10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

There’s been both egg and chick predation and most pairs have laid at least two clutches of eggs over the past few months. All of the migratory shorebirds had started to leave Broome and it appeared it had also gone north. There’s always something interesting happening at the beach!

Eggs 101

Eggs Whales Whaling Breeding 101

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

As a Northeast birder I am familiar with the alarming decrease in the number of Red Knots along Atlantic shores and have signed petitions and written e-mails calling for legislation and rules that will limit the overharvesting of the horseshoe crab, whose eggs Red Knots depend on. million in the late 1990’s. Should the gulls be controlled?

Delaware 184

Delaware New Jersey Research Eggs 184

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 28, 2010

This last implies of course an improvement in ethics, as opposed to morality, as I have defined it, unless we already understand 'Do as you would be done by' as applicable to whales, cattle, chickens, and so on, as it is to human beings. I eat eggs though they may come from battery hens. I am myself not so heroic.

Morals 40

Morals Whales Whaling Chickens 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

They have special adaptations to stay warm and to keep their eggs and chicks warm. At present there may be three reasonable hypotheses to explain this. Penguins are flightless, but some species locomote over long distances on antarctic ice to travel between breeding grounds and the sea. Salas-Gismondi, R., Altamirano, A., Shawkey, M.,

Penguins 198

Penguins Seals Peru Science 198