10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2020

Parasites penetrate the skin, travel through the blood vessels and finally (if you’re lucky) settle in the urinary tract where they happily breed, doing irreversible damage to it (and if you’re less lucky they might get confused and settle inside your spinal cord or even your brain). Vervet Monkey c. Cape Glossy Starling +.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2014

In the breeding season, some 50 species were recorded here, including Little Bittern and Golden Oriole , both unusually easy to see, as well as Ferruginous Duck , Red-backed Shrike and Penduline T**s that bred here this spring – but all I managed to see was their nest ( again ) and not the inhabitants!

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Serbia Stray Dog Botswana Protection 247

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2016

In her book, “ On a Wing and a Prayer, “ Sarah Woods describes the bird that captured her interest when she first visited Panama: “At more than one metre tall and able to kill a monkey with a single swipe of its powerful, knife-like talons, [H]arpy [E]agles are incredibly hard to find.”

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Panama Grizzly Bear Porcupines Monkeys 113

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Flocks of cheerful birds frequent caves and cliffs where they breed. Gelada lip flare My favorite Ethiopian animal, the Gelada used to be considered a baboon but is actually the last survivor of an ancient group of grass-eating monkeys that used to occur throughout Africa, the Mediterranean and India.

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Eritrea Ethiopia Africa Mammals 275

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

Birders who have been to California might be familiar with the latter two, indeed we would be close to the Poor Knights Islands later in the day, the site of the only breeding colony of Buller’s Shearwaters in the whole world. One birder from Australia even got his lifer Red-crowned Parakeet !

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New Zealand Albatross 2011 Cooking 212

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2014

The beautiful Red-tailed Parrot ranges only in a narrow strip of littoral forest along the coasts of the states of Parana and Sao Paulo while the partially migratory Red-spectacled Parrot roosts during the non-breeding season in only a handful of Araucaria (monkey puzzle) groves in southern Brazil.

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Parrots Brazil Mauritius Dominica 205

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

They used Great T**s from non-urban and urban areas, and mixed them up through breeding, to rule out any possible family history of telomere length. The benefits are many, including the availability of anthropogenic food sources, breeding boxes and warmer temperatures. The less telomere, the more aging, independently of time.

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Zebras Mammals Primates Birds 167

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2019

There are also wild boars and macaque monkeys and you are advised to not rustle plastic bags, because they associate the noise with food. The Bar-tailed Godwits had developed their breeding plumage and were roosting on a small rock close to the island. Grey Plover and Bar-tailed Godwit in breeding plumage.

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Singapore illegal Boars Birds 133

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2014

Hundreds massing at Mai Po, many coming into breeding plumage. OK, this isn’t much of a list, but all wild monkey sightings deserve recognition! ). Monkey at a monastery. Considering how infrequently mergansers are seen in Hong Kong, the excitement was understandable and infectious. 9 Little Grebe. 10 Great Crested Grebe.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2023

We managed to see both species of monkey, though – so we were ultimately well satiated. Peregrine Falcon We saw many Spotted Sandpipers during our time there, but this one in fresh breeding plumage really made me stop and stare! Occasional fly-bys of pairs and trios of Red-bellied Macaws kept us on our toes.

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Trinidad Falcons Primates Monkeys 29

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2019

We were met by several Cattle Egret in beautiful breeding plumage feeding on the grass right next to the train station. Squirrels, water monitors, lizards, wild boar, macaque monkeys and more had too often stopped us in our tracks when we heard leaves rustling or odd sounds initially!

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Singapore Transported Boars Malaysia 127

Critter News

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Actor Benicio del Toro has written a letter to the governor of Puerto Rico opposing a new monkey breeding facility. The Puerto Rican actor has penned a letter to the governor of Puerto Rico urging him to halt the construction plans for Bioculture's massive monkey-breeding facility.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2013

Once the breeding season is over these impressively adorned males lose not only their tails but also all their black plumage, and most of their other colors, in order to blend into the brown winter grasslands they inhabit. At the end of each winter I keenly await the spring announcement from the pair that annually breed in my back yard.

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Papua New Guinea South Africa Africa Zimbabwe 260

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2021

On the breeding grounds of the north, a small bird flies into the night, takes a bearing for the south, gains altitude and flies onward. In Costa Rica, they can take the form of everything from toucans (think crows with giant shark inspired beaks) to herons and monkeys. Migrant birds make an incredibly perilous journey, twice per year.

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Costa Rica Investigation Shelters Sharks 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

I couldn’t help thinking this–me, the anthropomorphism hater– as I watched a pair of Philippine Eagles tend their nest, raise a chick, and tear monkeys apart in Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth , a well-crafted, beautifully filmed documentary with a mission. The Philippine Eagle has a kind face.

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Eagles Philippines Eggs Monkeys 203

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

A single large spider monkey, which might be out of view, equals a large number of lightly built and small birds which may be scattered across the landscape. The clifftop habitats along rocky shores of the North Atlantic (on both sides of the pond) abound in bird biomass during breeding bouts, for instance.

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Mammals Rodents Reptiles Birds 233

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

But if we want to continue to throw a monkey-wrench into this all too cut and dried scenario, there’s also the fact that the Old World vultures had a foothold in North America up until the Neogene about 2.5 millions years ago. The California Condor has a story well-known by anyone with an interest in birds.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 236

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

Let’s hope it can find some relatively unfragmented habitat for breeding – studies show that the failure rate of nests is much higher in fragmented habitats. “Arrow-Marked Babblers move around in gangs of a dozen or so, like troops of monkeys or wild dogs, constantly chattering among themselves.

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Zimbabwe Benin South Africa Birds 147

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

That means crows join humans, apes and monkeys in exhibiting advanced relational thinking, according to the research. The golden-winged warblers had just returned from South America to their breeding grounds in the mountains of Tennessee in 2013 when a massive storm was edging closer. Ifrasound waves are cool.

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Science Iraq Oregon Charlotte 174

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Part V: Me and My Monkey. He talks about "My research monkey," Clayton, and what he did to Clayton, and writes as if Clayton didn't mind at all. Engber returned recently to the "monkey room" where Clayton was kept when Engber used him for research years ago and to his surprise, Clayton was still there. But not shocked enough.

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Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 133

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Here local hunters had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season. However they will not and cannot breed, and once these individual’s natural lifespans are over, these bird populations will be lost forever.

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Ghana Hunters Gambia Guinea 251

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2014

A pair has been nesting by the roadside for some years, but they are not so predictable outside of the breeding season. Look out for the Howler Monkeys too. On the left you will find a small island on which some Black Cappuchin Monkeys have been marooned and rely on handouts from the park workers and visitors.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2023

While the conclusion seems fairly established now, the paper still puts it in the usual wordy and careful statement: “The shorter minimum stopover duration of both species in spring may indicate a faster migration than in autumn, suggesting a time-minimizing strategy in spring to reach the breeding grounds as fast as possible.”

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