10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

And, as I have mentioned before , under-birded countries like Mexico provide lots of opportunities for amateur birders like me to make real contributions to science. Both species can theoretically breed in central Mexico, but in my experience are almost exclusively winter visitors. But obsessed I am. And it brought friends.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2024

The Habitat, Distribution, and Seasonal Status section gives essential information on habitat preferences, nest description (for species that breed in North America), breeding range, migration patterns and when migration takes place, tendency for vagrancy and where vagrancy usually occurs.

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JUNE 26, 2023

Fear not, science has an answer: about 1.16 While also migratory, the Amur Paradise Flycatcher may end its journey in Shanghai and breed here, though the type of habitat it requires is getting rarer and rarer (one of the old places I knew of is just getting destroyed this year).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

49-50) She is also adept at writing about conservation’s larger context in terms of its history, public policy struggles, and the science behind species re-introduction. Well-researched and footnoted, these sections never feel disconnected from the more personal sections.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

Fortunately, there are a few more such breeding species than most Shanghainese are aware of. While the HBW states that it breeds at 300 – 2450 meters, in Shanghai – where such elevations are not available outside of the upper floors of a few highrises – it makes to with an altitude of about 0 meters as well.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2020

Beginning this year, New York State embarked on its third-ever breeding bird atlas , and it’s the first one I’ve been able to participate in as a birder. Over the last several weeks there, I’ve watched them gather bits of straw and other sundry materials and ferry these back to their nest holes in the old barn walls and eaves.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2024

As I am sure I have mentioned before, a lot of science work seems to aim to prove the obvious – though the researchers still phrase their results very carefully. I am sure some people will hate this photo of a Eurasian Hoopoe , framed as it is by human artifacts. Of course, me being me, this is a good reason to show it.

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Critter News

JULY 12, 2009

The proposed primate breeding facility would violate both the letter and the spirit of Puerto Rico’s progressive new law, which strictly limits the use of animals in experimentation.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

According to the HBW, when breeding, male birds do most of the incubation and parenting while females often leave the nest up to one week before the eggs hatch. It concludes that human activity influences the breeding activity of the lapwing. End of side note. To female readers then: the Pheasant-tailed Jacana. How efficient.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2014

The wood stork occurs and breeds in Central and South America. I have seen them foraging on sandy shores of rivers deep in the Amazon, enjoyed them in their raucous breeding colonies in the Everglades, flushed them out of canals during walks around my house, and perhaps more importantly contribute to their recovery. Photo: U.S.

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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. In particular, the honeycreepers of Kaua’i are at risk of being wiped out , due to disease-spreading mosquitoes. Fish & Wildlife Service).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2012

Another challenge to bird research is that it is woefully underfunded and relies heavily on citizen science. If you have an advanced degree in biology with an emphasis on birds , it doesn’t guarantee that you will always work with birds. You may work in biology, but it could be in any field.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

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. What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds is a joyous, fascinating read.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

The authors’ detailed delineation of problems with the accuracy of NYC breeding bird surveys or with the limits of historical writings may test a reader’s patience. Because, as this book demonstrates so well, it is sometimes important to look back in order to move forward. This is a project that clearly spanned decades.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

According to Tim Low (in “Where Song began”), “so easy were they to breed that by 1859 they cost less to buy in London than in Sydney.” ” Funny how the difficulty of breeding a species can be illustrated in simple monetary terms. Is it offensive to say that Australian Zebra Finches breed like rabbits?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2020

Depending on your particular interest, opt for March/April (spring migration), May/June (breeding season), August to October (autumn migration), or November/December when waterbird migration reaches its peak. Raphael Nussbaumer is a keen ornithologist who enjoys combining his passion for birds with computer science background.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2018

Here are a few other things regular readers of this site may be familiar with: The bird science journal “The Condor,” the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley, the concept of “niche,” and the system for making field observations of species known as the “Grinnell System.”

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JUNE 13, 2022

Quite likely, these birds are also the inspiration for Australian science communicator Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki. ” Like many Australian birds, they breed cooperatively with a varying number of helpers, often siblings or older offspring. Thanks to Clare for introducing me to him. Within group, all males copulate with all females.”

