10,000 Birds
JANUARY 27, 2012
Madagascar: The Last Inheritor of Gondwana tries to walk the “all of the above” line, which is sometimes satisfying, sometimes disconcerting, and sometimes outright frustrating. Perhaps the best audience of all would be curious non-experts planning a trip to Madagascar, and lacking an overly enthusiastic buddy of their own.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Take Madagascar, for example, one of the world’s highest-priority Biodiversity Hotspots: that island-continent is most famous for its penguins. Well, sort of, as there are no penguins in Madagascar, indigenous or otherwise. Yet, those bird guides are hefty.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2014
A range of hills protects the cove from the eastern wind, yet, the bushes are swaying in the rythm of it. A few weeks from now (it was early April), Eleonora’s Falcons will become a possibility, too, once they return from Madagascar. Still, we are sailing out of the marina soon and I should have some coffee before that.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2012
Sometimes they have to protect their catches from piratic African Fish Eagles who swoop down as soon as they that see a Saddle-bill has successfully caught a fish. Its range also extends to nearby Madagascar. They also prey on frogs and crabs.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2012
Or, Pygmy leaf-folding frogs, Afrixalus brachycnemis, from Tanzania, tiny climbing frogs who lay their eggs in leaves and then fold the leaves over them for protection, sealing the nest with secretions. The frogs are both Madagascar Reed frogs, and they were photographed living in the same tree.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2011
James has led professional wildlife and birding tours for 15 years and his passion for birding and remote cultures has taken him to far corners of the earth from the Amazon and Australia to Africa and Madagascar. The proposal from U.S. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2011
James has led professional wildlife and birding tours for 15 years and his passion for birding and remote cultures has taken him to far corners of the earth from the Amazon and Australia to Africa and Madagascar. The proposal from U.S. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity.
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