10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Doug Futuyma believes in science and in the scientific basis of evolution. How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity by Douglas J. This isn’t a bad thing, it’s just a very different kind of book than popular books about bird behavior, which rely on story as much as science.

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Science Albatross Research Birds 228

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

For one thing, we become more aware of cultural biases in our science (new findings on warbling female birds, for example, reveal both gender and geographic biases). Superb Lyrebird by John Burgoyne ©2020 . Many popular science books have neither. I am happy, however, that there is a list of readings and that there is an index.

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Research Birds Science Costa Rica 238

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. Jennifer Ackerman points out in the introduction to What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds , that we don’t know much, but that very soon we may know a lot more. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors?

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 225

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. Research experiments are described without citing the names of the researchers themselves or any other background information. There is always more to learn, more to explore, and it appears that in some areas we are just starting to know what we don’t know (female bird song!).

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North America Research Birds Groups 279

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As we know from the French documentary La Marche de l’Empereur ( March of the Penguins) , the females skedaddle from the breeding colony once she produces an egg, leaving the egg to be incubated by the males, who fast for 120 days while keeping the egg in a flap of their feet. (I

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Penguins Seals Leopards Research 165

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

I visited Tengchong in late 2020 and wrote about it – but I also went there earlier, in 2017, and this post shows some photos I took during that trip, along with the usual comments that seem to be much more about ridiculing my fellow humans (especially ornithologists and the like) than providing useful information on birds.

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China 2017 Birds Indonesia 193