10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This may have been partly a leftover from the Victorian fascination with egg collecting (the infamous passion known as oology), but probably more from people’s burgeoning interest in the nests and eggs found in their gardens and fields, gateway artifacts to a newer hobby called birdwatching. The Harrison guides are out of print.

Eggs 244

Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 244

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

He has written and co-written over 400 scientific papers on brood parasitism, Common Cuckoos, egg rejection and other nesting behaviors, and fairy wren learning in addition to T he Book of Eggs: A Life-Size Guide to the Eggs of Six Hundred of the World’s Bird Species (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2014).

Chicago 193

Chicago Barn Owls Penguins New Zealand 193

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2015

The analysis of Python stomach contents indicates that they eat mammals, as small as mice, and as large as a fully grown deer. Pythons have been observed swallowing birds and mammals, and coiled up resting in trees where wading birds were actively nesting. Rock Python. Photo Credits: Samuel Wright.

Pythons 185

Pythons Florida Mammals Reptiles 185