10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 24, 2015
Worried by the lack of appropriate action by the authorities (as described in the previous post ), this year I invited two more wildlife protection organisations to take part in the annual census of Pygmy Cormorants in Belgrade. “The Pygmy Cormorant is a strictly protected bird species in Serbia, as well as in the European Union.
10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2017
A New York City Parks Department contractor just wiped out a breeding population of sparrows in tons of trouble already, on land owned by the parks department that was supposed to be protected as “Forever Wild.” Here’s a short video of the damage. Any destruction like this of a wetland would be bad, of course.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2014
And asking yourself the right question is more than half the way towards the answer. Large windows and unobstructed views of the river are a criterion for the right observation point. Their mortality was huge, but I realised how huge only when we did the December 2012 census to find only 1300 PCs. Four fifths were gone!
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 8, 2015
There was only one that survived to fledge in 2010, two in 2011 and two in 2012. One of the surviving Pied Oystercatcher chicks in 2012 made itself famous right here. The Pied Oystercatcher adult sat down as the chick approached and it climbed up towards it and was subsequently pushed under the right wing into the shade.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
2008 and this video recommended by the Ted Talk people: The Early Birdwatchers ), or the social behavior of Common Guillemots (what we North Americans call Common Murres) ( Bird Sense: What it Is Like to Be a Bird , 2012). The drawing on the left is from 1714, the one on the right is the result of Birkhead’s own dissection.
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2014
While the environmental disaster was unfolding in New Jersey, New York beaches seemed free of the plants but that all changed in October 2012. Right now the infestations seem small enough that with a concerted effort they could be eradicated from New York beaches. There are both male and female spikes.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2019
We see a closer shot of the river itself, hawks flying across the span, and then we see that brown line again, close up, a wall of brown panels filling the right side of the screen, continuing into the distance, no end in sight, while a white pick-up truck drives parallel to it at the far left of the screen.
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