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.

Dissection 222

Dissection Birds Research Europe 222

Animal Person

MAY 26, 2009

Emphasizing user-generated content, the site invites home cooks to exchange recipes, share photos, participate in contests and post messages. But a recipe using applesauce and flax rather than eggs and butter, with a fabulous photo, might catch his or her eye. And the same is certainly true of my husband.

Vegan 100

Vegan Cooking Campaign Ethics 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

From Hiro, we learn how Northern Pygmy Owls are “rule breakers,” not incubating eggs till all are hatched and then raising owlets that mature at the same rate even though the eggs were laid asynchronously (as most owl eggs are). They are also hunted.

Owls 214

Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 214

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. This is approximated by the size of the animal, but really, this has to be adjusted for depending on modality of killing. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4–3.7 But they don’t live in North America. Unless we put them there. Have you ever seen the Dryfus Lion?

Feral Cats 255

Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 255

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

What is amazing is that each of these three books is very different in content and tone. Fuller has not preached about the evils of the human practices that killed and dislocated the Passenger Pigeon; he hasn’t moaned and groaned or sentimentalized. How many eggs did a pigeon lay? We have a lot of source material.

2014 160

2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 160