Critter News
MARCH 5, 2009
The Humane Society of the United States released the video scenes Wednesday, saying that’s only part of the documentation of what it claimed were 338 violations of federal law and policy at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Laboratory. Here is a link to the Humane Society.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
“This is just massive, massive, unprecedented,” said Julia Parrish, a University of Washington seabird ecologist who oversees the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST), a program that has tracked West Coast seabird deaths for almost 20 years. “We may be talking about 50,000 to 100,000 deaths.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
He describes the change model he was using as follows: From my orientation, background, and bias, scholarly work must come first to document and establish a need for change. ’s Lights Out DC, to name a few.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2013
After three years of observation at a Bald Eagle nest in Washington state, I believe that young birds do, in fact, learn to fly — and they appear to learn much the same way we do. While these adults were not banded, it is well documented that Bald Eagles are monogamous and return to the same nest each year.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
Islands, with their high levels of endemism and specialization, are particularly fragile and vulnerable to human activity. Recent studies show that many island species went extinct before anyone managed to document their existence. The islands of the Caribbean are no exception. … Extinction is forever. What a horror!
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
In fact, the Dodo belonged to a clade (sometimes called Raphini) of 15 remarkable, bizarre, intriguing island-adapted pigeons, some of which are still alive today, but eight of which have been hacked from the tree of life, driven to extinction by humans. The painting above is by 17th-century Flemish artist Roelant Savery.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 28, 2015
“Spooked” is a bit of a strong word as I was very likely the first human this bird had ever seen and it stuck around for quite a while merely five metres away from me. I decided to go for my very first visual pitta encounter, a Hooded Pitta I spooked next to the trail. Clare went a chose a first for Australia.
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