10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This is “the deep cradle of Western ornithology: the birthplace of bird study,” he tells us as he writes about gazing at the 8,000-year old depictions of “flamingos, herons, raptors, avocets and many other species” (p. There’s the Neolithic era; Ancient Egypt (bird mummies!);

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Dissection Birds Europe Eggs 227

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

What these ex-stringers have in common is that they can never recover alone…it takes a village to raise someone from a stringer into a birder. When you catch a stringer in the act, first try to figure out what they are hearing/looking act that makes them think a bird is a certain species. Image by Fluxglac.

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Dissection Arizona Raised Collecting 178

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2024

Interestingly, the research found that both species primarily spend their time in trees (83% and 81%) and have the same main food source, hymenopterans (25% each, and no, I have no idea what hymenopterans are either – presumably something with wings). So, basically, the two species do exactly the same things.

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Vietnam Zebras Dissection Birds 175