10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2014
According to Wikipedia, birds (class Aves) are feathered, winged, two-legged, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates. The cup is made up of dry grasses, rootlets, and weed stems, then lined with finer grasses, hair and fur. Most researchers agree that modern-day birds are the only living members of the Dinosauria clade.
10,000 Birds
JULY 16, 2013
The early threats of guano harvesting and egg collecting have been replaced by the more ominous threats of oil pollution and overfishing of their favorite food source – pilchards. On the mainland they face predation from domestic cats, dogs, genets, mongoose and Cape Gulls which steal their chicks and eggs.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 16, 2011
In nature, you’ve got your leathery skin (like elephants or crocodiles), you’ve got your fur (like beavers and red deer), you’ve got your scales (like fish and pangolins) and you’ve got your feathers (like many theropod dinosaurs … oh, and birds). The nature, distribution, and evolution of bird song is unclear.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 28, 2015
Although it was formerly abundant and geographically widespread, Trumpeter Swan numbers and distribution were greatly reduced during the early fur trade and European settlement of North America (1600’s to 1800’s), when it was prized for its skins and primary feathers 1.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2021
“Apparently she found a fallen American Robin ‘s egg,” she wrote, “and kept it in there for two weeks! The carrier was a normal cardboard box, but the opossum was nestled on a square of white fur, surrounded by pinecones and greenery, and all of it was festively tied with a ribbon. She even slept with it.”
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
They breed in dense colonies, incubate their single egg on the feet, and take more than a year to fledge a chick. Over 3 million pairs of Antarctic Fur Seals breed on South Georgia, saved from near extinction by fur hunters. Southern Elephant Seals and Weddell Seals are also resident, though not in such large numbers.
Critter News
NOVEMBER 16, 2010
What messages and techniques have been proven effective in getting people to make compassionate decisions like boycotting fur and adopting companion animals instead of buying them? And why do so many people say the oppose the cruel practices of factory farming, yet still eat meat, eggs and dairy products?
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