10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2023

This comprehensive book features concise identification descriptions and is richly illustrated—including more than 650 colour photos of habitats and their wildlife, 150 distribution maps, 200 diagrams, and 150 silhouettes depicting each habitat alongside a human figure.

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Costa Rica Cougars Mammals Madagascar 223

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2022

According to Wikipedia, the national bird of Australia is the Emu – which I have not seen yet. On the other hand, some websites state that the Laughing Kookaburra is Australia’s national symbol. It was among the first birds to be scientifically described in Australia.

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Australia Birds Parrots Ostriches 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

According to a bird guide published in 1911, “Competent authorities have proposed to divide the world, biologically, into two parts – Australia and the rest of the world, and they have considered Australia the more interesting part.” ” (quoted from Tim Low’s book “The Origin of Song”).

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Birds Australia Parrots Memphis 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2022

Presbycusis is age-related hearing loss in humans, but I have also discovered that birds, fish and amphibians do not experience presbycusis due to the fact that they can regenerate their cochlear sensory cells. Invariably it doesn’t take long and we find what I had already heard.

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Suffering Australia Fish Humane 178

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Bird Uganda Safaris is one of the leading ground handler of the International birding companies in the USA, Australia, South American and Europe. Improving human livelihoods with alternative means of survival will keep the wildlife and habitats safe. Black-chested snake Eagle with a snake at Matheniko Wildlife Reserve Eastern Uganda.

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Uganda Rwanda Birds Industry 198

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Meanwhile across the ditch , my useful column last week explaining how awful oxygen thief Tony Abbott could distract Australia from his flailing incompetence has sadly for him arrived too late and he has been disposed in what Australians mysteriously refer to as a spill. It’s hard to escape the kookaburra when in Australia.

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Australia New Zealand Guinea Hunters 156

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2023

It is listed as Near Threatened – the HBW cites the usual reasons that are just other ways of saying that humans do not care enough for other species, such as forest loss and degradation in its winter range. not their own). Switching to the Amur Paradise Flycatcher , which has the Latin species name of incei.

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Japan China Guinea Germany 130

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 209

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Keep an eye to the sky if you happen to be in Darwin, Australia, at the start of the wet season because that is when Red-collared Lorikeets are most likely to be getting drunk on fermenting fruit. They lose coordination, and they lose their fear of humans. They have trouble flying. Fermented fruit – Lorikeet-speak for beer?

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Parrots Australia Humane Birds 175

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Nevertheless, if true, this is very interesting: apparently raptors in Australia have been observed playing with fire, picking up smoldering sticks from burned-over areas and using them to set fresh blazes and drive prey into the open.

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Science Falcons Australia Humane 113

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2011

Australia is a dry continent and as such all bird-life needs to take advantage of any fresh water that is available. Beyond natural events, bird-life that requires fresh water takes advantage of the water that we provide due to human habitation. Derby Poo Ponds give an alternative to bird-life from all the surrounding mud.

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Feral Animals Australia Ducks Feral 170

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Of course there is always something interesting about bowers wherever they are, but especially amongst human habitation. It is quite an achievement as always and the items around and in it continues to increase. Great Bowerbird bower and stolen nails and screws. It never ceases to amaze us the size of some of the items that they will carry.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Humane 236

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2013

They are inquisitive birds that will take an interest in human activity and seem to have no concerns. We own at least one of each field-guide available for Australia as the information and drawings in each is slightly different and each has its benefits. They even ventured onto our table to see what field-guide we were using that day.

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Investigation Australia Family Collecting 165

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2013

This male Great Bowerbird likes to collect the usual items that are green and white, but due to its closeness to human habitation it is able to collect a variety of items beyond the usual Nickernuts, bones, rocks and shells. The white tool is used for adjusting your reticulation.

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Collecting Branding Australia Humane 164

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. A housecat in Buenos Aires got its start in Africa, a sheep in Australia to the Middle East, a chicken in Ireland can trace its origin to the jungles of Asia. Rabbits are still an agricultural pest.

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New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 161

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2013

It breeds in a broad and not quite coherent band from Iceland in the west through central Europe and southern Scandinavia all the way to eastern Russia, wintering in Africa, parts of India, and Southeast Asia to Australia. Aspect one is feeding when humans are not around.

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Germany Russia Iceland India 173

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Joking aside, the instant viral popularity of this video seems to me to be speaking to some deep-rooted fears in the human psyche. Everyone knows you bait eagles with babies in Alpine meadows, DUH. I suspect that, like so many of what seem our primal instincts, the real basis is far more psychological.

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Eagles Psychology Primates Montana 134

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

I do not get too many comments on my blog posts, but it seems that whenever I write about jacanas – whether in Africa, Australia, or Asia – there is an unusually high number of reactions (well, maybe one or two rather than the usual zero) from female readers. This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway). How efficient.

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Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

It is a beach with very few predators and rarely any human disturbance and it is for this reason that I enjoy it so much. Birding Australia Broome Pied Oystercatcher' This is a very popular beach with shorebirds at this time of year and several thousand roost here during high tide and feed close to the Port.

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Family Breeding Australia Groups 157

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

These are the results of a study commissioned by Bont voor Dieren (BvD), Humane Society International (HSI), Respect for Animals (RFA) and the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), and produced by the Australia-based independent economics consultancy Economists at Large. Excerpted from PR Newswire.

