10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2024

The rooms are floating in a pond and the pond provides a home for a Eurasian Beaver family. Just across the bridge, some kind climate change people had invested a lot of money in a climate forest which to me looked like beaver food. The beavers agreed. Skeins of Greylag Geese completed the picture.

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Beavers Netherlands Eagles Bald Eagle 141

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2024

Above is a buck with antlers in velvet , while the animal below has clean antlers A Muntjac on the run. England’s Muntjac are all descended from a small number of animals released by the 11th Duke of Bedford in his park at Woburn, in Bedfordshire, in the early years of the 20th century. Now an endangered animal in Britain.

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Fur Boars Deer Estonia 204

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 19, 2012

If you love nature, maybe you have noticed that a lot of animals, and other parts of nature like rivers, make sounds that seem musical. In his recently released book, The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World’s Wild Places , Bernie Krause explores the sounds of the natural world all over the globe.

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Beavers Animal Sanctuary California 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

So here it is, the review of Tracks and Signs of the Animals and Birds of Britain and Europe by Lars-Henrik Olsen. Examples are wolf, beaver, otter, domestic cat, wolverine, wild boar, elk (moose), and reindeer. Not only is it a superior guide to the tracks and signs of Europe’s animals, it is an exceptionally beautiful book.

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Europe Mammals Animal Reindeer 165

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2011

It is much stranger and illustrative of the ways of evolution to point out that whales are a form of “hoofed animal&# (unlikely but true). Bipedalism is somewhat rare these days in the animal world. Also, there are reasons why statements like this are scientifically incorrect even if there is ‘some truth’ to them.

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Birds Marsupials Primates Whaling 269

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2018

In 1987, only 27 were left in the wild and drastic action was taken to save the species: all remaining birds were captured, the California Condor was declared extinct in the wild, and a captive breeding program was begun, initially carried out by the San Diego Wild Animal Park and the Los Angeles Zoo.

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California Condor Oregon California Zoos 104

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

It provides shelter for many songbirds and water-associated animals, including the river otter, turtles, beaver, American pelicans, ospreys, and migratory songbirds. The refuge includes coastal marshes, islands, tidal creeks and estuaries of seven north Florida rivers, and is home to a diverse community of plant and animal life.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Louisiana 143