Critter News

OCTOBER 12, 2009

I don't support animal research and I have no sympathy for animal researchers. I would never advocate violence against a researcher. I almost quit a book club a year ago because one of the members is a proponent of medical research. All of this BS by medical researchers must be challenged.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Further research revealed the Bird Hybrids blog ( [link] ) has several revealing photographs of this (and many other) hybrids. However, if you want to know what a Racklehahn looks like, take a look at The Bird Hybrids Blog which has some great photographs.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2022

And of course, what you see in the background of these two photos is a Bronze Mannikin , giving me what is perhaps one of the best links in the personal history of my bird blog writing (low standards, admittedly). Mind you – it is indeed a description, not a video, as the research was done in 1952.

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MAY 2, 2023

Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird. THIS IMAGE NOT IN THE BOOK. Schulman, 2023.

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Critter News

MARCH 15, 2009

He is the assistant vice president for research communications in the Office of University Relations. Tags: chimpanzees medical research animal welfare. Here's his post about it.

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MARCH 18, 2014

This humble blog has been serving people of all nations for over a decade through our online collaborative exploration of birding culture, conservation, citizen science, and amateur ornithology. Blogging Library of Congress' Also, we’ve bragged a lot about the fancy birds we’ve seen in fancy places.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Not only did my research show a lot of promising sites to visit, but I also have two good birding friends in the region, Laura and Brad. That is arguably the scariest sentence you will ever read in a birding blog. My sincere apologies. At the end of last summer, I had to make a business trip to Denver, Colorado.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

This week’s guest blog was written by Linda Hufford, who has been a wildlife rehabilitator specializing in raptors for over twenty years. But, he continued, some – but not all – of the researchers drove him nuts. Their attitude was “the rules don’t apply to me, I’m a researcher.”

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2015

I was told when I first started blogging here at 10,000 Birds that I was never to use the short form, “10K.” This is interesting right now because the AVian Phylogenomics Consortium has just announced the Bird 10K project, which ties together a pile of previously done research with some exciting new projects just taking off now.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2022

The HBW entry for the Downy Woodpecker (Reno, USA) illustrates a common phenomenon – apparently, the more a species is known, the more subjects for further research pop up. The main point of having self-imposed rules when writing a blog is to break them whenever desired.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Yesterday I posted a blog about the mystery hummingbird located in Rogitama, Colombia. I am pleased to share some photographs of the bird that was captured by a team of Colombian ornithologists for DNA analysis.

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JULY 3, 2023

A few days ago,I was just minding my own business until a pigeon came at my house in the mind blogging 43° C temperature. I did some research and found that it was a yellow footed green pigeon from Maharashtra, India. It caught my attention so I provided it with water and some rice. It was just standing there, staring into the abyss.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2022

It is reasonable to assume that you – you reader of this blog – howevermuch you may have interest in the starnose mole, the common octopus, and other of Higgins’ zoological examples — you like birds best of all. That innate sense of direction is, according to recent research, a result of the ability to detect the earth’s magnetic field.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2013

It was on the island of Trinidad, at the Aripo Agricultural Research Station, where all of these photographs were taken. In Trinidad and Tobago, the Aripo Agricultural Research Station is easily the best place to see Red-breasted Blackbirds (to say nothing of South American Snipe , Fork-tailed Flycatchers , and a host of other cool birds).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2015

Gustave Axelson has a nice breakdown of a recent genetic analysis of redpolls on Cornell’s All About Birds Blog : Mason and Taylor looked beyond the plumage into strands of the birds’ DNA in the most extensive look ever at the redpoll genome. It sure looks like it!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2013

Peripatetic ornithologist Nick Sly has long been a friend of the blog here and has contributed such classics as Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult and Forpus passerinus and the Ornithologists of Masaguaral. Please read and then vote for either Nick or Maria’s research! To win, we need your votes! Thanks for your support!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

So armed with some knowledge from the “ Access Considerations for Birding Locations ” page on the Birdability website and some research, I twice visited the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge near Portland, Oregon with accessibility in mind. A 5% grade is steeper than I thought, but research suggests that 5% is acceptable.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2015

You know what one of my favorite things is about bird blogging? It’s all of the things I learn about different birds from researching to write posts. Here are a couple of shots I took of a juvenile Heermann’s Gull on the beach. .

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

I do not get too many comments on my blog posts, but it seems that whenever I write about jacanas – whether in Africa, Australia, or Asia – there is an unusually high number of reactions (well, maybe one or two rather than the usual zero) from female readers. .” This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway).

