10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2016
There are a few, mostly confined to domestic or game birds that people may be familiar with at all stages of their lives – young pigeons are squabs, ducks are duckings, swans are cygnets, geese are gosling. They may be, but the names haven’t caught on.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2017
As you drive along you see plenty of mole rats too, if you like mammals. Blue-winged Geese were common. Larger endemics like Wattled Ibis and Thick-billed Ravens are found here too, but can also easily be found in less inhospitable climes. And the biggest staris also a mammal, the Ethiopian Wolf. Rouget’s Rail. So very bold!
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2014
It was the height of baby season, I was insanely overworked and underslept, and I did not – I repeat, did not – do waterbirds, except for mallards and Canada geese and wood ducks and swans etc. I got a sewer rat a lady thought was a baby opossum,” chimed in Charis Palmer. “A Such a curious-looking little bird,” said the man.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2011
A lot of the stuff I’m really hoping to see are from families (and even species) I’ve seen before but haven’t seen in a long time (bustards, stone-curlews, jacanas, cranes, magpie-geese, pittas). But as I read about what was possible up there it occurred to me that I could also get quite a few new families.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2014
New Zealand had, once upon a time, some fairly spectacular game birds, including massive flightless geese, massive flightles rails, and really enormous moa.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2018
The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. They have a hard enough time with Canada Geese. Is this the type of bird behavior that makes sense in our world?
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