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My eBird Citizen Science Experiment

10,000 Birds

We drove for about 290 km through the 400 square kilometres expanse of Pancevacki Rit and found 8 breeding colonies with 252 occupied nests, or a density of 1.6 Two years ago, I was counting active nests of Rooks in the flat agricultural landscape north of Belgrade, Serbia. nests per 1 km2.

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Dragonflies and Damselflies of Costa Rica: A Field Guide–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The material on habitat tells us that sometimes looking for odonates in the tropics means thinking outside the North American box: Bromeliads and water-holding tree holes are breeding locations for certain species, including Blue-winged Helicopter. I’ve known of Dennis Paulson’s work for years. CONCLUSION.

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Hill’s PetFit Challenge

4 The Love Of Animals

In an industry first, Hill’s Science Diet Weight Loss System offers pre-packaged meals for your dog! o Each box contains food and treats for 4-5 weeks (depending on breed and target weight) including: o Daily pre-portioned dry food packets that take out the guess work. for Small Breed sizes and $59.99

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DeMuth Agrees to Plea Bargain

Critter News

From the Science Insider. Instead, DeMuth will plead guilty to conspiring to damage a Minnesota company that breeds ferrets. DeMuth was arrested and charged in November 2009 after refusing to cooperate with a grand jury investigating the Iowa break-in. According to the plea agreement, the damage totaled less than $10,000.

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Where Have You Gone, Rhodonessa caryophyllacea?

10,000 Birds

It is easy to tell when some species become extinct — a Martha or a Lonesome George dies and there are no more, not now, not ever (until science fiction kicks in.) No, this is a bird that, in the male breeding plumage, shows off a robust pinkness of head that is all the more vivid in contrast with the bird’s dark body.

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Africa’s endangered species

10,000 Birds

More than 150 bird species are known to have become extinct over the past 500 years, and many more are estimated to have been driven to extinction before they became known to science. There has been growth in the breeding population at the colonies in Morocco (now estimated at 106 breeding pairs and approximately 500 birds in total).

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

10,000 Birds

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. As Sibley tells us in the Preface, he originally intended to write a children’s book.

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