https://youtu.be/YOGwtU3uMOo This is a recording from the January 15, 2021 Webinar with Everyone’s Favorite Naturalist and Photographer Rick Bunting – “Florida Reflections”. It is a look
is currently vulnerable to climate change impacts such as droughts, floods, heat waves, extreme weather events and sea-level rise. 11% is about 800 million people.
There are over 9,500 species of birds in the world. Scientists typically group them into 30 categories. Birds are the most widespread of all animals
polluted approximately 1,180 miles of coastline and killed up to 100,000 seabirds.
don’t sing. Instead, they will drum their beak against a tree. Other woodpeckers can identify which bird it is by the sound of the drumming.
Instead, they have extra vertebrae in their necks to allow their heads to turn further. They can turn their head around to see straight behind
often take the longest to hatch. Emu chicks, for example, take 60 days to hatch. Small songbirds take just 2 weeks.
It measures 7″ x 5″ and weighs 3 pounds. However, the biggest egg for the size of the mother is laid by the kiwi and
can hold up to 2.5 gallons of water at a time. The beak will shrink to squeeze out the water before the pelican swallows its
is the whistling swan, with up to 25,000 feathers. Hummingbirds, on the other hand, are so small that they have fewer than 1,000.
is the bee hummingbird. Its egg is just under 0.5″ x 0.25″ and weighs a mere 0.02 oz.
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