10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2013

A dusty-red road leads me through Marico bushveld deeper into the 750 square kilometers large wilderness of the Madikwe Game Reserve – the 4th largest reserve in South Africa, home to 350 bird and 66 mammal species, some 4 hours’ drive from Johannesburg. They raise their trunks, sniffing the air. Sniffing us.

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Africa South Africa Elephants Rhinos 197

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2020

This boldness isn’t restricted to exchanges with other grouse, either: in some locales, members of this circumpolar family are astonishingly foolhardy around humans. And, on any other night, that could very well mean grouse is being served, as the Scottish table is famed for the bounty of its abundant fish and game.

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Sheep Branding Ireland Fowl 206

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. Or These Blasts From The Past What’s In A Name?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

A few families have a small number of eggs in the clutches, like gulls or cormorants. Unique among the auks, indeed among seabirds, they will attempt to double brood, to lay another clutch after successfully raising the first chick. Some birds pump em out by the dozen in the hope that at least one or two survive. So why do it?

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Eggs Puffins Breeding Raised 165

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2012

Which these days involves a frenzy to breed and raise a brood. He told me where he’d found them, and we hung up and I went back to my card game. Birds arrive, and immediately start the business of breeding, so they can raise a family and be gone before winter arrives.

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Bald Eagle Breeding Raised Whales 172

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 5, 2012

For expectant parents who have a pet at home, one of the most common concerns they have is how will their pet cope with the new addition to the family? Have a friend or family member, who has a baby bring him/her over for a visit. Guest article from Jon of ilovelabradorretrievers.com. Think about it for a second.

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Puppies Pets Dogs Unwanted 100

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 17, 2009

You can be a part of this event in many ways: Register to bowl and get free pizza, two games of bowling and shoes, and unlimited soda, all for $25! Ask your friends, family, and coworkers to pledge money to BFR. Raise $100 and get a t-shirt and entry into two door prize categories. Get sponsored to bowl!

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Rhinos Indonesia Utah Kenya 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

I have written about the interesting sex life of these jacanas a few times already (short version: female mates with male, lays a bunch of eggs for him to incubate and raise the chicks, leaves him, finds another male, repeat). Once I am moderately successful, I often find such photos quite pleasing. One puzzle solved. I can see their point.

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Birds China Eggs Breeding 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

That’s what you do with other game, right? Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life. Why not just shoot the biggest one? The biggest gobbler, the biggest buck… And this? Nobody needs to eat them.

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