10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Science doesn’t work that way! Stomach content analysis from collected specimens). Describing the position that Linda took with regards to the validity of the science as dishonest may have been unfair. Science Schmience. ” To see why these questions are so dishonest you need to consider them this way.

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Collecting Papua New Guinea Science Birds 157

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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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 203

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Hill’s is even offering a $10 off promotion on select Hill’s Science Diet products. I am being compensated for helping spread the word about Hill’s® Science Diet® Healthier Pets. is not responsible for the content of this article. Download your rebate for dogs and cats. Little Extras. Happier Lives.™,

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 29, 2014

Hill’s Science Diet is giving away $100 toward a vet checkup, every day for 90 days! I am being compensated for helping spread the word about Hill’s Science Diet Perfect Weight Food, but 4 the Love of Animals only shares information we feel is relevant to our readers. is not responsible for the content of this article.

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Vet Pets Science Puppies 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Birkhead, the experienced storyteller who is also Emeritus Professor at the School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, author of multiple scientific articles as well as books of popular science, knows how to make it readable and fun. Colonialism and appropriation of knowledge is discussed in Chapter 6, The New World of Science.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 212

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2017

Then, in one of my freshmen science classes, there was a discussion about extinct species, which then lead to the topic of threatened, or endangered species, and what we could do to help out. Well, high school turns in to college, college turns into a job and the need to make a living, and I never found, or helped out the Snowy Plover.

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Oregon Defenders Of Wildlife Endangered Species Mexico 102

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works). million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about.

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America Industry Squirrels Birds 224

4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 18, 2011

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. Hills science plan dog food caters to these needs providing a smaller biscuit size for the smaller breeds of dog and bigger sizes for the larger breeds.

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Dogs Lifestyle Rights Branding 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 15, 2012

Storing treats in an airtight container or vacuum-sealed bag preserves them for much longer and better maintains nutrient content. Melody McKinnon holds 52 certifications revolving around nutrition, biochemistry, general sciences, business, marketing, and writing. Use pet-theme cookie cutters for gifts, fundraising or sale!

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Chickens Dogs Pets Seals 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

I would be more apt to accept the science of BBI if the science of hemispheric brain functions was not subject to so much misconceptions and simplification.* Once I got past the scientific explanations and simply accepted that BBI is an approach worth trying, I found plenty of substantive content in Birding by Impression.

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Birds New Jersey Science Groups 169

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

(Emptied of their contents, of course.). It comprised eight short talks on subjects ranging from investigations into the genetics of magnetic receptors for navigation, to the use of eBird and other “citizen science” crowdsourcing efforts in studying migrant phenology.

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San Diego Ostriches Chicago Colorado 173

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2023

Supporting local conservation organizations and participating in citizen science initiatives allows us to contribute to the protection of Shanghai’s bird species and their habitats. But anyway, my main point of contention is the style, not the facts. So, I tried again: “This sounds a bit too positive to me.

China 160

China Endangered Species Sanctuary Protection 160

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. Ted is also a birding friend of mine (it’s a small birding community), though we’ve never met face-to-face.

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Birds North America Breeding America 114

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

and is currently events coordinator for the American Birding Association and a research associate in the Ornithology Department at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. George was a tour leader for Field Guides, Inc. I myself will be starting with the chapters on Marsh Sparrows.

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 189

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2022

There is precious little ABA content for novice birders, and no single publication that covers the basics and presents an entry point for birding (and early ABA membership). The content of Birding was daunting, with detailed articles distinguishing seemingly identical birds. (Young birders and new birders are not the same thing.

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Advocacy Science Wildlife Portland 204

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2015

The Introduction not only thoroughly describes the content parameters and structure of the book, it serves as an introduction to the history and study of owls in North America. Warning: Going to this web page can be addicting. I am loving listening to the Screech-Owl trills, especially the Balsas Screech-Owl bouncing ball.

North America 216

North America Owls America Dominican Republic 216

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

I, like many of you, eagerly await the release of the AOU 52nd checklist supplement, even though these days, the contents are already pretty well known in advance. And so it’s July, which for this North American birder means a couple of things: 1.

