10,000 Birds
AUGUST 20, 2020
A few days ago, I saw a Yellow Bittern trapped in a fishing device. If you see 50 cattle egrets following a plough on a rice paddy, less so. Striated Heron : Small and known for dropping items on the water surface in order to attract fish. Advice to the species: avoid fish nets. So, none of this from me.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2020
I have read canoeing articles from Africa and knew that the Nile Crocodile ( Crocodilus niloticus ) pays no attention to the boat and, in theory, as long as I’m inside I’m safe. albiventris ) and fish eating Pied Kingfishers ( Ceryle rudis ). Cattle Egret 16. African Fish Eagle 1. Oh, my big mouth! Green-backed Heron 7.
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Critter News
AUGUST 2, 2010
Here's an article about an increase in animal experiments at Cardiff University in Wales. In four years it experimented on 157,839 mice, 17,324 rats, 11,096 fish, 1,941 birds, 1,253 guinea pigs, 933 pigeons, 884 frogs, 207 cats, 54 rabbits and 18 tree shrews from the tropics of south-east Asia.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2019
So, I was excited to read reports in late 2017 of a pair of Whooping Cranes being seen on a cattle farm. I easily spotted the Whooping Cranes in the cattle field. They were large and rather gawky, with a lot of ‘jewelry’ on their legs, oblivious to the cattle and to me. An eBird mystery. I also noted that the U.S.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2011
We remember starlings not skylarks, House Sparrows not Eurasian Tree Sparrows , Cattle Egrets not… well, whatever we’ve forgotten because it didn’t do as well as the Cattle Egrets. Well written article with some facts I didn’t know. It’s just that the exceptions are so much more attention-grabbing.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 5, 2016
Each chapter concludes with References, a bibliographic listing of the books, articles, and web pages cited in the text. Press, 2015), and has also written articles on eBird and bird identification. He has co-authored The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors and the East and West Coast editions of Offshore Sea Life ID Guide (Princeton Univ.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. The trip was probably reasonably well planned and it would have been known to these travelers that game birds, as well as deer and fish, were abundant in the region they were traveling to.
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