10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2024
That’s why the current trend to radio-tag birds reveals so much more than ringing, though it is of course vastly more expensive. Rings are not the only way of marking birds, and with a number of species wing tags are more often used. When I photographed the Red Kite ( above ) near my home in Suffolk I hadn’t noticed its wing tags.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2011
Tiny satellite tracking tags allowed scientists from the British Trust for Ornithology to track five cuckoos on their 5,000 km migration to Africa. One cuckoo is lagging slightly behind the rest and has made it as far as Morocco. One cuckoo is lagging slightly behind the rest and has made it as far as Morocco.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 13, 2012
Was it a smart 1st-summer male flycatcher an Atlas Flycatcher far from it’s usual haunts in the Atlas mountains in Morocco? Or was it a hybrid Pied x Collared Flycatcher forever blackened by its mixed parentage and deemed not worthy of a place on our list?
Critter News
JANUARY 6, 2009
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. Tags: developing countries donkeys animal cruelty working animals animal welfare. So he turned to a ‘traditional cure’. This involved repeatedly laying a hot iron onto Humar’s shoulder.
10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2012
Northern Bald Ibis also occurred in North Africa and many colonies survived in Morocco and Algeria but this tragic pattern continued with the last colony in Algeria vanishing in the 1980’s. There has been growth in the breeding population at the colonies in Morocco (now estimated at 106 breeding pairs and approximately 500 birds in total).
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