10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

So, you would have a “Hippopotamus Egret”, a “Rhinoceros Egret” or an “Elephant Bird” ( source ). The passage in which he describes this event in his journal is incredibly repugnant, both for its violence and its intense racism” This might be a very good species to be renamed.

Elephants 147

Elephants Birds Congo Africa 147

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The small group was a good counterpart to the large, convivial ABA Safari group of 98 birders. That’s a lot, and the organizers of the safari did an excellent job of creating an environment that offered small group birding during the day and a birders party every night. Wait, let’s backtrack a bit.

South Africa 254

South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 254

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2016

Europe: Then I spotted an easy and obvious one, the Black-eared Wheatear, while the group climbing the steep hillside found the Rock Nuthatch, as well as the Rock Sparrow , striped, pale and indescribable. It happened once more and I gave up disturbing them further – I have seen what I was here to see.

Wildlife 183

Wildlife Tigers Asia Europe 183

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Nothing wets the appetite for a birding trip like a map with a Blue-banded Pitta posed in the middle and a Rhinoceros Hornbill flying across the edge! Species Accounts are grouped by family, following what appears to be Sibley and Monroe’s 1996 taxonomy. (I Back to the field guide!

Brunei 177

Brunei Birds Asia China 177

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Our group watching the first Snow Leopard from a knoll above our camp in Hemis National Park. In fact some of our group decided to head back to camp. INDRI offer Snow Leopard expeditions annually in October and February, combined with a Royal Bengal Tiger and Indian One-horned Rhinoceros extensions.

Snow Leopard 279

Snow Leopard Leopards Hunting Sheep 279

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2014

When you read trip reports of birders going to remote and interesting locations to see interesting (and not so interesting birds, I’m looking at you LBJs), these accounts are typically written by people who have either gone with groups of like-minded people or those that have gone it alone. Never did see an elephant though).

Birds 187

Birds Bats Elephants Family 187

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

In 1903, the distinguished Elliott Coues declared , “This is a definite and perfectly natural group, which will be immediately recognized by the foregoing characters, one of which, complete webbing of hallux, is not elsewhere observed among birds.&# He could not say the same today. almost everything about flamingos and grebes).

2011 154

2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 154

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Rhinoceros Auklet – Cerorhinca monocerata. Rhinoceros Hornbill – Buceros rhinoceros. Lassen Volcanic NP–Lost Creek Group Campground. Black Guillemot – Cepphus grylle. Pemaquid Point Lighthouse Park. 27 May 2017. Pigeon Guillemot – Cepphus columba. 27 May 2017. Monterey pelagic–off Pt.

2017 100

2017 Australia Sanctuary Woodpeckers 100