10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2024

Recognizing its value for eco-tourism and biogeographical research, it is essential to conserve this magnificent bird. Some research topics seem a bit bizarre to me. This could hint at a solution for the struggling Chinese housing market – moving to a new apartment for each new child?

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Myanmar Sri Lanka Nepal Birds 178

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2016

New research in Current Biology suggests that concentrating efforts on saving the remaining four large populations of the Florida Scrub-Jay isn’t all that’s needed. It turns out that smaller, scattered “satellite” groups of the bird are a source of needed genetic diversity when individuals leave the satellites and join the main populations.

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Florida Research California Hunting 176

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2015

That impressive number is a testament to the exponential advances in DNA-sequencing technology, but the researchers are quick to note it’s still less than 1% of the total genome.). Whereas previous genetic analyses of redpolls looked at just 11 regions of the genome (at most), Mason and Taylor examined 235,000 regions.

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Species Switzerland Groups Europe 214

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2019

With birds bedecked in their breeding best and filling the air with song, this is migration at its loveliest. A wonderful variety of bird species are waiting to be seen and among them are many a birder’s favorite avian group, the wood-warblers. Participate in the Rainforest Biodiversity Group’s annual bird-a-thon.

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Costa Rica Species Belize New Jersey 182

10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2014

Every spring, billions of migratory songbirds in Europe fly north to their breeding grounds. But researchers have now found evidence of a giant European bat that is plucking migrating birds out of the night sky. Several months ago, a group of bat researchers spent the night recording the sounds of a marshy Spanish forest.

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Los Angeles Bats Feral Cats New York City 173

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Poor researchers Nicola Coumi and Rob Slotow failed to find anything particularly interesting about vigilance in Bronze Mannikin groups. Mind you – it is indeed a description, not a video, as the research was done in 1952. ” I wish I had this kind of optimism. They probably did not even have Twitter then.

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South Africa Africa Birds Research 147

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Although parrots are generally assumed to have complex social groups, few studies have quantitatively examined these assumptions about parrot social structure. We critically assessed 4 assumptions about parrot socioecology using data from captive and wild groups of Monk Parakeets (Myiopsitta monachus). but not steep (,0.1).

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Parrots Research Dogs Groups 204

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

So, I anxiously followed the “Flock to Marion 2022” Facebook group in anticipation for open cabins to come up for sale. These have been used by meteorologists, technicians, and researchers who spend about 13 months on the island at a time researching a variety of sciences. I waited…and waited…and waited. and seabirders.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 263

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2016

But this breeding and social arrangement has its risks. And for wild pheasants ( Common , in Europe; or Ring-necked , stateside), a bigger group may actually present an existential danger. Newly published research in the journal Animal Behaviour suggests an ideal harem size for pheasants of 2.7 female birds for every male.

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Game Europe Groups Breeding 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2015

You see, it clearly resembles a hybrid between the Spanish and the House Sparrow, and an ancient hybrid event was long suspected to be the source of its existence – with recent research indicating that apparently this isn’t the case after all. Winter plumage makes things a bit more difficult, but the difference is rather obvious.

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Sparrows Italy Asia Austria 217

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Conservationists at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) have been using remote controlled drones to watch the nests of endangered breeds and monitor the progress of reintroduced species. Over time, it’s these physiological changes that can disrupt animals’ breeding or rearing habits.

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Birds Protection Idaho Bears 183

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2022

campus gardens – the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre, located 3 km east of the town of Turrialba. A group (maybe 4-5 ex.) At the Pacuare river bank there was a group of rafters getting ready to tackle the noisy waves.

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Costa Rica Nicaragua 2019 Farming 236

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

And Sandwich Tern is Sandwich Tern, Howell finding the DNA research for splitting it “weak.” The inside front covers are the start of four-page pictorial guides to bird families/groups and the pages where they can be found, a quick, easy entry to the identification process (see image above). I love the writing here.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 214

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary was an amazing and unexpected treat, but that’s because I failed to do my research. I should have known that birding High Island meant I would be 20 minutes away from a place where hundreds of thousands of shorebirds and waterbirds rest, feed, breed, and generally have a good time. Clapper Rail.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 211

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2015

I could go on and on, it’s that kind of a book—a comprehensive treatment of a species we respect and adore, based on the most current research, written in a style that, while factual, is from the author’s viewpoint, flavoring facts with a witty, observant personal quality. Mitochondrial DNA analysis strikes again.

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North America Owls America Dominican Republic 222

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

This is a very different book from what I expected, less of a handbook and more of a comprehensive identification text on 24 groups of birds, presented in words and photographs. These are bird groups that have been covered extensively by other guides. Armistead and Brian L. It is an intriguing choice of species.

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 190

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Specifically, the plight of the Rusty Blackbird , which has experienced the sharpest rate of decline among North American landbirds, according to the International Rusty Blackbird Working Group (IRBWG), and has a conservation status of Vulnerable. From March 1 through mid-June, birders in the Rusty’s range (38 U.S.

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Blackbirds Vermont Collecting Research 209

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2019

Cranes breed in very small numbers in UK but are always impressive en masse. And also Golden Oriole because of its good looks, even though the UK has one tiny breeding site.”. Black Storks migrate along and breed in the Danube flood zone. White-tailed Eagle breeds along large rivers, wherever water mingles with forest.

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Serbia Birds Woodpeckers Breeding 249

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

They used Great T**s from non-urban and urban areas, and mixed them up through breeding, to rule out any possible family history of telomere length. The benefits are many, including the availability of anthropogenic food sources, breeding boxes and warmer temperatures. Research done quite a while back suggests that this is adaptive.

