10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

In the slightly frighteningly named journal “Science of The Total Environment”, there is a paper on organochlorine compounds in Purple Heron eggs nesting in sites located around a chloralkali plant (Ebro River). Summary result: relevant chemicals emitted by the plant can be found in the eggs. Bye, bye, Lesser Coucal.

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Birds Eggs Breeders McDonalds 130

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JUNE 1, 2021

The guides bore the Audubon Society name, were published by Knopf and distributed by Random House, but they were actually conceived and produced by an outfit called Chanticleer Press and they became a publishing sensation. The press material says it covers over 800 species, so you know I had to do a count. Dunlap, Oxford Univ.

North America 278

North America America California Condor Birds 278

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

So, I was intrigued when I saw that Comstock Publishing, an arm of Cornell University Press, was publishing Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide by Linda Tuttle-Adams. Harrison, and Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds, 2nd ed. Comstock Publishing Associates/Cornell University Press, October 2022.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 253

Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Family Collecting 253

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Penguins are shown individually in groups, in dense colonies, within habitat (ice, rainforest, beach), swimming in the ocean, and doing things–nose to nose with an albatross, feeding a child, placing an egg on its foot, sliding down ice. Press, 2011). A scientific analysis of the bird family was written by Lloyd S.

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Penguins Georgia Albatross New Zealand 278

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The “Owls and Albatrosses” chapter, for example, begins with Doug’s personal experiences observing of the nesting strategies of Malleefowl and a Moluccan Megapode, Australasian “chickens who lay their eggs in unusual ways and do not parent. Press, October 2021. by Douglas J. Princeton Univ.

Science 211

Science Albatross Research Owls 211

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AUGUST 4, 2015

The authors’ interest expanded into this book, published by Texas A&M University Press. He’s also worked with the National Wildlife Refuge System, co-led birding tours to Alaska, and co-authored A Guide to the Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds (1997). Texas A&M University Press, 2015. Margaret A.

America 227

America Squirrels Industry Birds 227

Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary. Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y.

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Welfare Farm Sanctuary Battery Cages Factory Farm 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

Where does the female Emperor Penguin go after she has produced that one egg and handed it over to the male for incubation? And, what about that female Emperor Penguin, who disappears for two months after handing her one egg over to her mate? Princeton University Press, March 2018. Technology to the rescue!

Albatross 114

Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 114

Critter News

JUNE 28, 2009

From the Clemson press release. Nearly 95 percent of the 90 billion table eggs produced in the United States come from high-density cage systems. The value of all egg production in 2007 was $6.68 In South Carolina egg sales tally about $90 million annually. In South Carolina egg sales tally about $90 million annually.

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Hens Eggs Investigation Animal Welfare South Carolina 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Box after box of egg. In part this was due to the outstanding way the reporting was handled by the press. The large room the collection was held in was a profoundly weird place. Shelf after shelf after shelf of trays of dead birds, most with their original archaic Victorian era label written in spindly cursive attached to a leg.

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Collecting Solomon Islands New Zealand Fiji 218

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2011

In California, coveys break up and pairs begin forming in February or March, followed by nest building and egg laying in May or June. She will usually lay 12 to 17 eggs, averaging five per week 1 , before beginning incubation. Occasionally, larger clutches occur due to egg dumping by other females. References: 1 Baicich, Paul J.

California 217

California Rattlesnake Gophers Eggs 217

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The lengthy Introduction gives both a personal history and a global history of birds and art, including brief profiles of John James Audubon and the far lesser known Genevieve Estelle Jones, who conceived of a book eventually called Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio in the late 19th century.

Birds 147

Birds Eggs Laws Oregon 147

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 15, 2012

Optional Decoration: Press small pieces of freeze-dried chicken into top before baking. Brush top with beaten egg. Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour (or flour substitute). 1/4 cup pureed sweet potato. 1 TBSP extra virgin olive oil. 1/4 cup unseasoned chicken drippings. 1 TBSP plain yogurt. Dash of fine sea salt.

