10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. The new 48-genome analysis included only ostrich and tinamou DNA, so it doesn’t shed further light on paleognath interrelationships, but it does reinforce their distinctiveness from all other living birds. Open Jarvis et al.’s Ratites, Tinamous, and Fowl.

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2014

I’m in Sydney for a week of family, birding, diving and enjoying the subtropical climate. Many people may claim to find it hard to distinguish a sparrow from an ostrich but in truth everyone knows what a pelican is. Blue Penguin. So head over to Manly for the waves and bars and check out a penguin on the way home.

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Penguins Pelicans Parrots Australia 213

10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2014

First off, it seems that New Zealand’s two iconic families of ratites, large flightless southern birds that includes emus, rhea, ostriches, cassowaries and the extinct elephant birds, are not particularly closely related. With the arrival of the Maori the secret penguin was, unfortunately, wiped out.

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New Zealand Penguins Sea Lions Lions 163

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Next, band names referring to individual birds or bird families. The Bowerbirds are an American independent-folk band as well as an Australian bird family. The bird family, however, is not. Fortunately, Berninger recently covered the song “Big bird” A big bird ( Ostrich , Cape Town, South Africa).

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South Africa China Germany Birds 240

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. For much more, see The history of the Dodo Raphus cucullatus and the penguin of Mauritius (PDF).

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 278

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Can the whole family live together in harmony during the school holidays? African Penguin – Spheniscus demersus. Common Ostrich – Struthio camelus. Yellow-eyed Penguin – Megadyptes antipodes. Katiki Point Penguin reserve. Little Penguin – Eudyptula minor. Bravo if you have.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 100