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MARCH 3, 2024

"Jacob's Mamba", a name referring to a species of that clade, is derived from an eponymous Jacob, and though it fails to describe the kind of animal to which it refers, it at least succeeds in not suggesting something inaccurate. Entries like "sea horse" and "guinea pig" earn 1 bonus point only.

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Game Salamander Guinea Pigs Sharks 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2017

Way back in February when I was enjoying a family-and-friends vacation on New Providence in the Bahamas I wisely hired the best – and the only – bird guide on the island, Carolyn Wardle , for half a day to show me around some of the hotspots and help me find endemics and other species I wanted to see.

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Bahamas Papua New Guinea Guinea 2007 102

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APRIL 20, 2016

More than 30 different raptor species pass through this area, called the most vital flyway in the western Palearctic. But he’s got stiff competition, including peers working to save Tree Kangaroos in Papua New Guinea, Sumatran Orangutans in Indonesia, and Snow Leopards in Pakistan.

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Papua New Guinea Snow Leopard Pakistan illegal 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2012

Cassowary House isn’t just a place to rest your head with some birds, it is also the headquarters of Sicklebill Tours, famous for it’s jaunts to New Guinea. This compact and surprisingly wide billed little bird used to be part of the monarch-flycatcher family, but is now with its congener in its own family.

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Guinea Parrots Australia Family 170

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2017

That’s OK, we love all sorts of birds, I even love imaginary ones, and the ones that come to the backyard are also ideal starter species. In Costa Rica, the Blue-gray Tanager is an ideal species for opening the door to everything birds. With a big fat ten species on the trogon list, Costa Rica is one of those choice places.

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Costa Rica Dominican Republic Kansas Guinea 115

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

The previous set up made sure that you discounted 20 years of working in difficult jungle in remote countries to better understand and conserve rare and interesting species, and gets you ready to treat him like the truly arrogant monster he undoubtedly is. The unique behaviors this mysterious species might exhibit?

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Collecting Papua New Guinea Science Birds 160

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JUNE 6, 2012

Adding to their mystique is the remoteness of their home, the undeveloped and rarely visited islands of New Guinea and eastern Indonesia. There are, however, two species that are more accesible than the rest of the family.

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Indonesia Birds Australia Guinea 190

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2014

I actually have many targets, in a way, a I want to see lots and lots, but there is one species that the reason that the trip is even happening, the animal that has been pretty much the top of my animal bucket list for well over a decade. It’s a species that has bedeviled and bewitched me over the years. The African Wild Dog.

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Sharks Leopards Whales Whaling 172

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

They are large, scruffy looking kingfisher by ancestry, five species of that family founds across Australia and New Guinea. I had to use some Wiki-images cause I wrote this and then found I had barely any good images of this species. Laughing Kookaburra by Fir002 (CC). It’s hard to escape the kookaburra when in Australia.

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Australia New Zealand Guinea Hunters 157

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2012

African Pygmy Geese are one of a number of waterfowl species that have a rather misleading name So where does that leave the Pygmy Geese, of which there are three distinct species? And of the the three species, the African species is without debate the most gorgeous. But they are not just any ducks.

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Geese Ducks Botswana South Africa 180

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2014

It varies in appearance across its enormous range, and a new genetic study — Dispersal and speciation in purple swamphens (Rallidae: Porphyrio) — bolsters the case that this “supertramp” is actually a superspecies that could be split into six different species. Above: Swamphen in Australia by James Niland).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2011

How many species there were is probably lost to history, but there were certainly many hundreds. Sadly, as I’ve explained before , most of these species became extinct as humans arrived on the islands, and with it one of the most astonishing radiations of birds imaginable. But here’s the thing. It didn’t used to be.

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Tonga New Zealand Samoa Fiji 165

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JUNE 2, 2020

The speaker turned out to be Tim Laman, and the topic was the incredible research he and Ed Scholes had spent years doing on birds of paradise in New Guinea. The introductory material is organized and written clearly, giving both background on the bird families and an explanation of how species-level is organized in the next two sections.

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Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 263

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2012

The Southern Cassowary ( Casuarius casuarius ), often touted as the most dangerous in the world due to its powerful kick when provoked, is a large, flightless bird native to the tropical rainforests of northeastern Australia, New Guinea, and a handful of islands in the Moluccas.

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Guinea Meat Australia Pets 138

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

The Yellow Bittern is a tiny heron, substantially smaller than the Butoroides (Green and Striated) species and slimmer too. It is an adherent to fresh water lakes, canals and swamps from India through East Asia, Indonesia and New Guinea. It likes plenty of cover as one would imagine of a bittern species and especially favours Pandanus.

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Singapore Indonesia Asia Guinea 170

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2015

The Juni Rail is considered by some to be a sub-species of the wide-spread Black Rail seems. Llamas and wild guinea pigs are also found here. From thousands of birds throughout the lake, Junin Grebes are thought to range between 80 to 300 birds. Junin Canastero Photo: Cesar Zeballos. The rail seems less affected by the pollutants.

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Guinea Pigs Llamas Peru Guinea 154

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2011

The Bronze Shining Cuckoo migrates to New Guinea and the Long-tailed Cuckoo disperses widely across the Pacific. A third species, the Welcome Swallow , is apparently partly migratory. The crazy weather will doubtless have an impact on the birds here, particularly insects specialists like the diminutive New Zealand Fantails.

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New Zealand Sanctuary North America Guinea 113

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JULY 18, 2019

Reachable by direct flights from Portugal, the island country of Sao Tome and Principe lying in the Gulf of Guinea, in the armpit of Africa, has about 140 bird species and 28 endemics – more endemics per square mile than anywhere else on Earth. The main island of Sao Tome has about 100 species and 17 endemics among them.

