10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Described in the “Territoriality and aggression” chapter, this is a sublime example of behaviour from the “Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman, an Emeritus Chair in Behavioural and Environmental Biology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. “Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman. .
10,000 Birds
MAY 13, 2022
The Asian Koel is a cuckoo species and thus freed from the obligation to raise its own chicks (though the birds like to refer to themselves as brood parasites, which sounds a bit less obviously selfish). However, unfortunately, this seems to be mainly true for Laced Woodpecker (female) … … and Greater Flameback (female).
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller is one of these books. Lost Animals is a book about what was lost and witnesses to the loss—how the bird or mammal was viewed, often for the last time, through the lens of a camera. Yes, it is about extinction, a popular topic in the Year of the Passenger Pigeon.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2021
Driving slowly along the track towards the levee separating this area from the Danube backwaters, a largish marten-like animal once ran across the track. About the size of a hare, it is more clumsily jumping, than running… and that tail… It was the European Otter !
10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2017
For those of you that have never been to Lassen Volcanic National Park, I thought I would post some photos I have taken inside the park of some of the bird and animal species we may encounter during our annual campout. We will hopefully see the rare Black-backed Woodpecker ( Picoides arcticus ) as well. and maybe hear it drum!
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 28, 2014
The use of tool by animals is surprisingly rare. Among birds the Egyptian Vulture uses rocks to crack Ostrich eggs, the New Caledonian Crow and Woodpecker Finch (one of several Darwin Finches of the Galapagos Islands), uses sticks to extract grubs from inside a branch. Woodpecker Finch using a tool. The behavior was inherent.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2013
Over the last two weeks, we raised our faces and sniffed. I wondered, last August, how animals endure it — the tiny ever-pumping lungs of hummingbirds, the lungs of bighorn sheep shouldering their way up mountains, they must get filled with smoke too, right? For us here in the valley, though, at least it cleared the air.
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