10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2012
Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. Each year tens of thousands of these gulls go to the islands and each pair will lay three eggs. Most of these clutches of eggs will hatch to produce three fluffy and adorable chicks. This is a very serious business here in New Zealand.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 19, 2011
They represent the best of New Zealand’s birding, the astonishing rarity, the fascinating endemism, and the cheering triumph of conservation. Blue-footed Boobies dance, whistle, court with their blue bills, cradle eggs with their blue feet, and cherish their young; they are endlessly fun and inspiring to observe.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 14, 2015
I worked with an enormous collection of bird skins in the collection of Te Papa (The National Museum of New Zealand) during my (unfinished) PhD. Box after box of egg. New Zealand Bitterns. This collection isn’t some ghastly memorial or symbol of human stupidity. Bush Wrens.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2012
I know on some level, I think that’s something almost all of us can get behind…no one, except the most callous and cold-hearted of the human race things its fine to torture animals, or deny that they are capable of pain and suffering. . – The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive Animal rights. For example, when the U.S.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2011
Last Sunday marked the end of an era in New Zealand with the sad passing of the conservationist and ornithologist and all round inspiration Don Merton. Both species had undergone massive declines since the arrival of humans and where in a perilous position in the 1970s.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 1, 2013
Setting aside the feasibility of extracting DNA from specimens and fossils, and finding a suitable similar species to donate an egg, there is much debate on whether we should bring back those species we’ve lost. The wren’s existence as known to humans was all too brief. Is extinction forever? Should it be? Gone forever.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2016
Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. New Zealand Scaup – Aythya novaeseelandiae. New Zealand Grebe – Poliocephalus rufopectus. 12 Jan 2016. Western Australia.
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