10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

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 ). The same website also warns that “Galahs are naturally destructive and noisy.

Birds 147

Birds Australia Parrots Memphis 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2022

In my imagination, the job of a male Australian Brush Turkey is pretty similar – removing or adding bits and pieces to his pile of rotting vegetation in order to get the right temperature to incubate the eggs buried underneath to hatch. Like the figbird, it mostly feeds on fruit.

Australia 187

Australia Birds Koalas Parrots 187

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

When we eat eggs we eat chicken eggs almost exclusively. ” But I am not some crazy chicken-lover just trying to get respect for my pet rooster from birders. First of all, I don’t have a pet rooster. Americans love chicken. In 2008, over nine billion chickens were slaughtered for Americans to eat.

Chickens 198

Chickens Florida Feral Species 198

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

It’s easy to choke it with food while you’re feeding it and chances are good that you’d raise the chick like a pet and you’d end up with an adult bird that doesn’t know what its predators are and seek humans for food and mating…aka an unreleasable bird.

Birds 265

Birds Fox Raised Ducks 265

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Another paper reviews information on Oriental Pied Hornbills raiding the nests of various bird species in Singapore and even pet bird cages. Other threats arise from illegal logging, hunting for bushmeat, and other body parts (feathers, beak, etc.) Of course, their own mother is not the only threat to Wreathed Hornbill individuals.

Rhinoceros 127

Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 127

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

The reasons that these ten have been selected is to illustrate some of the myriad reasons that Africa’s birds are being driven to extinction; from commercial overfishing, powerline collisions, illegal trade, poisoning, traditional medicine usage, overgrazing and conversion of specialized habitats into agricultural land.

Endangered Species 190

Endangered Species Species Morocco South Africa 190

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2024

” The website www.jwcpheasants.com seems to endorse polygamy for this species despite this being illegal in the USA for other animals such as humans. Unlike me, the HBW does not seem to appreciate the species much, stating that it is “hopping about in very ungainly manner.”

Burma 191

Burma Birds Vietnam Laos 191