10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Madagascar, however, has had more than its fair share of extinct or lost species and Madagascar Pochard was firmly on this list. However numerous expeditions failed to produce any evidence of the bird and in 2006 the IUCN reclassified Madagascar Pochard as “possibly extinct”.

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Madagascar Lemurs Birds Species 90

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2014

Later the continents broke up into smaller regions such as South America, Africa, Asia and such, an a few smaller pieces like Madagascar and New Zealand as well. To be more specific, the Kiwi descends from a bird that FLEW there from Africa or Madagascar and then became the kiwi. Like nothing had happened. Hoping to not be noticed.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2022

This incredible mileage inspired the name of this week’s beer, Moon & Back, an imperial stout from the Warbler Brewery of Delmar, New York, flavored with cacao nibs and Madagascar vanilla and aged in oak bourbon barrels.

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Birds Madagascar United States New York 70

Critter News

JUNE 19, 2010

Enforcement agencies discovered 300 tortoises from Madagascar bound and packed in two suitcases that also contained drugs at Kuala Lumpur International Airport last week. I've finally started getting email updates from Traffic, the wildlife trade monitoring network.

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Tortoises Madagascar Wildlife Mauritius 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2023

To add even more to the lore of the trembler, an old skin discovered in the World Museum previously attributed to an extinct starling from Madagascar called the Mascarene Starling or Necropsar leugati was more recently revealed to be – you guessed it – a Gray Trembler.

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Birds Species Madagascar Litter 52

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

A lot of destinations were mentioned, with Central and South America leading the way, New Guinea, Indonesia and Australia appearing only at the middle of the list, and African countries (South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania and Madagascar) lagging at the end of the list.

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Congo Birds Africa Species 105

Critter News

MAY 28, 2010

This time, it's the Alaotra grebe from Madagascar, according to the 2010 IUCN Red List update for birds, by BirdLife International. The report has bad news for bird species all around, identifying 12.5 percent as being endangered.

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Species Birds Endangered Species Madagascar 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2019

Here are the results: 3 per cent of respondents (in no particular order): Trinidad and Tobago, Chile, Tanzania, Madagascar. Kenya and Tanzania combined offer the longest tour list of Africa, South Africa with its good infrastructure and easiness of finding birds comes close second, while Madagascar is there because of its 100 endemics.

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Costa Rica Birds Papua New Guinea America 85

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2023

Behrens is a co-author of Birds of Kruger National Park and Wildlife of Madagascar (both Princeton WILDGuides). Iain Campbell is the co-author of Birds of Australia and Wildlife of Australia (both Princeton), and a professional nature guide and tropical landscape geochemist.

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Costa Rica Birds Wildlife Mammals 87

Reddit Animals

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

submitted by /u/BenjiThePerson [link] [comments].

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2018

1300kms off the coast of East Africa and over 1000kms NE from Madagascar is a tiny speck in the ocean. Red Fody , Madagascar Dove and Zebra Dove were all abundant. Zoom in and an archipelago of islands appears from the Indian Ocean. This is The Seychelles. How easy was that?

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Seychelles Madagascar Birds Species 40

Reddit Animals

APRIL 20, 2022

submitted by /u/Znatureanimals [link] [comments].

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2011

I have thoroughly explored vast parts of the continent as well as neighboring Madagascar, in the process seeing over 2,000 birds on the continent and all but one Malagasy endemic. Madagascar’s mammals are equally remarkable; over 100 species of endearing lemurs and bizarre carnivores amongst them!

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Birds Africa Madagascar Papua New Guinea 83

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2016

And the missed Alaotra Grebe of Madagascar. Darren Naish, in his great blog at Scientific American (Which, if you’re not ready, why aren’t you reading it?) recently catalogued their woes. The Atitlan Grebe is sadly extinct. So is the Columbian Grebe. And the Junin Grebe of Peru?

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Peru Birds Madagascar Species 64

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

As well as being a great river to cruise for game, you can also see great birds like Water Stone-curlews , Madagascar Bee-eaters , Goliath Herons and Red Spurfowl. These African Skimmers were photographed at the Kazinga Channel, a body of water linking Lake George and Lake Edward in western Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park.

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Uganda Birds Species Madagascar 74

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2012

His passion for wildlife and traveling has led him all over the world, from the Amazon to Australia and even Madagascar. James Currie is a native of South Africa; he has led wildlife and bird-watching tours for more than 15 years.

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Birds South Africa Wildlife Wolves 107

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2022

The Red Fody is an introduced species, though from nearby, sort of (Madagascar). For some reason, the introduced ones seem to be the easiest ones to see – shouldn’t they have a harder time on an island they did not specifically evolve on or for? Or does nature favor the equivalent of swiss army knives, capable of doing everything?

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Mauritius Birds Species South Africa 83

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

It really puzzles me, why they go all the way across the Sahara and Eastern Africa to overwinter as far as Madagascar, instead of staying somewhere closer, in continental Africa? Madagascar must have separated from Africa long before they evolved. Eleonora’s Falcons are migrants themselves. How old are they as a species?

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Greece Birds Falcons Species 85

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

201-400 sp: Madagascar, north African countries; European countries; Asia Minor, Arabian Peninsula, Mongolia. Costa Rica has 900 and not 800 species, but I made no corrections, remaining faithful to the original map data. Shown as a list, it looks like this: Less than 200 bird species: Antarctica; oceanic islands. 801-1000 sp. –

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2012

Madagascar Bee-eater Madagascar Bee-eater by Adam Riley Rather similar to Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, this species also has a rather unusual range. Excellent sites include Ampijoroa in Madagascar and Murchison Falls in Uganda. They prefer open areas, especially around wetlands.

