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. Islands, for various reasons, experience more extinctions than continents (with Africa being the only continent not suffering a bird extinction!). This bird was kept in captivity until it died a year later.

Madagascar 242

Madagascar Lemurs 2006 Owls 242

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

Solomon Islands 277

Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 277

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2012

It is also worth clarifying that these attacks are not a “nuisance” People go to hospital suffering from eye injuries and falls from bikes. Sometimes nests are destroyed or even pairs are shot, but the highly individual nature of the species has actually led to improvements here as well.

New Zealand 153

New Zealand Birds Australia Kangaroos 153