10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 3, 2011
“I just saw some kind of duck fly by, it was being chased by Ravens ” was what he told me. It was unusual that there’d be any sort of duck around, given that there was still 3 or 4 feet of ice on the ocean, and all the lakes were still solid. The day before it was an Arctic Hare they saw killed an eaten.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 21, 2014
I spent this past weekend in Saugerties at my folks’ house in order to look for Easter eggs, let Desi enjoy time with his cousins, and generally have a good ol’ time with family. Should you ever find yourself in Saugerties with some time to kill you could do far worse than to visit the Great Vly.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 20, 2013
Podicipediformes, aka Grebes, are freshwater diving duckish birds that are not ducks. From Birdlife International, “In 2010-2011 an American Mink Neovison vison, a new arrival on the Buenos Aires plateau, killed more than half the adults in a breeding colony of two dozen nests (Roesler et al.
10,000 Birds
JULY 25, 2022
When these birds breed, this can lead to highly cringeworthy announcements, for example from Adelaide Zoo : “We have egg-citing news!” Its only black plumage is a bold stripe that runs across the bird’s face” Scientific research has found that these ducks get together more closely if you feed them with bread.
10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2012
Why can’t a baby bird just hatch out of the egg and fly away, or at least, be able to fly a little and not require weeks of constant feeding and attention? Baby ducks and chickens s are the mensches of the bird world; they don’t spend all that time sitting there uselessly and constantly demanding attention.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2013
Long-finned Eels swam in the rivers, and in their pens the breeding Blue Ducks where whistling away. The stoats, weasels, rats and the like, are unable to kill the big guys but can make short work of the chicks. . “I’m going to name this area Mount Bruce, and over here I’m going to call this Mount Sheila”).
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