10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2022
One strange thing about Chongming is the inevitable presence of people fishing. Not professionally – these people come in SUVs and probably never recapture their gas money from the fish they catch (though come to think of it, neither do I with my bird photos). of catching extremely small fish. End of side note.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 8, 2015
Brown Pelicans in non-breeding plumage. Both are the only Pelican in their non-overlapping breeding grounds. Peruvian Pelican in non-breeding plumage. Both pelicans have a very specialized foraging strategy that depends on abundant fish near the surface. Brown Pelican in Breeding Plumage.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2022
Tragically, I never saw any birds near the nest later on – I guess they abandoned it, decided to quit procreating, or just got eaten by some other bird or cat. But indeed they vanish somewhere once the people pretending to try and catch fish appear. But the stars of the month were some breeding Eurasian Tree Sparrows.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2019
Cranes breed in very small numbers in UK but are always impressive en masse. And also Golden Oriole because of its good looks, even though the UK has one tiny breeding site.”. Squacco Heron – the same as previous, from the left Danube bank levees, also the Veliko Blato Lake (Mika Alas fish farm in the suburb of Krnjaca, #3).
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Set in an abandoned oil refinery where wildlife is slowly regaining control save for the desperate attempts of golfers to retain all eighteen holes, industrial ghosts loom over rolling freshwater lakes bordered by fifty foot tall trees. About one hundred yards away an Anhinga surfaced with a freshly skewered fish.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 17, 2012
Oil begins to wash up on the beaches throughout May and June of 2010 May 6, 2010 Oil washes ashore on the Chandeleur Islands off the Louisiana coast, an important nesting and breeding area for many bird species. Traces of hydrocarbon poisoning are showing up in fish species.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
Snail Kites now favor these ponds and breed around them. Adult kites are also known to abandon their chicks when they are unable to find enough food for the chicks and themselves. Exotic snails are so dense at these ponds that if a blindfolded person stick his hand anywhere in this pond s/he is likely to grab a snail.
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