10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

This group includes the Suliformes , Pelecaniformes (as newly redefined), storks, tubenoses, penguins, loons , and perhaps tropicbirds. This clade, Mayr says, is “most likely the sister taxon&# of Madagascar’s terrestrial mesites (!). Mayr names an assemblage of waterbirds Aequornithes.

Madagascar 164

Madagascar Birds Louisiana Groups 164

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

I did that with Peacocks & Picathartes – Reflections on Africa’s birdlife (published by Penguin Random House South Africa ). Madagascar, however, is beyond the reach of this book, notwithstanding its also being part of the Afrotropical region.” When was the last time you chose a book by its covers?

Congo 264

Congo Africa South Africa Madagascar 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. The Dodo lived on Mauritius, an island east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. It gave up flight long, long ago.

Solomon Islands 279

Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 279

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Can the whole family live together in harmony during the school holidays? Madagascar Turtle-Dove – Streptopelia picturata. African Penguin – Spheniscus demersus. Yellow-eyed Penguin – Megadyptes antipodes. Katiki Point Penguin reserve. Little Penguin – Eudyptula minor. North coast Rd.

2018 100

2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 100