10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2015

A furtive peek to the smaller part of the pond at the right hand side, some fishes are twirling at the very surface, showing off their flanks for the moment, then their backs… some strange fishes. The water is misty-golden and the fishes are all glossy in the early morning sun. kilometres / 0.7

Otters 181

Otters Serbia Fish Mammals 181

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The mongabay.com portal has compared data on a unit of area basis of the percentage of the total global number of species of birds, amphibians, mammals, reptiles, fish and vascular plants. And small country often equals short distances and easy traveling. The best season is December, followed by June-July.

Gambia 242

Gambia Equatorial Guinea Species Rwanda 242

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

For example, you could say, “among mammals, only three families include species with a meaningful degree of root eating” or “within the family that includes lemmings and voles, there is a mixture of monogamous and polygynous species” and so on. Some sort of ancient fish-with-feet is the ancestors of humans. So, here’s the thing.

Monkeys 142

Monkeys Gorillas Whales Whaling 142

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2023

Finally, of the at least 20 species of mammals present here, the otter, the jackal, and the wildcat certainly deserve a mention. Fortunately, late June is the right season for the locally brewed snake-cold Vergina lager in the deepest shade by some gull-filled beach.

Greece 193

Greece Pelicans Birds Otters 193

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2020

Usually, maize is on the menu, only occasionally carrion or dead trout from a nearby fish farm. That is the trickiest moment for him: what if there’s a bear right next to the dirt track? The Brown Bear remains my nemesis mammal. Balkan Chamois ( Rupicapra rupicapra balcanica ), Tara NP, by Snezana and Slobodan Panjkovic.

Serbia 264

Serbia Bears Birds Mammals 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2012

Their beautiful blue-gray can really pop in the right light. This one was so good it caught two fish at a time (just once though). They do like to supplement their diet with small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects. They share our world without too much complaint, adapting to our cities and towns when they can.

San Francisco 242

San Francisco Gophers Reptiles Hunters 242

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into.” Of course, Little Egrets like to eat fish.

Raccoons 224

Raccoons Birds Oregon China 224

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2011

The reason behind the striking colour scheme is rather simple: birds have combined two digestive aspects into one channel that mammals have separated into two: excretion and defecation. You may be right in remarking that this is a very poor poo pic, and indeed it is. That’s the clear, transparent pee in mammals.

Mammals 250

Mammals Birds Eggs Fish 250

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Into the souvenir shop for some local coffee, chocolate and cocoa, then a coffee mug with an image of a Three-toed Sloth and the Field Guide to the Mammals of Costa Rica, and off we go. There was a Gartered Trogon right above me, and one cooperative Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth on a cecropia tree, raising its head to smile at us.

Costa Rica 244

Costa Rica Nicaragua 2019 Farming 244

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

This portal has compared on a per unit of area basis data on the percentage of a total global number of species of birds, amphibians, mammals, reptiles, fish and vascular plants, creating a biodiversity index. Then you get a more realistic picture and those tiny tropical countries rightfully stand out in the spotlights.

Equatorial Guinea 203

Equatorial Guinea Costa Rica Guyana Central African Republic 203

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2014

LYHV forage for food by flying right above open grasslands, turning around to double check a particular spot, and dropping suddenly apparently to catch a prey, just like Harriers do. Both Harrier and vultures hold their wings in a dihedral position and rock their body left and right as they fly. Photo: Arjan Haverkamp.

Mice 166

Mice Killing Turkey Mammals 166

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

Santuario de Flora y Fauna Otún Quimbaya is an exquisite national park in Risaralda, Colombia that is home to more than 300 bird species along with tons of butterflies and amazing mammals like Spectacled Bears , Red Howler Monkeys , Two-toed Sloths , and Tapirs.

Colombia 197

Colombia South America Argentina Ecuador 197

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2018

This portal has compared data on the percentage of a total global number of species of birds, amphibians, mammals, reptiles, fishes and vascular plants per unit of area, creating a biodiversity index. Mongabay.com has done exactly that.

