10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World states that “disturbance by local people, tourists, and egg and zoo collectors has similarly reduced the colonies, and more protection is vital”. The ibises were initially trained to follow a microlight aircraft over the Alps.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2017
If there’s one common theme to this week’s bird news items, it’s their collective bizarreness: The eagle has landed—on the drone, as France trains birds to take out drones that stray into restricted airspace. Scientists ponder the feasibility of genetically engineering chickens to lay the eggs of endangered bird species.
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Critter News
DECEMBER 23, 2008
Thought-provoking article in the Boston Globe.some green thinkers are now coming to a surprising conclusion: In exceptional circumstances, they say, the only effective way to protect the environment may be at the barrel of a gun. In Nicaragua, the army patrols beaches to protect sea turtle eggs.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
The associated bird species seek out drongos, apparently relying upon them heavily for protection. The species is classified as Near Threatened for all the usual depressing reasons – pollution, drainage, hunting, and the collection of eggs and nestlings ( source ). The dangers of being a geologist.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2014
They were protecting the last three pairs that were left in West Germany from egg thieves! Since around the year 2000 we are seeing long-staying individuals each year again, especially in the country’s South, and there are rumours of a breeding pair on a military training ground in central Bavaria.
Animal Person
MARCH 17, 2009
. _ Press Release Governors: Stop Ecodestructive University Training! March 2009 Contact: David Cantor, 215-886-7721 or RPA4all@aol.com Arriving at all 50 states’ governors’ offices in mid-March, a special request: Get our land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. Many say you can’t eat meat and be an environmentalist.
10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2014
They cut down the trees the parrots used for nesting and brought black rats, who ate their eggs, and honeybees who swarmed into their nests, and by 1937 there were only about 2,000 Puerto Rican Parrots left. A hawk-avoidance training program is created. Captive-bred parrots are released into the wild and eaten by hawks.
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