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10,000 Birds
JUNE 25, 2012
In my case, I used the window of my car, as the location I used to test the product was the puddles in the parking lot at Big Egg Marsh in Queens. Of course, when I take out the adapter for the scope the fact that the scope is already on a tripod should obviate the need for any further bracing.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2014
We can, of course, count wild, native, species. Of course, there are a lot more rules that apply to both birds that can and can’t be counted, and one of the most entertaining ways to get a bunch of birders to make a Facebook discussion thread go on forever is to innocently ask a question about some esoteric aspect of listing rules.
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Animal Person
JULY 22, 2009
But I hope you will agree that by not eating or wearing animals or products that use or were tested on sentient nonhumans that you know of, and by not participating in or promoting events that use animals as entertainment, you are doing a world of good for the planet and the creatures who live here.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 26, 2022
Azure-winged Magpies fail to pass the mirror test, a test commonly used to determine self-recognition. While the source does not say so directly, it hints that this means the species is not as intelligent as Eurasian Magpies (which pass the test). Presumably, the photos below show Swinhoe’s White-eye. salvadori ).”
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2020
And the nandu, a South American rhea, has an intriguing chick-survival strategy: a week before hatching, the male (who does the incubating) pushes one egg out of the nest. Two days after September 11, 2001 (of course) on a day in the mountains when she sees, for the first time in her life, Bald Eagles (of course) Alejandra becomes pregnant.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
One was reported to have raided the nest of a Grey-throated Babbler , eating at least two eggs and possibly one nestling ( source ). On the morning of day 4 at Nonggang, I had a sore throat but a covid test was negative, so birding continued … And the female, as usual going for a more casual look.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
There are variations on that theme, of course. In the former, a female lays her fertilized egg in the nest of another species, in the hopes that her offspring will be raised by the unwitting hosts. The authors tested the idea that brood parisites benefit, in terms of fitness, by targeting species with the helper-at-the-nest strategy.
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