10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
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.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2022
At least they seem to understand that raising chicks is hard and annoying work and have found at least a partial solution for this problem: “co-operative breeder, up to four individuals attending chicks at one nest, at least three seen to feed chicks” (HBW). And of course, I would have been wrong.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 31, 2012
Let’s take the issues raised in the sign above one by one and figure out how serious each issue is. Of course, this doesn’t bother the birds but it does bother people. Of course,bird feeders should be cleaned regularly to prevent disease from being a problem. Some parks offer pretty darn good reasons for it too.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2020
Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. It was when Hélène says to Ned, “And when the stakes were the highest, you raised an eagle on your glove.”.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
Photo copyright The Smithsonian’s National Zoo, taken from the Guam Rail page. . It persists in captivity at a breeding facility on Guam and in a number of American zoos. There are any number of concerns one could raise. Guam Rail Gallirallus owstoni. How ecologically similar are the two species? … Extinction is forever.
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2018
In 1987, only 27 were left in the wild and drastic action was taken to save the species: all remaining birds were captured, the California Condor was declared extinct in the wild, and a captive breeding program was begun, initially carried out by the San Diego Wild Animal Park and the Los Angeles Zoo. With enough room for another, of course.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
Several European zoos had this species in their collections at the time, but they either made no effort to breed it or it did not breed well in captivity. 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. What a horror!
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