Critter News
JUNE 20, 2010
We've written about the Calgary Zoo here before. To many people, the number of animal fatalities at the Calgary Zoo in newer years seemed very high. A hippo passed away following a long, horrible transfer from another zoo. Woodyer wanted Lanthier to quit and for the zoo’s accreditation to be taken away.
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
There are the endemics, which are odd in their own way, and then there introduced species, which are so varied in their type and origin that you get the feeling you’ve arrived at the aftermath of a small zoo that escaped. California Quail are familiar birds to West Coast birders of North America, and Kiwis too now.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
Some were taken of birds and mammals in zoos or aviaries, others were taken in the wild, often in remote places. The 6 th edition of the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America , for example, includes “extinct” and “probably extinct” species in a chapter, mixed in with accidentals.)
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
It is now believed to have been a fairly common resident of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands until the arrival of the first humans when it went the way of most flightless easy to catch island birds immediately after the arrival of man. Photo copyright The Smithsonian’s National Zoo, taken from the Guam Rail page. .
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
We have photographs and newspaper obituaries of Martha, the last living Passenger Pigeon, who died after a lifetime in captivity, mostly in the Cincinnati Zoo. We immediately get a sense of the pigeons’ abundance, beauty, and danger to human activity. We have a lot of source material. It’s an effective introduction.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2019
For some reason, even though there are Mandarin Ducks in zoos throughout New York City, this escapee has become an internationally known tourist attraction, even heading the New York Times list of “Five Times the Internet Was Actually Fun in 2018.” In September, Abigail Ruth, a small human, was born and I became a grandmother.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2018
In 1850, the Passenger Pigeon ( Ectopistes migratorius ) was the most abundant bird in North America and possibly the world. ” In 1900, even before the last Passenger Pigeon’s death in the Cincinnati Zoo, Republican Congressman John F. Some people actually don’t consider human beings as animals.
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