10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2018
This year is the eighteenth year since we discovered our first Pied Oystercatcher nest on Cable Beach in Broome and it didn’t take us long to realise that they are not at all successful at raising young due to egg and chick predation. He last raised a chick successfully in 2016 and has nested in this area since 2008.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 17, 2011
When zoo keepers saw that the baby was not eating and having trouble gaining weight, they made the decision to hand-raise him. Upon reaching maturity, he may also become an important part of Busch Gardens’ plans for a cheetah breeding program that will help boost the population of these critically endangered animals.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. ” By 1970 the man who championed Peregrines had convinced Cornell University to build a Hawk Barn for captive breeding of these birds. He came for the hawks.
Animal Ethics
JULY 15, 2009
The numbers are high and rising: From 1996 to 2005, MRSA-related hospitalizations increased nearly tenfold. Factory farms are concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) where animals are raised intensively and permanently confined in warehouses and sheds. All evidence points to factory farms. are fed to farm animals.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2011
Another question this raises has to do with migration itself. Loons hardly ever fly when they are on their breeding grounds or their winter-water, but the migration is for many loons a non-trivial distance. Those two questions are not mutually exclusive. Why migrate? And then there is the loon. The same may well be true of navigation.
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