10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Previously common at its only known site, Lake Aloatra, into the 1930’s, the introduction of numerous exotic fish species and human disturbance led to massive population declines. Madagascar, however, has had more than its fair share of extinct or lost species and Madagascar Pochard was firmly on this list.

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Madagascar Lemurs 2006 Owls 250

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2016

Luckily, I didn’t have to look hard to find the Dusky Eagle-Owl’s nest. Well, the Dusky Eagle-Owl was big too, but for some reason, the Fish-Owl seemed huge. I was waiting at the entrance gate for everyone in our group to gather, when I remembered that someone had told me about nesting owls at the Taj. It was a big owl.

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India Tigers Birds Owls 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2015

The vast majority of you reading this accept it is happening, and for the time being it is caused by humans. This is a Pika, a charismatic and beloved mammal found in high elevations in much of western North America. Climate Change. Let’s hope that we never get to this point.

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North America Birds San Francisco Suffering 233

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

That bald head, so odd and homely, is actually an adaptation for sticking one’s head deep inside the gut of a deceased mammal. Old World Vultures are nestled within the family Acciptridae along with the hawks and eagles. They primarily prey on the large mammals of the African plains, grasslands stretching from horizon to horizon.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 196

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

They are a commensal species, meaning that they are a wild animal that lives in close association with humans, not as a pet or as a farm animal but more like a parasite, to the extent that it is hard to find them in truely wild settings, and it is hard to find human settlements without them. We are not counting insects.)

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Killing South Africa Nebraska Collecting 210

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. Read Carl Hiaasen.”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 272

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

After one 3 year stint, they left with 131,405 specimens including birds, mammals, reptiles, plants and even human remains (which were only recently repatriated for burial in Africa!) Sundevall named Wahlberg’s Eagle and Wahlberg’s Honeyguide in his memory. They discovered Gurney’s Sugarbird during their time in South Africa.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 200

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

However, they were refound on Buldir Island, a remote island that never had any introduced mammals. But within a couple of decades, it’s effects on both wildlife and humanity became apparent. They were secure in their isolated home here until humanity came to Laysan in the 1890s. Somebody won a Nobel Prize.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 221

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

The extinction event that wiped out the pterosaurs, the non-avian dinosaurs, and so much other life created enormous opportunity for new organisms to diversify and thrive (lucky for us placental mammals!), So do parrots, some songbirds, humans, and a few other mammals. Where do these abilities come from? Remaining Afroaves.

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2015

As a bonus, they are often heavily visited and as a consequence the birds found in them are used to large numbers of people having picnics, regarding begonias, dating, courting, playing Frisbee, and are therefore untroubled by humans regarding them carefully. The gardens are particularly famous for a nesting pair of Spotted Eagle-owls.

Africa 196

Africa Birds South Africa Mongoose 196

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

There is also a third element, only hinted at in the opening–the environmental and scientific necessity of gathering this data to document the importance of keeping the Pacific Northwest waters healthy and uncontaminated by human elements. Fox does an excellent job balancing these three elements, keeping the emphasis on the birds.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

On top of that, your guide interprets and ids birds and mammals over the loud speaker. And this is really just the tip of the iceberg, there are also francolins, pelicans, storks, vultures, eagles out the wazoo…but that’s a blog entry for another time. The Israeli government has employed a unique plan.

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Hoarding Nebraska Minnesota 194

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Verditer Flycatchers apparently like to nest in human houses as they provide good nesting sites – in contrast, Daurian Redstarts pick human houses because the presence of humans lowers the predation risk ( source ). It includes observations of Wallace’s Hawk-eagle. I am not making this up.

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Birds Eagles Mammals Singapore 233

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. 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. One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 204