I've seen my cat's big hungry eyes (even after feeding) gawk at my caged pigeons. The cage is secure.
When I'm not watching he'll even try to climb the cage and take a few swipes at the poor birds. Anything I can do to dissuade this? I've never seen such fearful eyes on a pigeon.
Have you been keeping up with my posts at Birdingblogs.com?
If Darwin was alive today he would be a bird watcher. But he would do his bird watching differently, using a nice set of binoculars rather than a shotgun. In his autobiography, Darwin reminisces ... Read more
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...Louis Agassiz, the most famous scientist of his time, eclipsing Darwin in his stature and influence (up to a point) addressed this diversity across the landscape in one way. Darwin addressed it in another way. Today, most people don't even know what Agassiz said, even though it is a perfectly...
... no matter how we interpret what happened for Darwin on his route from Potential Country Pastor to First Evolutionary Biologist, the mocking birds figured in because they impressed young Charles when he first saw them....
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For the next several weeks, I'll be contributing a weekly post at Birdingblogs.com. The informal title of this series of posts is Darwin's Other Birds. The idea is to identify particularly interesting passages from Darwin's writings and put them in an appropriate context. This week's post is...
I just realized that in the recent confusion of travelling and home improvement activities, I forgot to point out to you'all that my third every-four-weeks post at 10,000 Birds (the blog) is now up for your reading pleasure: Birds Really Dinosaurs?
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Hello, you know where you can download the game Angry Birds Rio, i tried to search for torrents, but found nothing, if anyone knows give a direct link where you can download
Living Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary History of Modern Birds is an academic anthology of key writing about bird evolution. There are two main things that distinguish this book: 1) It focuses on the fossil record (rather than genetics); and 2) It is primarily about the evolutionary context of...
The West Indies includes the Lucayan Archipelago (Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands); the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Hispaniola [Dominican Republic and Haiti], Jamaica, Cayman Islands); the Lesser Antilles (Leeward Islands [the Virgin Islands of Saint Croix, Saint Thomas, Saint John, Water...
As part of Migration Week (inspired by this post), I'm covering migration related books (mainly having to do with birds). How Birds Migrate by Paul Kerlinger (with Illustrations by Pat Archer), Second Edition, is an affordable, up to date (2009 publication) comprehensive and intelligently...
On the Wing: American Birds in Migration is a children's book suitable for up to Middle School or thereabouts. Remarkably, this ten year old volume is actually fairly accurate and comprehensible, covering most of the major aspects of bird migration, discussion ecological patterns, mechanisms...
My dad doesn't want the birds to chew on any wires but the problem is I know a bird or birds live there, I just don't know if there are any eggs or hatchlings in it. Should I move the nest? or should I check if there are eggs or anything in it?
Thanks in advance
To Michael: My dad thinks that...
I have just tried to update Angry Birds on my jailbroken iPhone 4 running on IOS 4.2.1 but it won't finish installing. Any ideas, is this because I haven't updated iPhone to 4.3 yet?
Many thanks
SO i was just wondering....what happened to those birds that died in Arkansas......This happened over 2 months ago and all the people that were suppose to do the autopsys on the birds said it would take no more that 3 days to find out what happened to there bodies ..and yet its been over two...