Category: Mammals

Amphibians, Birding, Birds, Bugs, Lists, Mammals, Reptiles

My 10 favourite Side Quests while Birding

August 22, 2024 by Jochen 2 Comments

We are birders. All of us are, or we wouldn’t be meeting here on 10,000 Birds quite so frequently. Birds rule our world. The...

Four people standing on the beach looking at a rock with cloudy skies behind them

Birding, Birds, Conservation, Mammals

Tufted Puffins on the Oregon Coast

June 18, 2024 by Hannah 2 Comments

Many imagine life on the Oregon Coast as idyllic. Wind-blown Shore Pines, sunny beaches, rugged rocky outcroppings, deep blue waters, and green hills often...

Birding, Mammals, Reptiles

Birding – An Extreme Sport

January 20, 2024 by Peter 9 Comments

In his book Tales of a Tribe, author Mark Cocker describes an unfortunate event befalling a friend. One night while camping in the Himalayas,...

Birding, Mammals

Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

January 19, 2024 by David T 1 Comment

Memorable encounters with Mammals Part II It’s generally reckoned that there are more deer in Britain today than there were in the Middle Ages,...

Mammals

Echidna-egg laying mammal-500th post!

March 29, 2020 by Clare M 3 Comments

When I realised that this weekend would be my 500th post for this website I thought I could broaden the “birding” topic to “egg-laying”...

Mammals

Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge Black Bears

April 13, 2018 by Corey No Comments

Though I grew up where the Hudson Valley meets the Catskill Mountains, in the heart of Black Bear country, I can count my encounters...

Mammals, Trips

Klipspringers in Madikwe

December 23, 2015 by Duncan 2 Comments

Africa has a superabundance of antelopes, and one of the cutest and most unusual is the Klipspringer. Literally ‘rock-jumper’ in Afrikaans, this tiny antelope...