10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2014
More than 99% of the population of Tricolored Blackbirds ( Agelaius tricolor ) live within the state of California and form the largest colonies of any North American passerine bird 1. The Results of the 2014 Tricolored Blackbird Statewide Survey confirm that this species is in rapid decline. Click on photos for full sized images.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2023
Birding in a place where animals are assiduously cared for and not harassed in any form or fashion means that the encounters themselves are essentially guaranteed to be memorable – and not of fleeing bird behinds! From Yellow-hooded Blackbirds to Purple and Common Gallinules , there are almost too many birds to focus on!
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2023
Such programs are somewhat inefficient anyway – in one study , the breeding success of wild male pheasants was 2-5 times higher than for hand-reared and released ones while for females, hand-reared birds were 3 times as vulnerable to predation as the wild ones. Wait, the study was not done with people but with Eurasian Siskins.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2019
But the way it is, familiarity breeds (relative) contempt. Instead of cattle, it nowadays often follows tractors ploughing the fields and thus stirring up small animals. The Chinese Blackbird was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the Common Blackbird, and does not really look or behave much different.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Trusting my instinct that in this kind of weather I can easily show this animal, a few days later I came back with a TV crew and… bingo! At the end of the month my list stood at a ridiculous 45, instead of 100 or more. And I decided to search it for the forest species: Eurasian Sparrowhawk , Syrian Woodpecker (okay, not truly a forest sp.),
10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2020
A Eurasian Blackbird is checking for the remaining maize seeds. A Common Chaffinch is singing, while one male Blackbird chases the other from his precious maize seeds. Birds to see There are 139 bird species recorded within the national park, 96 of them breeding in recent years. The longer I sit, the more focused I become.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2022
One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. In the classic test, an animal is anesthetized and then marked on an area of the body the animal cannot normally see. When the animal recovers from the anesthetic, it is given access to a mirror. Sometimes it works.
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