10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

Next door to my hometown, the Gulf Breeze Zoo occupies 50 acres near the Santa Rosa Sound. The first time I visited the 30 acre enclosure, I walked the raised boardwalk over the space with eyes wide. A few weeks later, I returned to the zoo, and sure enough, the nest was empty. Had they merely hatched? Where were the babies?

Geese 113

Geese Zoos Canada Rhinos 113

Critter News

DECEMBER 12, 2009

Another animal dies at the Calgary Zoo and more questions are being raised about their practices. I don't track zoos, but this seems like an unusually high number of casualties. The fatality is one in a string of animal deaths in recent years. In April 2009, unseasonably cold weather froze two whopping crane eggs.

Zoos 100

Zoos Animal Welfare Welfare Elephants 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

What the Owl Knows is organized into nine chapters: introduction, adaptation (including vision and flight), research and researchers, vocalization, courtship and breeding, roosting and migration, cognition, and two chapters on owls and humans–captive owls (not zoos, educational owls) and owls in our cultural history.

Owls 230

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 230

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

We have photographs and newspaper obituaries of Martha, the last living Passenger Pigeon, who died after a lifetime in captivity, mostly in the Cincinnati Zoo. Fuller is also a photographer, but his web page notes that he seldom takes photographs of birds or animals.). How many eggs did a pigeon lay? How many times did it nest?

2014 162

2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 162

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Superb Starlings avoid this when using helpers, much like rich people presumably reducing the stress of raising kids by hiring a couple of nannies. She also laid eggs in Melba Finch nests. But that is the environment they survive in, get grants, get professorships, etc. Red-billed Firefinch. Poor creatures.

South Africa 202

South Africa Africa Birds Cape Verde 202