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Written in a friendly, inclusive style quietly grounded in science, How to Know the Birds is an excellent addition to the growing list of birding essay books by talented birder/writers like Pete Dunne and Kenn Kaufman. ” The essays are arranged in thematic order grouped in six sections: “Spark Bird!” He received a B.A.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

If the birds had been breeding, the scientists say that they would have found genetic “intermediates&# – birds with genes from both species. Hey, science people (scientists?), “But we didn’t find this, so we think [the two species] have formed some kind of reproductive barrier to each other,&# Prof Saetre said.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

For all I know, my report of this bird might be the first indication that the bird survived the round trip migration to and from the breeding grounds. It was banded in Monmouth County, New Jersey, on 8 March of this year. Win – win- win! … The post A Brant With Bling appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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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. You can see why here.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2019

It’s a matter of personal preference: neither does every reader like, say, science fiction, or the writing of Henry James, or romance novels. It is true that not every reader has a fondness for murder mysteries (and there is, admittedly, a certain amount of dreck in the genre, much of that authored, curiously enough, by lawyers).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2016

Genetic differences in throat color illustration by Liz Clayton Fuller/Bartels Science). Breeding range map by David Toews/Cornell Lab). On the opposite end of the spectrum is new research considering Yellow-rumped Warblers.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2013

Not only has this live camera feed provided a wonderful educational resource for science teachers across the country, but it has also shed light on some very interesting behaviors of these owls. The colony has grown supporting up to 3 pairs of owls, all breeding at once! One of the owls with a frog after a rainstorm.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 18, 2011

However choosing what food to feed your pet is a major decision especially as there are different types of food specifically designed for different breeds and lifestyles. Pro Plan has been serving pets and their owners for more than eighty years, and is continually advancing the science behind pet care and nutrition.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

This is a book that people come to for the plot and the science. All actual captive breeding efforts failed for a reason, after all. I’m ok with fantasy, but not with pseudo-science. But what of that? This, I am sorry to say, broke the book for me.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Not only are most domesticated duck breeds descended from A. oustaleti ) is ever granted posthumous species status, it will represent one of the most short-lived vertebrate species known to science, with a lifespan measured only in tens of thousands of years from the first rendezvous between Mallard and Pacific Black Duck ( A.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The Kittlitz’s Murrelet at least is named after an actual naturalist, Heinrich von Kittlitz, who bummed around the Pacific on behalf of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Saint Petersburg. Besides his murrelet, Kittlitz collected the only known specimens of the Kosrae Starling , a lovely long-beaked black bird that deserved better.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

No wait, they were, but they had experienced so much genetic drift and selective pressure that they now constituted a unique breed in their own right. Also, they were infested by a species of ear mite unknown to science. And so, a breed association formed to preserve these goats. (No

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2014

Every spring, billions of migratory songbirds in Europe fly north to their breeding grounds. Museum of Natural Sciences and N.C. But did you know that there is a bat that specializes in eating birds that are migrating at night? Giant Bats Snatch Birds from Night Sky. A group of researchers at the N.C.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The first shorebird arrivals are apparently birds that failed at a breeding attempt and don’t have time to re-attempt; they might as well head south early. This is by no means an exact science. The first Semipalmated Sandpiper and Sanderling along the shores of Florida’s Treasure Coast announce the beginning of a new season.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Also from BirdLife International: In general it prefers areas where vegetation, boulders or other landscape features at ground level provide tunnels in which to shelter and to breed. The bird will therefore now be known as. Atlantisia Rogersi.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2014

Do it for science! And, oddly, it seems that no one knows too much about what these visitors from the north are up to while they are down here. Snowy Owl being harassed by an American Crow. Will you put up $20 to make this irruption meaningful in a scientific sense? If 150 of you do that it would already be enough for a transmitter!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Great Cormorants can immerse into the water much more deeply than ducks, as their feathers are not waterproof … … but unfortunately, that requires some feather drying time afterward, which looks kind of stupid (yes, it is kid’s science hour at Kai’s bird blog …).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2016

The science currently believes that up to twenty five percent of the coral on the Great Barrier Reef could be lost to bleaching in the next forty years. Of the twenty six Sooty Oystercatchers fourteen were first year birds and would have moved to the mainland with the non-breeding flock during this time of year.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 4, 2008

To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures. -- Eleanor Roosevelt. It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

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