10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Further studies are needed …” If you use a bad online translation engine to translate the Chinese name of the Northern Lapwing into English, you will end up with the “Crested Wheat Chicken” (Fèng tóu mài ji). And to end this post, a mammal. Cute, admittedly – but still a mammal, not a bird.

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Finland Birds 2016 McDonalds 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

Wisdom is not charging people extra to see your reconstituted Jurassic Park style dinosaur zoo when all you’ve got is a barn full of chickens. That strategy determined the fact that all mammals would have the risk of somatic mutations that accumulate over time affecting their eggs. Knowledge is knowing that a bird is a dinosaur.

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Monkeys Gorillas Whales Whaling 142

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2015

This is not about feeder competition and chicken wire. Mammals Germany red squirrels squirrels' I still know my audience - this is primarily a blog read by birders in North America, who see the term “squirrel” as little more than a synonym for house sparrow, starling, pest and cholera.

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Squirrels North America Germany Europe 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2013

My mammal-rehabber friends give me their unfortunates, as well. But I was on a work deadline, so by the time I arrived at the zoo the vulture had eaten several pork chops and some very nice free-range chicken. or were diseased, they go in the freezer, and eventually become food for a recovering raptor.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Rodents Mice Rats 201

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

Baby ducks and chickens s are the mensches of the bird world; they don’t spend all that time sitting there uselessly and constantly demanding attention. Baby birds are different from baby mammals in some interesting ways. This is different from mammals. Baby turtles and crocodiles are born as miniature versions of adults.

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Mammals Turtles Eggs Fish 196

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Pale-mandibled Aracari by Luke Seitz Taste, touch and smell in birds are generally considered to be weaker than these same senses in mammals. Chickens come in at around 24, pigeons have around 40-50 and some duck species may have a whopping 400. Let’s talk about taste.

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Birds Mammals Mozambique New Zealand 222

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. A housecat in Buenos Aires got its start in Africa, a sheep in Australia to the Middle East, a chicken in Ireland can trace its origin to the jungles of Asia. But hedgehogs? Greenfinches?

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New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2014

A flying but biggish (as in chicken-turkey-size) bird gave rise to a basal non-flying bird that broke up through vicariance into the diversity we see today. Verily, when it comes to news stories about evolution, mammals aren’t the only kind of animal that can be milked!

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Madagascar Ostriches Elephants New Zealand 207

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

By far the most commonly seen bird on most of the islands in the region – and the only one every islander can identify on call – is Gallus gallus (the feral chicken). Sadly though the Clappers have been nowhere near as successful as our next candidate. Guam Rail Gallirallus owstoni.

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Puerto Rico Guam Virgin Islands Feral 192

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

It seems that these people, who purport to claim to care so much about animals, are completely ignorant of the existence of any animal life beyond horses, cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys. What I don’t understand is why animal rights organizations almost completely ignore wildlife. There is nothing abstract or controversial about this.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Rights Wildlife 214

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

One of the other papers released last week identified chickens — of 21 species studied — as having the most similar genome “to the common avian ancestor, probably a bipedal feathered dinosaur” ( Romanov et al. So do parrots, some songbirds, humans, and a few other mammals. Where do these abilities come from?

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

The ancestral mammal probably had 11 upper and lower teeth on each side for a total of 44 teeth. If you lay out all the mandibles and maxilla of all the mammals, you could construct a phylogeny that would be a pretty good first stab at a reasonable mammal family tree. Horses have six upper and lower on each side.

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Mammals Europe Groups Family 254

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2012

The chicks, which were about the size of chickens, had brown and fawn striped plumage reminding me of the colours of young wild boars. Lurking in the suburban lawns of Sydney are the deadly Funnelweb Spiders. Sharks cruise off the city’s beaches, and just yesterday a deadly species of snake was found in a suburban railway station.

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Sharks Birds Australia Boars 230

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 3, 2010

The disease can attack domestic pets, such as dogs and cats, as well as livestock, such as horses, chickens, and cattle. When a mosquito bites an infected bird and then bites a human or mammal, it can transmit the virus. It can affect humans, birds, horses, dogs, cats, and other mammals. WEE, or Western Equine Encephalitis.

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Protection Pets Horses Humane 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2016

And I was pecked in the eye by my pet chicken, does that count?”. “I Most of mine are small mammals,” said Denise Hunter. We were working on his enclosure when he sliced my arm with his serrated bill! No need for stitches, but it took awhile to heal.”. “I I was bitten by a Ring-billed Gull , and it got infected,” said Donna Nespoli.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wounded Wildlife Opossums 173

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2011

Why, then, shouldn’t other animals (chiefly mammals, although Peterson discusses birds to a limited extent as well) living in other groups get similar benefits from similar behaviors specifically adapted to their own circumstance?

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Morals Animal Humane Research 112

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2017

Despite the golf course, this place host all manner of birds and mammals. In fact, we saw two species of monkey, our only sloths, lots of coatis, and my rarest ever mammal sighting—a Jaguarundi —right on site. Finally saw one of these jungle chickens attending to an ant swarm on Pipeline Road. Great Tinamou. Blue-winged Teal.

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Panama 2017 Monkeys Family 100

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

The land ethic, in sum, is as much opposed, though on different grounds, to commercial traffic in wildlife, zoos, the slaughter of whales and other marine mammals, etc., dogs, cats, pigs, cows, and chickens); cell 4 (the southeast quadrant) contains domesticated plants. as is the humane ethic.

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