10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 1, 2015
Alas, the team named for a bird fell short of the crown in Super Bowl XLIX. While many human beings felt anguish and rage at the loss, most avifauna appeared unperturbed. The non-Seahawk birds that caught my eye this weekend were Northern Cardinals , which always look their best burning crimson against a blanket of white snow.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2021
The Ala Shan Redstart (which I will not call Przevalski’s Redstart, see my juvenile rants about the evil Mr Przevalski in earlier editions of this blog) is a very attractive bird and – as many attractive birds – listed as Near Threatened. “ Not the bird’s fault, I guess.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2011
In this case, clearly eagles aren’t always hidden, warblers aren’t always yellow, buntings aren’t always close-up (alas), and plovers aren’t always piping. But just as snipe are always cryptic, Gyrfalcons are always cool, even when they’re not ice cold like the ones in Nunavut!
10,000 Birds
JULY 27, 2012
I, alas, did not have time to make the full journey on foot, so I cheesed out and caught a bus. Until 2007 the British Ornithologists’ Union lumped it with the Herring Gull , perhaps the classic “sea gull” of human contempt. But DNA analysis not only established Larus michahellis but gave it two subspecies of its own.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 24, 2024
Typically, there would be at least one male already at the lek, even as human observers would be getting in position. I didn’t think I’d dip on a resident, sedentary, and supposedly unmissable bird – but alas, such is the beautiful unpredictability of nature. And waited. No birds yet.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 25, 2015
Alas, I am not among them. The adult Griffons are used to humans and are not stressed by the visitors, but some nests are really low – the lowest being a mere 5 metres above water and chicks sometimes get scared enough to fall into the lake. Cinereous Vulture and Eurasian Griffons at Uvac vulture restaurant (c) Sasa Preradovic.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2011
There is no need for modern humans to be 6 ft 10. But alas for Aderman no such need exists today. v=UfvizTb6dFY Whilst hummingbirds are a wonderful example of near evolutionary perfection, the opposite holds true of Aderman, my videographer.
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