10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. Baby birds may be separated from the nest and their parents because of natural occurrences (violent weather, floods) or unknowing human interference or predators.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Family Collecting 257

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. But special.

Eggs 263

Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2022

Once the egg has been laid, the female is chased away and the males hatch it.” The main reason seems to be a better sharing of the workload in the more equal same-sex couples – something that is hardly irrelevant for humans. I thought I needed to mention this.

Birds 208

Birds China Pythons Breeding 208

Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Too Early Charley was a Muscovy who had just busted through his shell with his egg tooth. Note to everyone who works with birds and water fowl: Hypothermia and rapid freezing are not appropriate methods of euthanasia and are not considered to be humane unless the animal is anesthetized prior to freezing.

Euthanasia 100

Euthanasia Wildlife Rehabilitation Fowl Birds 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Anyway, one of the babblers of Sepilok is the Bornean Black-capped Babbler – the result of a split of the Black-capped Babbler (well, at least from a human perspective – the birds themselves are probably quite nonchalant about it). This bee-eater is another bird species with a somewhat underwhelming work ethic.

Woodpeckers 209

Woodpeckers Birds Eggs India 209

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2022

She also laid eggs in Melba Finch nests. On the other hand, compared to the Laughing Dove , human life is still pretty long. Please insert your own dirty joke relating to humans here. Work ethics among Yellow-billed Kites seem to vary a lot between individuals. Red-billed Firefinch.

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South Africa Africa Birds Cape Verde 186