Archive for the 'Bird' Category
Sunday, November 8th, 2009
Now many people complain that sparrow hawk always disturb their birds. some will even kill their pets or song birds.
While many didn’t like sparrow hawk, there are few people especially the raptors lover or falconer that admire this species.
Sparrow is very agile and fierces in hunting their prey, a good species for falconry. Here is [...]
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
since the year 2000, I just concentrade on keeping for parrots family…. few month back a new neighbour moving in and he keep lots of dove and some songbirds (bulbuls and thrushs)…
Their song is not bad… and it make me kind of interested to keep some for the songs… however, song birds lifespan is shorter [...]
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Sunday, January 18th, 2009
During surfing, i found this interesting article… it is actually a book review… but not just normal book review but review about the story of Alex the african Grey parrot… yes… the famous African Grey parrot!..
Here is the story… btw, if you have chances, maybe you can try to search for the book and grab [...]
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
I found this news in the Yahoo news… very interesting!
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Researchers studying a rare and endangered species of penguin have uncovered a previously unknown species that disappeared about 500 years ago.
The research suggests that the first humans in New Zealand hunted the newly found Waitaha penguin to extinction by 1500, about 250 [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Masakambing (Abbott’s) yellow-crested cockatoo, Cacatua sulphurea abbotti at Sukun tree.
Image: Indonesian Parrot Project, summer 2008.
I had the most fascinating telephone discussion with Bonnie Zimmermann, Vice President of the Indonesian Parrot Project, about the recent reported rediscovery of several individuals of the rarest cockatoo in the world. This species, known as the Masakambing (Abbott’s) yellow-crested cockatoo, [...]
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
This afternoon, I decide to take another egg from my ducorps cockatoo and put it into my brinsea incubator. I am not sure how the result will be, but hopefully It is success.
In the meantime, I put some grass into the nestbox. this is because I observed that there are no more nesting material left [...]
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
Believe it or not, there is evidence that the birds of the world today actually evolved from the dinosaurs.
Birds and dinosaurs go together?
The birds are said to have come from the group of Maniraptora. These are theropods which include oviraptorids and dromaesaurs.
This theory was further supported by the fact that a discovery in China showed [...]
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
NST, 5 Feb 2008
ALOR GAJAH: A duck that refuses to die after having its throat slit twice has become the talk of Masjid Tanah here.
Bahari Ali, 44, said he slit its throat about 7.45am on Sunday, but found it alive hours later.
The poultry farmer said the duck’s throat had nearly been severed, but it was [...]
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
By Sugita Katyal
The Star, 12 Dec 2007
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Antarctica’s penguin population has slumped because of global warming as melting ice has destroyed nesting sites and reduced their sources of food, a WWF report said on Tuesday.
The Antarctic Peninsula is warming five times faster than the average in the rest of the world, [...]
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Today I make some observation about my breeding pair of my Ducorps cockatoo. Well, it is a good news actually.
I saw the female outside the nestbox. at first I am a bit worried that they will left the nestbox. However, I found that the male is actually incubating the egg while the female is outside. [...]
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