10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2019
While I harbor mixed feelings about zoos in general, this facility seems to make the best effort possible to keep animals in interesting enclosures, move them to different areas of the zoo to maintain novel surroundings, and invest money and space into a 30 acre mixed species enclosure, where the animals can move freely.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2011
Bird poop is, summarized and generalized, the same thing as any other animal group’s poop: the final stage of digestion, the getting rid of the garbage. Here’s the chain of events: an animal eats and the food is being digested. Whatever food content cannot be used is thrown out through defecation.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 8, 2015
Analyses of stomach content of dead pelicans during a die-off found that their digestive tracts were either empty or contained fish the pelicans don’t normally eat. Some pesticides killed pelicans directly, while DDT contamination led to thin-shelled eggs that broke under the weight of the parents.
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
This is an animated map made from Christmas Bird Count data of Eurasian Collared-Dove sightings from 1987 through 1997 2. They often tend to displace native species, whether they be plant or animal. They usually lay two eggs per clutch and most often, successive clutches will be laid while adults are still attending fledglings!
4 The Love Of Animals
JULY 15, 2012
Brush top with beaten egg. Storing treats in an airtight container or vacuum-sealed bag preserves them for much longer and better maintains nutrient content. 23 Pet/animal theme cookie cutters. Formulated by Melody McKinnon exclusively for 4TheLoveOfAnimals.com. Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour (or flour substitute).
10,000 Birds
JULY 25, 2014
Thirteen different insects have been introduced into Montana in their turn as biological controls for knapweeds, from weevils that attack the roots to flies that lay eggs in the seed-heads. To access the entire week’s worth of content just click here. And yet it persists. So, a big no on knapweed.
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