10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

But I have been sick with different kinds and forms of cold since the beginning of December with no interruption, and so has my entire family. A few dead birds were collected by authorities and sent to a laboratory for investigation. The first detection outside Africa occurred in Vienna/Austria between 2001 and 2006.

Germany 159

Germany Blackbirds 2006 Denmark 159

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

I recently heard from Chris Kirkby, the Managing Director and Principal Investigator at Asociacion Fauna Forever , a Peruvian not-for-profit organisation based in Lima and Puerto Maldonado, about a series of bird-banding workshops being held this June and November in the rainforests of Tambopata in south-eastern Peru.

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Peru 2011 Deer Birds 188

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

It is organized taxonomically, with families identified by first scientific and then popular name. Each family section starts with a brief description of the birds within that family, their common physical and behavioral traits, and range of habitat. Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans.

Trinidad 188

Trinidad Birds South America Research 188

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. The Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon.

Solomon Islands 271

Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 271

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. Perhaps that will be the subject of a future post in this space. __ 1 Fransson, et al, 2001. The idea was to see if those without magnets taped to their heads got less lost then those with the magnets. People were doing things like that with birds, sharks, and humans. Image source.

Research 186

Research Humane Compassion New York 186