10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Take Madagascar, for example, one of the world’s highest-priority Biodiversity Hotspots: that island-continent is most famous for its penguins. Well, sort of, as there are no penguins in Madagascar, indigenous or otherwise. Yet, those bird guides are hefty.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2011
I have thoroughly explored vast parts of the continent as well as neighboring Madagascar, in the process seeing over 2,000 birds on the continent and all but one Malagasy endemic. Madagascar’s mammals are equally remarkable; over 100 species of endearing lemurs and bizarre carnivores amongst them!
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 28, 2022
This incredible mileage inspired the name of this week’s beer, Moon & Back, an imperial stout from the Warbler Brewery of Delmar, New York, flavored with cacao nibs and Madagascar vanilla and aged in oak bourbon barrels.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2019
Here are the results: 3 per cent of respondents (in no particular order): Trinidad and Tobago, Chile, Tanzania, Madagascar. Kenya and Tanzania combined offer the longest tour list of Africa, South Africa with its good infrastructure and easiness of finding birds comes close second, while Madagascar is there because of its 100 endemics.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 9, 2023
And understanding habitats in detail is essential to any birder who wants to get the most out of his experiences in the field. Behrens is a co-author of Birds of Kruger National Park and Wildlife of Madagascar (both Princeton WILDGuides). Habitats of the World is the first field guide to the world’s major land habitats—189 in all.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
” Landfill often made me wander off into some half-forgotten gulling experience of mine. At some stage, in the darkness with Claire and Callan, Tim Dee was stalking a nightjar in Madagascar. Caspian gulls have a strange quality: they’re more aggressive than herring gulls but also I think more beautiful.”
10,000 Birds
JUNE 10, 2020
Every other year or so, we experience the lightest of frosts, nothing killing, and our warmest temperatures (in the 80s and 90s) occur in late spring. Jacaranda: The jacaranda, from Madagascar, is a spectacularly beautiful tree when in bloom here in March and April. My climate is very wet in the summer, and bone-dry in the winter.
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