10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
He continues with images found in illuminated manuscripts such as Catherine of Cleves’s Book of Hours and Frederick II of Germany’s On the Art of Hunting With Birds. Egyptian tomb painting depicting duck hunting in the marshes, from the eBook version of Birds and Us, © 2022, Tim Birkhead and Princeton University Press.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2011
Mating pairs are faithful for life and share the tasks of raising the young. Illegal capture for the wild animal trade is an obvious peril for such a charismatic species, but this big blue bird is also hunted both for its meat and feathers. The Hyacinth Macaw doesn’t start a family until it is seven years old.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2011
A big moon gives enough light for the gulls to hunt by, so the shearwaters seldom come onto land while the full moon is up. The long shifts before swapping duties reduce the number of times that the birds have to run the gauntlet of the gulls and increase their chances of succesfully raising the chick to the age of abandonment.
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