10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2013

It must be terribly embarrassing for a penguin to slip and fall on ice but the penguin behind the one that falls just has to go and rub it in. This video is well worth checking out. Hat-tip to my cousin, Karen Myer. And if you don’t know who Nelson Muntz is this is pretty much all you need to know.

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MARCH 11, 2015

So here are some photos of penguins instead. African Penguins, or Jackass Penguins as they are sometimes known, are one of those species of penguin you’ll find away from the frozen wastes of Antarctica. It was certainly more fun than the last penguin I wrote about. Boulders Beach. Demanding youngsters.

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MARCH 30, 2011

Kieran Reid, of the famed New Zealand All Blacks , is now, in addition to his rugby duties, an ambassador for the Yellow-Eyed Penguin Trust, and serves to raise awareness about the plight of the penguin, which is also known as the Hoiho. How great is it that a big, tough athlete is trying to help a little, cute penguin?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

That is, the penguins—in this case, Chinstrap Penguins like the one photographed above by Christopher Michel (Wikimedia Commons), and Adélie Penguins —don’t actually seem to be getting sick from avian influenza virus (AIV). The news that bird flu is spreading to Antarctica isn’t quite as dire as you might expect.

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MARCH 21, 2018

Our next stops were at Portobello, for the Royal Albatross Center, and the Blue Penguin beach. The first night we got to watch nearly 20 Little Blue Penguins waddle ashore, as well as a whole bunch of the huge Northern Royal Albatross’s circle overhead. Here are a couple of those Blue Penguins. A complete surprise.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Who can resist penguins and whales? The book notes that most of South Georgia’s birds are either Penguins, Sphenisciformes, or Tubenoses, Procellariiformes. And, much as I love Albatrosses and am curious about Prions, it is the pages on Penguins that I keep turning to. I know, I say this with every review.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2013

While penguins who live in Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium don’t have to worry about oil spills or other environmental disasters, they have problems of their own. Or, as penguins do, waddle.) (Note: If you’re interested in helping out the rescuers and rehabbers, more info can be found here and here.). The end result?

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AUGUST 31, 2011

At night we had planned to go out looking for Blue Penguins , around 600 of which make the island their breeding home. So while we heard plenty of penguins, we never actually found any. I’ll work on that. Red-crowned Parakeet foraging near a New Zealand Fur Seal. Oh well, better luck next time!

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AUGUST 10, 2014

Together, these birds compose the family Alcidae , and they share adaptations that we recognize as penguin-like: an upright stance on land, black-and-white plumage, and — most important — wings that propel them underwater in pursuit of prey ( see them in action here ).

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 28, 2011

These baby penguins are being cared for by the experts at SeaWorld Orlando. Rockhopper penguins eventually lose their downy feathers and grow colorful crests. These little guys are off the chart cute! Click on photos to view them larger. You might recognize the rockhopper from the movie Surf’s Up.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Penguin: Is their goose cooked? Penguins have already been taking it in the neck in places where shore-line shelves of ice have broken up or moved around in the antarctic. Penguins can be trapped in low areas created by breaking up ice. So far, the Penguins on Ross Island have not done very well.

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DECEMBER 20, 2008

The Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list six species of penguin as threatened species and one _ the African penguin _ as an endangered species. Tags: bush penguins endangered species.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 20, 2013

On November 30, SeaWorld Orlando welcomed the first chick to hatch at Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin, the all-new attraction featuring a colony of more than 250 penguins from four species – king, Adelie, gentoo and rockhopper. Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin transports guests into the icy world of the penguin like never before.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Penguin lovers rejoice! This weekend is Penguin Palooza on Nat Geo WILD! This weekend you will be able to enjoy shows about penguins almost all weekend long. Penguin Palooza starts at noon to 11pm ET/PT on Saturday November 12 and Sunday, November 13. Photo Credit: © Argus Collection. Be sure to tune in!

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NOVEMBER 25, 2008

This is one kick ass little penguin. H/t to Andrew Sullivan.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 10, 2012

The BK Crown TM/MC Program at BURGER KING in partnership with Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), gave children the opportunity to name a one year-old male, black-footed penguin residing at the New York Aquarium in Coney Island, Brooklyn. What name did the kids pick for the super cool dude? Our partnership with Burger King Corp.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2012

They can fly on air but only in the water? Want an explanation? Check it out here !

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AUGUST 13, 2014

If you love penguins, and you love Doctor Who , you won’t want to miss this David Tennant–narrated miniseries on PBS. Penguins are also being touted as a way to gauge the health of oceans.). Still craving more penguin news? Sea World San Diego just welcomed the world’s first “test-tube” penguin.

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Critter News

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. For the King's Guard was about to award a knighthood to what was already the world's most decorated penguin The King's Guard has adopted the penguin at the zoo.