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Costa Rica Sri Lanka Rwanda Papua New Guinea 193

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. The rest of the 216 pages long book is devoted to various African bird families and half a dozen individual species. He has authored several other books and many articles, largely on natural history.

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Congo Africa South Africa Kenya 264

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APRIL 25, 2019

Also, the island of New Guinea appeared as a whole, or as its parts, the eastern independent country of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the western West Papua province of Indonesia. 10%: Australia, Papua New Guinea. 15%: Colombia, New Guinea (irrespective of the part/country). Ecuador or Botswana, respectively).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Frigatebirds (Fregatidae) Five species of frigatebird ply the planet’s tropical skies and seas. Ringer Cormorants and Shags (Phalacrocoracidae) Cormorants are more speciose than other families in the order; 30-40 species range widely on every continent and many islands.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 153

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

One of these clades holds a diversity of Old World species in several distinct groups, including an Australasian clade, the green-pigeons, the emerald- and wood-doves, the imperial-pigeons and fruit-doves (favorites of mine), and the subjects of our investigation today, the 15 known members of the Raphini. ” Beehler et al.’s

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 276

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

It is my best bird because it is just such an incredible species, and looking at it made me realize that I had temporarily stopped to fully appreciate birds during the stressful last few years. This year I watched them from the day they arrived , until two chicks successfully hatched, the northernmost breeding record for the species.

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2011 Birds South Korea North Dakota 182

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Knowing that there are reserves with long lists of 600 or more species, I set my threshold at more than 600 birds… and found only a few such hotspots. In early November 2020, there were 15 countries with more than 1000 species eBirded so far. Other than that, there are barely a few hotspots with over 500 species.

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Asia Malaysia Papua New Guinea Thailand 272

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Sometimes I just want to hug eBird, or more specifically, whoever writes the short species descriptions (even though I am not the typical hugging kind of person, trust me on this). There are about 50 different species of flowerpeckers globally. If these are taken off, the species looks just like Clark Kent. “Dull, me?

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Los Angeles Birds Woodpeckers Owls 186

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2019

This guide describes the 125 best birding sites for both common and rare species, covering Myanmar, Thailand, Laos (officially Lao PDR), Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines and Timor Leste. The 125 Best Bird Watching Sites in Southeast Asia, edited by Yong Ding Li & Low Bing Wen.

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Asia Laos Myanmar Indonesia 226

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2013

It is, instead, a member of the Petroicidae, the Australasian robins, a family mostly found in New Guinea and Australia but also reaching here in New Zealand and as far across the Pacific as Fiji. Until I started researching this post I didn’t know an interesting fact about the range of this species.

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Guinea Fiji Australia New Zealand 154

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2013

A Long-tailed Sylph, one of the America’s many long tailed hummingbird species, photographed in Colombia by Adam Riley. A Long-tailed Sylph, one of the America’s many long tailed hummingbird species, photographed in Colombia by Adam Riley. The remarkable Resplendent Quetzal photographed in Guatemala by Adam Riley.

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Papua New Guinea South Africa Africa Zimbabwe 239

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2012

A number of these migrate from New Guinea each year to nest on the grounds of the camping ground, but they can be kind of shy for a bird chosing to nest at a birding Mecca. Patience will get you good looks, and there is something very special about seeing a representative of a group so strongly associated with the almost mythic New Guinea.

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Possums Guinea Marsupials Rats 171

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Back in 2009, Tai Haku sent us a fascinating post exploring a question that ecologists worldwide grapple with: can the translocation of rare species into niches left empty by extinction be successful or justified? How ecologically similar are the two species? It is extinct. There are any number of concerns one could raise.

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Puerto Rico Guam Virgin Islands Feral 187

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

It’s a pity from this blog’s point of view because we could have made like Papua New Guinea and put a bird on the flag. This lovely species was recently discovered to be a recent arrival to the mainland of New Zealand. It’s an awesome species that is easily seen if you are ever in Dunedin.

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New Zealand Papua New Guinea Guinea Penguins 163

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2012

Catbirds are a group of rather distantly related species all named for the fact that they make sounds that remind some of a cat meowing. Birds called catbirds include two species in the New World family, Mimidae, four from the bowerbird family, Ptilonorhynchidae, and one from the Old World babblers, Timaliidae. So what are catbirds?

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Papua New Guinea Ethiopia Guinea Cats 183

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2014

2014) — attempts to answer it by ranking species according to their “evolutionary distinctiveness,” or how distantly related they are to all other living birds. is not primarily a measure of the divergence dates of major clades of birds but rather of individual living species. ’s list.

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Madagascar Comoros South America Ecuador 277

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago covers 1,417 species, 601 endemics, 98 vagrants, 8 introduced and 18 undescribed species. Only one bird species has become extinct (Javan Lapwing), but many others are endangered, with some considered close to extinction (not surprising in an area with species restricted to one or two small islands).

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Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 126

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2013

New Zealand, where I live, am the 10,000 Birds Beat Writer of, and of which I very occasionally actually write about, is home to several species of heron. Like most of the rest of the world this species is kind of new here, having recently colonised from, well, wherever those things actually came from. It wasn’t always this way.

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New Zealand Indonesia Cattle Guinea 148

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2021

With this headline, and my bias, I am tempted to include every bird however I will restrict myself, on this occasion to just three species. Each of these species is an amazing bird and ones that can only be seen, observed, and enjoyed here in Australia. The first two species are related. They are both bowerbirds.

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Guinea Australia Birds Eggs 262

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2012

The genus includes six medium sized butcherbirds and the much larger and terrestrial Australian Magpie (formerly assigned its own genus), and are found across Australia and New Guinea. Like its sibling species it generally feeds on invertebrates and small vertebrates, generally in the understory but sometimes on the ground.

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