10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
Paging through a fieldguide, it’s always with a sense of dismay and sadness that I come across reference to an extinct species. Madagascar, however, has had more than its fair share of extinct or lost species and Madagascar Pochard was firmly on this list. This bird was kept in captivity until it died a year later.
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. Madagascar, however, is beyond the reach of this book, notwithstanding its also being part of the Afrotropical region.” He has authored several other books and many articles, largely on natural history.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
We nature lovers, celebrants of life in all its exquisite multiformity, feel more keenly than most the loss of even the most undifferentiated species. The prehistoric extinctions most famously include the megafaunal assemblages of Europe, the Americas, Australia and Madagascar. Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species.
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
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2011
I was fortunate to have been born and raised in Africa, and although I have traveled extensively around the world, it remains my home and in my blood. 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.
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