10,000 Birds
JUNE 25, 2022
Take that same stroll in southern Brazil or other places and extinction is acres of burned rainforest, a walk through plastic decorated neighborhoods devoid of insects, massive forest fires, die-offs of animals, and millions of shellfish being cooked alive , in situ. Which species are endangered? Waved Albatross (Phoebastria irrorata).
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
The mechanism by which this is happening in at least some species of birds is very interesting. The breeding season is longer, starts earlier. ” This can also explain why advances in migration timing are not common among species migrating over long distances. Birds have been migrating earlier. ” GannetCam.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service , there are about 10 billion breeding birds in the US. The maximum population size may be closer to 20 billion in the fall, and 10 billion at the start of the Spring breeding season. By-catch is the catchy word for animals that are killed from fishing that are not the fish being fished.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 2, 2009
That will happen, says the vet who's spent the past 15 summers in the arctic, when polar bears reach a point where only captive breeding can save them from extinction -- a day that's on the horizon. Lanthier doesn't hide his contempt for animal rights groups who lash out, without considering the role zoos play in conservation.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
That’s one reason, probably the biggest reason, why we don’t have centennials for animals that become extinct in the wild. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again. Extinction is what befalls the species that fails to adapt, to survive, to thrive. Most species go extinct. We could do it!
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