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Seals World Society For The Protection Of Animals WSPA Namibia 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

When you think of invasives, you think of the birds that have been helped by human beings to get where they are, such as House Sparrow or European Starling. They have expanded their range through Indonesia and into Australia and is found in post breeding dispersal as far north as South Korea and Japan. ibis and the eastern B.

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Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 170

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2020

One of the world’s most handsome and successfully introduced gamebirds, the Common Pheasant has been well-established for centuries — thanks to human trade — far outside of its original range in the Balkans and the foothills of the Caucasus, first in Roman times across most of Europe, and later in North America (beginning in 1773).

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2015 Portugal France Europe 154

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2012

It had quite possibly not come across a human being in this remote part of Australia and these birds are generally only seen at night-if at all. The hollow in the melaleuca that we saw the feathers go in Before we knew it the bird had popped it’s sleepy head out to see what was going on. Here we had an Australian Owlet-nightjar

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Investigation Cattle Australia Humane 166

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 22, 2011

But Cooper the Photographer Cat helps breach the gap between human and pet artistic perspectives as he strolls his neighborhood taking photos that even humans can appreciate. Cooper also has pounced onto various television programs including, Animal Planet’s MustLoveCats, The Today Show in Australia, and the Q13 news.

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Critter News

JUNE 25, 2009

In 2007, 394 dogs died during procedures for canine and human research. Tags: australia animal experimentation animal research. Animals for research purposes are coming from municipal shelters, breeders and the greyhound trade. Unwanted farm dogs are another source. From the Herald Sun. The fate of many others remains unclear.

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Animal Research Research RSPCA Unwanted 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2011

If studying insects would lead you to suppose that God had an “an inordinate fondness for beetles&# , studying the pre-human avifauna of the Pacific would lead you to conclude that God was also quite partial to rails. The fossil record of the islands don’t show the Buff-banded Rail appearing until after humans arrived.

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Tonga New Zealand Samoa Fiji 165

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2011

Mark Carter is an independent professional birding guide and wildlife surveyor living in Alice Springs, Central Australia. Originally from Scotland, Mark has lived and worked in continental Europe and North Africa before settling in Australia’s “Red Centre&# to work for the Northern Territory Parks Service. Who can say?

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Chile Australia Monkeys 2008 187

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2015

Due to the presence of the Grey Plovers we did not get as close to the flock as we could have with only Ruddy Turnstones present, because Grey Plovers are a lot more nervous of human presence. Birding Australia Broome Grey Plover Ruddy Turnstone' Grey Plovers and Ruddy Turnstones.

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Australia Humane Birds Species 165

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2014

Second, they occupy an astonishing variety of habitats from temperate Araucaria forests in Chile to alpine scree in New Zealand to seasonally flooded rainforests in Brazil to rocky sea cliffs in Australia. By contrast, Australia, often considered to be the land of parrots, has approximately 54 species.

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Parrots Brazil Mauritius Dominica 167

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2012

We have had a pair move due to human traffic increasing through the dune system and others have had to adapt to the changing landscape. Feral cats are a huge problem in Australia and they do take a lot of the eggs. These are not pet cats, but cats that have only ever lived in the wild and can survive in extreme conditions.

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Eggs Turtles Feral Cats Investigation 175

Critter News

OCTOBER 26, 2008

The norm of moderate concern for animals - that animals matter albeit less than humans - permits the (ab)use of animals in vivisection, factory farming, bloodsports and other contexts where animals suffer. It would also be useful to students of sociology and politics in general, and social movements in particular.

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Cruelty Animal Rights Movement Factory Farm Factory Farming 100

Critter News

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The official human death toll stood at 181 from the weekend's deadly fires and authorities said it would exceed 200. Tags: australia animal rescue wildfires wildlife. Not only did we not think about the impact of the Australian wildfires on wildlife, but we didn't see the AP story on our very own sidebar. We are losers.

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Koalas Kangaroos Animal Rescue 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

This is one of several giant birds that went extinct fairly recently, and in many cases, humans as suspected. Genyornis newtoni lived in Australia, and recent research suggests that humans may have played a role in the extinction of this dinosaur laughingly called a bird, about 40,000 years ago. ka, and likely before 47?ka.

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Humane Killing Australia Eggs 165

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2012

It is about an hour’s drive to Lake Argyle, which is Australia’s largest artificial lake by volume. Crocodiles below the dam wall As we entered the park we noticed the tap was dripping and although it was not potable for humans it was much appreciated by the Silver-crowned Friarbirds.

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Investigation Australia Humane Family 102

10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2022

Pied Oystercatchers around Broome always lead you away from their nest sites or their chicks whether you are human or a dog. When they walk away from the nest they don’t leave evidence as to where it is. It can be quite amusing when a Pied Oystercatcher walks a dog away from an area rather than just fly off.

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Breeding Eggs 2000 Chickens 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Most birders know better than to fall prey to such sensationalism, but among the public at large, Australia is notorious for being a land creeping and crawling with dangerous and even lethal wildlife at every turn. And not just deep in the bush, either, but at the beach, in urban parks – even in the country’s suburban homes.

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2019 Australia Ducks Fowl 213

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2018

This young bird was quite curious and not at all concerned about the presence of humans in the area. On previous visits we have encountered adult Black-necked Storks , but on this occasion there was only a juvenile Black-necked Stork.

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