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Africa South Africa Birds Species 104

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

At some stage, in the darkness with Claire and Callan, Tim Dee was stalking a nightjar in Madagascar. .” Dumps, “most alive at its face, a slow-breaking wave of fresh-dropped rubbish”, gulls… and girls! Well, no, if I understood him well, he didn’t meet her at the landfill.

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Birds Angola United Kingdom Botswana 70

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2014

As with the kingfishers and barbets I’m happy to lump them, even if it means lumping the asities of Madagascar and the rather odd Sapayoa of South America. *Taxonomic note – some people have been rather split-happy with the broadbills, and call for four families. Birds Borneo broadbill Christmas Gallery tropical'

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Birds Species Madagascar South America 66

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Retz’s Helmetshrike is one of the 8 helmetshrikes within the larger family of Vangidae – apparently, a family that evolved from a single Madagascar-based species. I guess this is the wind, not a highly individualistic hairstyle. Typical for the wonderful world of ornithology, it is not a shrike.

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Birds Species Elephants Congo 59

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Young Eleonora’s Falcons must develop quickly because they are migrants themselves, moving across the Sahara and down the Swahili Coast to Madagascar. Unlike other falcons, they do not breed in spring, but in late summer, to exploit the abundance of songbirds and pick up those first-time (and last-time) migrants from the sky.

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Falcons Greece Birds Breeding 68

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2014

The Meller’s Duck is highly endangered in its native Madagascar. The Hawaiian Duck is most likely completely hybridized on the island of Oahu, and may be genetically intact only on the island of Kauai. The remaining birds are being hybridized by introduced mallards.

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Ducks Florida Feral Species 78

10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2020

Jacaranda: The jacaranda, from Madagascar, is a spectacularly beautiful tree when in bloom here in March and April. Grass: What little lawn I have serves exactly one purpose. It keeps my wife happy. But Canyon Towhees and Inca Doves poke around in there, so maybe the lawn has something going for it.

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Birds Woodpeckers Sparrows Species 61

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Ken Behrens is a tour guide for Tropical Birding, originally from Idaho, but now lives in Madagascar. Beside the mouth-watering African destination, what attracted my attention to the Wild Rwanda eco-travel guidebook was the trio of authors, all of them famous bird guides (and I do not use that word lightly).

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Rwanda Primates Wildlife Birds 78

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

But it also occurs in the Indian Ocean, from Aldabra near Madagascar to Western Australia. The species ranges widely across the Pacific, as its scientific name suggests, from the Revillagigedo Islands off Mexico to the Japanese Bonin Islands to New South Wales in Australia.

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Albatross Birds Species Breeders 67

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2012

A pair of African Pygmy Geese Adrian Binns These fascinating small ducks are found in central and southern Africa south of the Sahara, including the island of Madagascar. Typically they are very shy, preferring to sit motionless and relying on camouflage to avoid detection.

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Geese Ducks Botswana Birds 70

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2014

They are Ecuador for the Galapagos, Gabon for the bais, Madagascar, New Guinea and New Caledonia for everything. Destination-wise my absolute top list hasn’t changed much since I dreamed it up since I haven’t made it to any of the places in it. My animal bucket list hasn’t changed much either, for similar reasons.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

This clade, Mayr says, is “most likely the sister taxon&# of Madagascar’s terrestrial mesites (!). Mayr takes the position that doves and sandgrouse are sister taxa because morphological evidence is good even though genetic evidence is murky.

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Birds Woodpeckers Parrots Madagascar 65

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

The prehistoric extinctions most famously include the megafaunal assemblages of Europe, the Americas, Australia and Madagascar. The distinction is somewhat arbitrary, but generally speaking if something went extinct before records were made of it, it is considered prehistoric, if it was recorded alive then it is treated as modern.

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Species Costa Rica Birds Marsupials 65

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Its range also extends to nearby Madagascar. The African Openbill also has a similar Africa-wide distribution (barring most of South and North Africa) as the previous four species and partakes long distance movements (usually triggered by rainfall) through the continent and to Madagascar.

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Africa South Africa Birds Tanzania 92

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2014

A few weeks from now (it was early April), Eleonora’s Falcons will become a possibility, too, once they return from Madagascar. We are looking for shags and shearwaters, as well as some rarer gulls that didn’t bother to show up. A movement at the cliff, two birds, one drab brown, the other blue – a pair of Blue Rock Thrushes.

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Birds Greece Species Pelicans 88

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

Origins and classification describes the evolution of frogs from lobe-finned fishes; there are some gaps in the stages from fish to frog, but scientists have identified the earliest frog-like fossil as Triadobatrachus massinoti, a creature which lived in the area we know as Madagascar about 230 million years ago.

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Reptiles Species Madagascar Birds 72

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2013

Africa has two resident pelican species, the huge and widely distributed Great or Eastern White Pelican and the smaller Pink-backed which is restricted to Africa, the southern Arabian peninsula and Madagascar (where it may now be extinct.) Its a pelican that is restricted to freshwaters whereas Great White also enjoys the marine zones.

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Africa Pelicans Birds Species 79

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

At this point if I want to make any dent on the remaining families I haven’t seen I’d really need to go to either Madagascar or South America. They year before that were kiwis (Apterygidae) and diving-petrels (Pelecanoididae).

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Family Wombats Birds Species 64