10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2016
At least one weekend a year, bats–particularly the vampiric kind–command more attention than birds, at least from most people. Though Floridians might laugh, the Cattle Egret is Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. Nature lovers, on the other hand, find time for wildlife watching every weekend. How about you?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
This natural space of almost a thousand acres – once a deforested area for extensive cattle ranching – has been restored for four decades, considering every detail in the aesthetics and functionality of the landscape, seeking the regeneration of bird and wildlife populations that inhabit the ecosystem.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2022
The vampire bat is the vehicle for a discussion of what Higgins calls the human sense of pleasure and pain (but not, as to the latter, for the reason you might think). Other of Higgins’ examples are not so familiar but make perfect sense, pun intended, and make for fascinating reading.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
Not that long ago, Costa Rica had one of the highest deforestation rates in the world, rainforests were razed to make way for hot and chiggery cattle pasture, and bot flies probably became more numerous than some bird populations.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2015
Heading south on a good surfaced road, we made slow progress through the herds of cattle, donkeys and goats that thronged the highway, until we finally reached the land of the Konso. Quality time was spent with a friendly Hamar family at their homestead of grass huts surrounding their cattle corral.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 9, 2019
TRIP LIST ( multiple lists ): White-faced Whistling-Duck, Egyptian Goose, Spur-winged Goose, Helmeted Guineafowl, Heuglin’s Francolin, Mourning Collared-Dove, Vinaceous Dove, Laughing Dove, Black-billed Wood-Dove, Denham’s Bustard, Eastern Plantain-eater, White-browed Coucal, Senegal Coucal, Levaillant’s Cuckoo, Dideric Cuckoo, Alpine (..)
10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2012
Little Blue and Tricolored Herons , Snowy , Great , and Cattle Egrets , a Laughing Falcon , Black Vultures, Blue-winged Teal , a Wood Stork , a nesting tree of Montezuma Oropendulas , and Ruddy Ground-Doves were just some of the species we saw on our short train ride into the refuge.
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