10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
The Hawaiian Crows face much more destructive threats–extreme loss of habitat; malaria, the scourge of so many Hawaiian species; predators–rodents, cats and the ‘Io, the Hawaiian Hawk. This is the most intense, tragic section.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
610)) to a little history (“The elegant White-tailed Kite was formerly shot in large numbers by farmers who thought it threatened their chickens, although these birds feed almost entirely on insects and a few rodents” (p. Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H. 334) is how Black Skimmer is introduced).
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Critter News
DECEMBER 12, 2009
The Calgary Zoo is again under scrutiny as details emerged Friday about how a capybara, a species of giant South American rodent, died after becoming caught in a hydraulic door last weekend as it was being moved from one area to another. In April 2009, unseasonably cold weather froze two whopping crane eggs.
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2014
We have seen them on remote beaches hunting shorebirds and taking their eggs and they have been responsible for much of the egg loss in breeding Pied Oystercatchers along the Broome coast. Feral cat predation on Pied Oystercatcher eggs. They are incredibly cunning and not easily trapped.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 16, 2012
In short, the answer is that in the United States there are 20 billion birds at the end of the breeding and fledging season, which gets winnowed down to 10 billion by the following early spring. Other felids are all much larger, the similar sized carnivores are things like minks and ferrets, and they have very different habits.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
I’ve observed nesting owls, fledgling owlets, owls eating small rodents, owls coughing up their pellets, a Great Horned Owl silently flying over me, a Great Gray Owl sitting regally still on a post as a boy walks up to him, a pair of Barking Owls duetting in early evening hours outside my northern Australian hut as I brushed my teeth.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2011
The clifftop habitats along rocky shores of the North Atlantic (on both sides of the pond) abound in bird biomass during breeding bouts, for instance. Those mammals consist of the previously mentioned fossorial members of Insectivora, Rodents, and bats. When Albatross alight in temporal alignment anything else is swamped out.
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