Africa Eggs Raised 
10,000 Birds
JUNE 16, 2024
The Cuckoo Cuculus canorus has a bad reputation because of its habit of laying its eggs on the nests of other birds, who then raise their young. They then settle in their newly acquired home, lay their eggs and raise their brood. The beautiful Red-rumped Swallow What triggered this expansion from Africa?
10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2024
It’s quite amazing how birds that we are used to seeing much of the year on coastal mudflats, exploiting the intertidal, change their habits and take to the hills to raise their young. Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus Shorebirds take the limelight. Here on Shetland, it is the larger shorebirds that immediately catch the eye.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2012
Baby Spotted Dikkop Mervyn van Rooyen in South Africa experienced the wonder of a wee thick-knee in a way very few of us ever will. We raised this little fella to a young adult. But thick-knee babies are the cutest Charadriiforms you’d ever want to see.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2022
The African Spoonbill is one of the six global spoonbill species, and the main African one (there are also some Eurasian Spoonbills in Africa). While the species is listed as Least Concern, there are some papers suggesting it may not be as common as assumed, at least in South Africa. Studies on improving ostrich egg hatchability.
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
The majority of wildcats live today in Africa, and virtually none of them have provided the DNA from which supposed histories of domestication have been constructed by researchers. I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. And I think he was speaking only of our American Kitties not the Wildcat of Africa.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.
Critter News
DECEMBER 23, 2008
In some cases, notably in Africa, biodiversity is threatened by military conflict, or by well-armed gangs of poachers. In response to both kinds of scenarios, some have begun to raise the possibility of an "eco-intervention," analogous to humanitarian interventions. In Nicaragua, the army patrols beaches to protect sea turtle eggs.
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