10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2022
The Latin species name lamigellerus is a Latin phrase for ‘a small, thin, metal plate’ which refers to the flattened feather shafts, especially on the underparts. Preliminary Study of Slaughter Value and Meat Characteristics of 18 Months Ostrich Reared in Hungary. Studies on improving ostrich egg hatchability.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2022
Most of this book is about Eurasian Wryneck, as the subtitle indicates, though Red-throated Wryneck is referred to throughout and there is a chapter focused on the species. The latter is a nonmigratory, African endemic with a scattered, limited distribution. and the rural Austrian folk name natterzunge or ‘adder tongue.’
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Still, I can’t help thinking that there is some parallel between the mass slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon in 19th-century North America and the mass slaughter of songbirds in southern European countries today. How many eggs did a pigeon lay? How many times did it nest? Or spend enough money.
10,000 Birds
MAY 15, 2023
Oh, and if you want to impress someone or talk to an ornithologist about it, make sure to refer to it as sexual dichromatism. However, a life bulbul might be able to tell the sex (though not from the photos) – apparently, there are sex differences in the UV light range , which birds can see while we cannot.
Animal Person
OCTOBER 26, 2009
He always refers to himself and his wife and his child as "vegetarian." Yet he spends time describing the miserable deaths of day-old male chicks and understands what happens in dairy production, and I assume he doesn't partake of anyone's eggs or milk. In all fairness, most people's only reference is PETA. He never says he is.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2021
There’s even been speculation that all of the first seven gifts are meant to be birds, with the “five gold rings” really referring to “five goldspinks,” an archaic term for the goldfinch. This is a book that will be read with pleasure and amazement by both birders and nonbirders.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2018
We have given an awful exhibition of slaughter and destruction, which may serve as a warning to all mankind. That year Congress passed the Lacey Act, followed by the tougher Weeks-McLean Act in 1913 and, five years later, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which protected not just birds but also their eggs, nests, and feathers 1.
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