10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It’s all about the improbable intersection of human beings and Emperor Penguins, and if I can’t make it to an Emperor Penguin colony (highly unlikely), reading this book has been the next best thing. It’s part memoir, part travelogue, part scientific narrative, part prologue to making an argument for Antarctic conservation.

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Penguins Seals Leopards Research 165

Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2009

The New York Times presents us, this morning, with "Equine Alternative" regarding the recent discovery that horses decided to allow themselves be domesticated by humans for our mutual benefit, earlier than we had thought (3500 BC, and we preciously thought it was more like 2500 BC). And that fact gives rise to a thought-experiment.

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Experience Experiments Horses Transported 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.”

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 190

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2023

So, all this makes birding this place an occasionally less than pleasant experience. A paper on breeding of the species was actually researched right here at Wawushan. The authors speculate that “human disturbance (i.e. A few general words about parrotbills to fulfill my educational duty towards you, the valued reader.

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Pandas Birds Eggs China 218

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

We also try to re-nest uninjured baby birds so we don’t interfere with a bird’s breeding cycle. Experience shows that bird parents do feed babies in makeshift nests reattached to tree branches, bushes, gutters, and even tree cavity sections duct taped to another tree. Call and transport the bird to a bird rehabber ASAP.

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Wounded Rescue Medical Cats 256

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2017

For nearly a hundred years, after the eggers, meat-hunters, plume-hunters, and a human-influenced gull population boom, puffins were absent from the island. They were reintroduced to Eastern Egg Rock starting in 1973 , with over a thousand young transported from Canada over several years. Most of our looks were much better than this.

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Puffins Eggs Hunters United States 100