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. A 2007 genetic review of pigeons and doves ( Pereira et al.
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. But there’s at least one night on the Scottish calendar when the grouse enjoys a reprieve, at least from human appetites.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2015
The closer one raises her head, than lies back. Telia watches him in half-amusement, then raises and gives a low, bull-like roar, provoking the lapwings to an excited screech, makes a few steps and lies down. Telia yawns, raises and sprays her urine on a dead tree stump, marking her territory. The other two are motionless.
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
In 2007 I was working in a university building that was just begging for bird feeders. FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. The photographs are actually in color in my Kindle edition but reproduced in black-and-white on the book’s Amazon page.
4 The Love Of Animals
JULY 30, 2009
which helps foster the therapeutic and service roles of dogs in the development, support, and inspiration they provide to their human companions, successfully completed the 2009 Let Freedom Bark Ride fundraising initiative and exceeded the fundraising goal of $20,000 in an effort to sponsor the life of a service dog for an individual in need.
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 11, 2009
which helps foster the therapeutic and service roles of dogs in the development, support, and inspiration they provide to their human companions, announced today that raffle tickets for the Dublin Dog Dream Bike and Sidecar Giveaway are now available online on at www.DublinDogFoundation.org for a minimum donation of five dollars. and abroad.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2015
None fly, most are curious and social, which probably contributes to our cultural perception of penguins as one step away from human. Raised in the Galapagos, she’s been exposed to penguins her whole life. Some are cute, some are dignified (and royal!). That’s a lot of books about a bird family that cannot fly.
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