Rwanda 221

Rwanda Equatorial Guinea El Salvador Costa Rica 221

Animal Person

APRIL 1, 2010

Meanwhile, "new speciesism" is the notion that within a paradigm where rights are included for nonhuman animals, some are more deserving of rights than others for any of a variety of reasons (e.g., intelligence, having a sense of past and future, having social ties, being a mammal or a bird).

Speciesism 100

Speciesism Apes Advocacy Salamander 100

Animal Person

JUNE 10, 2009

"We are fighting a war against fish, and we are. That brief trailer could be a gift in the disguise of paradoxical message about how we can still kill and eat fish, yet not be at war with them. That tells me that we're still at war, as we are going to continue to kill fish because we can and we want to.

Vegan 100

Vegan Fish Industry Slaughter 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2012

The first sighting was of an individual seen and photographed right off the pier at Boynton Inlet on December 9, 2012. However, the true scope of the irruption was not apparent until people started chartering fishing boats to explore the waters just offshore where they were greeted by flocks of hundreds of Razorbills!

Florida 224

Florida Cuba 2012 Bahamas 224

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

The vast majority of nuclear rays that hit you from any given source will simply pass right though most of your tissues (depending on the exact kind of energy and the tissue) but if one of these tiny slappy things gets a molecule in your cell, you might end up with broken DNA or some other highly localized but very bad result.

Mammals 240

Mammals Birds Fish Cooking 240

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Despite all of the dangers we have-snakes, spiders, crocodiles, deadly jellyfish, deadly fish, leeches, ticks, mosquitoes and then a pandemic-we still have a population of almost 26 million people. Foster to Fish Creek. Fish Creek to Buffalo. Echidna-egg laying mammal-500th post. Geelong-Rippleside Park to Eastern Park.

Australia 147

Australia Singapore Birds Battery 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Whenever I come here, I am focused on birds, but I have had some good mammal sighting as well: a roe deer swimming across a pond (only its head and antlers visible), a pair of otters playing in the water, a curious (young?) Fish will lose their spawning ground, otters and White-tailed Eagles will be no more.

Serbia 246

Serbia Otters Boars Eagles 246

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Pale-mandibled Aracari by Luke Seitz Taste, touch and smell in birds are generally considered to be weaker than these same senses in mammals. Most appear to have a very limited sense of smell and mammals appear to have better developed olfactory glands. Sword-billed Hummingbird , Colombia Bills come in all shapes and sizes.

Birds 222

Birds Mammals Mozambique New Zealand 222

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

A Black Redstart on the fishing cottage rooftop, Mistle Thrush in a distant tree, European Greenfinch and the Eurasian Siskin right in front of us. The only mammals we saw were an alien introduced from Patagonia – Coypu (Nutria). Coypu by Snezana & Slobodan Panjkovic.

Serbia 264

Serbia Geese Eagles Louisiana 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2016

Lunch, some time to get to know our rooms (I loved mine, right next to a tree that housed a Spotted Owlet), and we were off again for Ranthambhore National Park, right down the road. Well, the Dusky Eagle-Owl was big too, but for some reason, the Fish-Owl seemed huge. Target: Tigers. It was a big owl. And this is what we saw.

India 189

India Tigers Birds Owls 189

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2017

Some of you have been counting on federal funding or habitat protection that now looks shaky; some of you have mates who never made it back from migration; some of you just can’t catch enough fish. Especially those of you with an all-fish diet. And I think you do. Anyway, what I’m saying is we’ve all been under a lot of stress.

Bald Eagle 100

Bald Eagle Belize Iowa Eggs 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2013

Even people with no other interest in wildlife, who couldn’t tell a sparrow from an ostrich (or even a dolphin from a fish) love dolphins. Happy tourists amongst a massive pod (which went for a while either side of this shot) of Dusky Dolphins right off the coast of Kaikoura. Birding dolphins marine mammals New Zealand endemic'

Dolphins 156

Dolphins Sharks New Zealand Albatross 156

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. I learned of the trip right as it had been delayed and made a vow that I would be on that ship.

