10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2018
Sometimes the birds are used as a prop in a mammal exhibit. Anybody out there know why the Mississippi Kite has abandoned most of the Mississippi? The Bell incorporated the dioramas, or at least many of them, into a fantastic floor of natural history museumology. The Loon diorama demonstrates biparental care in a bird.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 29, 2022
.'” Tim Low (in “How Song Began”) gives a colorful description of Long-billed Corellas , stating that they “have drooping bills like witches’ noses” and explaining that “Their ‘noses’ are long because, like many mammals, they grub up juicy roots – or used to.” I think this is a juvenile Grey Fantail.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 28, 2013
Most troubling for me, because I think of them as my birds, is the abandoned nesting attempt by a pair of Pacific Loons. The next day the pair was still in the lake, but egg was still there which gave me some hope that the nest hadn’t been abandoned. Bonus mammal image, a summer Arctic Hare.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 17, 2012
I never knew, until my ill-fated encounter , that these are among the most birdie of the North American flying mammals. They may gather in flocks of hundreds during their fall journey, abandoning their lonely summer habits. I cannot get the Hoary Bat out of my head. Hoary Bats roost in trees, not caves.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 5, 2012
The bird feeder arms race demands incessant innovation because of the utter fearlessness and abandon driving squirrels to plunder feeders. Entire industries are built around preventing squirrels from completely devouring provisions intended for birds.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
ad_icon The practice, however, is fiercely criticized by researchers and marine mammal conservationists, including the educational anthropologist widely credited with having invented it, retired Florida International University researcher Betsy Smith.
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2012
When it noticed a piece of kelp with an air bladder attached, it abandoned the stuff near shore and made the short swim out to collect its prize. I thought to myself “strange, I didn’t know they ate kelp.”
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