Ostriches are off-brand emus
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MARCH 25, 2023
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Mast Landing Brewing Company: Pantless Thunder Goose Double India Pale Ale
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2021
The Guinness toucan is easily the most iconic bird mascot in beer history, but the storied Dublin brewery also boasted an ostrich and a pelican in its colorful, avian advertising menagerie of yesteryear.
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What genus (group of species) do you think has the largest variance of size between smallest and biggest?
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MAY 9, 2023
For example, birds have hummingbirds which are tiny (~10g) and then ostriches which are massive (100kg). I’ve always wondered what animal or insect genus has the biggest difference between the smallest and biggest. But are there others, like spiders or fish? What do you think?
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The Bizarre Sport of Ostrich Racing
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OCTOBER 9, 2022
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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2022
As the world’s largest living bird, the Ostrich is the topic of many weird and wonderful scientific papers. Here are a few examples: The Ostrich Communal Nesting System. Medicinal and commercial uses of ostrich products in Tanzania. Studies on improving ostrich egg hatchability. Ostriches originated in Asia.
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Unlucky Ducks, Lucky Penguins, and Good-Luck Ostriches
10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2013
Henceforth, the Reading Fighting Phils will now be represented by two ostriches , who will live at the ballpark and greet visitors to the team’s games. Ostrich image by Nicor at Wikimedia Commons). Perhaps these two ladies could be love interests for the Phanatic ? Or, as penguins do, waddle.) The end result?
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The Warbler Brewery: Canopy 2 Double India Pale Ale
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2021
Two weeks ago, it was a pantless thunder goose – er, ostrich. For a second time in a month, we have a new double India Pale Ale featuring a species of bird famous for its appearance on the classic vintage Guinness advertisements drawn by artist John Gilroy in the 1930s and ‘40s.
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Norway Knights Penguin, Ostrich Denied Again
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AUGUST 15, 2008
Nils Olav, a king penguin on the Norwegian King's Guard , was bestowed a knighthood for simultaneously defusing an IED while taking out a machine gun in Iraq. The IED was already defused. OK, I don't think Norway even has troops in Iraq.
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Being A Living Fossil Evolved Multiple Times
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2014
The original story is that emus and ostriches and moas and such evolved as a separate group of birds from all the other birds, from the basal birdish thing that gave rise to all the living birds, and became a large land bird.
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Birding Cape Town
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
The beaches further south of Boulders Beach are productive as well – I saw African Oystercatcher as well as that most typical beach wanderer, the Ostrich. The species is endangered – hopefully, their appeal to tourists and the resulting revenue will contribute to its protection.
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A Walk in the Desert
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2020
On the very last morning, after packing our van to commence our journey to Mount Kenya, we left our lodge (after negotiating our way past the resident Common Ostriches and Grey-crowned Cranes ) and made a couple stops before leaving Baringo proper. The first stop was along a narrow dirt track adjacent to some farming land.
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The ostrich is the only bird in the world that has eyeballs that are bigger than its brain. Their eyeballs are about the size of a billiard ball or about five times the size of a human eye. Its brain represents only.015% of the bird's total body weight. An average ostrich weighs around 330 lbs.
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JANUARY 10, 2023
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Bird Erections
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 12, 2011
Be glad that you are not Dr. Patricia Brennan of Yale University, who, with her team, “closely examined the penis of a male ostrich and three male emus.” They use lymph fluid to get erect, not blood. ” Ain’t science grand?
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The Birds of Washington, DC
10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2019
For any of us who have seen Ostriches or Emus in real life, the link is not hard to believe. Large skeletons reigned over the large space, with smaller exhibits, dioramas, and life-sized tree displays showcasing information about our evolving earth through a range of species and life forms. Looks like a bird to me!
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Birdwatching the Okavango Delta
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FEBRUARY 13, 2021
We will explore the dry savannah for korhaans, bustards, lapwings, Ostrich and smaller birds like waxbills and firefinches and we’ll look for Dickinson’s Kestrel , Lanner and Red-necked Falcons. Hornbills, Paradise Flycatchers , day roosting Giant Eagle Owls or if we’re really lucky Pel’s Fishing Owl , the holy grail!
