10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Apparently, when breeding, the two parents divide incubation duties, with one bird taking over the daytime duties and another one the nighttime. Tiphys died either of a snakebite or of a mysterious illness but he was not killed by either a tiger or a rhinoceros. He was also nearly strangled by a pet python that he kept.

Birds 225

Birds Eagles Elephants Rhinoceros 225

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

Blog readers sharing their house with a noisy teenager may consider replacing him or her with a Brown-headed Parrot , given this statement on a pet website : “Brown-Headed Parrot boasts another very desirable trait – these are very quiet parrots! The benefit for the wasps is that they get to keep a beautiful pet.

Ostriches 147

Ostriches Parrots Birds Eggs 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2022

These hornbills have the well-tried breeding strategy of enclosing the female in a tree hole. When I asked for one in a German pet shop, they just laughed at me. His music is rather bad, after all. If you want to think what a female thinks about this approach, look here for a cartoon (note: with bonus covid joke).

Swaziland 147

Swaziland Landlord Birds Sweden 147