10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 27, 2023
The Jay’s enthusiasm for acorns is well documented, and they will start harvesting them as soon as they are ripe, flying off with as many as six or seven in the gullet and another in the bill. Observers have noted these colorful crows flying up to 18km to and fro from an old oakwood when collecting acorns.
10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2012
Green-rumped Parrotlets: from egg to adult Text and photographs copyright Nick Sly (except Rae Okawa where indicated) and are used with his permission. I present here an annotated collection of photos documenting the entry of new parrotlets into this world. What a completely helpless little ball of pink!
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2023
Woodpeckers nest in cavities and their young are altricial (born in an undeveloped state), which means there is not a lot of documented information about their young and how they look at different stages. Harrison, and Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds, 2nd ed. Woodpeckers are a family of focus for Tuttle-Adams.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2013
For ornithologists, it is the documentation of a multi-year project designed to record the distribution and abundance of birds in a specific area (in North America, usually a state or a province), utilizing a mapping method involving blocks and grids. The resulting book, 616 pages in length, 6.4 Let’s hear it for the return of the forest!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 17, 2012
We documented Least Terns fishing for their young in oil-contaminated water Likewise with Caspian Terns Several ospreys had visible traces of oil, a result of fishing in contaminated water May 7, 2010 The failed container dome is lowered onto the wellhead. We documented the relocation of several turtle nests.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
Johnson is collecting myths about owls from cultures around the world and is also presiding over a 12-year Burrowing Owl Project that seeks to collect DNA samples, vocalizations, morphological data and map locations for every Burrowing Owl subspecies the world over. Humans were drawing owls 36,000 years ago, as Ackerman points out!
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