10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2023

If the male’s color fades after the first egg, the female reacts by laying a smaller second egg – seemingly deciding that it is better to cut her losses as the male apparently is the avian equivalent of a deadbeat father. I think they just got what they deserved.

Woodpeckers 222

Woodpeckers Birds Eggs India 222

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2024

Of course, the same applies to pizza services for humans. He also served with the 13th Light Dragoons, fighting with them at Waterloo (though he can only have been about 18 at that point – I guess child protection laws were somewhat lax at that time). They provoke honeybee colonies, which then fly out and attack the bird.

Squirrels 141

Squirrels Birds China Bears 141

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Another advantage to ballistic food transport is that the fruit seeds are protected from damage when they are swallowed whole. Of course, their own mother is not the only threat to Wreathed Hornbill individuals. Of course, if I was locked into a small tree cavity with a bunch of kids, I would also seriously consider infanticide.

Rhinoceros 131

Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 131

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The photo below shows a Sakhalin Leaf Warbler unless, of course, it shows a Pale-legged Leaf Warbler. An example is this study showing that indeed, cuckoo eggs are stronger than the eggs of the host species. Poor Britons – Brexit did not protect them from being invaded by birds from the continent. Your choice.

China 190

China Birds Ukraine Killing 190

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. Into the Nest , as the title says, is about the courting, mating, egg-laying, nesting, and parenting behavior of “familiar birds”. Cedar Waxwings exchange berries, carry nesting material, eggs. Egg biology, from Part I. Oops, the curmudgeon in me slipped.) Peregrine Falcon nests.

Eggs 263

Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2011

The fencing protecting the colony was respected, of course, but the birds often came near the edge of the fencing despite the presence of several photographers. The confiding nature of the birds was, of course, greatly appreciated by the photographers, if the cacophony of clicking was any indication.

Eggs 225

Eggs Protection Birds 225

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

His first surmise seems like a good one – that the feathers are meant to hide the eggs from other female swallows seeking to parasitize the nest, by disrupting the parasite’s timing (if eggs are present, the parasite would know that the nesting mother is ready to incubate – that is, incubate not only her own eggs, but the parasite’s, as well).

Eggs 131

Eggs Emotional Bats 2014 131

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2011

Females seem to be the only sex to sit on the eggs according to literature, but no research appears to have been done on the night time routine. They both take responsibility protecting their young and remain in a family group for a period of time. If you follow the bird you know you will not accidentally stand on any eggs.

Eggs 165

Eggs Family Breeding Protection 165

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

Reportedly, the Water Thick-knee sometimes locates its nest close to the nest of Nile crocodiles as this offers some protection. Of course, the second explanation makes a lot more sense. A bit like renting an apartment next to a mass murderer in the hope that this will deter other criminals, but as they say, nature knows best.

Zimbabwe 147

Zimbabwe Birds South Africa Benin 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2022

In my imagination, the job of a male Australian Brush Turkey is pretty similar – removing or adding bits and pieces to his pile of rotting vegetation in order to get the right temperature to incubate the eggs buried underneath to hatch.

Australia 198

Australia Birds Koalas Parrots 198

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2016

Of course, when I get back to the gallery, and I am looking at the shots from the day, I am always impressed with the poise, color and beauty of the bird. The dense prickly cactus aids in protection of the nest, making it very difficult to see in, let alone try to enter.

Eggs 106

Eggs Raised Protection Family 106

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2017

Some of you have been counting on federal funding or habitat protection that now looks shaky; some of you have mates who never made it back from migration; some of you just can’t catch enough fish. Steal and eat their eggs? Of course, this is fiction. Again, I know you’re just doing what you gotta do. It’s just for the summer.

Bald Eagle 100

Bald Eagle Belize Iowa Eggs 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

That of course is true of many birds.) Nearly 90% of the nests failed during egg stage, mainly due to strong winds and depredation by American mink Neovison vison. We analyse possible causes for the decline of the population and propose conservation actions to protect this species. Second, they are not great at dispersal.

2010 207

2010 South America 2011 Argentina 207

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

Lacey of Iowa introduced the nation’s first wildlife-protection law, which banned the interstate shipping of unlawfully killed game. Of course, by now most people know they have been slaughtered by hunters for their ivory. A newly created U.S. This is a very disturbing video of Sandhill Cranes being slaughtered by “hunters.”

Hunting 115

Hunting Hunters Gorillas Wolves 115

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Of the dozen gifts mentioned in the Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” seven are birds: the seven swans a-swimming, six geese a-laying, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and – of course – a partridge in a pear tree. Dragan). ==.

