Remove Course Remove Eggs Remove Humane Remove Zoos
article thumbnail

The return of the Old Man

10,000 Birds

Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World states that “disturbance by local people, tourists, and egg and zoo collectors has similarly reduced the colonies, and more protection is vital”. In 2018, there were 1,745 birds living in 92 different zoos and collections. Here they were easy to overlook.

Morocco 215
article thumbnail

Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

It is a bit worrying that while the Basel Zoo is listed by Google as having a page on the Red-tailed Laughingthrush , that page itself does not seem to exist anymore, and the species is not listed among the inhabitants of the aviary of the zoo. ” ( source ). ” Well, at least he was not involved in the slave trade.

Burma 189
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

15 Australian Birds (Episode 3)

10,000 Birds

The species was bred at the zoo of Memphis, Tennesee ( source ). Similar to the (fortunately now gradually changing) situation among humans in China, these birds seem to prefer males over females. So, I can only give you the sanitized version of the joke, in which humans have been replaced by birds. I am sure Elvis liked it.

Birds 147
article thumbnail

15 Australian Birds (Episode 4)

10,000 Birds

Gisela Kaplan has written a book about the species, and how they seem unperturbed by humans: “It’s one of their most successful defense strategies. It seems that quite a few zoos keep Tawny Frogmouths. ” Of course, as a certified cat person, I was delighted to see a Green Catbird near Brisbane.

Birds 217
article thumbnail

Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

10,000 Birds

Pink Pigeons were featured on episode four of the second season of The Zoo , the excellent television series about The Bronx Zoo,* and their story was disturbing. This description appears to be an overstatement though, because we learn by the end of the episode that The Stud and Serendipity have not produced one viable egg.

Mauritius 101
article thumbnail

The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

10,000 Birds

We have photographs and newspaper obituaries of Martha, the last living Passenger Pigeon, who died after a lifetime in captivity, mostly in the Cincinnati Zoo. We immediately get a sense of the pigeons’ abundance, beauty, and danger to human activity. How many eggs did a pigeon lay? We have a lot of source material.

2014 159
article thumbnail

Birding Hluhluwe, South Africa

10,000 Birds

She also laid eggs in Melba Finch nests. On the other hand, compared to the Laughing Dove , human life is still pretty long. Please insert your own dirty joke relating to humans here. Red-billed Firefinch. Her son, the male hybrid carrying his grandmother’s indigobird mtDNA, learned and later mimicked Melba Finch song.”