10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2024
San Diego has a lot going for it. There are beautiful beaches, a plethora of amazing food and drinks, a multitude of family fun locations, a world-renowned zoo, and one of the biggest birding festivals in the US. My relationship with San Diego has evolved since becoming a birder.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
In August, we took a family trip to beautiful San Diego, seeing SeaWorld , LegoLand , and the San Diego Zoo. Additionally, there are still a few regularly-occurring Pacific pelagic species that I have never seen. Or, because it is San Diego, getting away from the sun. Bring sunscreen.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2022
Not bad given that the 5 families in the inner circle of the laughingthrush family have a combined number of about 68 species. The Hainan version is sometimes considered a separate species, in which case it is classified as Near Threatened. 36, if my counting is right and there has been no very recent split or lump.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
Pin-tailed Whydah at Sutro Heights Park, San Francisco, CA. Superficially similar to Fork-tailed Flycatcher, especially if you don’t know that this species exists! So unprepared were local birders for Pin-tailed Whydah, some of them openly questioned the species’ very existence on the local listserv.
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2018
Following passage of the United States Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, the California Condor ( Gymnogyps californianus ) was among the first 75 species listed for protection, the so-called “Class of 1967”. A portion of all draft and bottle sales of Condor Kolsch will be donated to these programs.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 3, 2014
The male and female of the species are nearly identical, the female being a bit larger than the male. All the information on the Emu in this post was gleaned from Wikipedia (with loads more information) but here are a few other good sources: Unique Australia Animals , the San Diego Zoo , and the Internet Bird Collection.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2023
It is also by far the stork species with the lowest number of scientific papers focusing on it. Being rare and choosing peat bog swamp as the preferred habitat apparently limits the species’ appeal to ornithologists. Storm’s Stork is one of the relatively rare examples of a bird named for a German, specifically, Capt.
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