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An Open Letter to the Birds on the Webcams, Re: Nesting Season

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Steal and eat their eggs? But for millions of years up until now you haven’t had an international audience of thousands of highly social mammals with their own particular quirks and evolutionary strategies watching your every move around the clock. Supreme and unknowable indifference isn’t really what most of these people are into.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 6)

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, Edith Coleman posts that a brooding bird of the species deliberately concealed itself, stating that it “was conscious of being invisible to me, in the position she invariably adopted when aware of my proximity. Although a plump bird, it was surprising to note how much of her body she managed to conceal.”

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The Darwinian Chick

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Why can’t a baby bird just hatch out of the egg and fly away, or at least, be able to fly a little and not require weeks of constant feeding and attention? Baby birds are different from baby mammals in some interesting ways. This is different from mammals. That is an oversimplification of what happens.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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billion mammals annually. Our findings suggest that free-ranging cats cause substantially greater wildlife mortality than previously thought and are likely the single greatest source of anthropogenic mortality for US birds and mammals. Be prepared to take one (or several) in and work towards removal and adoption.

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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

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And, Fuller should know; he has spent his career producing books about extinct birds and mammals, including the recent Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record, from his home in England. ” (I love that term, and may adopt it for future use.) How many eggs did a pigeon lay? It is the vision that counts!(To

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Birding Shanghai in December 2022

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A bit like being adopted, I guess. An additional benefit would be less nest predation by tidal mudflat crabs, the primary cause of Reed Parrotbill egg predation in tidal reed-bed habitat ( source ). And to end this post, a mammal. Cute, admittedly – but still a mammal, not a bird. salvadori ).”

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