article thumbnail

Extinction Week Recap

10,000 Birds

We miss them all: the parrots, the pigeons, the moas and titan-hawks and stilt-owls and myriads of endlessly exotic avifauna we will never ever know again as they were when they graced this Earth. It’s when we lost the mammoths, the sabre-tooth cats, the giant ground sloths, the elephant birds, the marsupial lions, and other iconic giants.

article thumbnail

Where the Kingfishers Are

10,000 Birds

We soon located two nests of Eastern Barn Owls , but were unable to find the Sooty Owls that make the site a drawn for many birders. The Northern Brown Bandicoot ( Isoodon macrourus ) is a marsupial of the forest floor. But I still spent time at the Lodge looking for other things, and I continued to pick up great birds.

Possums 171