10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2022

In my imagination, the job of a male Australian Brush Turkey is pretty similar – removing or adding bits and pieces to his pile of rotting vegetation in order to get the right temperature to incubate the eggs buried underneath to hatch. Like the figbird, it mostly feeds on fruit.

Australia 184

Australia Birds Koalas Parrots 184

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2016

Parker was an adult Turkey Vulture who enjoyed playing with children. We have no real way of knowing, but we surmise that he was raised illegally by a member of the public, and “imprinted.”. “There’s a huge bird chasin’ the kids around the trailer park! You better do something about it, or we’re gonna shoot it!”.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 130

Wildlife Rehabilitation Mice Indiana Game 130

Animal Person

AUGUST 1, 2009

While whites use illegal drugs at substantially higher percentages than blacks, black men are sent to prison on drug charges at 13 times the rate of white men. As of mid-2008, there were 4,777 black men imprisoned in America for every 100,000 black men in the population.

Obama 100

Obama New York Times New York illegal 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Illegal spring hunting and round-ups of moulting birds are taking place on the Russian breeding grounds and illegal shooting continues in Norway. Cases of illegal shooting are still reported (…in 2009 in the Danube Delta) and hunting is considered one of the main threats for the east Asian population.

Serbia 200

Serbia Greece Montenegro Bulgaria 200

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

The reasons that these ten have been selected is to illustrate some of the myriad reasons that Africa’s birds are being driven to extinction; from commercial overfishing, powerline collisions, illegal trade, poisoning, traditional medicine usage, overgrazing and conversion of specialized habitats into agricultural land.

Endangered Species 187

Endangered Species Species Morocco South Africa 187

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

Naziridis, whose authority doesn’t only come from his position, but also from a fact that he was born and bred in one of the villages around the lake – so he is not seen as a ‘foreigner’, but as one of the locals – answered: “It is not the pelicans, but your illegal fishing doing the damage.”

Greece 192

Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 192