10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2024
Research by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust has shown that predation by Foxes (of both eggs and chicks) is one of the most serious factors limiting the success of nesting Curlews. It is surrounded by a Fox-proof fence No one seems quite sure how many pairs there are today, but my guess would be between 20 and 30.
Critter News
OCTOBER 28, 2010
The group had targeted about 40 firms as part of an international conspiracy to force the closure of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), an animal research laboratory based near Cambridge. Some employees from firms in Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland had "puppy killer" and "scum" daubed on their houses. From Reuters.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2024
Then it’s a matter of doing a little research on the internet to find who rang the bird you saw, and then emailing the details of your sighting. 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.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2020
In what has become the modern-day traditional method of organization, species are listed and described on the left-hand page and illustrative plates are on the right. Each species is numbered, with the numbers referring to the illustrations on the right. More on Species Accounts.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
Dates of first arrival listed by Schorger (1966) are: Italy 1520, Germany 1530, France 1538, England 1541, Denmark and Norway 1550, Sweden 1556. Early research suggested that “Fragmented distributions and population bottlenecks due to human activities appear to have increased genetic differentiation among populations” (Leberg 1991).
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2011
All of this leads to a longer life list, which is, after all, the entire point of bridwatching, right? Way back when I started what turned out to be my thesis research (on humans), it became important for me to learn about bird migration. Some of the research being done then (the 1980s) was pretty naive and sometimes downright silly.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
All the birds face right (with some exceptions, like the elegantly posed, back-to-back adult breeding Common and Thick-billed Murres) and the flying images can always be followed in a pattern, even when they interspersed with the smaller vignettes. 1995), Skuas and Jaegers (Yale Univ. “That is just the nature of seabirding” (p.
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