10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2024
With its striking combination of colour rings I suspected that it would be easy to find out more about this particular bird, and I was right. That’s why the current trend to radio-tag birds reveals so much more than ringing, though it is of course vastly more expensive. The information I received didn’t indicate the age of the bird.
Critter News
JANUARY 6, 2009
Humar, pictured on the right, is just one animal to have suffered this traditional, yet ineffective treatment, to horrifying effect. Like many poor people in Morocco, Humar’s owner had little chance of being able to afford a vet – or even find one close by. We don’t really mean that they will be lined up and shot.
10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2012
Rueppell’s (facing left) and White-backed (three birds facing right) Vultures have worryingly leapt two categories from Near-Threatened to Endangered. An adult (left) and subadult (right) White-backed Vulture with full crops after feeding on the remains of a Lion kill, Ndutu, Tanzania by Adam Riley.
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