10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
We tend to think of seabirds as mysterious long-winged creatures that spend their lives flying over oceans–phalaropes, noddies, skuas, jaegers, auks, tropicbirds, penguins, albatrosses, storm-petrels, petrels, shearwaters, diving-petrels, frigatebirds, gannets, and boobies. Perrow, © Maps: Lynx Edicions. Major species names (i.e.,
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 20, 2011
Well, imagine raising the sea level 20 meters (and yes, that is more than a little bit possible). Penguin: Is their goose cooked? 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.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
One exception is Magdalena Heinroth, a German ornithologist who, with her husband Oscar, raised and studied thousands of birds in her apartment in pre-World War II Berlin. The drawing on the left is from 1714, the one on the right is the result of Birkhead’s own dissection. Great Flamingo tongues & heads: p. Princeton Univ.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 18, 2013
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 ). And penguins. Forget about penguins. The Galapagos and South African penguins may be OK but many of those living in the Antarctic are doomed.
4 The Love Of Animals
JUNE 7, 2012
Then travel to the Rockies, for a ringside seat as male bighorn sheep go head-to-head in a bloody battle for breeding rights. Then go to the Atacama Desert where Humboldt penguins raise families in the driest place on earth. Then go to the Atacama Desert where Humboldt penguins raise families in the driest place on earth.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2021
I did that with Peacocks & Picathartes – Reflections on Africa’s birdlife (published by Penguin Random House South Africa ). When was the last time you chose a book by its covers? In case you didn’t know, yes, there is an indigenous peacock living in Africa, the Congo Peafowl.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2021
Not about the City of Brotherly Love, not about the Steelers or Penguins, but about forests with deer, birds, and elbow room. Both can be a challenge and require patient Zen birding in the right places. At 8, everything was far away, distant, and foreign, even Pennsylvania.
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