10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2022

Scimitar babblers use these long downcurved bills to work through the leaf litter – they are rather terrestrial birds. The scimitar gave the name to a group of birds, the 17 species of scimitar babblers (claims that these birds were named after the Scottish naturalist Edgar Scimitar, 1755-1806, are plainly wrong).

Litter

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2011

As a youngster of 10-weeks old, it is abandoned by its parents and left to fend for itself. Shearwater remains litter the island with the carcasses picked clean, leaving just the wings, breastbone and girdle. If you liked this post, why not check out the large and growing collection of galleries at 10,000 Clicks.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Based on whatever data she collected, she’d alter her course and continue her search. Before I could even process his presence and figure out what to do, I heard the scrapes of Emily’s paws on her litter box in the guest room bathroom. Every now and then, she stopped moving, craned her neck, and sniffed in all directions.

Greyhounds