MARINA ZURKOW
One of my UrbanNature Interventionist students suggested this film – it’s at once shmaltzy, beautifully shot, and umwelt-shifting! Here’s chapter one, but you can watch the full 50 minute doc at Nature/PBS. It premiered in Nov 2011. Watch My Life as a Turkey on PBS. See more from Nature.
Many of your pet fowl questions can be answered here, including how to diaper your goose or duck. The pictures say far more.
I’m visiting awesome friends Ruth and Oliver in Cortes, They have been incubating and raising Khaki Campbell ducks for a couple of years. They’re apparently excellent egg layers (averaging 300 a year!) but apparently this breed fixity on pumping out eggs has created unreliable (characterized hesitantly as terrible) mothers. So Ruth and Oliver set a…
1. Critical sensitive period Imprinting occurs at a particular time termed the sensitive period during early postnatal life. For example, in anserine birds such as ducks and geese, the time for imprinting is 24-48 hours after hatching when the ‘following response’ is learnt. At this time a gosling learns to follow his mother who is…
Sukadana, a small coastal city in western Borneo, is in the midst of a building boom. But the new houses are not for people. They are giant birdhouses playing an all-day siren call through booming speakers to a small bird whose edible nests — at almost $1,000 a pound — produce a broth that is…
Great web page full of info and clips on bird communication from Gary Ritchison’s Avian Biology course at EKU (ta, google) bird communication | avian biology Bird communication, posted with vodpod The Monwalking Red-Capped Manakin