Chickens 100

Chickens Dogs Pets Seals 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

As a Northeast birder I am familiar with the alarming decrease in the number of Red Knots along Atlantic shores and have signed petitions and written e-mails calling for legislation and rules that will limit the overharvesting of the horseshoe crab, whose eggs Red Knots depend on. Rutgers University Press/Rivergate Books, 2012.

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Delaware New Jersey Eggs Research 178

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AUGUST 2, 2022

One of Whittaker’s first experiments was to place other birds’ preen oil on the nests and eggs of Dark-eyed Juncos. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022, 296 pages. 241) that contribute to a bird’s odor. The Juncos reacted to alien scents, even temporarily reducing the time spent on the nest. ISBN-10 ? : ?

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Science Research Turkey 2006 217

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APRIL 2, 2013

Brauning, a Summary of Atlas Results by Physiographic Region and Section, Breeding Phenology (date ranges of nest building, nest with eggs, nest with young, fledged young), Atlas Safe Dates (the period of time within which it is safe to say that if you saw or heard a bird in suitable habitat it is likely breeding, ruling out migrants).

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Pennsylvania Breeding Sparrows Birds 226

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JULY 16, 2012

Some might contest this, saying that Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hatches An Egg precedes Eastman’s book by twenty years. But since Horton is an elephant, and since the creature that hatches from the egg is an elephant-bird, I’m going to wait till 10,000 Birds does a Hybrid Bird Week before discussing this representative of the Seussiverse.

Switzerland 210

Switzerland Birds Owls Lions 210

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

The text describes the species’ appearance, including plumages and molts, habitats, migration patterns, feeding behavior, courtship and breeding behaviors, nest and egg information, subspecies, and population data. Karlson Princeton University Press, June 2024; UK August 2024 Hardcover; 8.25 0691220956; ISBN-13 ?

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North America America 2006 Delaware 259

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Creatures that crawled, or worse, slithered, would lie in the bottoms, pressed into shade and invisibility. It was advisable to remove them at night, to keep them calm, to establish immediately a feeding board on which they would be fed chopped beef and egg to start, then fresh birds, rabbit or squirrel.

Falcons 177

Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 177

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

Or, Pygmy leaf-folding frogs, Afrixalus brachycnemis, from Tanzania, tiny climbing frogs who lay their eggs in leaves and then fold the leaves over them for protection, sealing the nest with secretions. The male and female position themselves close to each other, on top or in back, so that the eggs are fertilized as the female releases them.

Reptiles 184

Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 184

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The team explored Nevada and Utah, with Ridgway collecting thousands of bird specimen, plus nests and eggs for the Smithsonian. The bibliography is impeccable, as befits a publication of Yale University Press, but I would like to make a pitch here, again, for the inclusion of links to free online versions of articles when they are available.

Illinois 147

Illinois Collecting Alaska United States 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Press), which Mike reviewed in 2009 , is the one most people will be comparing it to), by a view of birds that encompasses their habitat and ecology. Press, 2000) and the earlier The Birds of Hong Kong and South China (co-authored with Clive Viney and Lam Chiu Ying, Hong Kong Information Office, 2005). 372 pages, 8.3 Princeton Univ.

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Brunei Asia Birds China 174

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

June 2, 2010 BP apparently bans workers from showing dead or dying wildlife and from talking to the press. The babies that hatched from these eggs were released on Florida’s east coast. Several times we were forcibly removed by security personnel from photographing scenes like these.

2010 231

2010 Louisiana 2012 2011 231

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

A nest wasn’t found until 1903, which set off a craze for Kirtland’s Warbler skins, nests, and eggs. The University of Michigan Press, 2012. Photograph Credits: Book cover courtesy of University of Michigan Press. Photograph of the author courtesy of Julia Rapai and University of Michigan Press. By William Rapai.

