10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2012
A Marabou Stork arriving at its roost tree, Serengeti, Tanzania by Adam Riley We’ll start off with the largest and ugliest of them all (measuring up to 60in (152cm) in height, a weight of 20 lb (9 kg) and a wingspan of up to 12ft), the Marabou Stork. It is also related to Wood Stork of the Americas and Milky Stork of Asia.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2012
Prime destinations for seeing African Elephant in the wild include Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Uganda. The Afrotheres consist of several groups of mammals that evolved in Africa and include elephants, hyraxes, elephant shrews, aardvark, pangolin and golden moles.
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4 The Love Of Animals
SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
Newly found 8mm footage discovered in Jane’s home attic will be revealed during the evening which offers an intimate portrait of the private person behind the world-famous icon, whose work from her maiden research trip to Africa in 1960 to the present has transformed our perceptions of the relationship between humans and animals.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
Tours groups that I guided to Ethiopia ten years ago had to endure very basic accommodation, almost no surfaced roads and low levels of service. White-rumped Babbler A near-endemic, this attractively-scaled babbler is not uncommon is small noisy groups in woodlands and thickets. Males have dark heads whereas females sport sooty ones.
10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2014
The targeted age group is 6 to 11 years. We see a Puerto Rican Parrot flying over the heads of two humans (the authors, it turns out), their yellow and white shirts shining like beacons in a landscape of forest and olive and emerald greens and cobalt blues. My favorite was the Greater Flamingo in Tanzania (Pinkest bird!).
10,000 Birds
MARCH 13, 2012
After one 3 year stint, they left with 131,405 specimens including birds, mammals, reptiles, plants and even human remains (which were only recently repatriated for burial in Africa!) Woodward’s Barbet belongs to a group of barbets known as Green Barbets. They discovered Gurney’s Sugarbird during their time in South Africa.
10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2015
This time it is the Old World that has misnamed a group of birds, or in fact several groups. As noted in their entry the Handbook of the Birds of the World, they are unusual in their close association with palms (hence the name) and in building mud nests (in palms or human buildings). Bringing food to the young.
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