10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

A detailed post on this incredible rally is already overdue but in the meantime I felt the need to share a once-in-a-lifetime sighting of one of the scarcest mammals in South America.

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Bears Mammals Peru South America 175

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

In a time of little published information about the rainforests of Central and South America aside from scientific journal articles and the works of 19th-century naturalists, the “little green book,” as it was called, became a must-read amongst nature-oriented travelers and researchers. is remarkable.

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South America Ecuador Reptiles America 163

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The area that the birds are living in will predicate what becomes the normal prey for the Harris’s Hawk , but those here on the Baja target Blacktail Jackrabbits, Cottontail Rabbits, California Quail, and many other species of birds and small mammals. harrisi can be found in southern Texas, Eastern Mexico and much of Central America.

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Mexico Game South America Rabbits 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The Aruban Burrowing Owl hunts primarily from the ground, hopping and running after lizards, insects, and small mammals. Burrowing Owls, whose range extends into Mexico, the United States, and South America, can live in varied habitats , including deserts and grasslands, golf courses and airports, agricultural fields and vacant lots.

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Prairie Dogs Tortoises Owls South America 101

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2017

As you climb you can stop to see facinating species like the Blue-winged Goose , a strange species whose closest relatives are in South America. As you drive along you see plenty of mole rats too, if you like mammals. And the biggest staris also a mammal, the Ethiopian Wolf. Rouget’s Rail. So very bold!

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Ethiopia Mammals South America Rats 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The only mammals of the day were feral Nutrias (Coypus), aquatic rodents originally from southern South America released from the bankrupt fur-farms and well established here. I am checking for darker heads and necks, but the sunset is taking over… “How do you manage to tell them apart,” I ask him. Yeah, right.

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Geese Hunting Boars Birds 183

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2011

The reason behind the striking colour scheme is rather simple: birds have combined two digestive aspects into one channel that mammals have separated into two: excretion and defecation. From the cell into the blood and through a filtering device (the kidneys in mammals, birds, and birders) to the outside world.

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Mammals Birds Eggs Fish 253

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. Verily, when it comes to news stories about evolution, mammals aren’t the only kind of animal that can be milked! This was on Gondwana.

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Madagascar Ostriches Elephants New Zealand 211

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2021

Other wildlife includes 60 mammal species, 13 primates among them, Chimp tracking, Forest Elephants too. Next time, see you in South America. mi long trail at the Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary offers the Great Blue Turaco and the Papyrus Gonolek.

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Africa Kenya Uganda Tanzania 213

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

The Cattle Egret is native to Africa, where it is a familiar sight among herds of large mammals. But while their range expansion in the old world was made up of relatively short hops no one expected this species to move westward across the Atlantic Ocean to South America but it did just that!

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Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 170

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

The year before I only got one, the shrike-tits (Falcunculidae), although if you include mammals also I finally got my lifer wombat (Vombatidae) too. 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.

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Family Wombats Uganda Fiji 164

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. That’s right – birds eating clay. Scarlet and Blue-and-Yellow Macaws Ara macao and A. ararauna.

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

First, he was mostly focused on the mammals. He will show you mammals like Capibara but doesn’t let it get in the way of birding. Let’s start with the worst guide I ever had – just to provide the contrast to the greatness of pretty much everybody else. This guide (location and name with the author) had three serious flaws.

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Birds Mozambique Zimbabwe Mammals 235

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2014

It also supports the greatest variety of large mammals in all of South America, including such iconic species as Maned Wolf and Giant Anteater. There are approximately 10,000 plant species in the Cerrado. Low, gnarled forest found along streams had the skulky Brasilia Tapaculo and diminutive Gray-backed Tachuri.

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Brazil South America Collecting America 169

10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2014

It seems, in fact, that the moa’s closest relatives are the tinamous , familiar to birders that have been to South America. New Zealand’s birds and mammals come from a number of sources. The kiwi, on the other hand, seem to be closer to emu. More invasions from the Subantarctic.

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New Zealand Penguins Sea Lions Lions 163

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

crossing the Carribean and winding up in South America? In birds, the cerebral cortex is proportionally smaller than mammals, which for many years led researchers to assume that they lacked the ability of so-called “higher” brain functions. Can you imagine doing this when you are a couple of months old?

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 216

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

The extinction event that wiped out the pterosaurs, the non-avian dinosaurs, and so much other life created enormous opportunity for new organisms to diversify and thrive (lucky for us placental mammals!), So do parrots, some songbirds, humans, and a few other mammals. Where do these abilities come from?

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

North & South America publishing info (from catalog): Princeton Univ. Australia Publishing Info: CSIRO Publishing, flexiback, 264 pages, 198 x 120 mm, August 2022, ISBN: 9781486312245. European distribution through Bloomsbury Publishing, ISBN 9781399406291, £25.00. Press, hardcover, 256 pages, 4.75 2023, ISBN: 9780691245492.

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Australia Birds 2017 Groups 253

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Approximately 2,300 bird species inhabit Africa, however as impressive as that sounds, much smaller South America boasts nearly 1,000 species more. I cannot but admit that South America is the “bird continent” but as Peter Kaestner, one of the world’s top listers, so eloquently put it, Africa is nevertheless the “birding continent”.

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Papua New Guinea Madagascar Africa Equatorial Guinea 231

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

It is notorious for its aggressiveness across its range and some birds have been known to attack large mammals and hawks. White-tipped Sicklebill NUMBER 12 The Sparkling Violetear occurs commonly throughout much of northern and western South America. Fiery personalities are usually accompanied by forked tongues.

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