10,000 Birds
JULY 29, 2016
Remember that awful experiment where baby monkeys were deprived of all parent/sibling contact, and became fearful and phobic? A raptor raised as a pet can never be released – imagine a hungry bird of prey trying to land on an unsuspecting person, hoping to be fed. Wild birds cannot be raised alone.
10,000 Birds
JULY 29, 2016
Remember that awful experiment where baby monkeys were deprived of all parent/sibling contact, and became fearful and phobic? A raptor raised as a pet can never be released – imagine a hungry bird of prey trying to land on an unsuspecting person, hoping to be fed. Wild birds cannot be raised alone.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2016
Phoebe Snetsinger had that experience while birding East Africa for the first time and seeing as many birds as she did in the US for the previous 50 years.). In case you find this blog a bit short, don’t blame me: my tiny bottle of WHE is already empty. What is 665 birds? I sure hope to get there. And would love to meet you there.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 19, 2011
Since then there have been some major changes here at the ol’ blog and we thought it was time to update everyone as to where we are at with this grand experiment in group bird blogging. He also blogs at Scienceblogs.com. Greg has seen a bird eat a monkey in the wild. One hundred happy points for each of you!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2014
The BirdForum thread for China (including Hong Kong & Macau) is a phenomenal resource, as are blogs written by HK birders like John Holmes. We’re lucky to read about his adventures and observations regularly on this site, but the Asia page on his own brilliant blog is required reading for any birder heading to Hong Kong.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2018
The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. And, as we find out in a blogged coda to the episode , they can’t even take care of their eggs. On the WCS web page, Ms.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2023
In Kangding, there is a rather opulent bird hide – two stories, solid construction, spacious, lots of glass, a separate paved parking lot, though mysteriously (and as far as I can tell from my experience of living in China for almost 20 years, not indicative of fundamentally different physical needs of Chinese people) missing a bathroom.
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