article thumbnail

Falconry – Bloodsport or Alternative Form of Birding?

10,000 Birds

Dirt hawking is a form of falconry that involves hunting rabbits and other small game with Harris Hawks (other hawk species also qualify). But what really strikes me is the smell – fresh, clean and without comparison. My job is to move ahead and kick bushes in the hope of flushing a rabbit or hare. “HO!!

article thumbnail

Welsh Report Shows Increased Animal Research at Cardiff University

Critter News

In four years it experimented on 157,839 mice, 17,324 rats, 11,096 fish, 1,941 birds, 1,253 guinea pigs, 933 pigeons, 884 frogs, 207 cats, 54 rabbits and 18 tree shrews from the tropics of south-east Asia.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Everglades Long-Legged Birds Feed Their Young To Alligators, Everything is Good.

10,000 Birds

You know the famous novel about rabbits , wherein among other things the traveling bunnies find themselves in a warren where everyone is well fed and happy, and that’s a problem. There is bird version of this in the Everglades. This concept should be added to future sci fi constructions of ancient times or lost worlds!

article thumbnail

Bunny Love

10,000 Birds

Arctic Hare also were largely ignored by predators and bred, well, like rabbits. One of a half dozen hare that live and forage in the industrial area of town Resting in the warm sun is an important survival strategy amongst Arctic Hare These groups pale (sorry) in comparison to the herds that can be found in nearby areas.

Rabbits 204
article thumbnail

Poop From The Front End Of The Bird

10,000 Birds

I took home a few of the pellets and found that the owls were feasting on grey squirrels and cottontail rabbits. He asked to take the pellet downstairs to do some comparisons to the collections. Check out the bones that are clearly visible, you wouldn’t find that with a hawk pellet.

article thumbnail

What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

10,000 Birds

It is a book with a careful infrastructure, however (even though it doesn’t have an index), with references to one section from another, enabling the curious reader to go down structured rabbit holes, pursuing information on nesting or skeletal systems or feather structure throughout the book. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

2020 263