10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

Hauber Hauber’s mini-essays focus on specific behaviors, enhanced by references to recent research yet written in a relaxed, personal way. And there is diversity in charisma–few people can resist an Emperor Penguin or a Secretary Bird, but common birds like Indian Myna and Black-crowned Night Heron also get their due respect.

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Chicago Barn Owls Penguins New Zealand 193

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2022

The vampire bat is the vehicle for a discussion of what Higgins calls the human sense of pleasure and pain (but not, as to the latter, for the reason you might think). That innate sense of direction is, according to recent research, a result of the ability to detect the earth’s magnetic field. And do humans share this ability?

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Humane New York Owls Hunting 250

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

They look crap but presumably offer some protection for the chicks, though not from each other (see the murderous activities within the nests in my previous post ). The Bat Hawk mainly eats bats, as the name suggests – in a curiously precise statement, Wikipedia claims that 49.3% Then, there are raptors.

Birds 229

Birds Eagles Elephants Rhinoceros 229

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Presumably, the species also not only eats fruit but also mammals and possibly birds –the HBW specifically mentions the species catching bats emerging from caves at dusk, and feeding them to juveniles. Another advantage to ballistic food transport is that the fruit seeds are protected from damage when they are swallowed whole.

Rhinoceros 131

Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 131