South Africa 264

South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2017

Most of these are common/abundant residential and migratory birds (and, this being Kruger, that includes five Hornbill species, four Sunbird species, a Trogon, five Owl species, and many other goodies); uncommon and striking-but-rare species are also included, so we have Storks, Martial Eagle, and Pel’s Fishing-Owl. And, heavy.).

Ecuador 178

Ecuador Wildlife Reptiles Birds 178

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Beljarica floodplain, from the Danube at the left to the embankment at the right hand side. These 870 ha / 2150 ac of river arms, ponds and cubicles, willow and poplar forests, together with alien hybrid black poplar plantations, are earmarked to become the new harbour of the city of Belgrade.

Serbia 173

Serbia Protection Eagles Ducks 173

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

99% of the commentary I have seen has been angry bordering on outright hostile, the few exceptions mostly being the kind of right wing “news” sites that love nothing more than tweaking a tree-hugging liberal like myself. It may even have been mentioned in Google+, although it is unlikely anyone noticed.

Lions 186

Lions Killing Hunting Hunters 186

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

Not only do we take care of zillions of injured and orphaned birds/mammals/reptiles/whatever, we also have to deal with and educate the public. Mourning Doves fed cheerios, raptors fed hot dogs, infant squirrels fed watered down peanut butter because squirrels eat peanuts at the feeder, right?” The baffling, mind-boggling public.

Squirrels 250

Squirrels Hamburgers Chickens Wildlife Rehabilitation 250

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

This young Western Gull seems to have no idea what to make of this Mola Mola (Ocean Sunfish), or perhaps it prefers the company of unusual fish. In birds, the cerebral cortex is proportionally smaller than mammals, which for many years led researchers to assume that they lacked the ability of so-called “higher” brain functions.

Emotional 212

Emotional Science Birds Mammals 212

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

Right: Robert McCormick, by Stephen Pearce. Unlike Darwin, who was a self-funded gentleman naturalist on board, McCormick was bound to the Beagle by his duties and was furious that a civilian passenger on board had usurped his rightful position as ship’s naturalist. And the Mammals. (“Antarctica” by Kim Stanley Robinson, 1998).

Russia 178

Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 178

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Pelicans and cormorants breeding at the Mikri often go to the Megali Prespa to fish the cold, deep waters – actually, cormorants to dive for fish and pelicans to wait for the cormorants at the surface to steal their prey. Hence, the smaller lake is frozen in winter, while the bigger one never freezes.

Greece 252

Greece Pelicans Geese Breeding 252

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

This may be the most awesome pelagic you’ll ever experience… For me it was the publication in 1984 of Peter Harrison’s ground-breaking identification guide to ‘ Seabirds ’ that opened up the off-shore world of pelagic birding right on Cape Town’s door step.

Albatross 186

Albatross Penguins Dolphins Whales 186

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Several members of the Audubon Society said the plan fails to answer questions about how cats will be managed and what rights neighbors will have if the cats become a nuisance. But it’s something in the right direction.”. First Amendment rights are in question here,” Moriarty said. First amendment rights? No,” he said.

Feral Cats 215

Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 215

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2015

We ended with 7 species of mammal, including River Otter, Gray Fox, and Marsh Rabbit, but the highlight may have been a little Canebrake Rattlesnake crossing the road at the Bodie Island lighthouse, a lifer herp for me. “Heron high going right! A Nelson’s Sparrow peeks out of an Outer Banks marsh. Photo by Nate Swick.

North Carolina 150

North Carolina Rattlesnake Sparrows Owls 150

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

From there, we head to a local restaurant to join the rest of the team for lunch, an excellent fish spiced by a reggae/calypso band in the background. Or a mammal. And I wouldn’t mind spending the rest of my life here, the town has that kind of feeling. In the off season, at least. Or even those pooie reptiles.

Costa Rica 145

Costa Rica Reptiles Farming Mississippi 145

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Kaufman guides are colorful and well-designed and convenient, just the right size and weight to slip into a backpack or even a pocket. Size is indicated as much as possible throughout the book, with measurements are given for birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians.

Massachusetts 211

Massachusetts North America Rhode Island Ohio 211