10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2012
This unhappy-looking tar baby is covered with a green, environmentally-friendly product called Tanglefoot. It is a non-drying, sticky compound that is used to protect trees by forming a barrier against climbing insects. Normally it might not be a problem, but last October a farmer in upstate New York spread it on an apple tree so thickly that the product slid down the branches and pooled in the tree’s crotch.
Critter News
APRIL 20, 2012
D'oh! From the Wildlife Extra News. April 2012. King Juan Carlos of Spain, Honorary President of WWF Spain, is recovering in hospital after breaking his hip in Botswana where he was on an elephant hunt. Apparently it isn't the first time the King has been shooting big game in Africa, or elsewhere (Apparently he killed a bear in Russia a few years ago too).
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4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 16, 2012
When VICE Germany sent us some footage of the Lehnitz animal asylum, we weren’t sure how cute it was going to be. Little did we know, boar piglets live there, who love to eat, sleep, play, and hang out with their surrogate mom, who’s a dog. We’re pleased to present Spots, Nesti, Diva, Borstel, Ernie, and Bert on the latest episode of VICE’s The Cute Show. “They look like small cats or even small kangaroos,” and could not be any cuter!
Speaker: Steve Romanco
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 17, 2012
This week marks the 2-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. On April 20th 2010, the world received news that eleven men working on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig died in an explosion on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. What the world did not know was the unthinkable scale of the disaster to follow. There is no point rehashing the gruesome details of the largest accidental marine oil spill in our history.
Critter News
APRIL 19, 2012
I knew the military in general used animals for combat medical practice.hadn't thought of the Coast Guard though. PETA leads the charge against the Coast Guard. For the full story, go here to the Washington Post. The Coast Guard is defending its practice of using live animals in its combat medical training after an activist group released a video on Wednesday of a goat’s legs being removed with tree trimmers during what it said was training for agency personnel.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 14, 2012
This post comes by way of an assignment. After seeing an albino squirrel in a Redgannet post , The Management wrote to me suggesting that they would like one of those. Now perhaps the word “suggesting” makes it sound like I have a choice and that would be true in the same way that I have a choice to retain full use of my legs or the accepted complement of fingers.
Critter News
APRIL 16, 2012
We actually watched a report about this on Stephen Colbert's show of all places. It was nauseating and I don't even eat meat. Blech. If you eat meat, read this article from the Huffington Post.
4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 17, 2012
Chimpanzee populations live in communities of 15 to 120 individuals. Each community consists of males and females of varying ages that share a territory. Male chimpanzees stay in one community their entire lives. However, females will sometimes leave their mothers and join new communities when they reach adulthood. Oscar attempts to crack nuts open with a wooden log.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 17, 2012
As migration proceeds in fits and starts I find myself torn between wanting to find as many birds as I can on each birding outing and wanting to take my time with each species that I haven’t seen since they left for fairer climes back in the fall. It is a conundrum and one that I don’t mind not being able to figure out, just so long as there are any birds at all around to see.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2012
One of the admirable things about Montana is how it contains prime examples of not one, but two iconic North American landscapes. I’ve spent a lot of time in, and done a lot of writing about, the Rocky Mountains, their beauty, their climate moods, and the wildlife that lives here. But eastern Montana contains the equally though differently stunning high plains, a world unto itself with very different wildlife meeting very different challenges.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2012
The second weekend of April holds special meaning for citizens of the United States, and by special, I really mean dire. But like it or not, most of us have filed our tax returns. At last, we can turn to more important issues like earning enough money to pay next year’s taxes! As promised, I finally made it up to Owl Woods and the Braddock Bay area.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2012
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, NY, April 2010 Everyone knows that New York City is an extremely expensive place to live. If one is lucky enough to find a place that one likes one must often pay in rent per month what would easily be a mortgage payment in a more sane part of the country. So is it any surprise that free housing conveniently located near entertainment, the workplace, and food supplies would have more applicants than units of housing available?
