10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version. Bringing animals that would require feed and water at that early stage would have been unwise. Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius.

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Critter News

JANUARY 25, 2012

1, 2012, egg-laying hens across many European countries will live with fewer discomforts: The European Commission has officially implemented its ban on battery cages, the notoriously cramped cages used by many egg farmers and criticized by animal rights proponents and veterinarians who call them cruel and harmful to the birds' welfare.

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Battery Cages Battery Animal Welfare Welfare 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2012

I was doing my thesis research at the time, and it even affected what I was doing, as the wild world was being reconceptualized in terms of tannins and alkaloids, seed edators and dispersers, and so on. I remember taking an advanced seminar in plant-animal interaction, in preparation for my own study of human-plant interactions.

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2001 New York City Birds Research 151

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in. Baicich, Margaret A.

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America Industry Birds Squirrels 243

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

And, in a very lovely section in the middle of the book, she describes the life cycle of the cahow, informing evocative passages about their nocturnal courtship and flight with recent research findings about how seabirds are able to function—eat, sleep, navigate home. photo of Elizabeth Gehrman: Ingrid Skousgard, 2012.

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Birds Rats Breeding 2012 175

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

The research team reporting on these fish carried out a stable isotopic analysis to see what role Pigeons may play in the diet of these fish. Since the Catfish eat these animals, they are made up of tissues that combine these signatures and further alter them in expected ways (black dots). Cucherousset, J., Boulêtreau, S., 0050840.

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Fish Birds Whales Whaling 215

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

As a result, animals like the Florida panther and diminishing habitats like the prairie grasslands stand a fighting chance. Additional benefits: A Wildlife Conservation Stamp could fund species and habitat projects that are sometimes short-changed in favor of game animal priorities. The Wild Duck Chase.

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Wildlife Hunters Ducks Hunting 218

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2021

There was only modest discussion of the significance of the stability of animal names (a universal goal in zoological nomenclature ) or the potential impact of suddenly having multiple names for dozens of birds. Was there confusion that impacted data collection or research or birding? Is ornithology more inclusive?

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Birds Russia Hawaii Woodpeckers 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

I can’t imagine they were expecting anyone to research the line as much as I now regret doing! The “Rise and rise again” line from the Robin Hood movie reverses the order of the animals, of course, but March has long been said to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb, weather-wise. I guess it just sounded good.

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Connecticut India Lamb Lions 143

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The archipelago consists of 17,000 islands stretching out over 2500 miles along the Equator with a varied history of avian research and study, most on the under- or not-studied side. And, there is A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia: Second Edition by Morten Strange (2012). So, this is no ordinary bird guide.

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Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 140

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

I like knowing that Ari Friedlaender, who wrote the section of Cetaceans, is a marine biologist affiliated with Duke University who studied Humpback Whales in Antarctica, and that Phil Trathan, who wrote the Penguins section, is a senior research scientist with the British Antarctic Survey who has conducted a census of Emperor Penguins.

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Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 175

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. A Great Backyard Bird Count Miracle Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2011) What is the International Bird Rescue Research Center Anyway? Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 258

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Consider that Paulson’s Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East (2012) covers 336 odonate species and think about the difference in geographic size and you get a sense of the concentrated diversity in Costa Rica (though the authors note that the rate of diversity is still less than the increase in diversity for butterflies and orchids).

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