10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. Ratites, Tinamous, and Fowl. In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al. titled Avian relationships – What do we know? Now it’s late 2014, six and a half years later, and here’s what we know today. Open Jarvis et al.’s
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 21, 2015
There’s nothing like a birdy, bird-filled lunch and I’m not talking about some lemon domesticated jungle fowl tagine either (although that is damn good too!). In Costa Rica, there are lots of little, family-owned diners like this one. I mean watching cool birds at close range while enjoying the midday repast.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2021
As Watson has put it in the Chapter 1, “while the focus of this book is on families of African birds, there are a few individual species that have somehow come to epitomise Africa, even though they have relatives elsewhere, and commentaries on these appear too. He has authored several other books and many articles, largely on natural history.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2015
With so many book indexes listing species under family name, I am thankful that the decision was made NOT to list all 39 owl species under the heading “Owl.” Lewis originated the term as a pun on Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls. taken from the Macaulay Library of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 13, 2011
Highlight was probably a White Throated Rock Thrush, but I’m regretting that I didnt try harder to see a Red Jungle Fowl that I heard. I always choose a target bird for my trips to Florida, which are mainly to visit with family, but I never ever dreamed that one of my FL Life Birds would be a MacGillivray’s.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 24, 2020
This boldness isn’t restricted to exchanges with other grouse, either: in some locales, members of this circumpolar family are astonishingly foolhardy around humans. And with his striking jet-black plumage, he’s the perfect fowl to represent this darker, smoky offering from The Famous Grouse. .
10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2011
’ Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning – little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door - Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as `Nevermore.’
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