10,000 Birds
MAY 23, 2022
The scimitar gave the name to a group of birds, the 17 species of scimitar babblers (claims that these birds were named after the Scottish naturalist Edgar Scimitar, 1755-1806, are plainly wrong). Scimitar babblers use these long downcurved bills to work through the leaf litter – they are rather terrestrial birds.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 17, 2011
After publishing my stories I got emails from people all over the world who had seen similar behavior in various birds and mammals. Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. Empathy Among Elephants. As we all know, dogs are “man’s best friend.” Photos courtesy of iStock.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2011
As a youngster of 10-weeks old, it is abandoned by its parents and left to fend for itself. Each year 120,000 birds visit the island to breed from March through August in burrows that riddle the landscape. A pair of birds in a nesting burrow share the parental responsiblities and change shifts under the cover of darkness.
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