Life is hard for baby birds, as the world is filled with reasons why they might not make it too adulthood. Starvation and predators...
Nick Sly, a friend of 10,000 Birds who writes intermittently at the thoroughly-recommended Biological Ramblings, is an ornithologist who graduated not so long ago from...
Baby Bird week couldn’t come at a better time for someone in the High Arctic, suddenly there are birds hatching everywhere. Baby birds here,...
From time to time during the filming of our TV series we come across something totally unexpected. Mostly the unexpected event is caused by...
Laura Helmuth has a pretty good essay about why Jonathan Franzen is the most annoying person in Birders: The Central Park Effect. Hat-tip to...
Even red list species are being exported under the claim that they are captive bred despite the lack of breeding facilities in the archipelago. Amazingly,...
Why can’t a baby bird just hatch out of the egg and fly away, or at least, be able to fly a little and...
Several years ago, I was asked to visit my nephew’s preschool class and talk about birds. I was delighted by the invitation and spent...
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