10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

One of my most memorable outings was a night-time game drive in Kenya when we saw an aardvark and a zorilla, so we ticked off both the first mammal in the field guide’s index, and the last. Why the weasel should be the head of the family doesn’t really make sense. Why not the stoat family or the badger family?)

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Fur Bulgaria Otters Estonia 176

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

It’s a fun game for New World birders to find equivalents to many of the Old World bird families that we are unfamiliar with, but there is no equivalent to turacos. They bounce around limbs like jays and scurry like squirrels. Great Blue Turaco is far too spectacular a bird to be as common as it is.

Uganda 158

Uganda Africa Squirrels Tanzania 158

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 3, 2013

Problem-solving skills are as good for your dog as they are for you, and it’s always a delight to see your canine companion beam with pride when they have “won” their game. As a result, even games of catch give your puppy more to think about. Hide-A-Squirrel Puzzle Plush Toy. Is your pup a squirrel fan? Kong Classic.

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Puppies Squirrels Dogs Game 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2011

They are part of a family of New World Quail which includes Gambel’s, Mountain, Scaled and Montezuma Quail, as well as the Northern Bobwhite. At this age, they are also able to make short flights, a highly desirable trait for game birds. The family stays very close to cover for several weeks, getting bolder as the young develop.

California 212

California Eggs Gophers Rattlesnake 212

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2015

Each year Hog Island offers programs, taught by a stellar staff of naturalists and artists, to groups of all kinds (teenagers, adults, families). He then led a lively game of name-that-bird charades by flailing his arms in simulations of various wingbeats, timing his flights so as not to fall overboard during oceanic swells.

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Puffins Birds Groups West Virginia 247

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2012

Originally they were all placed in the family Capitonidae , but over time taxonomists have determined that actual relationships between these barbets are far more complex. Gray-throated Barbet is one of the plainer members of the African Barbet family. Image taken in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania.

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Ethiopia Tanzania Africa Uganda 223