10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
As we know from the French documentary La Marche de l’Empereur ( March of the Penguins) , the females skedaddle from the breeding colony once she produces an egg, leaving the egg to be incubated by the males, who fast for 120 days while keeping the egg in a flap of their feet. (I
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 24, 2022
When breeding, the female finds a cavity in a tree and seals the entrance. The Southern Red-bi lled Hornbill is another species that the HBW has not gotten around to providing separate entries for yet, unlike Wikipedia, which provides some information on the split from other Red-billed Hornbills.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2019
Oriental Pied Hornbills are quite strange in their nesting habits, because the female bird is sealed into a tree trunk during the incubation of the eggs. She was sealed in on the day we arrived in Singapore and she was still sealed in on the day we left three weeks later.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 21, 2015
The magnificent view from the Cliff House includes the Seal Rocks just offshore. Isla Rasa was declared a sanctuary in 1964, and egg-collecting and disturbance during the breeding season are discouraged. At the Northwest corner of San Francisco is Point Lobos.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2023
” While this species is not explicitly associated with infanticide, the fact that the bird lays 1-3 eggs but only ever raises one chick also implies that the species should also be closely watched by child protection agencies. Of course, their own mother is not the only threat to Wreathed Hornbill individuals.
10,000 Birds
JULY 16, 2013
The early threats of guano harvesting and egg collecting have been replaced by the more ominous threats of oil pollution and overfishing of their favorite food source – pilchards. On the mainland they face predation from domestic cats, dogs, genets, mongoose and Cape Gulls which steal their chicks and eggs.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
The descriptions of the territory’s birds, seals, whales, introduced mammals, invertebrates, and plants are written within the framework of the conversationist, so it is more than a field guide, it is a record of endangered wildlife and the efforts being made to protect it. Surprisingly, South Georgia is not all ice and snow.
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