10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2024
Yellow-legged Gulls Larus michahellis breed on the Rock of Gibraltar and the late spring arrival of Griffon Vultures Gyps fulvus coincides with the time that the gulls have chicks on their nests. I left my previous article asking what of the Yellow-legged gulls that had alerted me to the presence of migrating vultures over Gibraltar?
4 The Love Of Animals
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
We’ll see ambitious programs to save diverse species from the outback of Australia, the savannahs of East Africa, the Brazilian Amazon and some of the most successful zoo breeding programs in the world. Miracle Babies: Baby Pandas. A new captive breeding program may be the cats’ last hope.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
As an older Chills song is titled, “Familiarity breeds contempt” (And no, I do not think NZ band The Chills originally came up with this phrase – I can use google as well as any other person and thus know that the expression familiarity breeds contempt was first used in English in the 1300s by Geoffrey Chaucer.
4 The Love Of Animals
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
Do you love pandas? This year’s theme is “PandaQuest” which shifts the focus from panda breeding and rehabilitation in captivity to re-introduction in the wild. Pambassador finalists will participate in the current panda release plan, designed to re-introduce captive bears into the wild.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2013
Some of those once-popular breeding spots now produce no chicks at all. And that’s just the birds–you can spy on everything from panda bear cubs to beluga whales. For example, over the past decade, the population in the Gulf of Maine has dropped by 40 percent. Photos courtesy of explore.org/projectpuffin and Audubon.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2022
The Blue-crowned Laughingthrush (Wuyuan) is listed as Critically Endangered, as there are only about 250-280 birds spending the breeding season in Northeastern Jiangxi (and according to the HBW, it is not clear where they spend the non-breeding period).
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2023
A paper on breeding of the species was actually researched right here at Wawushan. The Great Parrotbill recently unsuccessfully petitioned to be renamed to Giant Parrotbill, citing the panda example as proof of the benefits of having this name. While Giant Pandas are celebrated in today’s China, this was not always the case.
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