10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2013

” Alan Tilmouth reported in these pages a few months ago that due to extreme weather conditions, Atlantic Puffins and other seabirds were washing up on the shores of Great Britain. That is, warmer oceans are changing fish populations, with butterfish beginning to supplant the herring that Puffins usually feed their young.

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Puffins Seals Canada Raised 175

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

One exception is Magdalena Heinroth, a German ornithologist who, with her husband Oscar, raised and studied thousands of birds in her apartment in pre-World War II Berlin. ’ Ironically, this is from Birds of Australia , which scholars and art historians suspect was more Elizabeth’s work than John’s.*.

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Dissection Birds Europe Eggs 216

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Tufted Puffin. “My biggest regret in life was raising my binoculars to observe this monstrosity of a bird” – Ethel M. Can Mr. X really tell a Tufted Puffin from a Rhinocerous Auklet ? If you misidentify something, you bring great shame and dishonor to both you and your family. South Polar Skua.

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Puffins Penguins Albatross California 247

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

They portray the nesting cycles of Mallard, Red-tailed Hawk, and American Robin, illustrating the various ways in which birds create families. Do they have families too and do they take care of them? Some of the chapters focus on a specific bird, most are about bird families like hawks, tanagers, wrens, etc.,

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2020 Birds North America Sparrows 263

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

A few families have a small number of eggs in the clutches, like gulls or cormorants. The auks, which range from puffins to guillemots all the way to the tiny auklets and murrelets, are typical for seabirds, long lived with tiny clutches of one or two eggs. Seabirds are one group of birds that go for the latter strategy. So why do it?

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Eggs Puffins Breeding Albatross 164