10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

He has written and co-written over 400 scientific papers on brood parasitism, Common Cuckoos, egg rejection and other nesting behaviors, and fairy wren learning in addition to T he Book of Eggs: A Life-Size Guide to the Eggs of Six Hundred of the World’s Bird Species (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2014).

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Chicago Barn Owls Penguins New Zealand 178

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Travel to Tiquicia for birding is high on the list of most birders because it’s not too far from Canada or the USA, there is good tourism infrastructure, and most of all, it’s pretty easy to see hundreds of eye-catching bird species. There’s a big wood-fired cooking set-up. Check out the toucanets.

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Costa Rica Cooking Birds Chickens 204

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2011

Besides the avian attributes of flight, feathers and laying eggs, potoos are quite possibly the most unbird-like birds in the world. This is an adaptation that it shares with other potoo species, as shown in Corey’s photo of a roosting Great Potoo. In reality though, this is actually a pretty stellar nesting strategy.

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Costa Rica Jamaica Eggs Cooking 239

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2014

The local Bald Eagles are getting busy, I suspect there is an egg in the nest. While in Mexico, up on the roof of a casa (where I was cooking something up) I saw a murmeration! The birds were too far away to identify, and I know more than one species does this, but if I had to guess they were starlings. This makes sense.

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Birds Bald Eagle Zoos Philippines 178

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2015

On our first morning after breakfast, my group and the teens piled onto a boat and headed out to Eastern Egg Rock, once again the breeding ground for Atlantic Puffins (as well as a host of other seabirds) thanks to biologist Dr. Stephen Kress. There are over a million species of arthropods. What was it like?”

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Puffins Birds Groups West Virginia 253

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2019

brandy from the Dutch branden (“to burn, distill”), and mezcal from the Nahuatl mexcalli , meaning “oven-cooked agave”. Having dipped on this species just a few days earlier in the Cusco highlands, I was determined to return home with a least one memento of this iconic vulture of the high Andes.

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Peru San Francisco Parrots Chile 122

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Researchers have also learned that the cancer-causing chemicals that form in beef as it cooks also tend to form in chicken. Never mind that the bulk of the fat in Starbucks's beverages comes from the milk -- yes, milk ! -- of another species. Meatless meals also help your child to keep stronger bones. But what about prior to two years?

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Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40