Conservationists in the United States say that fragments of lead ammunition continue to take a desperate toll on one of the country’s rarest birds. Since December, seven wild California condors from a population of 80 have died in the Grand Canyon area. Three of the deaths have been definitively linked to ingesting lead from bullets […]
Tag: biological diversity
Volcano Birds in the Modern Age
From the time of Magellan, there has been a fascination with the birds that “laid their eggs in volcanoes.” Those birds, megapodes as a group, are in the news again as our Bronx Zoo has hatched young from a captive pair of maleo, the national bird of Sulawesi. The media coverage has stressed the “bizarre” […]