10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2024

That issue aside, SAVING THE SPOTTED OWL—ZALEA’S STORY is a detailed nonfiction picture book with a view expands from one specific owl, to Spotted Owls in general, to conservation efforts via breeding centers to save other endangered species. If you think that picture books are just for little kids, think again.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

Frigatebirds don’t occur in the cold waters of the coast of Peru and Chile, but Band-tailed Gulls (Larus belcheri) have developed similar strategy. Instead of hovering, some gulls have set up territories within breeding colonies of Humboldt seabirds. And the story repeats itself multiple times during the day.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Its population actually fluctuates in response to the availability of Spruce Budworm and though it nests on the ground it is entirely inseparable from the forests of the north during breeding season. Even more surprising is that Tennessee Warblers often molt and migrate simultaneously, a strategy that few other birds take advantage of.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2012

Predators that rely on lemmings, like the Snowy Owl , took advantage of the bounty and had great breeding success, raising large broods which, after the lemming population crashes, dispersed far and wide. And while I haven’t made it over their yet I hope to before they disperse into breeding territories. I’m a messy eater.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Counting the Birds I was in my teens when I undertook my first bird-survey: it was field work for the British Trust for Ornithology’s The Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland. The breeding and wintering birds of Britain and Ireland. Published in 1976, The Atlas was, I believe, the very first work of its kind.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

Starvation and predators make it hard to grow up, and birds have evolved a lot of strategies to give (at least some of) their chicks the best chance in life. One strategy that varies among birds (and other animals) is the number of offspring. Seabirds are one group of birds that go for the latter strategy.

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Critter News

JULY 12, 2009

The proposed primate breeding facility would violate both the letter and the spirit of Puerto Rico’s progressive new law, which strictly limits the use of animals in experimentation.

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Puerto Rico Animal Legal Defense Fund Primates Research 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

A section in the Appendix, “Rare Shorebird Vagrants,” lists 16 additional species that do not show up annually in North America but who have more than ten records; the list notes where the species breed and where their vagrant paths have taken them within North American borders.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2024

It initially ran off, but then adopted a different strategy by crouching on the ground and relying on its camouflage, its big eyes looking up at me. Red-backed Shrike Eurasian Blackcap A massive European Hare was cute to watch as well, a nice change from the European Rabbits that are very common in our local park.

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New Zealand Rabbits Adoptable Family 246

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2023

We all hope that they were able to breed successfully in the Northern Hemisphere and that they can find food throughout the Flyway to return to our shores. Our resident shorebirds have started to breed in the last few weeks and there are numerous Pied Oystercatcher nests along our shores right now.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

They are two strikingly different strategies, both of which seem to working well this spring, as everywhere one turns there is new life on the Tundra. Horned Larks breed widely over North America, including up here in the High Arctic. They are fed by one or both parents, even after they’ve fledged and left the nest.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

The species that manage to colonize these islands evolve in competition with relatively few other species, developing survival strategies based on interdependence, co-evolution, and mutualism rather than adapting to deal with a broad range of predators and competitors.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Though these plovers are common on the North Norfolk coast, their nearest breeding grounds are far to the north. A few do breed in Europe, on the extreme north-east of European Russia. Today many thousands spend much of their year there, arriving in September and not departing for their breeding grounds in arctic Russia until late May.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2013

In addition to having a communal nesting strategy, anis also spend a significant amount of time allopreening, huddling together, and sunning themselves together on exposed branches. According to the Florida Breeding Bird Atlas, the first confirmed breeding record was in Miami in July of 1938.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Groups may also contain up to 10 male and female non-breeding helpers, usually offspring of the group produced in prior years 1. The result of this cooperative breeding strategy is that fledging success increases with group size and survivorship is also significantly higher for all birds living in these larger groups 1.

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Woodpeckers Breeders North America Groups 204

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The goal of Around the World For Penguins is simple: Describe the 18 species of penguin and their breeding grounds “from the perspective of a traveller.” Plantema gives highly detailed information about the weather, terrain, ownership of and access to the islands and coasts where penguins breed.

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Penguins Georgia Albatross New Zealand 279

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the next few days, the Alpine Accentors ( Prunella collaris ) will arrive on their high-Alpine breeding grounds – it is time to start singing, despite that the treeless Alpine landscape is still under metres of snow. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2013

In addition to the hordes of Barn Swallows , which are only to be expected at Flushing Meadows, where they breed, there were several Tree Swallows , two Cliff Swallows , and a trio of Bank Swallows ( Sand Martins to you folks across the Atlantic). The Cliff Swallows and Bank Swallows were a pretty nice pickup this late in the season.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2020

It is interesting to see the different evolutionary strategies of closely related bird species – the various snow-white egrets with their “I don`t give a damn who can see me” attitude contrasting with the ridiculously well-camouflaged yellow bitterns. Flashy when breeding, camouflaged when not (or when young).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2016

With all of those birds singing and showing off their breeding colors, it’s no surprise that we see major bird races like Champions of the Flyway and The World Series of Birding , along with other main birding events like the Global Big Day. Spring isn’t just a season of change and renewal.

