10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Ackerman’s new book is about owls and owl research–the knowledge recently and currently being discovered through DNA analysis, new-tech tracking and monitoring, and old-fashioned fieldwork under the auspices of organizations like the Global Owl Project and the Owl Research Institute.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 224

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2016

It’s a bang-up breeding year for super-endangered birds! First, wildlife officials in Louisiana announced the first successful wild Whooping Crane nest in that state since 1939. The species, which migrates from the Russian Arctic to Southeast Asia, is down to about 200 breeding pairs in the wild, due to habitat loss and poaching.

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Eggs Louisiana Breeding Asia 190

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Well-researched and footnoted, these sections never feel disconnected from the more personal sections. I ended up looking for photographs of Peregrine hack sites, captive breeding aviaries, Hawaii tropical forest, and the California Condors of the Grand Canyon on the Internet. Endangered. Extinction. Conservation.

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 190

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2024

Recognizing its value for eco-tourism and biogeographical research, it is essential to conserve this magnificent bird. Preserving its habitat through sustainable practices and encouraging responsible wildlife tourism are crucial steps in ensuring the continued existence of this charismatic species.

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Myanmar Sri Lanka Nepal Birds 190

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

There are two things you need to know about A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia , edited by Robert Burton and John Croxall, and produced by the South Georgia Heritage Trust. The temptation will be to jump to the Wildlife sections. Nor is it about Georgia, the country in Eurasia. Who can resist penguins and whales?

Georgia 174

Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 174

10,000 Birds

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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Science Illinois Investigation Research 200

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. Image © Womackke.

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Birds Protection Idaho Bears 188

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. It is still volcanically active with researchers periodically discovering new flows. and seabirders.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

“A reading of recent research shows that Australian birds are more likely than most to eat sweet foods, live in complex societies, lead long lives, attack other birds, and be intelligent and loud.” Breeding pairs form exclusive social bonds, yet each partner will still mate with other individuals.” ” ( source ).

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Birds Australia Ducks Mountain Goats 242

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2017

The jack pines of Michigan are well-known as the breeding grounds of the Kirkland’s Warbler —and thus, the best place to catch a glimpse of this exceedingly rare songbird. The new research , from the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, is published in the latest Journal of Avian Biology. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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Michigan United States Breeding Research 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Even though the female lays only two eggs per nest attempt, they enjoy a protracted breeding season in which multiple nesting attempts can occur every 30 days, and in Southern locations, nearly year round. On federal wildlife refuges and many states’ wildlife management areas, non-toxic shot is required when hunting all game birds.

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Hunters Hunting North America Game 180

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

–especially when reviewing books like A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia or Far from Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds. The goal of Around the World For Penguins is simple: Describe the 18 species of penguin and their breeding grounds “from the perspective of a traveller.” Press, 2011).

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Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 278

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

However, ongoing research at Sia Essential Species Repository (see below) reveals this is not always the case, and that there are actually five phases between albino and leucistic. I’ve seen her around, when I was setting my traps,” said the trapper himself, who brought her to Tamarack Wildlife Center , in Saegertown, PA.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Birds Delaware 204

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2015

This map shows the distribution of the World’s bird species, based on overlying the breeding and wintering ranges of all known species. It makes me think what is the meaning of life, the universe and everything? Why am I here? And where all those birds are? Map by BirdLife International.

Sri Lanka 257

Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 257

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The guide covers over 650 species, most of the breeding birds in the United States (minus Hawaii) and Canada (like most guides with ‘North America’ in its title, it does not include Mexico or the Caribbean). Acorn Woodpeckers use both communal and cooperative breeding strategies which vary widely among family groups.

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Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 244

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

And, though I think you can argue that the Bronx Zoo, with its numerous buildings and landscaped wildlife areas is not purely ‘natural space,’ I have wonderful memories of traipsing through its wooded areas when I was a girl. (I I didn’t grow up in the Bronx, but my best friend did.). It’s a very mixed chapter.

New York City 156

New York City New York Birds Breeding 156

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. This book is essentially about those birds that breed on the continent south of the Sahara, a topic few birders are familiar with. Day after day went by, with much sound but no sight of the peacocks.

Congo 264

Congo Africa South Africa Madagascar 264

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Here are some of the questions that were running through my mind as I read Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl : (a) Is ornithological research always this dangerous? (b) He wanted to do research that would have a conservation impact. Slaght provides funding from research grants.

Owls 142

Owls Russia Fish Research 142

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

Local farmers view it as a threat to domesticated wildlife. Author Joshua Hammer, who previously wrote about a different type of real-life-unexpected-caper in The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu , read about Lendrum in the Times of London in 2017, realized the possibilities, did the research. 2019), and now this book.

Falcons 224

Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 224

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2016

But this breeding and social arrangement has its risks. Newly published research in the journal Animal Behaviour suggests an ideal harem size for pheasants of 2.7 Newly published research in the journal Animal Behaviour suggests an ideal harem size for pheasants of 2.7 After all, variety is the spice of life, no?

