10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
This story comes from Melissa Gillmer, a zookeeper and wildlife rehabilitator at the Bear Mountain Zoo. The zoo is part of Bear Mountain State Park , a glorious expanse of mountainous land on the west side of the Hudson River in New York. Because there are bears in there,” said Danielle. I’m not going into that bear den again.”.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2022
Going back to that assumption that birds don’t have a sense of smell, it can be traced to John James Audubon (of course), who performed several experiments with Turkey Vultures and concluded that the vultures used sight, not scent, to find food. Also tubenoses and Kiwis can smell very well.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2021
So when this more-favorable autumn came along, my taking up turkey duty again was a non-negotiable. But they have embraced some American customs, and one of their favorites is Thanksgiving. I don’t need to tell you, last year’s Thanksgiving was… complicated.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2018
It recently popped up before my eyes again, in New York Times reporting on the ‘insect apocalypse’ – the catastrophic decline in the populations of common arthropods that has gone largely unnoticed til recently, despite the fact that these species are load-bearing beams in our environmental infrastructure.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2019
These species are the ones that form an avian river along the Caribbean coast and other parts of the northern lowlands and include literally millions of Chimney Swifts, Cliff and Barn Swallows, Turkey Vultures, and Swainson’s and Broad-winged Hawks. Swainson’s and Broad-winged Hawks making the long journey north.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2018
I haven’t seen any bear markings here, okay, the truth is I wasn’t really looking for scratches, but the national Brown Bear range map says that we are passing through permanently occupied part of the range. As Turkey now sees this fortress as their cultural heritage, they invested 1.2
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
But “Hawk”’s active ingredient, a deadly second-generation anticoagulant, bromadialone, has been implicated in the deaths of Red-tailed Hawks, Red-shouldered Hawks, Cooper’s Hawks, and other raptors : American Kestrels, Barn Owls, Golden Eagles, Great Horned Owls, and Turkey Vultures.
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