10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2011

James Currie from Nikon’s Birding Adventures TV was present filming all aspects of the weekend. The cool thing was that Jonathon Wood of The Raptor Project had a number of birds present and he would present many different facts about each species. What can you notice about the tail of this bird?

Hamburgers 184

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

It was a Benguela Nino year, and pelagic seabirds were in super-abundance in the south eastern Atlantic, with the total of species by variety and number exceeding all expectations for the birders on the inaugural trip as we pitched and wallowed about in the rolling swells on our way out to the trawling grounds.

Albatross 189

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

It’s not just that he has reduced the birds to their basic shapes, he presents them in visually delightful compositions. So, the Eastern Kingbird ”is one of the Tyrant Flycatchers, Tyrannidae –America’s largest bird family–365 different species.” The chapter also gives hope.

Betty Crocker 170

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