10,000 Birds
APRIL 27, 2023
Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900), a director to the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, whose study of bird fossils led to the discovery of tropical birds such as trogons and parrots from prehistoric France. In one group, they added a blue egg to their nests. In the other, they added both such an egg and a peanut half-shell.
10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2014
Okay, they weren’t as fascinating as the birds of prey eating their, or the frankly still weird drawings of nightjars carrying eggs and woodcocks carrying chicks, but still, hornbills were cool because they sealed their mates up in holes in trees and then fed them as they raised the chick. Oriental Pied Hornbill.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H. Pough “with illustrations in color of every species” by Don Eckelberry, Doubleday, 1946. I didn’t.).
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2022
Blog readers sharing their house with a noisy teenager may consider replacing him or her with a Brown-headed Parrot , given this statement on a pet website : “Brown-Headed Parrot boasts another very desirable trait – these are very quiet parrots! Studies on improving ostrich egg hatchability.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 19, 2011
Baird’s Sparrow by Seagull Steve Julie’s was not a wild bird, well, at least not one that lived outdoors: My Best Bird of the Year, and the 22 preceding, was Charlie, a Chestnut-fronted Macaw I got as a captive-raised fledgling in 1989. This resplendent whopper of a parrot is as charismatic as avian megafauna gets.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
From Hiro, we learn how Northern Pygmy Owls are “rule breakers,” not incubating eggs till all are hatched and then raising owlets that mature at the same rate even though the eggs were laid asynchronously (as most owl eggs are). I’m wondering if the subject of this book itself presented a challenge.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 15, 2012
He had two major strikes against him: one, he had been found and raised alone by someone with little knowledge of birds, and so was imprinted. I quickly grabbed the little delinquent, put him in a spare parrot cage, and brought him into the house. He’d always come back inside, and spend the night in his parrot cage.
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