10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 29, 2013
So naturally, I got to thinking about kinglets, and their Palearctic kin, the “crests,” and where they belong in the avian family tree. The family Regulidae comprises six small, hyperactive species that range through the great boreal and temperate forests North and Middle America, North Africa, and Eurasia.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 24, 2011
Rescuers from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org ) have mobilized to Japan to conduct an assessment and assist with animal rescue efforts following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan. will be channeled into Japan. This is IFAW’s third emergency response effort in Japan.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2023
Here goes: Paradise Flycatchers are a genus in the broader (and rather large) family of Monarchidae. The Japanese Paradise Flycatcher usually arrives in Shanghai a bit earlier than the Amur one, as it still has to travel on to Japan. Such an embarrassingly populist title of a blog post should obviously be followed by some dry facts.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2019
The seafaring Portuguese were also depicted with their falcons abroad as they began building an overseas empire in the 15th century, even in lands as distant as Japan (a nation with its own ancient falconry traditions). Quinta do Casal Branco has been in the family of winemaker José Lobo de Vasconcelos for over two centuries, since 1775.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 14, 2023
In the human psyche, owls can be cuddly signs of good luck and benificence (as they are in Japan, and Harry Potter movies) and, at the same time, eerie and unsettling. Either way, they are perhaps more central to our stories and lore than other birds, a familiar example, as Darlington reminds us, being Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2021
A typical description of the family is that of “a tropical African and Asian songbird that typically has a melodious voice and drab plumage”, another is “small, dull-colored passerine birds of Asia and Africa”, yet another states that they are “often rather plain” Individual species get even harsher reviews.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 12, 2014
In Japan, it is represented by the A.c. They are usually seen as a small, noisy flock or family group that passes quickly through feeding acrobatically like the true t**s as they go. It is a tiny ball of fluff with a long tail and the tiniest of bills. Its range extends well beyond our shores through Europe and beyond. japonicus race.
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