2008 Eggs Killing Protection 
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
What remains of their range is currently protected as the Pastures of Great Bustard Special Nature Reserve, but in the last several years there are only a dozen birds left, and only one adult male among them. Yours truly counting birds in the Pastures of Great Bustard from the Russian made UAZ 4×4 in February 2008.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2014
An unknown number of adult tricolors is shot each fall due to their similarity in appearance to red-wings, as red-wings are exempted from protection under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and are legally shot each fall as they feed on ripening rice.” Therefore the actual numbers of birds killed are grossly underestimated.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
Fortunately, as I found out over the next four days, High Island, the Bolivar Peninsula, the whole east Texan Gulf coast area is a place of diverse habitats, some protected, some accidental, all offering fantastic avian opportunities. Corps of Engineers to protect Galveston Bay at the end of the 19th-century.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2012
Or, Pygmy leaf-folding frogs, Afrixalus brachycnemis, from Tanzania, tiny climbing frogs who lay their eggs in leaves and then fold the leaves over them for protection, sealing the nest with secretions. Amplexus can last from a few seconds to a few hours to a few months. There is still a lot of work to be done in this area.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
They’re about protecting a system that produces cheap food. I served on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, which released a report in 2008 that detailed exactly how much these “efficiencies” are costing America. BOBBIE MULLINS Norfolk, Va., But let’s not play psychiatrist with other animals’ minds.
10,000 Birds
JULY 16, 2013
An African Penguin peers protectively around its fluffy chick. The early threats of guano harvesting and egg collecting have been replaced by the more ominous threats of oil pollution and overfishing of their favorite food source – pilchards. Cape Gulls are the single most devastating avian predator of young penguins and eggs.
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