Eagles Eggs Science 
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2014
The local Bald Eagles are getting busy, I suspect there is an egg in the nest. There is a bit of science news. The zoo has already identified several species like the huge monkey-eating Philippine eagle that are at once distinct, endangered, and suffer from lack of attention. All I see are their buts.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
If you have always wondered what the minimum anesthetic concentration for isoflurane and sevoflurane for the Crested Serpent-eagle is, science has an answer. While serpent means large snake, the Crested Serpent-eagle also eats frogs, as this video shows.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Recent studies in Sri Lanka have revealed that, upon sighting a predator, a drongo will imitate the alarm calls of at least 4 other bird species (babblers, laughing thrushes, bulbuls, and others), as well as the call given by the specific predator, i.e. a giant squirrel or eagle.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
The tiercels (young Peregrines) must deal with Golden Eagles, Ravens, adult Peregrines, and foxes; they must also learn to navigate the skies and make their own kills, luckily these skills appear to be innately learned. It’s not easy. Well-researched and footnoted, these sections never feel disconnected from the more personal sections.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 22, 2022
As the national bird of Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, the African Fish Eagle is usually very busy whenever it stays in these countries, giving speeches, opening shopping centers, etc. However, it is kind of sophisticated in that the females lay very individualized eggs in order to be able to detect the added eggs of parasite cuckoo finches.
10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2024
It’s a book that counterpoints and combines facts and personal experiences, science-based and eloquent writing styles, textual description and visual information, a history of abundance and an uncertain future. From Part I, “Shorebirds in Winter,” p. 41; © 2024 by Pete Dunne and Kevin T.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2013
If we were just birders, or photographers, this would be dreadful behavior, but we were here to watch people engaged in Science. And Science requires Sacrifice. The aim of the game was to band raptors, and specifically to band Golden Eagles. Do I sound facetious? I’m not. To understand, and thus to protect.
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