10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

Here’s a video. Also as video. While my recent experimentation with ChatGPT showed that ChatGPT thinks the Grey-headed Lapwing can be found in Shanghai’s Century Park, Chongming is a far better place ( video ). That includes breeding birds, as indicated by the presence of some rather cute chicks ( video ).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2016

This property is also a site with vernal pools and uses cattle grazing for vegetation control. Here is a video I shot when we first discovered the new residents of Tuscan Preserve last July. Journal of Raptor Research 27:175-179., The other two tunnels dead end inside the nesting chamber. Things already seem to be looking up!

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Owls California 2010 Colorado 101

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

This Cattle Egret has just read a paper stating that it would be 3.6 Now comes my question: Which of the two categories described do you think this paper belongs to? times more efficient in its foraging if there were cows around. No wonder it looks a bit pissed off. ” In my words: the parrotbills f *d up.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

We remember starlings not skylarks, House Sparrows not Eurasian Tree Sparrows , Cattle Egrets not… well, whatever we’ve forgotten because it didn’t do as well as the Cattle Egrets. It’s just that the exceptions are so much more attention-grabbing. And after all, some birds have to expand their range sometimes.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. These threats are further exacerbated by the naturally low reproductive rates of these cavity-nesting birds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2023

The Large-billed Crow ( video ) is one of the natural enemies – in the study above, it predated 19 eggs from four pitta nests. Of course, what is shown here (and in the video ) is a female – kind of typical for this blog. I was a bit worried about the bird in the video but a friend assured me that birds do not get seasick.

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