10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2018
In particular, a captive-breeding program (1960-2011) likely saved the species from imminent extinction (2,800 were released) and expanded the range of the species to islands where they had been extirpated. Habitat has been improved and conserved in some areas, though Hawaii’s increasing human population has made that a challenge.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
She explains complex and sometimes controversial topics including captive breeding, environmental toxins, feral cats and other invasive predators, Hawaiian avian extinction, avian disease, California Condor distribution and history, legal loopholes, and lead poisoning.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2017
27, 2015 Christian Gutierrez, Raymond Justice, and Carter Mesker went on a camping trip to Ka’ena Point Natural Area Reserve on Oahu, Hawaii. Ka’ena Point is also a breeding ground for the Federally protected Laysan albatross, where 45 nests were being carefully monitored by the non-profit Pacific Rim Conservation.
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
When you think of invasives, you think of the birds that have been helped by human beings to get where they are, such as House Sparrow or European Starling. They have expanded their range through Indonesia and into Australia and is found in post breeding dispersal as far north as South Korea and Japan. ibis and the eastern B.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2013
Take Hawaii, for example. The population of Millerbirds on Laysan has doubled , and breeding seems to be going well. Thanks to a little human intervention, the future looks much brighter for Millerbirds. (Photo by David Guttenfelder, courtesy of National Geographic ).
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 19, 2011
By weird things I don’t mean human weird things, like for example wasting their time in wild places looking for unusual feathered animals and ticking them off a list, but things that fall outside of their usual repertoire of normal behaviour. It is easy to forget sometimes that birds can do weird things.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
So, while waiting for evolution to produce new birds for our life lists is inadvisable, we sometimes catch a break and every few years get a new species or two when some genetic research or study of breeding distribution presents enough evidence to split what was once considered a single species into a few new ones.
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