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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

: “A female may share a nest with another, and 3 or more adults may take turns incubating the eggs and feeding the chicks.” Survival rates of chicks increase when there are helpers present – and if in captivity this is not an option, humans can also take the place of helpers ( source ). ” ( source ).

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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guideā€“A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. Baby birds may be separated from the nest and their parents because of natural occurrences (violent weather, floods) or unknowing human interference or predators.

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Into the Nest: A Book Review in the Time of Nesting

10,000 Birds

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. But special.

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

He pairs conventional wisdom with actual research on such wisdom and speaks to experts whoā€™ve been pondering the issues from the perspectives of their various disciplines. The research, much of the time, doesnā€™t support the conventional wisdom (which is not to say the case is closed on any issue). All day long.

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Lest we Forget ā€“ BP Oil Spill 2010

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As you read the below timeline and see the below images, don’t ever forget the perils that walk hand-in-hand with human greed. May 13, 2010 BP boss, Tony Hayward, labels the spill as “relatively tiny” in comparison to the ocean. The babies that hatched from these eggs were released on Florida’s east coast.

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A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia: A Book Review by a Penguin Groupie

10,000 Birds

They breed in dense colonies, incubate their single egg on the feet, and take more than a year to fledge a chick. Human habitation and industry had an almost devastating effect on this area. I found this all out on websites not affiliated with this book.

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Antpittas and Gnateaters: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Species Accounts vary greatly in length, from nine pages for Undulated Antpitta to two pages for Alta Floresta Antpitta, length depending not only on how much we know about the bird but also Greeney’s tendency to thoroughly discuss, even argue, any kind of confusion in documentation, taxonomy, or research results.

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