10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

For one example, Kricher explains that birds lack bladders and don’t consume as much water as mammals do; their uric acid is expelled in “a paste-like slurry” that contains both digestive and urinary waste. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston and New York. Peterson Reference Guide to Bird Behavior. By John Kricher.

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Bald Eagle Puffins 2001 Boston 263

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

I had noted that if you took a quick look around you’d think there were a lot of birds and very few mammals. Of course, a lot of the mammals would be hiding. Statue “Phillis Wheatley” by Meredith Bergmann, in Boston. And some of them would be hiding behind bushes waiting for a chance to jump on some of the birds.

Cats 186

Cats Boston Ferrets Killing 186

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Elizabeth Gehrman, a journalist who has contributed to the Boston Globe, first encountered Madeiros and a cahow chick named Somers (the first cahow chick born on Nonsuch Island in 400 years) while on assignment to write about Bermuda for a travel magazine.

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Birds Rats Breeding 2012 170