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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
However, in this post, I’d like to lay out the basic numbers as we pretend to know them about overall bird mortality, human related causes of mortality, and somewhere in there I’ll note that the number of birds that are killed by windmills is so small that it says “zero” on my pie chart. So keep that in mind.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 29, 2024
But marrying a widow and thus getting access to scientific information was not the only remarkable event in his life. Another danger to the species comes from lead poisoning as they eat the carcasses of deer killed by hunters ( source ). The post A Fierce Cartoon Bird: Steller’s Sea Eagle on Hokkaido first appeared on 10,000 Birds.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
In the non-breeding season, male Baya Weavers sometimes enter the basket-making trade, often with considerable success. Meanwhile, the females seem to have a much more relaxing life, at least in this early stage of the breeding season. I am sure one could make a very boring movie based on the events described in this paper.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Not sure why they spend time in Shanghai in winter when they could come here though, but then again, I usually do not understand most of the behavior of humans either. Apparently, when breeding, the two parents divide incubation duties, with one bird taking over the daytime duties and another one the nighttime. Lucky him, right?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 21, 2018
Major extinction events that are geologically instantaneous have been followed by periods of time with reduction of species or unstable habitats that last for hundreds of thousands or millions of years. Sites lost on average 43% of their species, and occupancy probability declined significantly for 39 of 135 breeding birds.
4 The Love Of Animals
OCTOBER 22, 2011
As a breed, pit bulls have a bad rap. However, they are more vulnerable to being forced into fighting than other breeds. Michael Vick, whose unearthed gambling operation was found to not only force dogs to fight, but also kill under-performing dogs in twisted ways, is only one story in a mass of untold stories.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
. “To be this lengthy and geographically widespread, I think is kind of unprecedented,” Phillip Johnson, executive director of the Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition, told the Salem Statesman Journal ([link] “It’s an interesting and somewhat mysterious event.”
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