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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2024
I’m not sure how many other casinos can boast nesting falcons, but a remarkable number of cathedrals and churches in Britain now do so, along with many famous buildings, ranging from Tate Modern in London to the clock tower of Cardiff City Hall in Wales. Both buildings host nesting pairs of Peregrines.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
Osborn, a passionate field biologist who participates to the core of her being three re-introduction projects aimed at saving three very different, endangered species: Peregrine Falcon, Hawaiian Crow (‘Alala)*, and California Condor. Coyotes took carrion from young Condors and then killed the weakest ones. It’s not easy.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 29, 2014
Some abbreviations roll off your tongue and are thus quite helpful – Mourning Doves are MODOs, Peregrine Falcons are PEFAs, Mississippi Kites are MIKIs. Maureen Eiger categorizes any unidentifiable featherless nestlings as “ Tufted Puffins ;” to Letitia Labbie, they’re “Eggs With Legs.”.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.
10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2024
In the 19th- and early 20th-centuries, shorebirds were killed outright for their meat, a trade that only ended with the passage of federal legislation (which still excepts game birds such as woodcock and snipe). These days we need to conserve habitat and maintain a balance of food sources.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
The species was seemingly killed off by feather hunters, but then, after years, reappeared at the site of one of the deserted breeding colonies, Torishima Island in Japan. ” There are amazing stories here. The survival of the Short-tailed Albatross, which once numbered in the millions, is simply amazing.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 19, 2012
The quills of the “Saqu Ettair” Secretarybirds feed on small lizards, insects, rodents, birds eggs and, of course, snakes. Secretarybirds counter this by being very careful when killing snakes and ensuring that the prey is dead before eating it. Watching them hunt is fascinating.
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