10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2019

These are the plants and animals that strive to persist in the realm of Homo sapiens. Some local populations of birds and animals couldn’t adapt to the radical ecosystem-wide changes and just died out but a fair percentage did survive and continue to persist where green space lingers.

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Costa Rica Birds Parrots Sparrows 189

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2011

Big, bold, beautiful parrots full of character and charm, macaws make us long for some of the world’s wildest places and assure us that, as long as they fly free, those magical wild places are still intact. Mating pairs are faithful for life and share the tasks of raising the young. Who doesn’t love a macaw?

Protection 183

Protection Brazil Parrots Paraguay 183

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2021

Some might even protest at being kept separate, raising their voices as they eye the main conference birds with hungry intent. The Rufous-naped Wren is a very animated, common species in Costa Rica. As loud as it is eye-catching, this big beautiful parrot has become pretty common in Costa Rica. Maybe except for the gulls.

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Costa Rica Belize Guatemala Protest 223

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

While drones have the potential be a great tool in the world of wildlife conservation, they can also pose a serious problem for the animals they’re trying to protect. Over time, it’s these physiological changes that can disrupt animals’ breeding or rearing habits. So far, there aren’t any reports of bird deaths caused by drones.

Birds 180

Birds Protection Idaho Bears 180

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

From Hiro, we learn how Northern Pygmy Owls are “rule breakers,” not incubating eggs till all are hatched and then raising owlets that mature at the same rate even though the eggs were laid asynchronously (as most owl eggs are). I’m wondering if the subject of this book itself presented a challenge.

Owls 199

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 199

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

We miss them all: the parrots, the pigeons, the moas and titan-hawks and stilt-owls and myriads of endlessly exotic avifauna we will never ever know again as they were when they graced this Earth. And some of the extinctions were of small animals, like the many dwarf goats and elephants in the Mediterranean.

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Marsupials Costa Rica Elephants Cuba 165

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

As keen birdwatchers, who just happened to have found the Night Parrots in Western Australia, they were keen to look for the Fairy Pitta at first light the next day. Australia-wide there is a huge problem with cats taking animals and birds.

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Australia Litter Geese Cats 118