10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

However, they were refound on Buldir Island, a remote island that never had any introduced mammals. But within a couple of decades, it’s effects on both wildlife and humanity became apparent. They were secure in their isolated home here until humanity came to Laysan in the 1890s. Somebody won a Nobel Prize.

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Albatross Endangered Species Bald Eagle Alaska 253

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The descriptions of the territory’s birds, seals, whales, introduced mammals, invertebrates, and plants are written within the framework of the conversationist, so it is more than a field guide, it is a record of endangered wildlife and the efforts being made to protect it.

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Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whaling 210

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

There is also a third element, only hinted at in the opening–the environmental and scientific necessity of gathering this data to document the importance of keeping the Pacific Northwest waters healthy and uncontaminated by human elements. Fox does an excellent job balancing these three elements, keeping the emphasis on the birds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2023

If being hunted by evil humans was not enough, Ashy-throated Parrotbills are also hosts of the parasitic Common Cuckoo. Apparently , they use the presence of their own eggs as a cue for recognizing parasitic eggs – so without the presence of their own eggs as a template they fail to recognize a parasitic egg.

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Eggs China Mammals Birds 245

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It’s all about the improbable intersection of human beings and Emperor Penguins, and if I can’t make it to an Emperor Penguin colony (highly unlikely), reading this book has been the next best thing. It’s part memoir, part travelogue, part scientific narrative, part prologue to making an argument for Antarctic conservation.

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Penguins Seals Leopards Mammals 234

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2012

Think about the difference between birds and mammals. You’re a mammal, so you might be tempted to use yourself as an example mammal, but humans are actually kind of bad examples of mammals, so perhaps we’ll use a well studied hoofed animal instead. as both use internal fertilization. What’s that?

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Mammals Eggs Abandon Abandoning 221

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

Humans have always classified organisms in a variety of ways, depending on need. In other words, you can’t say something like, “humans, gorillas, chimps, and bonobos are all in the same family and equally related to each other.” Some sort of ancient fish-with-feet is the ancestors of humans. Think about it. But here’s the thing.

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Monkeys Gorillas Whales Whaling 196

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

billion mammals annually. Our findings suggest that free-ranging cats cause substantially greater wildlife mortality than previously thought and are likely the single greatest source of anthropogenic mortality for US birds and mammals. Mammals cats Invasive Species Week' We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4–3.7

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 257

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. Each year tens of thousands of these gulls go to the islands and each pair will lay three eggs. Most of these clutches of eggs will hatch to produce three fluffy and adorable chicks. This is a very serious business here in New Zealand.

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Animal Rights Rights Animal New Zealand 270

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The species is classified as Near Threatened for all the usual depressing reasons – pollution, drainage, hunting, and the collection of eggs and nestlings ( source ). In the unloved “Other” section of today’s post, we have a few more mammals.

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Sri Lanka Taiwan Birds Cats 246

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2022

She also laid eggs in Melba Finch nests. On the other hand, compared to the Laughing Dove , human life is still pretty long. Please insert your own dirty joke relating to humans here. Red-billed Firefinch. Her son, the male hybrid carrying his grandmother’s indigobird mtDNA, learned and later mimicked Melba Finch song.”

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South Africa Africa Cape Verde Birds 259

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

I know on some level, I think that’s something almost all of us can get behind…no one, except the most callous and cold-hearted of the human race things its fine to torture animals, or deny that they are capable of pain and suffering. . – The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive Animal rights. For example, when the U.S.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Wildlife Rights 263

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

As you read the below timeline and see the below images, don’t ever forget the perils that walk hand-in-hand with human greed. Officials reported 48 marine mammals, mostly dolphins, and 87 dead sea turtles during the first two months alone. The babies that hatched from these eggs were released on Florida’s east coast.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

I had noted that if you took a quick look around you’d think there were a lot of birds and very few mammals. Of course, a lot of the mammals would be hiding. If cats displace ferrets, then that probably means that birds are getting hit harder than rodents, and among birds, adult birds are getting hit harder than eggs or hatchlings.

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Cats Boston Ferrets Killing 241

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. Presumably, the species also not only eats fruit but also mammals and possibly birds –the HBW specifically mentions the species catching bats emerging from caves at dusk, and feeding them to juveniles.

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 186

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

The Sacred Ibis was seen as the incarnation of the god Thoth, who (with gods apparently better at multitasking than humans) was (or maybe still is, who knows?) ” Somebody should have warned the poor kites not to copy everything that humans do. Possibly also for doing the dishes. .'” Two ways of life folded at once.

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Australia Birds Sheep Zebras 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

And, Fuller should know; he has spent his career producing books about extinct birds and mammals, including the recent Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record, from his home in England. We immediately get a sense of the pigeons’ abundance, beauty, and danger to human activity. How many eggs did a pigeon lay?

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 197

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

The bird on the photo is one of the estimated 3500-15,000 individuals still alive according to the HBW – a frightening thought given the (too) large number of humans, of which there are about 1 million times more (and of course, each of which weighs 5000 times more than the flycatcher).

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Birds Cattle Raised Mammals 130

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2023

Indeed, most cuckoo eggs are accepted by the babax ( source ), although a small proportion of hosts reject cuckoo eggs and often boast about this capability when having a few too many drinks. I think I pointed out in previous posts that mammals are kind of evil. This male Plumbeous Water Redstart tried to ignore its chick.

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Hamburgers China Science Birds 246

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Alternatively, imagine I set the dial to produce simple heat, like the kind that comes out of your stove to cook your scrambled eggs. The kind of energy produced by a cell phone signal is way more like the heat that cooks your eggs than like the scary radiation that comes form an H-bomb or X-ray machine or whatever.

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Mammals Birds Cooking Fish 267

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2023

Most of them had brought kids along as well (probably among my least favorite mammals), which were pulled on gaudily colored skiing sleds by their hapless parents, creating a constant raucous noise. The rationale includes the speed of the laying (too fast to check for color matches) and the low number of egg-laying attempts (i.e.,

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Pandas Eggs Birds China 263

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Presumably, this also leads to income inequality, if parallels to humans are any guidance. An additional benefit would be less nest predation by tidal mudflat crabs, the primary cause of Reed Parrotbill egg predation in tidal reed-bed habitat ( source ). And to end this post, a mammal. As scientists have found.

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Finland Birds McDonalds Israel 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2018

Of the estimated 500 million cattle in India, only 4% were destined for consumption by humans as meat. The mammals also carry diseases from rotting carcasses such as rabies… In India, 30,000 people die from rabies each year, more than half the world’s total.” ( Wikipedia ).

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India Stray Dog Cows Rats 186

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2023

To be honest, both the robin and the flycatchers shown above remind me of the easter eggs I hunted for as a child – the same strong colors in front of a green background, same time of the year (feel free to insert your own Proust Madeleine reference here) … Bluethroats apparently are good at imitating other birds.

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Monkeys Birds South Korea Owls 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2024

Of course, the same applies to pizza services for humans. In the section on other animals which sometimes ends my posts, the mammal comparing favorably with Donald Trump today is some kind of squirrel. The bees pursue the bird until it settles down somewhere, try to sting it, and get eaten ( source ). Reluctantly back to birds.

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