10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
The book was originally published in 2006 as Galápagos: A Natural History with John Kricher as the sole author. I don’t have a copy of the 2006 edition, but I was able to read selected pages via Google Books. copyright © 2022 by John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin; copyright © 2006 by Princeton University Press.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
In fact, the Dodo belonged to a clade (sometimes called Raphini) of 15 remarkable, bizarre, intriguing island-adapted pigeons, some of which are still alive today, but eight of which have been hacked from the tree of life, driven to extinction by humans. The painting above is by 17th-century Flemish artist Roelant Savery.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2019
The harshest law of all, one more draconian than any human legislature could enact, is the law of unintended consequences. Environmental groups are all over the map regarding their positions on wind energy,” Kaufman says, and “the forces pushing hardest for wind-power development don’t speak any language but money.”. (One
Critter News
JULY 7, 2009
Welfare groups are calling for an urgent public debate on animal testing amid claims millions of creatures are being killed or maimed every year in Australia in the name of science. It's good to know that these issues are being fought in places other than just the US and the UK. From the online Sydney Morning Herald.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
They did flush eventually, but not because of humans. ” Meanwhile, a birder from Ohio was leading a small group down a nearby trail, looking down–“Hooded! Multitudes, hundreds of Brown Pelicans and Terns–Least, Common, Foster’s, Sandwich, Royal, and Caspian. I imagined walking right up to them.
10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2014
The targeted age group is 6 to 11 years. A second flock is released into the wild in 2006. We see a Puerto Rican Parrot flying over the heads of two humans (the authors, it turns out), their yellow and white shirts shining like beacons in a landscape of forest and olive and emerald greens and cobalt blues. The birds thrive.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
It is now believed to have been a fairly common resident of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands until the arrival of the first humans when it went the way of most flightless easy to catch island birds immediately after the arrival of man.
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