearby Madagascar. The African Openbill also has a similar Africa-wide distribution (barring most of South and North Africa) as the previous four species and partakes long distance movements (usually triggered by rainfall) through the continent and to Madagascar.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2011
Anderson River Park Never Disappoints Barbados The Other Antigua About the Author James A life-long birder and native of South Africa, James Currie has many years experience in the birding and wildlife tourism arenas.
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