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Costa Rica Birds Israel Species 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2012

If the threats to the species in the wild (hunting and habitat loss) are significantly reduced, a captive-bred population could be re-introduced, if agreed as part of an overall recovery strategy.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2023

All three species mentioned in this article breed on these islands, but the Piratic Flycatcher employs a truly piratic strategy: the breeding pair targets a recently built woven nest, often by a Yellow Oriole or Yellow-rumped Cacique but they have also been recorded targeting the nests of other flycatchers.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In China, wherever there is one real tourist attraction (like the Great Wall), the local strategy seems to be to add some fake attractions – replicas of palaces or tombs, amusement parks, shopping centers – in order to maximize the income from tourists. But the starting point has to be a real attraction, not a fake one.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

About 600 individuals currently live in captivity as part of a breeding program, and there are reintroduction programs underway in the states of Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro. . Our strategy on each day was to be the first people on the road in the morning. Curassows are such stately birds. Photo courtesy of Ciro Albano.

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California Condor Brazil Parrots Texas 240

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Brown Pelicans in non-breeding plumage. Both are the only Pelican in their non-overlapping breeding grounds. Peruvian Pelican in non-breeding plumage. Both pelicans have a very specialized foraging strategy that depends on abundant fish near the surface. Brown Pelican in Breeding Plumage.

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Pelicans North America Peru Chile 157

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2013

Avocets, Black-necked Stilts , and Spotted Sandpipers breed at the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve. Well, they weren’t so much of a flock as they were a group of birds all following their own foraging strategy in the same area. You would certainly not see an American Avocet in the middle of the desert without water being present.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Following these edges on a pelagic birding trip is a good strategy for finding individuals of this species in Florida waters. Despite their superficial similarity, Sooty Tern and Bridled Tern are two very different species with very different strategies on how to survive in the nutrient poor waters of the tropical Atlantic.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The highly specialized foraging strategy of flamingos makes them vulnerable to the effect of subtle changes in habitat quality. Egg harvesting to sell as food was intensive then, with thousands taken annually from the breeding colonies in Chile.

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Chile Endangered Species Eggs Argentina 157

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

Of the sixteen pairs of Pied Oystercatchers between Gantheaume Point and Willie Creek on the south side, which is a length of breeding territories covering 23 kilometres-just over 14 miles-only one chick fledges most years. Each pair has a strategy and sometimes it is successful and sometimes it is not.

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Eggs Raised Breeding Family 165

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

WINTER FINCH FORECAST 2012-2013 The theme this winter is that each finch species will use a different strategy to deal with the widespread tree seed crop failure in the Northeast. The Ontario breeding population of this grosbeak is stable. Highest breeding densities are found in areas with spruce budworm outbreaks.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

192) from the timing of seasons to the ferocity of weather to the shape of breeding, wintering, and stopover habitat to even the size of birds themselves. Climate change looms large over all migration research, it “is reshaping every single thing about migration” (p. It is often hard to be positive.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2011

We are into the second attempt at breeding for this season in Broome for Pied Oystercatchers. These parents have a strategy where they nest away from the reef and then walk the chicks the 2 kilometres there within a few days of hatching. We had one pair attempt 5 times in 2009, so they don’t give up easily!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2012

Sadly, it did not stick around to breed though I thought that it might. It will likely take me over a year from now to get there so I can’t take the strategy that I did previous years and try to guess by what season is coming. Some of the birds I have already predicted but some will be new.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

A lovely looking and distinctive sounding bird (so they say, I sadly have not seen one…yet), the Kirtland’s Warbler can only be found during its breeding season in Jack Pine forests 5 to 20 years old in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. It was the end of prescribed burns as part of the Kirtland’s Warbler recovery plan.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2015

Since discovering our first Pied Oystercatcher nest on Cable Beach in July 2000 we have observed the breeding of these local shorebirds along the coast between Gantheaume Point in the south and Willie Creek in the north, which is a distance of 23 kilometres. For birds that rarely fly they were suddenly constantly in the air.

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Feral Cats Eggs Feral Cats 164

4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 18, 2011

The convenience of ‘ready-made’ dog meals has been the key to its success, and since then many brands and varieties have been created, all coupled with great marketing strategies utilizing colorful labels and pictures. They offer a variety of carefully balanced, nutritional foods catering for all different requirements.

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Dogs Lifestyle Puppies Pets 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The first chapter covers the species, the second plumages and moults, the third feeding, the fourth physiology, the fifth breeding, the sixth migration – oh, those migrations – and the last their gregarious habits. And the chapter I found the most captivating is the one on feeding strategies. Have you ever heard of it?

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