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Game Europe Groups Breeding 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

With climate change appearing to expand the skeeters’ range, according to recent research in Science Advances , the birds have fewer safe places to hide. Fish & Wildlife Service). In particular, the honeycreepers of Kaua’i are at risk of being wiped out , due to disease-spreading mosquitoes.

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Hawaii Branding Birds Science 156

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Unlike many other estuaries in this part of Florida, Rookery Bay is protected by the Estuarine Research Reserve system, and remains almost entirely undeveloped. American Avocets spend the breeding months in the Midwest, only returning to Florida (as well as Southeast coast, Mexico, and the Caribbean) during the winter.

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Florida Mexico Protection Pelicans 145

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2012

A UK government department had announced funding for a research project into the ‘Management of Buzzards to Protect Pheasant poults’ (poults are young Pheasants being reared specifically to be released for shooting). of nearly 500 radio-tagged releases).

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Industry Research Raised Killing 200

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

Ka’ena Point is also a breeding ground for the Federally protected Laysan albatross, where 45 nests were being carefully monitored by the non-profit Pacific Rim Conservation. People who work with wildlife understand that death is a part of life. People do not work with wildlife for fame and fortune.

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Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

states, 9 Canadian provinces, and 3 Canadian territories) are asked to be on the lookout for these birds as they migrate toward their northern breeding grounds. Fish & Wildlife Service, the Vermont Center for Ecostudies, and others). From March 1 through mid-June, birders in the Rusty’s range (38 U.S.

Blackbirds 220

Blackbirds Vermont Collecting Research 220

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

” The birds appear to be starving to death, so experts don’t believe a toxin is the culprit, said Julia Burco, a wildlife veterinarian for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Researchers are wondering if the die-off might spread to other birds or even fish. Since then the deaths haven’t stopped.

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Science Iraq Research Birds 152

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2017

The State of Oregon, in 1975 listed the bird as Threatened, and the Oregon Fish and Wildlife reaffirmed that status in 1989 under the Oregon Endangered Species Act. org [link] The American Bird Conservancy [link] and Defenders of Wildlife [link].

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Oregon Defenders Of Wildlife Endangered Species Mexico 103

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

Birders often play a vital role in monitoring bird populations, contributing data to scientific research, and participating in citizen science initiatives that help track bird distributions, migration patterns, and breeding behaviors. They contribute to scientific research, conservation efforts, and the enjoyment of birding as a hobby.

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United States North America Birds America 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2012

Holt founded the Owl Research Institute , an organization that focuses on long-term studies of a variety of species of owls, as well as their prey species and environments. The ORI maintains a research station in the Mission Valley of Western Montana, neighboring the Ninepipes National Wildlife Refuge. Why Ninepipes?

Montana 159

Montana Owls Denver Barn Owls 159

Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2010

One died and the other two were seized for sheltering at a research institution. Both species are endangered and it is illegal to cross breed them. The Environmental and Animal Society of Taiwan (EAST) said Huang, who possesses an array of wildlife, should be dealt with harshly to deter others from copying the behavior.

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Taiwan China Lions Tigers 100

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. Urban environments are expanding rapidly, and with urbanization come both challenges and opportunities for wildlife. Research done quite a while back suggests that this is adaptive.

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Mammals Zebras Birds Primates 113

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Fish and Wildlife Service has listed the “Rufa” population of Red Knot ( Calidris canutus rufa ) as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The other sub-species, Calidris canutus roselaari , migrates along the Pacific Coast and breeds in Alaska and the Wrangel Island in Russia. Red Knot in non-breeding plumage.

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Endangered Species Protection Delaware Species 160

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

(SOPI) is the leading ornithological organization and it performs research, education, and outreach. Much of the research regarding Caribbean ecology and ornithology has been conducted in Puerto Rico. Although most conservation research focuses on northern breeding grounds, many ABA Area birds spend most of the year elsewhere.

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Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Hawaii United States 164

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

However, the authors call this a “new breeding tactic”, which seems to mix up the discovery of the tactic with the use of the tactic. How about “International wildlife trade, avian influenza, organized crime and the effectiveness of CITES: The Chinese Hwamei as a case study”?

Birds 147

Birds Geese Fish Industry 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Prior research has shown that the Loons that return in a given year to a given nest on a lake somewhere in Canada or the norther tier of US states are often the same ones that were there the previous year, though with some never returning because they did not survive the trials of migration. But now there is some research on that.

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Humane Eagles Investigation Research 216

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The big book (2017 edition, let’s call it the ABG ) covers 747 breeding residents or regular migrants, 29 introduced species, and 160 vagrants, a total of 936 species (I’m assuming the revised edition includes a few birds that were missed because of the cutoff point, I don’t have it in hand). I’d love to know more.

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Australia Birds 2017 Groups 253

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

Penguins are also bellweathers of climate change; dwellers of remote areas you’ve (probably) never heard of; creatures who have developed unique, innovative ways of adapting to the harsh environments where they breed and rear chicks and the water environments in which they feed and swim.

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Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 209