10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
Europeans must use these to come and bear away in the name of civilization all these dregs of the human race. Finally, the Azure-winged Magpie raises a hen-and-egg question: What was first, the color of the bird or the color of the Tibetan prayer flag? Understated elegance is also something the White-browed Tit is rather good at.
Critter News
MARCH 4, 2010
We're talking about Knut the polar bear. He was the cute little polar bear whose birth at the Berlin Zoo was so controversial because his mother rejected him. He was raised by a trainer. She's here temporarily for companionship, but the group is concerned. Tags: zoos knut Germany polar bear PETA. How suggestive!
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
In a recent study , a team of French researchers set out to test whether a drone’s color, speed, and angle of approach affected different groups of birds. This raises the question of whether or not drones can cause serious harm to birds. So far, there aren’t any reports of bird deaths caused by drones.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2013
Baltimore Orioles are surprisingly slight when you get a look at them, but troupials are about the size of a jay, and with the bearing to go with it. Troupials raise their own chicks, generally 3 to 4 per clutch, they just steal the nest in which they raise them. Take a look at this sucker. For starters, it’s massive.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
Let me introduce my guest blogger, Lisa Owens Viani, co-founder of the California-based group RATS ( Raptors Are The Solution ), which educates people about the dangers of rat poisons. Does the product above strike you as black humor, only not funny? I’ll leave today’s blog in her capable hands.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2017
The Zapata Swamp, Ciénaga de Zapata , is of course known for the three birds that bear it’s name: the Zapata Rail, the Zapata Wren, and the Zapata Sparrow. The bird flies around our group, alights onto a bush and, just as I raise my camera, dives into the bush. I took a brief, wobbly, video of the process. Then back again.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. I didn’t.).
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