10,000 Birds
MAY 27, 2024
One website states that only 15% of the birds that hatch make it to become first year breeding adults, 6% make it to the second year, and 3% to the third year. Other species – such as starlings or t**s – stealing the nesting site of Eurasian Nuthatches is one of the major reasons for breeding failure.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
The babblers have a sentinel system – individual birds take turns scanning for predators and warning the group. … These intense displays can continue for extended periods, with subordinates contributing more than dominants, until one group gives up and retreats.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2023
Such programs are somewhat inefficient anyway – in one study , the breeding success of wild male pheasants was 2-5 times higher than for hand-reared and released ones while for females, hand-reared birds were 3 times as vulnerable to predation as the wild ones.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 19, 2019
These handsome finches breed in the far north of Europe and come here for the winter only. Last year, two Serbian ornithologists were guiding a group of French birders and, prior to their return to the airport, the guides phoned me to enquire how to reach Beljarica – they had dipped the White-tailed Eagle!
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2015
Formerly distributed across parts of southeastern Brazil from the state of Bahia to Rio de Janeiro, this Brazilian endemic suffered dramatic declines due to chronic loss of its lowland Atlantic forest habitat. Curassows are such stately birds. Photo courtesy of Ciro Albano. Is that all we are going to get? Or so we thought.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 12, 2019
Only once did I see a large group of Canvasbacks at Cuitzeo. In the case of birds that breed in the Arctic, they may only spend a fourth of the year up north. Lago de Cuitzeo, which hosts hundreds of thousands of birds each winter, suffers from water overuse by agriculture, insufficient sewage treatment, and unplanned development.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 19, 2011
Most birds will follow a set group of behaviours, building a nest a certain way, courting a certain way, eating a certain set of food. Seeing birds suffer is never fun, but never more so than these trusting and uncomplaining young giants that sat all day like contemplative zen masters, meditating in the intense tropical sun.
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