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Stuck in the middle (of the AOU/COS meeting)
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 20, 2013
Other hardy souls signed up for an early morning “Ostrich Run” 5k, with the prizes beinging–you guessed it–actual ostrich eggs. Some lingered to gaze at samples from the Field’s collection of bird specimens, such as perfectly preserved thrushes, warblers, and even a Rose-breasted Grosbeak under glass.
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Red-winged Starlings
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OCTOBER 7, 2015
I encountered these Red-winged Starlings at the Cape of Good Hope National Park, a lovely park for Bontebok, Ostriches , nesting Cape Cormorants , Malachite Sunbirds and Cape Sugarbirds. The red of the wing is visible here. The ashy-grey head of the female. Worth a visit if you are ever in Cape Town! The famous Cape of Good Hope.
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Summer guide to bird taxonomy and systematics news
10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2014
Ratites in trees: the evolution of ostriches and kin, and the repeated evolution of flightlessness (ratite evolution part II). Western Scrub-Jay is three species. Gowen et al.
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Is my Rhino Still Alive?
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FEBRUARY 5, 2015
We haven’t seen the reason yet, but suddenly you could have palpated a tension in the air that made the zebras step away and even one female Ostrich stand up… Then the Lord of the waterhole came, a young – although nine years old White Rhinoceros.
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Raptor Migration across the Straits of Gibraltar
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OCTOBER 8, 2014
That list included: Hoopoe (a dove-sized, pink, black and white bird with a flamboyant crest), Great Bustard (a bird of open grasslands, sort of an ostrich / turkey cross) and a Bee-eater (iridescent blue, green, gold and chestnut, a little bit like a streamlined kingfisher.) It would be icing on the cake if I saw any of those.
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90 Birding Cape Town
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OCTOBER 26, 2016
It is a good place to come down to from the city and look for Ostrich, Cape Gannets , Cape Cormorants , Cape Sparrows , Cape Buntings, Cape Sugarbirds, Cape Grassbirds and presumably lots of other birds with cape in the name. It is apparently the meeting point of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, but how this is so isn’t clear to me.
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15 Australian Birds (Episode 5)
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AUGUST 8, 2022
Anyway, I was much keener to see this kingfisher than the Emu (who I consider to be a bit of an underprivileged ostrich). On the other hand, some websites state that the Laughing Kookaburra is Australia’s national symbol. Duncan – in a 10,000 Birds post – apparently also thinks it would make a good national bird.
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59 Some Ingenuity Can Go a Long Way
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AUGUST 28, 2014
Among birds the Egyptian Vulture uses rocks to crack Ostrich eggs, the New Caledonian Crow and Woodpecker Finch (one of several Darwin Finches of the Galapagos Islands), uses sticks to extract grubs from inside a branch. The use of tool by animals is surprisingly rare.
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The five most unique birds in the world
10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2014
But you won’t find Ostrich or another ratite in first place on Jetz et al.’s For example, the split between the ratites and all other living birds is very ancient, the earliest split that still has living members on both sides.
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West Coast NP – Blooming Marvelous
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JANUARY 18, 2017
We got a daddy Ostrich on the drive in with his chicks, and another Southern Black Bustard on the walk in (never rains but it pours). Southern Black Bustard. Once we reached the park we hit the Abrahamskraal Hide, a touch of fresh water in an otherwise dry park.
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I Remember Elephants
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NOVEMBER 10, 2016
There were a lot of elephant dung along the dirt tracks – an entire fortune, having in mid that a framed slice of it could be bought in curio shops for 8 Euros.
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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review
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APRIL 5, 2022
Vagrancy in Birds is organized into two major parts: (1) A detailed, 62-page synthesis of research and theory and (2) “Family Accounts,” 259 pages covering bird families from Struthionidae/Ostriches) to Thraupidae/Tanagers and allies (Clements is the taxonomic authority).
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Avian influenza H5N2 in the Mississippi and Pacific Flyways
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APRIL 21, 2015
Ostriches are infected as well as, in one known case, Falcons. There will be a Turkey for every table for the US Thanksgiving. H5N2 is a subtype of Influenza A, and infects many species of birds including those mentioned as well as ducks (domestic and wild).
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90 The Feather Thief: A Book Review
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JULY 3, 2018
71): Ingredients include feathers from a Spangled Cotinga (called ‘Chatterer’ by tiers), Blue Macaw, Red-Ruffed Fruitcrow (‘Indian Crow’), Ostrich, and, according to Johnson, Golden Pheasant (the jungle c**k, I think). Here it is as typed out in The Feather Thief (p.
