10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2015

The analysis of Python stomach contents indicates that they eat mammals, as small as mice, and as large as a fully grown deer. Pythons have been observed swallowing birds and mammals, and coiled up resting in trees where wading birds were actively nesting. Rock Python. Photo Credits: Samuel Wright.

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OCTOBER 28, 2015

Because unlike those of mammals, avian ova need penetration by multiple sperm in order to successfully develop into baby birds. By studying Zebra Finches and domestic chickens, the scientists discovered that multiple sperm appear necessary for a fertilized egg to progress to the embryo stage (a process called “polyspermy”.)

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2021

But there are ways to prevent this situation, and to prevent the constant springtime problem of wildlife being orphaned… like these Barred Owls , above left, and Red-Shouldered Hawks , all of whom were delivered as eggs to Christine’s Critters in Weston, CT, thanks to two different private homeowners’ felling of trees.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2013

I could see from the road there was an egg in the nest and when a Glaucous Gull began circling the nest I expected one of the pair to lift from the lake and return to defend the nest. The next day the pair was still in the lake, but egg was still there which gave me some hope that the nest hadn’t been abandoned.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2014

Hornbills are fantastic birds that have fascinated me since I was able to leaf through the big and lavishly drawn Birds, their Life, their Ways, Their World , that was one of my favorite non-dinosaur (or so I thought at the time) books of my childhood (the other was the twin set mammals of the world by National Geographic).

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

.” His classes attracted diverse groups of students, often with little scientific background: “Students have to first pass biology, but most come in knowing next to nothing about birds except that they can fly, that they have feathers, and that they lay eggs.”. But once a week, they were “out the door by 8:05 a.m.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2020

Whatever this striking image means, Stranger than Fiction seems oddly appropriate name for a beer given our current reality, a surreal existence that falls somewhere between Nietzsche’s “eternal return” and an unfunny, Kafkaesque purgatory from which birding is often the only escape to sanity.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2011

Among mammals, bipedalism is found in several rodents, a number of marsupials, and one primate. One of the most interesting differences between birds and dinosaurs has to do with their eggs. Bipedalism is somewhat rare these days in the animal world. The nature, distribution, and evolution of bird song is unclear.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

While driving along and looking for flags, I noticed my lifer hyrax, a large, angry-looking groundhog-like mammal. Rock Hyrax Stuart provided a wonderful field lunch alongside a stream with samosas, a field-standard hard-boiled egg, and other snacks. Products that the herders bartered for.

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Lesotho Sheep Groundhogs South Africa 246

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 Whales 210

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The book is divided into the five sections–talk, work, play, love, parent–and within those sections into 14 chapters that focus on a singular aspect of that behavior–alarm calls, mimicry, using smell, fire spreading, following army ants, Raven play, Kea play, diversity of sexual practices, crazy and exotic ways of wooing the female, (..)

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

Not only do we take care of zillions of injured and orphaned birds/mammals/reptiles/whatever, we also have to deal with and educate the public. And scrambled eggs,” added Hilary Lewis. “I Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. The baffling, mind-boggling public. wrote Maryjane Angelo.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2019

The storks begin to arrive from August and will usually be sitting on eggs by October. Eggs often fall victim to the ubiquitous House Crow. There are mammals, with Nilgai antelope being the most obvious. There can be quite a gap between the early birds and the late brooders. Less often seen are Blackbuck and Jungle Cat.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

However, they were refound on Buldir Island, a remote island that never had any introduced mammals. The most notorious effect is that their eggshells become so thin that a parent bird will crush it’s eggs while attempting to incubate them.

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Albatross Endangered Species Bald Eagle Alaska 253

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2022

Actually, many birds are able to use smell; the 2006 edition of the classic textbook Ornithology states, “Although they have been underestimated in the past, the olfactory abilities of most birds are comparable to those of some mammals (Mason and Clark 2000). ” * Nevertheless, the myth continued.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

North of Dunedin is Orokonui , a wildlife Sanctuary modeled on Karori with a fence to keep introduced mammals out. The Centre takes kiwi eggs from the wild, when they are vulnerable to introduced predators, and rears them until they are old enough to survive in the wild. And to the south are The Catlins, mentioned above.

