10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2012
As is my wont, we’ll be celebrating a secular Easter replete with colored eggs, chocolate bunnies, and a fun family hike. Keep your eyes to the skies… you might see an Albatross! Find out where you might spy a Shy Albatross and other phenomenal pelagics with Patrick Cardwell ) a. Where are you going this weekend?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Penguins are shown individually in groups, in dense colonies, within habitat (ice, rainforest, beach), swimming in the ocean, and doing things–nose to nose with an albatross, feeding a child, placing an egg on its foot, sliding down ice.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
This male Short-tailed Albatross has fledged 2 chicks from Eastern Island, Midway Atoll, the only place in the U.S. Short-tailed Albatross was thought to be, at one time, the most abundant species of albatross in the North Pacific. this species breeds.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2012
Photo Essay: Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult Wednesday, 18 July An unusual auk baby. Baby Spotted Dikkop Thursday, 19 July Killdeer from Egg to Adult Common Tern Chicks Walk to the Water The Moby Dick of Albatross Friday, 20 July A Bird in the Hand: American Kestrels Why Not Brood Parasites?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
In addition to the photo below, of a Black-browed Albatross and its young, a full-page photo shows adult and juvenile birds in flight. And, much as I love Albatrosses and am curious about Prions, it is the pages on Penguins that I keep turning to. South Georgia is home to the King Penguin, the second largest penguin in the world.
10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2014
Okay, they weren’t as fascinating as the birds of prey eating their, or the frankly still weird drawings of nightjars carrying eggs and woodcocks carrying chicks, but still, hornbills were cool because they sealed their mates up in holes in trees and then fed them as they raised the chick.
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2012
A few families have a small number of eggs in the clutches, like gulls or cormorants. Others, like the petrels and some of the auks, will lay a single egg per breeding attempt. For the larger albatrosses and the frigatebirds it is common to take longer and have rest years between attempts.
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