10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2017
Ka’ena Point is also a breeding ground for the Federally protected Laysan albatross, where 45 nests were being carefully monitored by the non-profit Pacific Rim Conservation. The oldest Laysan albatross was last seen raising a chick on Midway Atoll in 2016, at age 66. They were simply sent to Family Court.
10,000 Birds
MAY 23, 2021
They’re lucky: unlike albatrosses and other seabirds, they are not ship followers and so can mostly avoid guy-lines and nets. For the next four years, the bird will not touch land. They were, he reminisces, “sometimes distanced, sometimes brought closer by the 50 years between us.”. Manx shearwaters are, in relative terms at least, thriving.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2014
Okay, they weren’t as fascinating as the birds of prey eating their, or the frankly still weird drawings of nightjars carrying eggs and woodcocks carrying chicks, but still, hornbills were cool because they sealed their mates up in holes in trees and then fed them as they raised the chick.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 22, 2011
“My biggest regret in life was raising my binoculars to observe this monstrosity of a bird” – Ethel M. If you misidentify something, you bring great shame and dishonor to both you and your family. Long-tailed Jaeger. Pink-footed Shearwater. One typically does not know a lot of people on any given trip. I assure you.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. Some of our longstanding questions now have really fascinating answers, and if others are still open or if new ones have been raised, we now have greater knowledge and freer imaginations with which to pursue them. In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al.
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2012
A few families have a small number of eggs in the clutches, like gulls or cormorants. For the larger albatrosses and the frigatebirds it is common to take longer and have rest years between attempts. Seabirds are one group of birds that go for the latter strategy. The Cassin’s Auklets do something else that is very interesting.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2011
Between staying warm/cool, finding food, avoiding predators, migrating thousands of miles every year, finding mates, raising chicks and doing all this at the mercy of the elements, it makes sense that they have more brainpower than just simple instinct to run on. Picture being a Blackpoll Warbler being born in the boreal forests of Alaska.
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