10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
While the native apple snail continued declining, another species of apple snail native to South America began to appear in canals and ponds in South Florida. The baseball-sized “Island apple snail”, as this exotic snail is known, spreaded through South Florida. Native snails lay 20-50 eggs at a time during the spring.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2014
migration corridors from Argentina in the Southern tip of South America to Canada. For example, in the Delaware Bay, warming coastal waters can cause horseshoe crabs to lay their eggs earlier than normal; conversely, more intense and frequent coastal storms can cause late spawning.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 8, 2015
The Brown Pelican occurs in both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America and northern South America. They nearly disappeared from North America between the late 1950s and early 1970s because of pesticides entering the food chain. Abandoned fishing line also threatens pelicans along with many marine animals.
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. Or picture yourself as a bird fetus within an egg.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2015
Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in. Margaret A.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2012
And, I started daydreaming about encountering something a little different, maybe a Horned Frog, Ceratophrys cornuta, a large, squat green and brown frog of South America, with a wide mouth large enough to eat other frogs as well as reptiles. As Mattison says, “Frogs are unlikely to be mistaken for any other type of animal.”
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Penguins are cartoons, emoticons, animated films, children’s books (though owls really take first place here), sports teams, a book publisher, and a Batman villain (a rare example of penguin negativity, though Burgess Meredith did bring an endearing attitude to his 1960’s TV portrayal). © Otto Plantema, used with permission.
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