10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 8, 2015
Both pelicans have a very specialized foraging strategy that depends on abundant fish near the surface. They dive-plunge to scoop-in fish in schools with its long bill and expandable throat pouch. Changes in fish abundance and location near the surface has caused catastrophic die-offs in the Peruvian Pelican.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 11, 2017
Some of you have been counting on federal funding or habitat protection that now looks shaky; some of you have mates who never made it back from migration; some of you just can’t catch enough fish. Especially those of you with an all-fish diet. Steal and eat their eggs? And I think you do.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2022
The German name of the Yellow-billed Stork is Nimmersatt, which translates as “Glutton” or “Never full” Wikipedia explains the name: “Parents feed their young by regurgitating fish onto the nest floor, whereupon it is picked up and consumed by the nestlings. Studies on improving ostrich egg hatchability.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2012
Fish and Wildlife Service endangered species list. A nest wasn’t found until 1903, which set off a craze for Kirtland’s Warbler skins, nests, and eggs. The good included the development of a new, more open, conservation strategy that embraced communication and education of the community. Forest Service.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2018
Some sort of ancient fish-with-feet is the ancestors of humans. There were probably hundreds, maybe thousands, of species of fish-with-feet, and one population gave rise to the so-called “tetrapods,” animals with skeletons, arms, and legs, including modern snakes and living gorillas. Therefore, humans are fish with feet, right?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 24, 2012
Within the bird world, so many different strategies and methods of mating and reproduction have evolved, it simply boggles the mind. There is some debate on the reproductive/genetic benefits of this, although a common view is that individuals don’t want all their eggs in one genetic basket, so to speak (pun intended, zing!).
10,000 Birds
APRIL 27, 2012
One of the more interesting aspects (in my opinion) of breeding in birds is their mating strategy. There are four main mating strategies in birds: 1) monogamy, 2) polygyny, 3) polyandry, and 4) polygynandry. The final, rarest mating strategy, found in less than 0.1% of all bird species, is polyandry.
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