10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2012

I like bats. So when I spotted a large, handsome Hoary Bat grounded at the side of the path while I walked Muir early one morning, my first thought – after I determined that it was not dead – was “how can I help? A different Hoary Bat, on a better day. It turns out, helping a bat is hard.

Bats 133

Bats Wildlife Rehabilitation Missouri Montana 133

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2019

As a test of endurance, as a physical ordeal, it’s both miraculous and monstrous.” As Kaufman shows, however, to birds and bats, they can be death machines. As Kaufman says: “Four nights and three days in the air. Eighty hours of flying. More than two thousand miles. Hundreds of thousands of beats of its small wings.

Ohio 194

Ohio Bats Legislature Ducks 194

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2015

Flight has evolved multiple times; it has emerged in lizards, snakes, fish, bats, maybe bats again, distant relatives of primates, regular primates, rodents, and a few other unlikely taxa, in a rather half baked fashion, not “true” flight. It has evolved in non-vertebrate animals like insects more than once.

Rodents 184

Rodents Primates Bats Science 184

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2017

Here’s a sample of Plate 30, Bat Falcon and Orange-Breasted Falcon (pp. 84-85, though it’s hard to tell because there is no pagination in this section, simply plate numbers): And, here is a sample of the first two pages of the three-page Species Account for Bat Falcon (pp.

Mexico 156

Mexico America North America Falcons 156

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2014

Many gringos make their way to Baja California Sur every year, although the majority are probably heading to Cabo San Lucas to party and test the human limit of tequila endurance. Especially if you can fit in some birding?

California 213

California San Jose Birds Mexico 213

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

I was ecstatic when we found two giraffes by the side of the road “necking”, which I found out is a male test of strength and dominance, not a romantic entanglement. We also got great views of a very small mammal, Wahlberg’s Epauletted Fruit Bat, at Satara. And, there were birds.

South Africa 251

South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 251

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2013

Now nearing 50 and duly lost in a mid-life crisis, Dragan Simic took to birding rather late – only half a lifetime ago, after successfully testing his inadequate skills in other life threatening activities, such as rock climbing and vertical caving. Enough is enough.

Spain 212

Spain Terrapins Eagles Europe 212