10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2022
It is not particularly big but has a reported 430 bird species including migrants, though during my short stay it seems I missed most of the key attractions among them. In three cases of adoption the common factor was that the adopting individual was sexually attracted to one of the real parents of the young.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2014
And with no natural predators or resistant trees in their adopted territory, things have been looking pretty grim. If there is one silver lining to all of this gloomy news, it’s that the efforts of birders truly make a difference in helping to advance science. Nonetheless, this week will be chock full of invasive species.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2019
This is the same history of conquest and despoliation which now puts many of these very species in danger of extinction. … Most birds were named by now dead white men who didn’t appreciate that most of the species they were “discovering” had already been discovered and had names.
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2023
This leaves Shanghai in June with basically just the year-round species and the summer breeders, maybe with a few added ultra-lazy individuals of migratory species. Fortunately, there are a few more such breeding species than most Shanghainese are aware of. Such as the Black-winged Cuckooshrike.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 29, 2022
” Funny how the difficulty of breeding a species can be illustrated in simple monetary terms. But that may have helped me to see them – the species is quite nomadic and settles wherever there is rain. was responsible for maintaining the universe, judging the dead, and for writing and science ( source ).
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2022
Unfortunately, in the science of language, this does not sound particularly raunchy but rather like a rational decision: “A rare species such as the Chinese Pond Heron might choose heterospecific mates rather than abandoning all chances of reproduction.” Chinese Pond Herons also grow on trees.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2013
And so, these goats ate the flora of the island: unique species of Indian paintbrush and woodland star, bushmallow and wirelettuce and morning glory. And so, most had been neutered, adopted out to soft-hearted landowners as odd pets, conversation pieces. Also, they were infested by a species of ear mite unknown to science.
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