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. Please write: [link] .
10,000 Birds
MAY 23, 2021
candidates and other seabird field researchers; and crusty boatsmen, some clued-in and some clueless, who guide him in various latitudes. 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.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2012
For the larger albatrosses and the frigatebirds it is common to take longer and have rest years between attempts. Cassin’s Auklets feed on krill, and the researchers of PRBO have been able to show strong correlations between sea temperatures, the krill that the Cassin’s Auklet feeds on, and the reproductive success of the birds.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 24, 2012
This week at 10,000 Birds, it’s all about how birds get around to bumping uglies (I’m talking about cloacas here), who they do it with, and how this actually leads to raising chicks…the birds and the bees of birds, you might say. Lastly, I’ll leave you with Laysan Albatross. Photo courtesy of Adam Riley.
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. I look forward to more research being done in this field.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
Several recent studies have found that tinamous are embedded within the ratites, which means that either they regained the ability to fly or (as many researchers feel is more likely) that flightlessness and large body size arose multiple times within the paleognaths, a topic discussed in detail at Tetrapod Zoology. Jarvis et al.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
We tend to think of seabirds as mysterious long-winged creatures that spend their lives flying over oceans–phalaropes, noddies, skuas, jaegers, auks, tropicbirds, penguins, albatrosses, storm-petrels, petrels, shearwaters, diving-petrels, frigatebirds, gannets, and boobies. Perrow, © Maps: Lynx Edicions.
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