A female #HarpyEagle at La Reserva Biopark in Cota, near Bogotà, #Colombia. The bird has been hunted and trafficked to near-extinction in parts of South America, but biologists have put a male and female pair together in this bio-dome in the hope that they will reproduce.
Last week NatureScot announced the results of its puffin count on the Isle of May in Scotland’s Firth of Forth: there are now approximately 52,000 occupied puffin burrows, compared to 39,000 in the last survey in 2017 – a 33% increase
Young little owls are treated at a conservation centre in Dücze, Turkey. The owlets, thought to be lost because they could not reach their nests during their flight attempts, were found exhausted in a forested area in the city
Antalya, #Turkey
An #owl is treated at a wildlife park that since the beginning of the year has cared for and rehabilitated 545 animals, including birds of prey
Am 'Tag des Meeres'#FotoVorschlag
darf ein häufig anzutreffender Küstenbewohner nicht fehlen!
Der Kormoran
K. sind knapp gänsegroß, sie haben eine Körperlänge von 77 bis 94 cm und eine Flügelspannweite von 121 bis 149 cm. Männchen sind etwas größer und schwerer als Weibchen. Das Verbreitungsgebiet umfasst große Teile von Europa, Mittel- und Südasien, Ostafrika, Australien, Neuseeland sowie die Ostküste Nordamerikas und die Westküsten Nordafrikas und Grönlands. Kormorane sind an Wasser gebunden, die Brutkolonien liegen sowohl an Meeresküsten als auch an den Ufern größerer Flüsse und Seen. Textauszug: Wikipedia
A Spix’s #macaw perches in a tree in a breeding facility in Curaçá, eastern #Brazil. The species is clinging to life: declared #extinct in the wild, it now mainly persists in protected habitats, although Brazil hopes to re-establish a wild population before long.
A fluffy #peregrine falcon chick is tagged by wildlife officials in Newburyport, Massachusetts, US. Fifty years ago the birds were nearly extinct in the state, but now there are at least 45 pairs. Six peregrine nests can be observed on webcams
A picture book about the most exquisite and extraordinary of winged creatures. The lightest birds in the sky, hummingbirds are capable of incredible feats, such as flying backwards, diving at speeds of sixty-one miles per hour, and beating their wings more than sixty times a second. This book tells the story of a hummingbird’s early life and how they make their way into the world.
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think by Jennifer Ackerman, 2020
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that it dramatically shifting our understanding of birds — how they live and how they think.
New review: Alfie & Me is more than a memoir about nursing back to health a wild animal. Come for the owls, stay for Safina's philosophical reflections and piercing analysis of our environmental predicament.
Raptor technician John Kyalo Mwanzia works on getting a juvenile African fish eagle back into the air. The eagle was treated for injuries it sustained in a fight over territory near Nakaru, Kenya