Reddit Animals
APRIL 11, 2023
FWC officers arrived at a reptile facility and forcefully killed 29 reticulated pythons, 5 Burmese pythons, and 1 pregnant Boa constrictor. The FWC then proceeded to kill the total 34 pythons using a bolt gun. After killing Coffee's pythons, the FWC then committed another criminal act.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
I missed some of the birding stories of the blog, which focused almost exclusively on how he got the bird and big year strategy, but a blog is not a book and the trick of writing a big year book is to craft it into something beyond “and then I got the bird.” This is a smartly written book.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2023
While having somebody else raise your chicks like an attractive strategy to me, it is not without dangers. A paper reports on how a female Common Cuckoo was mobbed and killed by Oriental Reed Warbler hosts. The photos of the dead cuckoo published in the paper would not look out of place in a horror movie for a cuckoo audience.
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2013
They’re unusual to be sure, but there’s a certain grace in the back and forth monotony of the spoonbill’s feeding strategy and there’s little like seeing a line of spoonbills tearing across a shallow mudflat seeking food you can’t possibly see. Roseate Spoonbill , photo by Julie Gidwitz.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2012
history; they killed a young boy just to prove they could commit the perfect crime and were the models for the murderers in Hitchcock’s film Rope. The good included the development of a new, more open, conservation strategy that embraced communication and education of the community.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2022
It looked like a family of parrots were trying to kill each other” The Black-backed Puffback has what eBird describes as “a fiery red eye” eBird also explains the name: “When excited, males can raise fluffy white feathers on the rump to resemble a puffball.”
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
The species that manage to colonize these islands evolve in competition with relatively few other species, developing survival strategies based on interdependence, co-evolution, and mutualism rather than adapting to deal with a broad range of predators and competitors. Nests were in hollows in palm trees.
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