Where do the old questions about dead birds go?
A while ago in this post, I and several commenters offered answers to the question, Where do all the dead birds go? The same question has now returned from the grave and is the subject of a recent post at the Bird Ecology Study Group.
I started reading the BESG blog a couple of months ago and it has since become one of my favorite blogs. I am not a birder and I get bored from looking at the seemingly endless species lists or just pictures of birds that I often see on few other primarily birding blogs that I regularly read. In contrast, almost all posts at the BESG blog have something to do with an interesting bird behavior and are accompanied with good, original pictures. I find them quite informative.
We need to have more blogs like that not just about birds, but about all other animal groups.
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This looks good. I agree that there's a lot of "pretty picture" blogs out there. Personally, I'm always more interested in seeing animals in action.
Thank you, Aydin, for the kind words.
The comedian Steven Wright had a saying, "It's a good thing there's gravity, because otherwise when birds die, they'd just stay up there."
Even if not eaten by larger scavengers it is amazing how quickly insects will dispose of a corpse.
Less than two weeks ago the slowworm resident of my log pile kicked the bucket and I threw it behind the compost heap. A few days ago it was just an empty husk, skin filled with a picked skeleton and no smell at all.
A very small animal true, but I was surprised at the speed.
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