10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2011

The entire scene from which that bit of dialogue comes, in Monty Python and the Holy Grail , is one of my favorite scenes ever from a movie. Peasant: She turned me into a newt! Sir Bedevere: A newt? … … … … Peasant: I got better.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Not an urban legend From the time I was a small child, I would flip through the pages of field guides and imagine the stumbling across this or that amazing bird. Unlike the hobbits, space aliens, and vampires in the other books I read, the strange birds tucked away in the Peterson Guide sometimes came to life.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

… especially if you’re a lady bird in heat. Because unlike those of mammals, avian ova need penetration by multiple sperm in order to successfully develop into baby birds. Moreover, when supplies are short, female birds seem to be capable of “storing” sperm for maximum availability during the brief ovulation window.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I had planned to do another story today, but my laptop, sick of endless David Attenborough DVDs, Skyrim and searches of birding in South Africa made a break for it and took a swan dive off my bed. The Python Caves. Birding Trips diseases Ebola fruit bats Uganda' Egyptian Fruit Bats. This is as close as we got.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2024

When we think of bird pollinators we – at least we in the Americas – think first of the hummingbirds: “They dominate the scientific literature, natural history documentaries, and our wider consciousness of what constitutes a ‘pollinating bird,’” as Jeff Ollerton rightly says. Based in Denmark and the U.K,

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2022

Strangely, one of the easiest birds to see on Chongming recently is the non-native Black Swan. ” This should make the bird somewhat unpopular with the socially rather conservative Chinese government – maybe the birds in China do not show this behavior in order to adapt to local customs? Homophobia?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Well, they mainly feed on birds, which may explain their low popularity. For the White-throated Rock Thrush , Wikipedia gives the slightly puzzling statement “The bird’s population is unknown, but is not increasing or declining.” Even if they look as charming as this Northern Boobook. Unfortunately, it is true though.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Sukau birding essentially means staying in a more-or-less comfortable lodge on the banks of the Kinatabagan river, and taking boat tours on more-or-less rickety boats on the river. So, just photos of the birds themselves. Why that makes Mr. Graydon worthy of having a bird species named after him is a mystery to me.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

It turns out that Australia has no official national bird (but we do have an official gemstone), and this is exactly the type of issue that can unite the fractured nation. Not that there is anything wrong with robins, they are fine birds, even if I prefer Pied Wagtails. Is this really the nation that gave the world Monty Python?).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2017

These temperatures make for perfect birding/camping weather and because that is one of our favourite pastimes we decided it was time to go and explore a bit more of northern Australia during July. Many of the native plants were flowering, which also aided in the search for pollen eating birds! Cattle can be anywhere!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

One of my favourite Monty Python sketches involves a rather enthusiastic documentary into the sordid sex lives of the mollusks. Common Moorhens are, like most birds, monogamous breeders, and may bond for a number of years in the same territory. They may breed as a group, but monogamy is the general rule.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2024

On Hokkaido, the number rose from 33 in 1952 to about 1200 now, with the bird presumably benefiting from its symbolic importance for Japanese culture and its pull for tourists. And now for something completely different (Monty Python). The Red-crowned Crane is listed as Vulnerable, with an estimated 3000 individuals in 2009.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2012

I think that perhaps one of the birds would hit the snake, causing it to twitch, which would make the other think there was some life left in it. I am not sure what kind of snake it was but I think it was a harmless python. It’s nice that along with nemesis birds there are birds that go out of their way to give you a good look.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2013

As I mentioned a few weeks ago , it was our time to go and find some new birds! Our actual first bird for Queensland was a Common Myna at the airport and we were surprised that they did not seem as prolific as in Sydney. There’s nothing quite like being woken up by a bird literally laughing at you! Pair of Tawny Frogmouth.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2025

I am not a very good birder. No, let me correct that, I am not a good twitcher. When I embarked on my Big Year Rotterdam I took on a role to the far left of my comfort zone. Silly, I know. Twitchers – as we all know – are willing to leave family, job and an acceptable social life for the pursuit of ticks.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2024

My very first Rose-ringed Parakeet was sitting in my dad’s plain tree in the middle of “the winter of discontent” The Iron Lady was moving into power and The Clash were topping the charts.

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SalesFuel

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

It actually maps them out in real time, giving you a birds-eye view of your network's vulnerabilities. With Recon-ng, you have a powerful open source intelligence tool at your fingertips, built in Python and streamlined for command line convenience. No more late nights wrestling with tedious data crunching.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

I was really looking forward to this week’s installment of Birds and Booze. Imperial stouts are big, rich, dark beers that are favorite choices for aging in old spirits barrels, and with that name – an obvious Monty Python reference – I knew I could have a little fun writing the review (Dead parrot, anyone?). 0 feathers (Poor).

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