10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This is how it looks like: Or at sunset: A species I did not come for from Shanghai is the Black-crowned Night Heron. Its species name graydoni is in honor of Philip Newenham Graydon (1864-1940), a British planter in Sabah. Why that makes Mr. Graydon worthy of having a bird species named after him is a mystery to me.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

Wikipedia seems not too impressed with the species, stating that “the brown honeyeater is a medium-small, plain grey-brown honeyeater” The Latin species name indistincta (indistinct, obscure) sounds similarly underwhelming. The species was bred at the zoo of Memphis, Tennesee ( source ). ” ( source ).

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

He had a legal permit to own them (Conditional Species Permit), and had legally microchipped them according to FWC guidelines. So what should have happened is: the FWC should have given Coffee the deadline extension, and allowed him to rehome the remaining pets within whatever timeframe was needed.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. Cocker writes about the species within each family with a literary specificity softened by a tone of conversational patience.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

One element that seems likely to cause controversy with readers of this website is a remark, in the last chapter, that the authors believe that laws against keeping corvids as pets should be relaxed. They are right, I think, in saying it is perverse that we can kill crows but not coddle them.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Unless you are nothing but the lowly diehard lister, for which you should feel much shame and embarrassment for, birders and biologists alike frequently want to understand birds on a deeper level than how to identify the age, sex and species of a certain individual. What seeds does a Baird’s Sparrow eat?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2013

And if a feral cat colony is near an endangered species, the colony should be eliminated. ” I argued that the kittens were young enough to be socialized and pointed out that she had pictures of them letting her hold them and pet them. We see several different types of species.

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