10,000 Birds
MAY 13, 2022
For once, eBird gives a good description of the Asian Glossy Starling, calling it a “Fierce-looking, large songbird” As are humans, this species is fairly urbanized – it “sometimes enters urban areas to roost, e.g. in Singapore” (HBW). “Odd, me?” But the joke simply does not work then).
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2021
He found some solace when, at age eleven, he became entranced with birds – specifically, with a Green Woodpecker — and that sighting, he says, “took me to another, safer world.” . As McMullan tells it, birding goes pretty well with the military lifestyle, at least for himself and a select few others.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2015
Owls and eagles and ducks and hummingbirds and parrots and woodpeckers are all things that a regular nonbirding joe or jane can, with time and a few color photographs, see the appeal of. And what about lifestyle? As I had cause to observe last weekend, the great divide between birders and nonbirders is best expressed through gulls.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
It’s an intriguing proposal — none of these birds had belonged much of anywhere before (heck, bustards were dumped in Gruiformes with cranes and rails) — and it means that birds adapted either to arboreal or to ground-dwelling lifestyles more than once within the clade. Where do these abilities come from? Hackett et al.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2011
So the human equivalent of frog in a bowl might be. Exploratory species, on the other hand, have lifestyles where information gathering could be useful, e.g. those living in relatively complex and changeable versus constant habitats. So assaying exploratory tendency in humans. food selection from some kind of mystery buffet?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 6, 2011
This is what wikipedia has to say about Stoke’s Sea Snake: “Although aggressive with a venomous bite, there are no reported human fatalities attributed to Stokes’ seasnake.&# We are remote but what a great lifestyle! However, I must critizise this post of yours. Are you running out of really dangerous critters?
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