10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2019
A discarded pigeon’s egg reminded me that spring is just around the corner and that nest boxes should be readied in anticipation. Find a site which offers some protection from the sun during the heat of the day and which allows a direct approach. What’s this? Where did winter go?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
When there are cuckoos around – which parasitize Daurian Redstarts – the females have a higher rate of egg rejection. The Yellow-bellied Tit suffers a bit less from such jokes. Better safe than sorry, I guess. But fortunately, I also found the real thing this month – always worth seeing.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2017
Ka’ena Point is also a breeding ground for the Federally protected Laysan albatross, where 45 nests were being carefully monitored by the non-profit Pacific Rim Conservation. They emerged from their bloody rampage leaving fifteen adults dead, and fifteen destroyed nests with either smashed or missing eggs.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 29, 2024
He also served with the 13th Light Dragoons, fighting with them at Waterloo (though he can only have been about 18 at that point – I guess child protection laws were somewhat lax at that time). Atherton (1797-1827), a naturalist (whatever that means exactly) and a member of the British Army in India.
10,000 Birds
JULY 16, 2013
An African Penguin peers protectively around its fluffy chick. The early threats of guano harvesting and egg collecting have been replaced by the more ominous threats of oil pollution and overfishing of their favorite food source – pilchards. Cape Gulls are the single most devastating avian predator of young penguins and eggs.
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2012
If you like animals you will generally not want them to suffer and you won’t want them to go extinct. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. Wildlife conservation is concerned with protecting wildlife at the level of species or perhaps population.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2018
This species has suffered rapid population reductions across most of its range owing to the loss, degradation and fragmentation of its habitat and land-use changes in eastern Europe, says IUCN’s Red List. In the last year, a broken bustard eggshell was found, but since no displaying was observed, those could have been unfertilized eggs.
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