10,000 Birds
JANUARY 29, 2015
The invasive Burmese Python ( Python molurus ) is well established in the Florida Everglade. Another species of Python, the African Python ( Python sebae ) has established a small population in the 2,877-acre Bird Drive Area (BDA) in South Florida. The best chance to catch a Python is during a cold front.
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. The absurdity of mob rule is summed up well, I think, by the idea of a fully healthy human male saying out loud, as evidence of a woman being a witch, that “She turned me into a newt!
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 28, 2015
This differs from humans and other mammals, in which the addition of extra sperm essentially destroys the egg. Meanwhile, until those answers are found, just relax and let Monty Python explain it all. The research doesn’t fully explain why “supernumerary” (as if they were extras in an opera!)
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
While not on the scale of bird migration, it is routinely and somewhat lazily described as the biggest annual migration of humans in the world. The Spring Festival – or Chinese New Year – is a big period for traveling in China. Being somewhat allergic to crowds, I usually avoid traveling during the peak of this period.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Apparently, some bird photographers think that any human artifacts shown on a bird photo immediately spoil the whole photo. And of course, on a rather rare occasion for this blog, an almost perfect link to the next bird (my favorite transition is still the Monty Python one: “And now for something completely different”).
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
The Python Caves. The Python Caves, as you’ll recall since you certainly read my article (and in some cases actually did, and even told me so and bought the book!) Bats, it seems, are the reservoir of many zoonoses that cause humans, and other creatures, so many issues. Egyptian Fruit Bats. This is as close as we got.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2024
It’s a pleasure to spend time with Ollerton’s prose; as a writer, he’s sometimes quirky and rollicking (with analogies to Led Zeppelin and Monty Python) — but quirky and rollicking in a good way. In this regard Europe is a distinct and strange outlier in comparison to other continents, for some reason still to be discovered.
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