Critter News
JANUARY 26, 2009
First wolves, then polar bears, now beluga whales. At issue is the population of {the Cook Inlet beluga) whales, which were put under the protections of the Marine Mammal Protection Act eight years ago, which scientists argue hasn't sped their recovery: Palin begs to differ. Tags: beluga whale Palin alaska endangered species.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2019
Wooden poles were first used to suspend electric telegraph wires along the tracks of Britain’s Great Western Railway in 1843, using a system patented by William Forthergill Cooke. But history doesn’t seem to have recorded which species of bird first dared to land on an electrical wire.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 3, 2018
In talking to the local guides, and Rangers, they all agreed that they had not been seeing too many species around in the last couple of weeks. Down near the original cook shack was a bush that held one Townsend’s Warbler. You know, the Bison, Elk, Bears and Wolves. You know, the Bison, Elk, Bears and Wolves.
10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2021
There are a few special wave-cut platforms that prove to be wonderful habitat for such species as Eastern Reef Egret, Silver Gull, Crested Tern, Sooty Oystercatcher [below], Pied Cormorant while above sail raptors such as Osprey, White bellied Sea-eagle, Brahminy and Whistling Kites. The Little Wattlebird was also conspicuous.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
The fish owl is an endangered species, and before Slaght’s work, very little was known about it, especially in Russia. (It “The Volkovs took their food seriously and once they began cooking were a near-unstoppable force” (chapter 13). He wanted to do research that would have a conservation impact.
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2019
April was a busy time for the beats with 10 of them contributing 164 lists to accumulate 744 species from 7 countries; Costa Rica, USA, Australia, Serbia, UK, Brazil and Barbados. Lemmon–Bear Canyon (Cypress, Middle Bear, Chihuahua Pine Picnic Areas). Cook’s Swift – Apus cooki. Back to numbers.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2019
978 species were tallied this month from 163 checklists. Only 123 species appear on both sides of the life list. Cook’s Swift – Apus cooki. Lemmon–Bear Canyon (Cypress, Middle Bear, Chihuahua Pine Picnic Areas). The yearly total has reached 1538 while the life list has been pushed to 3676.
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