10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

For example, the Brown Honeyeater visits more than 300 different flowers. While females hatch from larger eggs and are initially heavier than their brothers, after ten days, the male chicks weigh almost 50% more than their sisters, as they receive a higher quantity and quality of prey from their parents ( source ). ” ( source ).

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Birds Australia Parrots Memphis 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. Cedar Waxwings exchange berries, carry nesting material, eggs. We simply refuse to squee.

Eggs 263

Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2014

Maureen Eiger categorizes any unidentifiable featherless nestlings as “ Tufted Puffins ;” to Letitia Labbie, they’re “Eggs With Legs.”. Fried rehabbers become emotional in ways that make perfect sense to us, but not necessarily to anyone else. Here’s an example. Hit by car, HBC; caught by cat, CBC; window strike, WS.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Mice Vet 224

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

This modest proposal would bring a smidgen of comfort to millions of hens used for egg production. Recent investigations by nonprofit groups in California, Ohio and Pennsylvania have revealed the atrocious living conditions of egg-laying hens, though their owners said they were humanely cared for.

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New York Times Proposition 2 New York Egg Industry 40

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

His first surmise seems like a good one – that the feathers are meant to hide the eggs from other female swallows seeking to parasitize the nest, by disrupting the parasite’s timing (if eggs are present, the parasite would know that the nesting mother is ready to incubate – that is, incubate not only her own eggs, but the parasite’s, as well).

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Eggs Emotional Bats 2014 130

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The mystery of where the nests of the Marbled Murrelet were located, for example, solved finally in 1993 when a nest was found in an old-growth conifer in the middle of the forest. She is one of the best nature writers I’ve encountered in recent years, able to paint experiences with emotional immediacy.

Fox 100

Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

In the finest tradition of Romanticism, gulls dwell in the mystic world of dark and morbid imagery and emotions, which is expressed in often eroticized ways of aesthetic self-dramatization*. How do I know of their Gothic moods when they have hidden them so well in an egg-white shell of conformity? All of them?

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2011 Birds Deer Europe 158