10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. Baby birds may be separated from the nest and their parents because of natural occurrences (violent weather, floods) or unknowing human interference or predators.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 263

Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Family Collecting 263

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

27, 2015 Christian Gutierrez, Raymond Justice, and Carter Mesker went on a camping trip to Ka’ena Point Natural Area Reserve on Oahu, Hawaii. The oldest Laysan albatross was last seen raising a chick on Midway Atoll in 2016, at age 66. Between the adults and their eggs, the three of them killed 32 live albatrosses.

Albatross 214

Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2023

The photos in this post were taken in 2015 and 2016 – I was not only an amazingly attractive, almost young person then, but also a surprisingly bad photographer. However, with time it has gotten better at rejecting eggs that do not mimic its own eggs well. “Hey, it’s such a beautiful sunny day!

China 176

China Birds Eggs Woodpeckers 176

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Should the fancy take you, you could call up a 10,000 Birds life list (from 2016 onwards. Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. 27 Aug 2016. 29 Jan 2016. 09 Jan 2016.

2016 154

2016 Sanctuary Australia Ghana 154

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Perhaps the most positive reaction came from noted bird photographer Marie Read, who noted that the information about waterfowl reaction to humans and decoys would be of great interest to nature photographers. I was really taken aback when I saw this. Reactions varied from confusion to distaste. Barker and Carrol L. Harrison, 2005, PUP).

Ducks 121

Ducks North America Geese Hunters 121