10,000 Birds
JUNE 16, 2024
But in south-west Europe there is a bird that kicks out the sitting tenants and takes over the nest altogether. The swifts arrive, seek the swallows out, find their nests and evict the tenants! They breed in colonies, often close to human habitation. How can you tell if a Red-rumped Swallow’s nest has been taken over?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2015
But this Florida population is unique, not just by virtue of their plumage – they have striped crowns while their western brethren have spots – but by virtue of their ability to coexist with humans. There were three burrows, each with a tenant. One had a cluster of recently fledged birds and their nonplussed parent.
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Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 20, 2020
At a fundamental level, health drives human performance. We’re really missing the boat here if we’re chasing a few nickels of energy efficiency by stretching out the fans and filters while we’re losing thousands of dollars around human productivity and illness,” Macomber told Sales & Marketing Management. Who will foot that bill?
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2013
Sure, they may lack the audacious colors of jays or the imposing attitudes of raptors, but it is wrens, with jaunty tails and brazen attitudes and ringing, rambling voices, that re on anyone’s short list of favorite garden birds for almost as long as humans have paid attention to birds.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 8, 2023
One study in Korea found that 37% of injuries and deaths were caused by predation by natural enemies, another 37% (a worryingly high number) by window strikes, 10% by traffic accidents, 7% each by flooding and dehydration, and 3% by human disturbance. I wonder what Barn Swallows did before humans started building houses.
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