article thumbnail

White’s Thrush or Scaly?

10,000 Birds

Species searches on eBird reveal that both species might be found in Tokyo, though White’s is much more common, with a few contemporary sightings. So I resorted to the internet. How I wish now that I had not. It also suggests that my field guides may have been a bit precocious in using “White’s Thrush” so long ago. aurea and Z.d.

Sri Lanka 100
article thumbnail

Pectoral Sandpipers Lookin’ for Love in All the Right Places

10,000 Birds

In some cases the males strayed from their Alaska home base for a bit of far-flung sex tourism in Canada and Russia.). The scientists speculate that this combination of promiscuity and stamina may actually do the species good , spreading genetic diversity throughout the total population.

Russia 101
article thumbnail

Awkward Fostering

4 The Love Of Animals

Especially it is associated with dogs, which may raise kids of other species and even of scary and dangerous representatives of wildlife! Although, it is not for the first time when inter-species adoption occurs, but every single case is getting more and more exciting – animals can not only be friends, but parents and brothers as well.

Badgers 100