10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2023
They look crap but presumably offer some protection for the chicks, though not from each other (see the murderous activities within the nests in my previous post ). Tiphys died either of a snakebite or of a mysterious illness but he was not killed by either a tiger or a rhinoceros. Lucky him, right?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
I once asked my then-girlfriend whether this color was in any way protected for use by the postal service only – as the color yellow is to some extent associated with the German mail service. Despite claims to the contrary, the Tiger Shrike was not named after a German tank. Who would have thought.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2022
I sneaked in anyway and got at least a few additional birds: A juvenile Red-billed Starling just discovering the magic of flight … … a juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron … … a Little Egret … … a Tiger Shrike passing through Shanghai on migration.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2018
The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” One is defined as catching or killing and the other as keeping from injury. Why would any human being think that killing a Giraffe ( Giraffa ) is a good idea? A newly created U.S.
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
As she continued her monologue about these cats, the Wildcat cautiously walked in our direction, never taking its eyes off of us, stiff-legged, ears motionless, striped like a standard “tiger” domestic cat but entirely in grays. He also had tigers, cougars, and some other animals. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4–3.7
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2013
And embattled minority should be protected. People that are interested in conservation are all about the should – conservation’s raison d’être is the people perceiving that we should protect species and ecosystems, we should not allow them to be lost to extinction. A hungry child should be fed.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 3, 2022
Poor Britons – Brexit did not protect them from being invaded by birds from the continent. Indeed, the German name of one shrike species (the Red-backed Shrike) is “Neuntoeter”, “Killer of nine”, which is derived from the folk thought that the bird would first kill 9 prey items before eating one.
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