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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

One of my most memorable outings was a night-time game drive in Kenya when we saw an aardvark and a zorilla, so we ticked off both the first mammal in the field guide’s index, and the last. I viewed them at dusk, through a telescope, from a ridge overlooking the area they were hunting.

Fur

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Birdy Boating in Baringo

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2020

I wrote previously about the prolific birding that is to be had in the small town of Baringo, Kenya. Drifting slower and looking closer, we observed a tiny Malachite Kingfisher hunting in the sheltered shallows. That post dealt specifically with the dry scrub that surrounds Lake Baringo, however. Squacco Heron.

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Kenya Fish Trinidad Eagles

Could have done better? Confessions of a year-lister.

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2023

In my younger days I always kept year lists: my best ever year was 1986, when I topped the 1,000 mark thanks to trips to Australia, Kenya and various European destinations. Birdwatchers love making lists, with the year list one of the most important. Later in the month, a flock of several hundred Avocets on the River Alde was also memorable.

Estonia

Estonia Portugal Greece Barn Owls

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Kilimanjaro in Kenya, lions are attacking Maasai cattle, as they have for hundreds of years. And the proud Maasai warriors have hunted them ruthlessly in return so that now only about 2,000 remain in the country. Tonight’s program is called Lion Warriors and premieres Wednesday, December 8, at 9PM ET/PT.

Lions

Lions Kenya Cats Livestock

Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. Prime destinations for seeing African Elephant in the wild include Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Uganda. to the far reaches of freezing Siberia.

Buffalo

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Uganda’s Hard To Miss Monkeys

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2012

The Mantled Guereza , ( Colobus guereza ) The Mantled Guereza, also known as the Eastern Black-and-white Colobus or Abyssinian Black-and-white Colobus , is a common forest species found across the rain forests and savannah woodlands of central Africa from Cameroon to Kenya, with a separate population across most of Ethiopia.

Monkeys

Monkeys Uganda Primates Cameroon

The Bee-eaters of Africa

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2012

After breeding they also disperse over the rainforests and savannas of West and Central Africa, where they hunt for aerial insects. The former occurs from Kakamega Forest in Kenya westwards to Cameroon and the latter from Cameroon westwards to Sierra Leone.

Africa

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Africa’s endangered species

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

A foraging Northern Bald Ibis near Tamri, Morocco by Adam Riley Extinction, driven by loss of feeding habitat, nest disturbance, hunting and poisoning, seemed inevitable. Habitat destruction, hunting and disturbance are further factors affecting the population.

Endangered Species

Endangered Species Species Morocco South Africa

Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Here, in south-west Ethiopia’s awkwardly named “Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People’s Region”, bordering Kenya and Sudan, the great Omo River dominates this dry savanna valley, resulting in some of Africa’s most well developed and best preserved arid-zone riverine forests.

Ethiopia

Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Cattle

Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

The first was Lewis Binford, who noted, correctly, that if you look at actual animal bones from actual archaeological sites, you could not objectively see clear evidence that would distinguish hunting from scavenging, and if you compared these “food remains” to hyena food remains, they looked roughly the same.

Humane

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Birding Longcanggou, Sichuan again (but maybe for the last time)

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2023

Shockingly, the Ashy-throated Parrotbill apparently is a species heavily hunted for bird fighting in Guizhou Province, China ( source ). If being hunted by evil humans was not enough, Ashy-throated Parrotbills are also hosts of the parasitic Common Cuckoo. Shame on the researchers.

Eggs

Eggs China Mammals Birds

Birds and People: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. It includes stunning photographs by Tipling of eagle hunters (as in Kazakhs who hunt with eagles), Stellar Sea Eagles in Hokkaido, Japan, and Black Kites at the dump near New Delhi, India. As they say, the relationship is complicated.

Egypt

Egypt Birds Albania Eagles

Africa’s Barbets

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2012

Finally the most northern population ranges are found in coastal forests of northern Tanzania and Kenya. This image was taken in Nairobi National Park, Kenya. Image from Kakamega Forest, Kenya. The reasons for this hugely fragmented population have yet to be fully unraveled. This image was taken at Lake Langano, Ethiopia.

Ethiopia

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