10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Three books will have been published about the Passenger Pigeon by the end of 2014: A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction by Joel Greenberg, The Passenger Pigeon by Errol Fuller, and A Message From Martha: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its Relevance Today by Mark Avery.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 159

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

His first surmise seems like a good one – that the feathers are meant to hide the eggs from other female swallows seeking to parasitize the nest, by disrupting the parasite’s timing (if eggs are present, the parasite would know that the nesting mother is ready to incubate – that is, incubate not only her own eggs, but the parasite’s, as well).

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Eggs Emotional Bats 2014 130

10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2020

It protects nesting shorebirds year round. It also protects nesting turtles, which nest later in the year. The vehicle access is closed around the biggest high tides when the turtles are nesting to protect them and their nest sites. Another pair of Pied Oystercatchers closer to Gantheaume Point have laid their eggs.

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Eggs Turtles Protection 2014 152

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

These fossils are seen as proof that some dinosaurs brooded over its eggs. “Feathery forearms would have allowed these emu-sized dinosaurs to shade their eggs from the head of the midday sun 80 million years ago” (right, Dinoguy2/Wikimedia). Like birds. The book begins with the discovery of Archaeopteryx in Germany in 1861.

Mongolia 179

Mongolia Science Reptiles Indiana 179

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2014

by Arthur Ransome, 1947, starts with an affectionate recollection of a children’s book, in which a group of kids identify and protect a possibly rare bird (Great Northern Diver?), 32, 1887) and Egg collection (no. YOC was the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds’ Young Ornithologists’ Club.

Mauritius 172

Mauritius Collecting Egypt Cyprus 172

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

And, proceeds from sales of Duck Stamps have secured and protected over 6 million acres of wetland and grassland habitat.** (Though, Duck Stamp sales are decreasing, a major cause for concern.) Henderson, 2015, Texas A&M University Press) and Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds: Second Edition (co-authored with Colin J.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 115

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

Lacey of Iowa introduced the nation’s first wildlife-protection law, which banned the interstate shipping of unlawfully killed game. If you want to argue the financial side of conservation, I refer you to my December 2014 post titled “ The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It.”

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Hunting Hunters Gorillas Wolves 109