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.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
By far the most commonly seen bird on most of the islands in the region – and the only one every islander can identify on call – is Gallus gallus (the feral chicken). There are any number of concerns one could raise. Can we find a suitable island free from feral predators that would devastate the introduced species?
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2019
But come spring, an even luckier few may even find a fellow survivor of their own kind with whom to start a family, unwittingly causing contentious debates among birders about the countability of established feral populations in the process.
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. There’s a lot more, of course, and it all makes you wonder if we should have bird feeders or urban green spaces or fountains or windows.
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2016
I say “luck” because there is a problem with predation by feral cats and it really is beyond their control as it were. Between the beach and the dunes there are no end of tracks and of course they all head in the same direction. The first clutch of eggs were first observed on June 11th and were predated a few days later.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 14, 2011
I will admit that there are legitimate concerns that have been raised about falconry – birds that are not native to an area sometimes escape and become feral; humans should minimize their influence on nature. I can feel the adrenalin coursing through my veins as I watch the male disappear down a hole.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Some time after the Spanish encounter with the Turkey, birds were brought back to Europe where they were raised and became an important source of food and fancy feathers.
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