Michigan 226

Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 226

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

The birds are so busy, finding sticks, flying with sticks, fixing nests, tending to eggs in nests, preening feathers, touching bills, feeding chicks, refusing to feed chicks. Behrstock, and Seth Davidson, with maps by Cindy Lippincott, Texas A&M University Press, 2008. And all amidst many leaves and many branches in fading light.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 208

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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. from Princeton University Press (directly from their website or from online book stores) and in Europe from the South Georgia Heritage Trust website. The book is reasonably priced and can be purchased in the U.S.

Georgia 173

Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 173

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

My friend Ian had purchased Richard ffrench’s classic A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad & Tobago just before we left, the third edition, hot off the presses. For some reason, Yale University Press discontinued its arrangement with Helms, so there is no United States edition. The bird guide question was a conundrum.

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Trinidad South America Birds 2011 193

Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

Below is a press release about the mailing. Press Release Governors: Stop Ecodestructive University Training! On March 11th, RPA sent the governors of all 50 states a letter and two factsheets urging them to help get their land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. Another went out last Friday. Thanks and best wishes!

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Meat Industry Meat Industry Responsible Policies 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

Speaking of pregnant snakes, do sea snakes lay their eggs ashore like sea turtles or do they keep them internally until the young are ready to hatch/ be born, like some sharks? These do lay eggs on land and are (reasonably) mobile once they hit the beach. It seems like there is great diversity in this continent.

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Australia Sharks 2011 Deer 150

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

They cut down the trees the parrots used for nesting and brought black rats, who ate their eggs, and honeybees who swarmed into their nests, and by 1937 there were only about 2,000 Puerto Rican Parrots left. SeaGrove Press, July 2013. Spanish settlers arrived in 1493 and called the birds Coterras. Other Europeans came. by Carol L.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 231

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

How many eggs did a pigeon lay? He reasons out answers to both questions, finally stating that, despite what many eyewitnesses wrote, the birds had to have laid more than one egg and that the birds had to have nested more than once a breeding season. Princeton University Press, September 15, 2014. How many times did it nest?

2014 160

2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 160

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. Beacon Press, 2012. All the while, he is observing, documenting, practically living with the cahows when they return to Bermuda. . by Elizabeth Gehrman.

Rats 166

Rats Breeding Birds 2012 166

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

Oxford University Press. Where the abyss touches the sky: A Booby and Noddy ecosystem. Birdingblogs.com Leigh, Egbert Giles. Tropical Forest Ecology: a view from Barro Colorado Island. Myers, P., Espinosa, C. Hammond, and T. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed July 12, 2011 at [link] a.

Mammals 174

Mammals Rodents Reptiles Birds 174

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

According to Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World , a handsome volume written by James Hancock, James Kushan and Philip Kohl and published by Academic Press in 1992, Geronticus eremita “once nested in the mountains of central Europe, across northern Africa and into the Middle East. But this range is now much reduced.

Morocco 221

Morocco Austria Algeria Germany 221

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Birders are always happy to see a turtle or tortoise, and there are times of the year when my social media feeds are sprinkled with photos of turtles beings removed from roads or crawling to land to lay eggs. Press, 2009). Press, 2006) or Ernst and Lovich’s text on turtles of North America, cited above.

Turtles 194

Turtles Tortoises Family Terrapins 194

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

When these birds breed, this can lead to highly cringeworthy announcements, for example from Adelaide Zoo : “We have egg-citing news!” Generally, this is not a bird getting a lot of good press. It seems that quite a few zoos keep Tawny Frogmouths. ” ( source ).

Australia 224

Australia Birds Mountain Goats Ducks 224

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

These fossils are seen as proof that some dinosaurs brooded over its eggs. So, I welcomed the opportunity to read and review Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds , by John Pickrell, published in the United States by Columbia University Press. Don’t let the university press imprint deceive you. Like birds.

Mongolia 181

Mongolia Reptiles Science Indiana 181