10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

“A reading of recent research shows that Australian birds are more likely than most to eat sweet foods, live in complex societies, lead long lives, attack other birds, and be intelligent and loud.” It seems that quite a few zoos keep Tawny Frogmouths. ” (Tim Low, “Where Song Began”).

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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. But I only rehabbed birds, so I had to do research and call my mammal rehabber friends. He said, “Figure it out.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

O course, this particular photo would also be good to illustrate why the name of the species might be Half-hidden-behind-an-annoying-branch Sunbird. Taking photos of such a rare species is a bit of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, a study shows that photographers have a potentially negative effect on nesting.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

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. Meanwhile, on The Zoo, the keepers have been creating an environment for Thelma and Louise so they can nurture the hoped-for egg from The Stud and Serendipity.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

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. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. We have a lot of source material. What a horror!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

While it’s no longer possible to see this regal macaw soar gracefully through the Brazilian skies, to be able to worship them—even from afar at one of the conservatories or zoos—would be a dream, at last, come true. I worked with a pair of motmots at a US zoo and fell in love with their vibrant colors and unique tails.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2017

I never researched the resort, imagining that it lacked the amenities my family wanted, but visiting for dinner allowed us to rent its grandeur without forking over the considerable room rates. Despite the golf course, this place host all manner of birds and mammals. Having a 4×4 with good pickup helped as well.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2023

However, on the plus side, you probably will not have to eat the feces of your young kids, as Giant Laughingthrushes do ( source ; of course, many other bird species do this as well). According to Chinese researchers, nest predation and brood parasitism are the two main reasons. Louis, USA, you can see the species at your local zoo.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2018

Of course we all know it will be Pat… again… , but let them have their fun. Ardastra Zoo & Gardens. Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Ardastra Zoo & Gardens. Ardastra Zoo & Gardens. Ardastra Zoo & Gardens. Rondevlei Nature Reserve. 14 Jun 2018.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2022

I guess most scientists would love to see their original research become the basis for a vast field of further studies. Of course, like many natural reserves in South Africa, Hluhluwe has the usual assortment of animals that have been ejected from European and US zoos and thus have to survive in the wild. Poor creatures.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

Strangely, the photo accompanying the Wikipedia entry on Collared Finchbills , Asian birds, was taken at Cincinnati zoo. I wonder what Americans would think if, in a Wikipedia entry, a Bald Eagle would be illustrated using a photo taken at an Albanian zoo. Most scientific research really just proves the obvious.

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