Birds 246

Birds Colombia Collecting Bald Eagle 246

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

Of course, I jest a bit in the above paragraph because as a sometime New Jersey birder I have birded the Delaware Bay and seen sights such as the memorable image below, in which thousands of Red Knots, Dunlins, and Short-billed Dowitchers fly up as if connected telepathically. The visual beauty and textual facts are a strong combination.

Delaware 183

Delaware New Jersey Research Eggs 183

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

A Barred Cuckoo-Dove showed somewhat atypical behavior or had not read its eBird entry about it being “seldom seen out in the open … quick to flee when approached” Of course, Hongbenghe, Yunnan is quite far away from Chicago. “It is not deep enough yet! A worrying trend.

Birds 147

Birds Myanmar China Chicago 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

Wood Duck ( Aix sponsa ) Female Incubating Eggs in a Nest Box “Many species of cavity-nesting birds have declined because of habitat reduction. The wood duck was very scarce in many portions of its range, at least in part, for the same reason and probably owes its present status to provision of nest boxes and protection from overhunting 1.”

North America 225

North America America Barn Owls Falcons 225

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

This would be a night drive, cold, dark, uncomfortable seats, loud engine in the giant 26-seater truck, scanning the brush and the roadside with three or four strong spotlights wrangled by volunteers among the nature-loving tourists, and of course, the headlights of the truck. And, of course, something interesting came along.

Feral Cats 256

Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 256

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Much of Wingate’s professional life revolved around his grand plan to create a “living museum” of pre-colonial Bermuda flora and fauna on Nonsuch Island, a habitat where the cahows would be protected and supported. Ultimately, the story always comes back to the cahows, whose population grows slowly.

Birds 172

Birds Rats Breeding 2012 172

Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

Environmentalists recognize the meat industry as extremely ecodestructive – including fish, dairy, eggs, feed crops with their massive use of water & topsoil and toxic runoff killing rivers and oceans, and the killing of billions of free-living animals to protect farmed animals and feed crops.

Meat Industry 100

Meat Industry Industry Meat Responsible Policies 100

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? Of course that can be debated. People believe one thing and do another.

Vegan 100

Vegan Morals Animal Rights Advocacy 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

The compactness of both books (Dragonflies is 208-pages and Butterflies is 224-pages long) of course stems from the small number of each type of insect in Great Britain and Ireland; comparative field guides for Europe and Great Britain are necessarily longer and heavier. The Behaviour paragraph includes flight pattern and mating habits.

Ireland 180

Ireland France Breeding Eggs 180

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2019

By 1595, protective mercantilist policies ordered by the Crown banned the creation of new vineyards in Peru, along with a later prohibition on exports of Peruvian wines to other Spanish colonies. Pisco’s most famous use, of course, is in the namesake cocktail, the pisco sour.

Peru 126

Peru San Francisco Parrots Chile 126

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Written by Mark Avery, Conservation Director for the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) for nearly 13 years, this book explores the reasons for the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon from the point of view of the outsider. How many eggs did a pigeon lay? Or the absence of legal protection. What a horror!

2014 161

2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 161

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Foxes have also been known to take their eggs and there are now numerous local groups who endeavour to help the populations of Hooded Plovers along their local coastlines. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. … Extinction is forever.

Species 176

Species Australia Birds Parrots 176

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

They cut down the trees the parrots used for nesting and brought black rats, who ate their eggs, and honeybees who swarmed into their nests, and by 1937 there were only about 2,000 Puerto Rican Parrots left. And, of course, it shows the beauty of the world of the rain forest.

Puerto Rico 241

Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 241

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Not in words, of course, but they can answer in ways that we can understand if we are paying attention. They’re about protecting a system that produces cheap food. The idea that eggs from free-range chickens are somehow morally superior to other eggs is, frankly, weird. But we can ask, and they can answer.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Gestation Crates Gestation 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Although we are not close nor on a direct course, the geese are skittish. She’s described conservation successes in detail–the Bald Eagle, the Short-tailed Albatross, now protected in Japan. Ahead on the water, I see roughly 200 tired snow geese settled together in a single, densely packed group.

Fox 100

Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

And reports of birds nesting – not owls, of course, those weirdo snow fetishists, but other birds nesting – light up my life. With a hardiness that belies their delicate looks (but helps explain their phenomenal success), these pioneering pigeons are already sitting on eggs at at least one location in Montana.

Montana 138

Montana 2011 New York Bahamas 138