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10,000 Birds
JUNE 15, 2016
It’s a bang-up breeding year for super-endangered birds! The species, which migrates from the Russian Arctic to Southeast Asia, is down to about 200 breeding pairs in the wild, due to habitat loss and poaching. For the past several years, getting the birds to breed has been an exercise in futility. Both photos by the WWT).
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 23, 2015
Since discovering our first Pied Oystercatcher nest on Cable Beach in July 2000 we have observed the breeding of these local shorebirds along the coast between Gantheaume Point in the south and Willie Creek in the north, which is a distance of 23 kilometres.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2014
Okay, they weren’t as fascinating as the birds of prey eating their, or the frankly still weird drawings of nightjars carrying eggs and woodcocks carrying chicks, but still, hornbills were cool because they sealed their mates up in holes in trees and then fed them as they raised the chick. We can hope!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. Who is responsible for the intellectual content of the Audubon guide? Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H. I didn’t.). These are all informative and current.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
What the Owl Knows is organized into nine chapters: introduction, adaptation (including vision and flight), research and researchers, vocalization, courtship and breeding, roosting and migration, cognition, and two chapters on owls and humans–captive owls (not zoos, educational owls) and owls in our cultural history.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
What is amazing is that each of these three books is very different in content and tone. How many eggs did a pigeon lay? And, for those interested in teasing out the mathematical puzzle of how many breeding Passenger Pigeons are needed to create a sustainable population, I refer you to A Message From Martha.
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