10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2020
In Gaines’ first novel Carbon Dreams (2001) the science (there, geology) tended to overwhelm the story, but in Accidentals, she incorporates ornithology and microbiology skillfully into a well-woven whole. Her narrator is Gabriel, 23, raised in Northern California by an American father and a Uruguayan mother. Accidentals. By Susan M.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
The idea of Lost Animals was conceived after the publication of Extinct Birds (2001), a 400-page, four-pound book on 75 extinct species. Fuller’s astonishment at locating this “grail of extinct-bird photograph hunters” is contagious. It’s almost as good as finding the bird itself!
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2013
But in 2001, Marcel van Tuinen and his colleagues published a DNA study of waterbirds that proposed a then-shocking sister relationship between flamingos and grebes, two groups “which otherwise show no resemblance,” the authors wrote at the time. The diving, piscivorous grebes were usually grouped with loons.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2011
In fact, the bird is the fifth recorded in the history of the state,* and the first spotted in the Empire State since 2001. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Third of all, the bird that was first seen on 30 October is, as of this blog posting, STILL THERE!
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2011
Since I was mapping-in human ‘territories’ or home ranges, and trying to figure out how tropical hunter-gatherers found their way around the landscape, the mechanisms of migration were interesting to me. (It Perhaps that will be the subject of a future post in this space. __ 1 Fransson, et al, 2001.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2018
The migrants face many perils, hunters, predators, adverse weather conditions and lack of refueling opportunities due to habitat loss. The beats have been out to line their route and cheer them along, wishing them bon voyage and a safe return next spring. At the far ends of the world, our southern beats are poised to welcome them back.
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