10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2012
You’ll need to find yourself an albatross. Gratuitous Black-browed Albatross photo ( Thalassarche melanophrys ) not engaging in dancing Albatrosses are the longest lived of an already long lived order of birds, the petrels, and are in fact among the longest lived of all birds. And that is where the dances come in.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2012
The first 50 pages of this near 500-page volume should be made compulsory reading for anyone planning to go look for sea-birds, long before they ever raise a pair of bins at a distant passing shearwater. There are good photographic guides and a great many bad ones. Crammed with detail, from it’s introductory ‘What are Tubenoses?’
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 17, 2022
In Costa Rica, this past year has seen expected additions like Lesser Black-backed Gull and Crimson-backed Tanager along with somewhat less expected birds like Yellow-nosed Albatross in the Caribbean and an equally mega probable Salvin’s Albatross in the Pacific. The sightings raise several questions.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2012
Now everyone has a chance to help the Kiwis save their birds as a Wellington philanthropist, Gareth Morgan, is trying to raise NZ$ 1 million to clear the Antipodes Islands of mice. If the money is raised he will match it to get the work underway.
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. We must fight to save every species we can, every ecosystem, every niche.
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
For the larger albatrosses and the frigatebirds it is common to take longer and have rest years between attempts. Unique among the auks, indeed among seabirds, they will attempt to double brood, to lay another clutch after successfully raising the first chick. The Cassin’s Auklets do something else that is very interesting.
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