10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2011

What kid can resist the siren song of bunny rabbits frolicking in the grass? And Desi, being the offspring of two pretty cool people, if I do so say myself, loves chasing him some rabbits. Rabbits practically beg to be chased, with their cuteness and their swiftness and their uncatchability. Why wouldn’t he?

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Rabbits Washington Game Fish 161

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2012

I’ve written at length in the past about the circumstances of that extinction event, how the rich endemic fauna was utterly vulnerable to introduced mammals and how waves of invaders wiped out different groups of species. I’ve also touched on how New Zealanders have responded to these extinctions, but not in as much depth.

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New Zealand Rats Mammals Possums 172

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2013

My mammal-rehabber friends give me their unfortunates, as well. He then ate a screech owl, a robin, two squirrels, a mourning dove, three chipmunks, and a rabbit. As long as they had no drugs in their system, and as long as they weren’t touched by a cat (and thus contaminated with salmonella/pasteurella/Bartonella, etc.)

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Rodents Mice Chipmunks 181

10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2022

According to the HBW entry for this species, it “has been claimed that loss of native mammals after European settlement created shortage of nesting material, explaining this species’ penchant for taking hair from humans.”

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Australia Birds Feral Cats Kangaroos 181

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This is a bit of a rabbit hole, however, and you may find yourself, as I did, spending the day watching videos of Superb Lyrebirds singing and Kea Parrots making snowballs. If you want more of a visual counterpart, you can read The Bird Way next to your computer or with smartphone in hand.

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Science Birds Costa Rica Research 204

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Pale-mandibled Aracari by Luke Seitz Taste, touch and smell in birds are generally considered to be weaker than these same senses in mammals. Whilst catfish have around 100,000 taste buds, rabbits around 17,000 and humans approximately 9,000, birds rarely exceed 100 of these receptors. Let’s talk about taste.

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Mammals Mozambique Birds Colombia 202

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Africa is famous for its large, charismatic mammals, and the Big Five epitomize the most sought-after of these fantastic beasts. As visitors’ and the public’s interests expanded from the Big Five, and an appreciation for lesser mammals, birds and smaller wildlife has became more widespread, the term Little Five was coined.

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Leopards Elephants 189

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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Australia Birds Sheep Zebras 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

This relatively new technique has been used to study relationships among and within several groups of mammals, including lagamorphs (rabbits and hares), rodents, and cetaceans (whales and dolphins), but I couldn’t find many references to its application in avian systematics yet.

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Parrots Falcons Indonesia Rodents 185

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. There was also a mammal jawbone in the pellet too. I wasn’t as interested in the mammal jawbone, but it totally piqued his interest. I was intrigued…what could that beak be from?

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Bats Dissection Minnesota Owls 194

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. Perhaps she had been watching Monty Python’s Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.). “I Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. The baffling, mind-boggling public.

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Hamburgers Squirrels Chickens Wildlife Rehabilitation 250

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2015

We ended with 7 species of mammal, including River Otter, Gray Fox, and Marsh Rabbit, but the highlight may have been a little Canebrake Rattlesnake crossing the road at the Bodie Island lighthouse, a lifer herp for me. A Nelson’s Sparrow peeks out of an Outer Banks marsh. Photo by Nate Swick.

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North Carolina Rattlesnake Sparrows Otters 150

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

However, they were refound on Buldir Island, a remote island that never had any introduced mammals. Rabbits were introduced to the island by guano miners, which turned the previously verdant island into a giant sand dune; almost all vegetation was wiped out.

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Albatross Endangered Species Bald Eagle Alaska 192

Animal Person

APRIL 21, 2009

The goal is to provide blogospheric content that is easy to find, and from a variety of sources. On the left, you'll see this: Concepts. Project Treadstone. Responsible Policies. More >> Animals. More >> Category. More >> Players. New York Times.

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Animal Rights Project Treadstone Rights Responsible Policies 100

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 198

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

It’s not surprising that animals—especially, but not only, mammals—share many emotions with us because we also share brain structures—located in the limbic system—that are the seat of our emotions. After publishing my stories I got emails from people all over the world who had seen similar behavior in various birds and mammals.

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Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2024

These eagles are versatile predators, the ninjas of the sky, capable of snatching up prey ranging from rabbits to deer. Their diet is as versatile as it gets – ranging from fish to small mammals and even larger prey like deer. Known for their incredible agility, they can swoop down at breathtaking speeds to catch their dinner.

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Alaska Eagles Bald Eagle Deer 191

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2012

Arctic Hare also were largely ignored by predators and bred, well, like rabbits. Ground nesting birds (and up here they are all ground nesting birds, well except the ones on cliffs, which are still technically… oh you get the point) enjoyed good breeding success. Hares take advantage of the warming sun to forage on hill sides.

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Rabbits Breeding Litter Raised 196

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The area that the birds are living in will predicate what becomes the normal prey for the Harris’s Hawk , but those here on the Baja target Blacktail Jackrabbits, Cottontail Rabbits, California Quail, and many other species of birds and small mammals. There are three subspecies of Harris Hawks: The P.

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Rabbits Mexico South America Arizona 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 25, 2010

Assuming that the fish are kept in a large aquarium that mimics their natural habitat, and that the keeper treats the fish as family (as they would a rescued dog, cat, rabbit, etc.), I intend to stick with rescuing rabbits from now on.) The analogy to mammals we rescue is interesting; it's a good point.

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