10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

And there is diversity in charisma–few people can resist an Emperor Penguin or a Secretary Bird, but common birds like Indian Myna and Black-crowned Night Heron also get their due respect. Hauber Hauber’s mini-essays focus on specific behaviors, enhanced by references to recent research yet written in a relaxed, personal way.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

I did that with Peacocks & Picathartes – Reflections on Africa’s birdlife (published by Penguin Random House South Africa ). And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. From 1923 to 1948 Chapin served as associate curator of ornithology in the AMNH.

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Congo Africa South Africa Madagascar 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

Ratites, Tinamous, and Fowl. Follow him on Twitter — he’s regularly tweeting great highlights from the research project. This major radiation of water-adapted birds includes loons, penguins, and the remarkable tubenoses along with a variety of totipalmate and wading birds. Open Jarvis et al.’s Jarvis et al.

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279