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Critter News

JULY 19, 2012

Invading rats with bodies up to 8 inches (20 centimeters) long have begun eating eggs and chicks, and some experts fear that unless the rats are eradicated, they could tip the Humboldt penguin toward extinction.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 7, 2011

Featherless Penguin Dons Wetsuit | Cute | News | PEOPLE Pets. Click the photo or link above to read the entire story on People Pets!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

I wanted Penguins. The African Penguins (formerly known as Jackass Penguins) were pretty much a “gotcha”, but I was still tremendously excited to see them on two field trips–the Boulders colony by False Bay and at the Stony Point colony at Betty’s Bay in the Western Cape. And Sunbirds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2011

The Gods of Birding, being both capricious and wrathful, decided to punish my insolence by washing up an Emperor Penguin on the coasts of the island upon which I make my home. Which brings us back to the Emperor Penguin. Besides, it’s an Emperor Penguin. This was not initially a problem for me. But the thing was news.

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JULY 9, 2010

From killer swarms, to flying cars, to city-dwelling penguins, our bizarre, yet fascinating world is on display. Killer Swarms and Urban Penguins originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on July 9, 2010. It airs Friday, July 9 at 7PM ET/PT. In tonight’s episode of Nat Geo Amazing! you will see a little bit of everything.

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JULY 10, 2012

An African Penguins strolls along Boulders Beach, Simonstown, South Africa. Most sightings of this penguin are at Boulders Beach near Simonstown, just south of Cape Town, where annually tens of thousands of tourists come to visit the penguins.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

A Crowned Cormorant by Adam Riley African Penguin by Adam Riley Rooiels truly is one of my favorite destinations on the planet. Even leopards still live here and occasionally terrorize the African Penguin colony at nearby Betty’s Bay. So close to Cape Town and yet still so wild.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Catherine Ngarachu’s “50 Top Birding Sites in Kenya” (published by Penguin Random House South Africa) is the first detailed guide to the country’s best birding sites. 50 Top Birding Sites in Kenya starts with contents on the left hand side and a Kenya map opposite to them (above), marked with site numbers for easy orientation.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

— penguins. But genetic and morphological data both point to this conclusion, and additional evidence places tubenoses and penguins within a group recently dubbed Aequornithes, or “higher waterbirds.”

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Penguins are, obviously, penguins, which makes them awesome. Not all birds are created equal. The Resplendent Quetzal boasts a tail so long that people travel the world to admire it. The Sword-billed Hummingbird puts its less endowed kin to shame. Central Africa has one of those birds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2012

Want to learn how a kid goes from reading Mr. Popper’s Penguins to being an ace birder? Read Greg Swick’s great post about his son, Nate Swick, who, well, if you don’t know who Nate is then I don’t know what you have been reading. Not 10,000 Birds, that’s for sure.

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JUNE 18, 2013

And penguins. Forget about penguins. The Galapagos and South African penguins may be OK but many of those living in the Antarctic are doomed. The timing of seasonal changes is shifting, so that some birds are at risk of showing up at the right place at the wrong time (see: Birds migrating at wrong time for warmer climate ).

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

Take Madagascar, for example, one of the world’s highest-priority Biodiversity Hotspots: that island-continent is most famous for its penguins. Well, sort of, as there are no penguins in Madagascar, indigenous or otherwise. Yet, those bird guides are hefty.

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JANUARY 21, 2016

The Ross Sea is the most productive stretch of water in the Southern Ocean, teeming with large predatory fish, whales, seals, penguins and other animals that form the last intact marine ecosystem on Earth. And I need you to vote for me and send me to Antarctica, so I could write wildlife blogs on Adélie Penguins and Leopard Seals.

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JUNE 25, 2020

African Penguin (Cape Town, South Africa, Nov 2018). Here`s another entry in the category “Rejected topics for bird-related coffee table books”, following my recent “Blue Birds” post. With remarkable accuracy, each of the photos below shows exactly two birds. Walking back to their beach towels.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Noah Strycker, author of The Thing with Feathers and Among Penguins , will be doing a world-wide Big Year in 2015. Talk about ambitious! Rather than the frantic travel of a “normal” Big Year this one will feature one continuous trip covering lots of turf with a particular focus on the tropics because that is where the birds are.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

People go to Boulder’s Beach for one reason… penguins! It’s the easiest place in the world to see wild penguins (well, except for the parking in summer), namely African Penguins. But mostly, just drink in the penguins! African Penguin! Boulder’s Beach. Boulder’s Beach. Strandfontein.

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MAY 27, 2021

And finally, a wet African Penguin (Cape Town, South Africa). A wet female White-Throated Rock Thrush (Nanhui, China). A wet Tiger Shrike (Nanhui, China). A wet Japanese Paradise Flycatcher (Nanhui, China). Even though this bird is definitely wet, it still feels a bit like cheating to include it in this post.

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