Day: January 7, 2020
A new decade and another world trip | Trevor On Tour
Birding in Borneo (Sabah)
Originally posted on Mad about Birding and Travel:
Borneo is the third largest island in the world. The island of Borneo is politically divided among three countries; Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. Being a very large island and holding some of the world’s oldest rainforests it holds a good number of endemic species. So birding in Borneo is high on the list for many birders. It… Continue reading Birding in Borneo (Sabah)
Travails of Sunbird Breeding
Originally posted on Mad about Birding and Travel:
Travails; the choice of word for the title may sound strange. Well, you will understand as you read on this post. I was walking out of my house through the front gate at around 10am on a Saturday in late March. As I did so, I noticed a sudden flutter followed by the typical calls of a… Continue reading Travails of Sunbird Breeding
Nesting in Little Swifts
Originally posted on Mad about Birding and Travel:
Nesting of Little Swifts or Indian House Swifts, as they are also called in the Indian Sub-continent, was the last thing I had imagined of witnessing during our trip to Lepakshi Temple. These are birds that I usually see when birding spots around Bangalore, like The Valley School. I had also seen their nests and I had… Continue reading Nesting in Little Swifts
Viet Nam: The Birds
Originally posted on Stumblingpiper:
What can I say here? Our total bird count was pretty good in Viet Nam: we saw 103 birds, 99 of which were new to us. However, we found the lack of birds amazing. Everywhere we went, whether in the mountains or suburbs, parks or cities, there were fewer birds than we expected; of any kind of bird. We asked a… Continue reading Viet Nam: The Birds
The Birds: Our Big Year!
Originally posted on Stumblingpiper:
When we showed up in Belize last year, we decided to do a “Birding Big Year.” If you are not familiar with the concept, you keep track of the total number of birds you’ve seen for an entire year. We started our Big Year on 1 Dec 2017 (the first day we were in Belize) and concluded it on 30 Nov… Continue reading The Birds: Our Big Year!
American Coot
Originally posted on Backyard and Beyond:
Those toes, though. Looks like some serration in the upper jaw… And is this a tongue? This bird, and a few others, were on terra firms because somebody was feeding them. And it looks like the feeders were not spreading bread, which is actually quite bad for waterfowl. Yes, the time-honored tradition of throwing bread scraps to ducks is… Continue reading American Coot
Goldeneye
Originally posted on Backyard and Beyond:
We surprised each other. I think this Common Goldeneye had just come up from a dive when I reached the end of the pier. It shot off. I shot off a few pictures. The eyes are really something, aren’t they? Even from some distance, they jump out as gold on the black and white face. Continue reading Goldeneye
Dinosaurs Past and Present
Originally posted on Backyard and Beyond:
What do we know about dinosaurs now and, perhaps more interestingly, how do we know these things? Michael J. Benton lays it out in Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology . Origins, taxonomy, intelligence, reproduction, diet, locomotion, and, of course, the cause(s) of extinction are topics covered here. Surely the most notable and surprising thing in our understanding… Continue reading Dinosaurs Past and Present
