10,000 Birds
MAY 26, 2024
The chicks need six months to develop so the adults lay their eggs in January. In Franco’s day, a price was paid to farmers and hunters who brought evidence of having shot “vermin”. All this changed with protection. Griffon Vultures have a long breeding season. So why are these Griffons arriving now?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2018
” Contemporary environmentalism arrived too late to prevent the passenger pigeon’s demise due to market hunters, but the two phenomena share a historical connection. Lacey of Iowa introduced the nation’s first wildlife-protection law, which banned the interstate shipping of unlawfully killed game. A newly created U.S.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
What remains of their range is currently protected as the Pastures of Great Bustard Special Nature Reserve, but in the last several years there are only a dozen birds left, and only one adult male among them. Bustards are very susceptible to any kind of disturbance and, naturally, hunters like to shoot. What treats do they face?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2022
Like a bad boyfriend not changing into nicer clothes for an evening out, the Brown-cheeked Fulvetta gets chided on eBird for not making any efforts: “an unapologetically drab and unmarked fulvetta” The Chestnut-headed Bee-eater apparently digs nest-burrows in which to lay its eggs. “It is not deep enough yet!
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 3, 2015
These fossils are seen as proof that some dinosaurs brooded over its eggs. “Feathery forearms would have allowed these emu-sized dinosaurs to shade their eggs from the head of the midday sun 80 million years ago” (right, Dinoguy2/Wikimedia). Like birds. The book begins with the discovery of Archaeopteryx in Germany in 1861.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
He strongly believes that waterfowl hunters are the major reason we have waterfowl and wetlands in North America today. And, proceeds from sales of Duck Stamps have secured and protected over 6 million acres of wetland and grassland habitat.** (Though, Duck Stamp sales are decreasing, a major cause for concern.) million to 2.2
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2012
Wildlife conservation is concerned with protecting wildlife at the level of species or perhaps population. Each year tens of thousands of these gulls go to the islands and each pair will lay three eggs. Most of these clutches of eggs will hatch to produce three fluffy and adorable chicks.
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