10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 7, 2021
This may have been partly a leftover from the Victorian fascination with egg collecting (the infamous passion known as oology), but probably more from people’s burgeoning interest in the nests and eggs found in their gardens and fields, gateway artifacts to a newer hobby called birdwatching. The Harrison guides are out of print.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 3, 2015
These fossils are seen as proof that some dinosaurs brooded over its eggs. So, I welcomed the opportunity to read and review Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds , by John Pickrell, published in the United States by Columbia University Press. Like birds.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2022
Like a bad boyfriend not changing into nicer clothes for an evening out, the Brown-cheeked Fulvetta gets chided on eBird for not making any efforts: “an unapologetically drab and unmarked fulvetta” The Chestnut-headed Bee-eater apparently digs nest-burrows in which to lay its eggs. “It is not deep enough yet!
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2012
And, I started daydreaming about encountering something a little different, maybe a Horned Frog, Ceratophrys cornuta, a large, squat green and brown frog of South America, with a wide mouth large enough to eat other frogs as well as reptiles. Amplexus can last from a few seconds to a few hours to a few months. This is not a field guide.
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
And for rodents and reptiles as well. It is probably true that there is a near 100% overlap in the rodents and other small terrestrial animals, as well as ground bird eggs, eaten by Coyotes and feral Cats. Let me tell you this: They are. To some extent, the Cat problem will take care of itself, in some places. Plus, Coyotes eat Cats.
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2012
Wildlife conservation is concerned with protecting wildlife at the level of species or perhaps population. 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.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2013
The where and how of egg laying and larva emergence is briefly treated, with page references to larval drawings at the back of the book. Life cycles of odonata are described with a minimum of scientific language, accompanied by photographs illustrating stages–egg laying, larva, emergence, aging, mating, dispersal.
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