10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
This was where I set up my bird feeders, just one at first, then expanding as everyone expressed delight in seeing the Carolina Chickadees, Dark-eyed Juncos, and Downy Woodpeckers. I picked up a Downy Woodpecker, an every-day visitor. Dead birds are a part of the life of a birder, a feeder of birds, and of bird science.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2018
According to a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study, human-induced climate change has doubled the area affected by forest fires in the western U.S. Some animals are injured and killed by wildfires. A fire might kill weak birds or, depending on the time of year, claim nestlings. over the last 30 years.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Lucky and his instructor were successful in bluffing this particular bear, yet the very next year in the same area, Hoshino was killed by a Brown Bear. Finally, the list of birds mentioned in the examples include: Acorn woodpecker, Melanerpes formicivorus. “Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman. .
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Anyway, it is a very cute little woodpecker that eBird calls “unique, tiny” Its drum sound can be surprisingly loud for a bird this size. As I frequently mention, science is quite wonderful. For example, this paper points out that migrating Bramblings prefer to feed in a habitat in which they are less likely to get killed.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2023
It was the same day George Floyd was killed. Eight years later, Christian Cooper birding Central Park became a very different kind of media image: the black man falsely accused by a white woman of threatening her life after asking her to leash her dog in the Ramble, an area where unleashed dogs are not allowed. I remember that day.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 4, 2011
These Blasts From The Past No Owls at Croton Point I Hate Connecticut… Birding Kazakhstan: Morning of Day 1 in Astana Ottawa By Way of Ohio The Snow Bunting That Almost Killed Me, or, Hyperbole in Bird Blog Post Titles is Fun! at Gloucester Harbor Birding The San Jacinto Valley.Or RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2018
Nonprofit organizations, science, and the best intentions in the world came to the rescue with a captive breeding program, and we now have over 400 Pink Pigeons living in Mauritius, the nearby island of Ile aux Aigrettes, and the zoos hosting the breeding program, including the Bronx Zoo. And, then there were the droppings.
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