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New Zealand Penguins Sanctuary Fur 157

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The Achiever’s survey voyages took place from 2005 to 2008; the goal was to collect baseline data on sea mammals and marine birds. Fox relates her voyages according to the seasons, starting with her first survey in the spring. And, this was badly needed.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

I’ll never forget my introduction to the mammals of Kruger National Park, South Africa. This is the thing—no matter how devoted you are to birds and birding, once you get to Africa, you can’t resist the mammals. This means you need to pack a mammal guide in addition to your bird guide. Believe me, I tried.

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Rhinos Animal Mammals White Rhinos 252

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2023

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. Some individuals even rejected their own eggs when they were in the minority. All caused by mammals.

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Eggs China Mammals Birds 245

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

Why can’t a baby bird just hatch out of the egg and fly away, or at least, be able to fly a little and not require weeks of constant feeding and attention? Baby birds are different from baby mammals in some interesting ways. This is different from mammals. That is an oversimplification of what happens.

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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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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As we know from the French documentary La Marche de l’Empereur ( March of the Penguins) , the females skedaddle from the breeding colony once she produces an egg, leaving the egg to be incubated by the males, who fast for 120 days while keeping the egg in a flap of their feet. (I And it really is annotated!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

The data here are from the site of Manaus: All animals: 200 Mammals: 8.4 This is also because mammals are large. Comparing mammals, birds, and reptiles, for instance, what is the distribution and range of sizes? The top histogram is mammals, the bottom one birds. Amphibian’s and Reptiles: 3.4 This is not a surprise.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2024

He has written and co-written over 400 scientific papers on brood parasitism, Common Cuckoos, egg rejection and other nesting behaviors, and fairy wren learning in addition to T he Book of Eggs: A Life-Size Guide to the Eggs of Six Hundred of the World’s Bird Species (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2014).

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Barn Owls Chicago Penguins New Zealand 244

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

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. New Zealand has been the recipient of a higher than average number of introduced species, in particular a range of mammals from elk to mice.

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Animal Rights Rights Animal New Zealand 270

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

For example, you could say, “among mammals, only three families include species with a meaningful degree of root eating” or “within the family that includes lemmings and voles, there is a mixture of monogamous and polygynous species” and so on. That was probably a great strategy for rapid reproduction … live very fast and die very young.

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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

JULY 24, 2012

The number of individual birds and mammals alone that are affected by these factors are countless; and when you consider fish, reptiles and amphibians, it is hard to comprehend the magnitude of life that gets wiped out around the world (and certainly including the U.S.) There is nothing abstract or controversial about this.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Wildlife Rights 263

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

In mammals, maggots eat only dead tissue and are occasionally used to debride wounds. Within a few hours we had cleaned it, picked it clean of maggots, and treated it for any residual maggots or their eggs. She chirped a quiet but definite message, and everyone in the room understood she was not done with life yet.

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Eagles Wounded Bald Eagle Wisconsin 257

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

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. The NOOA recorded approximately 70 marine mammal strandings each year prior to 2010.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2022

She also laid eggs in Melba Finch nests. While the conclusion is not an outright damnation of the oxpeckers as the Count Draculas of the avian world, the carefully phrased conclusion does not sound very positive either: “These results suggest that the oxpecker-mammal relationship is more complex than was previously thought.”

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South Africa Africa Cape Verde Birds 259

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 1, 2013

Wingate cannot battle DDT when it starts affecting the cahow eggs, but he can provide scientific evidence that is included in the landmark suit that results in its banning. military, whose base is directly across from Nonsuch and who seems to be continually in engaging in projects, like building a new ball field, that will impact the birds.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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. Unfortunately, the other hornbill species are not nearly as adaptable.

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 186

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

.'” Tim Low (in “How Song Began”) gives a colorful description of Long-billed Corellas , stating that they “have drooping bills like witches’ noses” and explaining that “Their ‘noses’ are long because, like many mammals, they grub up juicy roots – or used to.”

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

Not only does this species directly parasitize other species but also metaphorically, by imitating the sparrowhawks in its appearance and thus deterring potential predators.

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