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2012
It doesn’t seem like 12 years since the Olympics were in Sydney, but time has slipped by and the area that was used for the Olympics in 2000 is still there and still being utilised. You can still stay in a hotel there and you can use the facilities. Aside from that-you can go birding! It is very easy to reach Olympic Park by public transport and the fastest way is to take a train from Central Station to Lidcombe and then you take a train to Olympic Park.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 19, 2012
This month strikes me as the oddest April in my memory. Then again, April is always an odd month. Robert Frost certainly thought so… The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You’re one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you’re two months back in the middle of March. – Robert Frost, Two
10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2012
This coming week, 22-28 April, will be Bird Love Week on 10,000 Birds! And while we are sure that all of you love birds that is not the kind of bird love we are talking about for Bird Love Week. Come back on Sunday to see what Bird Love Week is all about! a.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2012
To the north of both Cairns and the Atherton Tableland is the Daintree River, which gives the area and the small town its name. The Daintree River is popular with tourists for river cruises to look for saltwater crocodiles, and for birders to look for a few choice rarities in this tidal river (not to mention crocodiles if no birds are present). So one morning I got up from bed very early to drive to the Daintree at dawn.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2012
I can’t find any more information about it but apparently a penguin bit Newt Gingrich. Good times! What is up with penguins and political statements this year? a.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 17, 2012
I sort of feel it’s sort of my duty, as the 10,000 Birds beat writer covering the southern tier of the continent, to be the bellwether of goodies to come, the sherpa of spring, if you will (please don’t). You see, “spring” in the sense that birders in the far northern reaches experience it, has been happening here in the south for the better part of three months.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 16, 2012
Maybe this is simply an innocent but tragic story of how Western water policy can hurt birds, but the title of the article strikes me as a veiled threat. Am I paranoid? a.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2012
Lady, believed to be the oldest living Osprey in the United Kingdom, has laid her 62nd egg. It is her 22nd year nesting at the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s Loch of the Lowes reserve in Perthshire. Hat-tip to Redgannet. a.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 17, 2012
April, while not as exciting a migratory month as May is in the northeastern United States, is still a great time of year to see migrating birds. Wood-warblers, those brightly-colored attention-whores of spring, have most birders swooning, but their numbers don’t really pick up until May. Sparrows, on the other hand, seem to make the most of the lamb-like weather left over from the end of March and make their move northward while wistful, wood-warbler-wishing birders have seen few of their
10,000 Birds
APRIL 17, 2012
Beware breeding and nesting swans! That’s one of the valuable takeaways from this tragic tale out of Chicago of a man drowned by the very swans he cared for. Also of interest is how Mute Swans are employed to deter Canada Geese. Which would you rather: slovenly geese or homicidal swans? (Hat tip to Meredith!) a.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 19, 2012
Apparently, once you remove all those feathers, a Great Grey Owl looks a heck of a lot like a vulture. Note to self: do not remove feathers from owls. a.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 16, 2012
If the captain of the cruise ship had there would be two Panamanian fisherman still alive today. Hat-tip to Nate. a.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2012
Actually, the Belted Kingfisher did catch the crayfish – it just couldn’t hold on. Great shots on Fotoportmann. a.
4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 20, 2012
Dogs are incredibly intelligent animals, learning tricks, words and even learning how to push their owner’s buttons to get that much-deserved treat! We take a look into how man’s best friends see and how good their vision really is in comparison to that of a human’s. Colour myth. First up, let’s visit a common myth circulated about dogs’ vision.
4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 19, 2012
Scientists have discovered that chimpanzees living in different parts of Africa have distinct customs or cultural traits that are passed along from one generation to the next by learning rather than instinct.
Critter News
APRIL 17, 2012
leaving them to sometimes do procedures with nothing to numb the animals' pain. Read the full article in The Moscow Times. After eight years of fighting a strict law that virtually bans an anesthetic essential for their work, Russia's veterinarians say they have nearly reached the end of their tether. Ketamine has long been used for operating on animals throughout the world, but when it came in vogue as a party drug in the late 1990s, Russia's response was to ban the substance entirely in 2003.
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