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.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 30, 2018
It would use that mini rapier of a beak to full poking effect if the hapless human tried to take a sip from its feeder, or pick one of its flowers, or even neglect to fill the feeder on time. And that begs the question, anthropocentric comparisons aside, what makes a bird a jerk? Maybe even pyschos. I would hope not!
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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. Some people love books like that. Yellow Warbler fledgling.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 17, 2024
A couple bends along the trail and it seemed as if we were out of human contact by a thousand miles. Still fuelled by the euphoria of getting a great look at the Double-toothed Kite , an infrequently encountered resident of Trinidad’s forests – we found a Chestnut Woodpecker working a tangle in the distant canopy.
10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2020
The longer Introduction lists and briefly summarizes topics covered in the Portfolio (evolution feathers, coloration, variation, senses, movement, physiology, migration, food and foraging, survival, social behavior, birds and humans, threats). As I said before, the page design is impeccable.
10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2013
Families do not hike up mountains to sit all day on pointy rocks to watch woodpeckers. I’m not going to try to explain why people are fascinated by hawks; human-to-avian psychology is not my specialty. It’s hawks they pant and wait to see. And, a shorebird is not the image leading off the introduction to The Colbert Report.
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). Sepilok is a good place to see a number of woodpecker species.
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