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Week 19: Out of Africa!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2018
All in all we saw almost 30 Ostriches that morning. Much like all of this trip, there just is not nearly enough time for each location, not even close. South Africa has certainly brought this clearly into focus.
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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2019
The purple feather of the title is an ostrich plume (now housed in the Museum of London), a symbol of Emmeline’s crusade and personal style (if you saw the 2015 film Suffragette , Meryl Streep, playing Pankhurst, is wearing a hat full purple feathers).
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Swimming with dolphins
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2013
Even people with no other interest in wildlife, who couldn’t tell a sparrow from an ostrich (or even a dolphin from a fish) love dolphins. People ascribe near mythic status to the members of the family Delphinidae (and other related families). Which has always mystified me slightly.
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My Top 12 Wildlife Watching Moments
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2016
We haven’t seen the reason yet, but suddenly you could have palpated a tension in the air that made the zebras step away and even one female Ostrich stand up… Then the Lord of the waterhole came – the White Rhinoceros. The bull weighing almost two tones stopped at the edge of the clearing to sniff the air.
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75 Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
The new 48-genome analysis included only ostrich and tinamou DNA, so it doesn’t shed further light on paleognath interrelationships, but it does reinforce their distinctiveness from all other living birds. Now it’s late 2014, six and a half years later, and here’s what we know today. Open Jarvis et al.’s
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111 Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of New England: A Field Guide Review by an Aspiring Naturalist
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2012
Well, I’m sure there are birders out there who can walk past Halloween Pennants or Ostrich Ferns without pausing, and who doesn’t care if the bird is in the White Spruce or Eastern White Pine, but I’ve never met one. “None of the above,” he proudly proclaimed, “I am a naturalist!” A naturalist, he told me, looks at everything.
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85 The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. The Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon.
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111 Tanzania – Africa at its best
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2011
Typical species include busy Secretarybirds that patrol the grasslands, families of Common Ostrich , White-bellied Bustards , Yellow-throated Sandgrouse , vultures, snake-eagles and numerous seedeaters, including lovely Purple Grenadiers and Green-winged Pytlias , to mention just a few.
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100 Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA
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NOVEMBER 4, 2014
to the ongoing conservation of breeding Lesser Flamingos at Kimberley’s Kamfers Dam to the Albatross Task Force, which works with fishermen to find solutions to seabird bycatch (birds caught in fishermen’s nets).
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Birds and music
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
Fortunately, Berninger recently covered the song “Big bird” A big bird ( Ostrich , Cape Town, South Africa). Of course, hard for me not to mention the National or their singer, Matt Berninger, given the slightest chance.
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Pieces of the New Zealand Puzzle
10,000 Birds
MAY 14, 2014
First off, it seems that New Zealand’s two iconic families of ratites, large flightless southern birds that includes emus, rhea, ostriches, cassowaries and the extinct elephant birds, are not particularly closely related. Moa and Kiwi aren’t brothers and sisters.
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83 The Wild and Crazy Emu
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 3, 2014
The Emu is the second largest living bird in the world by height, second only to the Ostrich. It is also the largest bird native to Australia 1. They can be rather intimidating when they are close up and looking at you eye to eye. Click on photos for full sized images.
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Duncan’s 2015 List
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2015
Struthionidae (Ostriches). Ostritch ( Struthio camelus ); Wakkerstroom, South Africa, 22 February. ANATIDAE (DUCKS). White-faced Whistling Duck ( Dendrocygna viduata ); Kasane, Botswana, 1 January. Lesser Whistling Duck ( Dendrocygna javanica ); Singapore Botanical Gardens, Singapore, 25 February.
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95 The Best Birds of Sydney That Anyone Can See
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AUGUST 6, 2014
Many people may claim to find it hard to distinguish a sparrow from an ostrich but in truth everyone knows what a pelican is. Who’s a pretty boy then? Rainbow Lorikeet. Australian Pelican.
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Flying Dinosaurs: A Review by a Triceratops Fan
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 3, 2015
Images of ostrich-mimic Ornithomimus by Julius Csotonyi, their fossils indicated that juvenile plumage differed from adult dinosaur plumage; drawings of Sinocalliopteryx and early bird Confuciusornis by Cheung Chungtat; nest of an oviraptorid, large capsule-shaped eggs laid in pairs in a circle, from Wikimedia.
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