10,000 Birds
AUGUST 23, 2015
To the north they are very unlucky with predation before the eggs even hatch out, but to the south the eggs hatch out and then the predation occurs on the chicks. The main problem appears to be feral cats, but there is also predation from birds of prey and the parent Pied Oystercatchers do their utmost to protect their young.
10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2016
Least Tern watching over its egg. From where I stood I spotted my very first Least Tern egg of the year, smooth and camouflaged near one of its parents. From where I stood I spotted my very first Least Tern egg of the year, smooth and camouflaged near one of its parents.
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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
OCTOBER 8, 2015
Analyses of stomach content of dead pelicans during a die-off found that their digestive tracts were either empty or contained fish the pelicans don’t normally eat. Some pesticides killed pelicans directly, while DDT contamination led to thin-shelled eggs that broke under the weight of the parents.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2014
Using ministerial connections he obtained 100 mallard eggs from the US and began to breed and distribute them. Conservation, as I have observed before, is interested in protecting the population and the ecosystem over the individual. To access the entire week’s worth of content just click here.
Animal Person
AUGUST 16, 2011
Most interesting for me was the mental lock most people have that we vegans are always looking to break or find the key to: Why do good people who understand what happens to animals for unnecessary products such as “steak” or eggs, continue to consume such things? The answer, throughout the entire 300 pages, essentially is: Because they do.
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
It is probably true that there is a near 100% overlap in the rodents and other small terrestrial animals, as well as ground bird eggs, eaten by Coyotes and feral Cats. For the same reason that other invasive do better than the natives, feral Cats outhunt native predators, and native prey are not as protected against them.
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