10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
The tiercels (young Peregrines) must deal with Golden Eagles, Ravens, adult Peregrines, and foxes; they must also learn to navigate the skies and make their own kills, luckily these skills appear to be innately learned. Coyotes took carrion from young Condors and then killed the weakest ones. It’s not easy.
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
In 2007 I was working in a university building that was just begging for bird feeders. I put it in a small box for several hours, where it appeared to recover, but studies have shown that internal injuries from a strike usually kill the bird. The more glass, the more bird kills. ©2012 Donna L.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2017
3) It is a sequel to Good Birders Don’t Wear White: 50 Tips From North America’s Top Birders , the popular 2007 collection of essays. Braunfield, just published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. (3) How can you tell the difference, besides the additional word in the title? All rights reserved. Well, it’s a bit more than that.
Animal Ethics
JULY 19, 2007
After witnessing hours if not days of senseless killing, someone finally musters the courage to take on the killer and delivers what has to be a devastating blow. One can't kill horses for human consumption within the U.S., Cavel, a Belgian company, kills horses in Illinois for export to Europe. Then, on July 5, 2007, U.S.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
The White-backed Vulture was “not considered of conservation concern until 2007, after which its threat status has been successively elevated, becoming Critically Endangered in 2015 following severe decline in several parts of range and likelihood of continuing decline.” ” (HBW). .” ” (HBW).
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2020
She seamlessly interweaves memories of her bryologist father (he collected mosses), statistics on building-killed birds and the Audubon volunteers who collect them, details of modern taxidermist techniques seen on a visit to a Pennsylvania taxidermist, and the sight of hundreds of bird study skins at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates. .”
10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2012
The stunning head plumes of the Gray Crowned-Crane make it attractive to bird collectors and zoos; illegal collecting of wild birds is one of the reasons why this species is now considered Endangered. Between 2007 and 2009 the population of the Liben Lark decreased 40% and the territory it occupied contracted 38%.
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