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Mammals Zebras Birds Primates 110

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

Within species, or closely related groups of species, beaks vary by small amounts that result in important adaptive fine tuning, as we see in the Grand’s studies of the Galapagos Finches; Beak related behavior is at the cutting edge of survival for many bird species. See: Four Wings Good Two Wings Better? So how did beaks evolve?

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Alligators Chickens Research Birds 214

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

Scientists were largely limited to studies birds in breeding colonies, at least those we knew about and that were accessible (and, if you think that’s a complete list, you haven’t read the news that came out this week about a new colony of Adélie penguins found in the Danger Islands, Antarctica). Technology to the rescue!

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Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 114

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2021

Still, how many birders visit this region and could be seen as the target group for this, already a second edition? They cover all species and distinctive subspecies, non-passerines in flight, males and females, immatures and non-breeding plumages. The rest of the region remains fairly undervisited.

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Indonesia Timor Brunei Guinea 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Researchers are wondering if the die-off might spread to other birds or even fish. This is not something I needed to tell you but there is some new research. From Science Daily : Crows have the brain power to solve higher-order, relational-matching tasks, and they can do so spontaneously, according to new research.

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Science Iraq Research Birds 151

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2023

Such programs are somewhat inefficient anyway – in one study , the breeding success of wild male pheasants was 2-5 times higher than for hand-reared and released ones while for females, hand-reared birds were 3 times as vulnerable to predation as the wild ones.

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Birds Blackbirds Indonesia Bhutan 197

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2014

Unlike Desi, the researchers involved don’t think the owls are curling up in a nice warm bed in a hut in the woods, but they don’t have much better answers than that, at least not yet. Snowy Owl being harassed by an American Crow. Three owls have already had the devices attached and some pretty interesting data is being collected.

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Owls Research Science Collecting 208

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2016

For example, years ago, Eiton Tchenrov postulated that the wild progenitor of the domestic dog, some subspecies or another of wolf, could benefit from overlapping its breeding territory with human hunters. Previous research has shown that wading bird nesting colonies could provide substantial food for alligators in the form of dropped chicks.

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Alligators Protection Leopards Birds 116

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In the non-breeding season, male Baya Weavers sometimes enter the basket-making trade, often with considerable success. Meanwhile, the females seem to have a much more relaxing life, at least in this early stage of the breeding season. It very effectively forms a small foraging group in this manner. You can see why here.

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Birds Sri Lanka Taiwan Cats 213

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2013

The non-breeding distribution is virtually unknown, although they are suspected to winter in northern South America (Howell and Web 1995). Until recently the vocalizations of Sinaloa Martin were unknown and known breeding sites are few and far between. Very little is known about this enigmatic species.

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South America San Diego Mexico America 184

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2013

Of course Africa could not to be left out of the pink weekend so I have researched all African species whose official or alternative names include the word “pink”. Great White Pelicans showing the pink flush of breeding plumage. There are certainly some stunners involved. Pink-throated Twinspot. Photo by Adam Riley. Pink-breasted Lark.

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Africa Somalia Pelicans Mozambique 210

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

The Dry Tortugas National Park is located some 70 miles off of Key West in a small group of keys that makes up the farthest points included in the state of Florida, so it was no surprise that we had a four hour boat ride ahead of us before landing in the park. Banding is best done in teams split into three, potentially four groups.

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Birds Florida Groups Breeding 178

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Plastic behaviors are not automatically unrelated to natural selection, but the way those behaviors vary across individuals or across groups may not be best explained by underlying genetic differences. My research in the Congo supports this idea. Clearly, more research is needed! The paper is in Natrure Scientific Reports.

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Birds Research Humane Pets 120

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Instead, DeMuth will plead guilty to conspiring to damage a Minnesota company that breeds ferrets. DeMuth studies radical activist groups, and he argued that forcing him to break confidentiality agreements with his subjects would constitute a violation of his academic freedom. His plea agreement does not mention the Iowa break-in.

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Iowa Ferrets Minnesota 2004 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2013

Proposal 2013-A-6 would split the shearwater taxon baroli , which breeds on several Atlantic island groups (the Azores, Canaries, Selvages, and Madeira) and strays to North American waters, from its current position as part of the Little Shearwater ( Puffinus assimilis ) complex. Shearwater split. Let the hyphen wars begin!)

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2013 Sparrows Owls Stray 186

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

The source of this ranking, BirdLife International, lists Bolivia as currently having 1,439 bird species, including 18 breeding endemics. But, the numbers are quite large, and the birds organized in groupings that, for the most part, make it an easy process to figure out which Antwren (or Woodcreeper or Seedeater) is which.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 173

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Audubon Associate Naturalist, have led this tour many times, through tornados, droughts, questionable restaurants, and, sadly, the advent of fracking, and every one of my friends who has participated over the years has raved about the experience and the birds (in fact, one member of our group was on his third or fourth trip, I lost count).

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North Dakota Birds Sparrows Blackbirds 139

4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Zoologists work in several different venues; however most work in academic institutions in the areas of teaching and research. Some zoologists work in the area of biomedical or agro-chemical research. This field offers many career paths and opportunities, as it is a wide-open field of research. CONCLUSION.

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Animal Zoos Research Science 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

There were three profound questions my birding group discussed while we birded Trinidad and Tobago, back in December 2012: (1) How many Bananaquits could fit on a banana? (2) A little bit of research when I got home unraveled the ways of publishers here and in Great Britain. The first two questions were never definitely answered.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 196