A wave of alarming crimes against waterfowl, including swans, ducks, and geese, is making headlines across England and Wales. From 2020 to 2022, these violent incidents have risen by 59%, as per police data. Unfortunately, the reality might be even worse, as these reported crimes could merely be the ‘tip of the iceberg’. The attacks […]
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Study: Woodpecker Drumming is Neurologically Similar to Songbird Vocalization
A team of scientists from the United States and Denmark has found specialized pecking-related regions in the woodpecker forebrain that show characteristics that until now have only been associated with vocal learning in animals and language in humans; instead of being related to vocalization, activity in these brain regions is related to the characteristic tree […]
Motorists Bring Traffic To A Stop On Busy Interstate To Save A Family Of Ducks
Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side! That’s how the popular riddle or saying goes, but it seems it applies to ducks as well. A family of ducks was attempting to cross the road to get to the other side of Interstate 405 in Washington State, but they ended […]
Couple Transforms Lifejacket Into Stepping Stone For Trapped Ducklings
The pool was easy to climb into, but the mother might’ve miscalculated how easy it would be to climb back out. With all her ducks in tow, she tried to exit the pool but some of the ducklings were struggling to make it over the edge. Thankfully, a compassionate couple took notice of the ducklings’ […]
Local Animal Lover Spends Over Two Hours Ushering 40 Geese Away from Busy Roads
A local animal lover and good samaritan stopped on a busy dual carriageway to herd 40 geese to safety. Simon Finnegan spent over two hours hearing the geese to a canal more than a mile away in Erdington, Birmingham. The geese jumped in and swam happily away. The 49-year-old was on his way to a […]
My life and death hike through busy Melbourne to help a duck march her eight babies to water
Pacific black ducks are common in Melbourne parks. They’re beautiful birds with chocolate plumage and brown heads bisected by toffee-coloured stripes. But last weekend, I had no time to appreciate their looks when I heard quacking coming from outside my flat. It was a Pacific black duck with eight ducklings. Half a dozen people herded […]
Mallard ‘massacre’ as 100 ducks shot ‘for fun’ and left to die along banks of River Hull
Over one hundred ducks have been brutally “massacred” on an East Yorkshire river, with some left to die among the reeds. That is the claim of posters that were put up along West Beck near the northern end of the River Hull at Driffield, after a “mass slaughter” carried out “for fun”. One worried resident […]
Squaw Creek NWR
This is the time of year to visitSquaw Creek NWRin Northwest Missouri. I go several times each year and spend as much time as possible there in late fall and early winter. It is a major rest stop for migrating water fowl each fall and spring, and as such, hundreds of bald eagles also find […]