Hunting Science Squirrels 
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2015
And squirrels. Aggravatingly, many squirrels. How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 22, 2011
I took home a few of the pellets and found that the owls were feasting on grey squirrels and cottontail rabbits. I stuffed it in my pocket and decided to take it to Richard Oehlenschlager at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Check out the bones that are clearly visible, you wouldn’t find that with a hawk pellet.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
The drongo perches above the flock, snatching insects that they disturb, and keeping an eye out for predators that might go unnoticed by its hunting flock-mates. The species is classified as Near Threatened for all the usual depressing reasons – pollution, drainage, hunting, and the collection of eggs and nestlings ( source ).
10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2012
He discovered numerous new species for science including this barbet and was the first person to confirm the existence of both Gorillas and Pygmies. Other more fanciful discoveries on his journey included the Ivory-Eater (Sciurus eborivorus), a squirrel with huge gnawing teeth that scours the rainforest in search of elephant carcasses!
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 29, 2024
” Blue-bearded Bee-eaters seem to have a pretty clever hunting strategy. In the section on other animals which sometimes ends my posts, the mammal comparing favorably with Donald Trump today is some kind of squirrel. A giant squirrel, actually. Attack of the giant squirrels from Mars. Or something like that.
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