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

New research in The Auk suggests that small drones may be a good way to count songbirds. Bad news: The massive Common Murre die-off along the U.S. and Canadian West Coasts last year appears to be caused by warmer-than-usual water which decimated stocks of the birds’ preferred fish.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Of course, it is hard to justify such an obsession in a blog post ostensibly all about birds. This, as any scientist will tell you, surely requires further research. The last few days, I have been mildly obsessed with a Velvet Underground cover version of “I’m waiting for the man” by Matt Berninger (video here ).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

Over the course of 30 years, the researchers collected all the road-killed swallows they encountered while doing their other research. The research on these swallows involved mist netting, a technique for safely collecting wild birds for measurement or banding and release. When a car comes along they fly away.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2013

We here at 10,000 Birds are pleased to announce that two new Beat Writers have agreed to risk their spare time, their reputations, and their credibility by agreeing to blog here on 10,000 Birds! … Blogging bloggers'

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

One nice little story for my blog post lost. I remember that when I was still a research chemist developing dental materials, I once gave a presentation at that university, which was followed by my receiving a hideous and very colorful plate as a gift afterward. A Crested Serpent Eagle , looking a bit ridiculous after a rain.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2015

After Nadeem attends the NWRA conference in Princeton, NJ, he will go to Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research in Delaware; The Wildlife Center of Virginia ; New Jersey’s Mercer County Wildlife Center ; and The Cape Wildlife Center in Massachusetts. What’s left? The indiegogo campaign needs donations. . Will you help?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

I’ll leave today’s blog in her capable hands. Researchers have also found that bobcats and mountain lions exposed to diphacinone and other first generation anticoagulants have an increased susceptibility to mange —to the point where it has caused serious illness and death. Sincerely, Craig A.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Seriously, it is much nicer to blog about a brown bird with a descriptive name than some other bird whose common name references an ancient ornithologist none of us have ever met. This post is about the subspecies rufa from Java, because that’s the only subspecies I’ve seen so far.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Isn’t every other blog post or tweet these days about how people are learning to bird? The essay, less than 11 pages long and illustrated with a black-and-white photo of the star of the piece, is a sample of the excellent writing that characterizes Learning the Birds. Not an enticing subject, I think.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

This is also why you very rarely find a photo of a giraffe on top of one of these posts – the other reason of course being that a giraffe photo would be relatively pointless in a birding blog. If I was an ornithologist aiming for a grant, I would now definitely highlight the need for more research on this topic.

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Critter News

JULY 20, 2009

I occasionally read Scienceblog when there is mention of animal research issues. It's a site that, according to its own description, is half reader blogs and half press releases from research institutions. I'm not going into why I do not support animal research. If you oppose it, then I'm preaching to the choir.

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Critter News

JANUARY 11, 2009

I found a link to them on ANIMAL's blog (ANIMAL is a Portuguese animal rights group.) They do support some animal-based studies (which sucks); HOWEVER, they acknowledge that much animal research is useless. Remember animal research doesn't just create reports, it creates CAREERS as well.) Tags: animal research.

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Critter News

JULY 19, 2009

Here's a short analysis of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act which makes me wonder if what we do on this blog could be construed as falling under it. From Alternet.org.all CAPS are my emphasis Under the law, an animal enterprise includes any business that deals in animal research or uses or sells animal products.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2013

I was intrigued to read this piece over at the ABA Blog. It’s mainly to make you aware that if you see any Evening Grosbeaks, whatever they may be, researcher Aaron Haiman wants to hear about them and about what they are eating. One the one hand, science is awesome. What’s a birder to think?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2013

The photograph of Cory’s Shearwater is from this blog post. Birds Navigation Olfaction research Sheawater' Oceanic navigation in Cory’s shearwaters: evidence for a crucial role of olfactory cues for homing after displacement Journal of Experimental Biology, 216 (15) DOI: 10.1242/jeb.085738.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2011

For me, writing good quizzes has meant working long hard hours, researching, emailing, reading field guides, conferring with master birders around the world. Thank you to Corey and Mike for the opportunity to blog with the premier bird bloggers in the world. Good birding, good blogging and good reading to you all.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Cindy described the event and posted photos on the blog she had been keeping since Ty was diagnosed, on the home page of the Ty Louis Campbell Foundation, a non-profit organization she and her husband Lou set up to spread awareness and fund research for pediatric cancer. That night Ty and his family looked through the photos.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Fortunately for the honor of the species, the researchers found that kleptoparasitism was practiced at a low rate (4% of observations) while much more often, drongos captured insects disturbed by other species (41% of observations).

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