10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

They represent the best of New Zealand’s birding, the astonishing rarity, the fascinating endemism, and the cheering triumph of conservation. On Seymour Island, my group witnessed a very human-like interaction amongst three boobies , one female and two males.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2011

They are rock stars in their family (or group of families, depending on what taxonomists have been smoking lately), a family that includes Scarlet Macaws , Crimson Shining-parrots , Golden Parakeets and Rainbow Lorikeets , and that is no mean feat. I guess New Zealanders really like flightless birds.) Kakapo are bird rock stars.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

It confirms many of the once-radical notions put forward or refined by Shannon Hackett and her colleagues in 2008, and several since, and it proposes solutions to some of the most deeply unresolved questions about how major bird groups are related to each other. ( “Metaves” was purported to contain the groups in Jarvis et al.’s

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Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2007

No wonder rBGH has been banned in Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. June 29, 2007 The writer, a consultant, was vice president for agriculture of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, a trade group, from 1997 to 2005. There is in reality no greener approach than biotechnology. Val Giddings Silver Spring, Md.,

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

I know on some level, I think that’s something almost all of us can get behind…no one, except the most callous and cold-hearted of the human race things its fine to torture animals, or deny that they are capable of pain and suffering. there is actually a group dedicated to saving lobsters!),

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

Most of the tourists, of which there are quite a few, opt to go on the tours provided by the Supporters, so by walking away quickly from the slowly coalescing groups we were able to lose the crowds quickly. Greg the Naughty Takahe ( Porphyrio hochstetteri ) Tags: Destinations , new zealand • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Dale Forbes Mar 16th, 2011 at 7:48 am @Corey, Is there also a Daisy involved in this Group Marriage? We are now up to 3 males and at least 4 females (I see there is a Kim in the group photo too). These group dynamics are always hard to track, but this group seems particularly complex. Any reason?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2021

A bird that sees a human walk into a bird blind, he says, may become wary and stay away. The state of the world, and dangers to all creatures, including humans, are the subject of his good written Introduction, and they also inform the book as a whole. Exisle Publishing, Chatswood, Australia and Dunedin, New Zealand.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Or These Blasts From The Past Preening Juvenile Yellowthroat Welcome to New Zealand! Researchers comparing these traits across groups of closely related species – parrots, tits, sparrows, darwins finches etc – find no general correlation between neophobia and exploration. So assaying exploratory tendency in humans.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

None fly, most are curious and social, which probably contributes to our cultural perception of penguins as one step away from human. She’s produced seven photographic books about the Galapagos Islands and books on the Andes, Antarctica, and New Zealand (her current home). Some are cute, some are dignified (and royal!).

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