10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The Peruvian Pelican is restricted to the cold water of the Humboldt Current along the coast of Peru and Chile. The two overlap in the northern coast of Peru, which constitutes the Brown Pelican’s southern most point in its regular wintering ground along the Pacific. Both are the only Pelican in their non-overlapping breeding grounds.

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Pelicans North America Peru Fish 157

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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Dissection Birds Research Europe 242

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

They have special adaptations to stay warm and to keep their eggs and chicks warm. Fossils of a giant extinct penguin, Inkayacu paracasensis were found a while back in Peru. Penguins are flightless, but some species locomote over long distances on antarctic ice to travel between breeding grounds and the sea. Salas-Gismondi, R.,

Penguins 202

Penguins Seals Peru Science 202

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

He had the habit of asking very similar question about the animals featured in his zoology lectures, including basic questions like how big they are, what limits physiology puts on their geographic range, etc. For instance, among animals, booby and noddy combined probably represents the majority of the biomass of the somewhat unusual St.

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Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 182