Founded in 2010 by former unbiased booksellers, Uncommon Chicken is a Los Angeles-based mostly impartial publisher of fifty books a yr, specializing in fiction, nonfiction, memoir, entertainment, humor, politics, and present occasions. Not solely was tune a strong indication that this thriller bird had a chestnut-sided warbler as a father, however the physical measurements indicated that this hen was most positively a hybrid: its invoice was longer than chestnut-sided warblers’ bills but it surely was within the anticipated range for Vermivora warblers (Determine 2a), and its wings had been longer than any Vermivora warbler species’s wings but they have been similar to chestnut-sided warblers.
Behind the door are stuffed tigers and solar bears in various poses of ferocity, the shell of a sea turtle mounted on the wall, cardboard packing containers overflowing with tiger skins and elephant ivory””and suitcases stuffed with more than 240 neatly stacked helmeted hornbill casques, all seized from wildlife traffickers.
The Environmental Investigation Company (EIA), a U.Okay.-based mostly nonprofit that has been monitoring seizures together with the wildlife-trade monitoring group Site visitors, says these seizures probably symbolize a fraction of the helmeted hornbill casques being traded.
When you have seen any fascinating birds not too long ago, you may go away a message at the finish of the recording or ship your sightings to the RBA through e-mail at: birdsetc@ Please put either bird sighting” or Rare Chicken Alert” in the topic line and be sure you include your mailing address and phone number.
Species highlights from the Coastal Christmas Chook Count held on December 15th included: BARROW’ S GOLDENEYE, NORTHERN SHOVELER, LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, GLAUCOUS GULL, ICELAND GULL, BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE, RAZORBILL, BLACK GUILLEMOT, THICK-BILLED MURRE, JAPANESE SCREECH-OWL, NICE HORNED OWL, BARRED OWL, NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL, NORTHERN SHRIKE, WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW, DICKCISSEL, CRIMSON CROSSBILL, and PINK-HEADED WOODPECKER.