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Madagascar Birds Louisiana Groups 164

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The photographs are from VIREO, the ornithological image collection associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, which licenses bird photographs to many guides and reference books. Who is responsible for the intellectual content of the Audubon guide? Dunn and Jonathan Alderfer’s names on the cover.

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North America America Birds California Condor 278

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Years of follow-up research conducted by one of Earthwatch’s principal investigators on the Tambopata Macaw project, Dr. Don Brightsmith, shows, however, that within the study area of the clay lick the birds tend to choose the soil with the highest sodium content over soils that are best for neutralizing toxins.

Peru 254

Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 254

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Though it is marketed as a “Guide to Every Family” there is no table of contents to the families, just listings of the introductory pages for each suborder. The back-of-the-book material gets more detailed treatment in the table of contents than the core of the book! They just look so content and stable!

Turtles 191

Turtles Tortoises Family Terrapins 191

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

As if eBird, the marvelous citizen science produced database of bird sightings, wasn’t awesome enough, you can now have an eBird profile that is viewable by other eBird users. It’s a simple but amazing idea. We birders are curious after all, and learning a little bit about other birders is a great way to keep birders on eBird.

New York 159

New York Kazakhstan Trinidad Branding 159

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2023

Lee is also a geochemist and professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice University, Houston. This is a book well worth owning for both its excellence of content and uniqueness. There are not a lot of flycatcher guides out there! (I

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Los Angeles North America America Species 203

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

What is amazing is that each of these three books is very different in content and tone. This bit of science is a nice final counterpoint to an account that has emphasized art, history, and literature. He effectively brings his point across by presenting facts and images and a little bit of hard science.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 159

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2011

DNA evidence then indicated that they are an ancient group mostly closely related to the bizarre and wildly different rockfowls and they were therefore contentiously placed in the Picathartes family, before finally finding a contented home in their own family, Chaetopidae.

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South Africa Lesotho Africa Swaziland 217

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2023

Meaning: we did real science, Martens did not. ” Meaning: we did real science, Martens did not. ” Meaning: Martens did not do his homework and does not do real science. . ” Meaning: Martens did not do his homework and does not do real science. In contrast, the paper by Martens et al.

Hamburgers 201

Hamburgers Birds Science China 201

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2023

goiavier [Yellow-vented Bulbul] were dissected for stomach content analysis” The results of the study are not entirely positive for the bulbul – while it feeds on insects, which might be seen as beneficial, one of the main food items is a weevil that is important in pollinating the oil palms.

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Zebras Thailand Philippines Birds 192

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This is great, I only wish there was some kind of index or table of contents to this feature. Some, though not all, genus sections end with illustrations–photos or drawings–of male appendages, an important part of odonate identification (see the Firetails page above). William Haber is from the United States, receiving his Ph.D.

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Costa Rica North America Family America 257

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

He has led birding tours for many years and is a research associate at Point Blue Conservation Science. I have discovered one error: the table of contents doesn’t list species accounts past “Raptors and Owls.” The need for a table of contents is minimal in an eBook, however. ” It’s odd.

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North America America Birds United States 249

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2024

Generally, the HBW entry on this species is not very informative – mostly the usual boilerplate statements regarding future updates: “ Editor’s Note: This article requires further editing work to merge existing content into the appropriate Subspecies sections. Please bear with us while this update takes place.”

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Squirrels Birds China Bears 136

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

I am also writing it on the tails of an excellent review by Corey who, although he termed his post a collection of “impressions,” really did nail down the great content of The Sibley Guide to Birds, Second Edition , by David Allen Sibley, as well as the minor items that need to be improved. I wish we had the equivalent for color.

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North America Birds Species America 232

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

The contents are a balance of the visual, the factual, and a form of participant-observation, oriented towards people who know little about penguin habitats, life cycles and conservation issues. Science and Conservation , the second section, presents two-page summaries of the diverse research being done around the world about penguins.

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Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 193

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2018

Describing gull plumage is a combination of science, graphic art, and visual metaphor. The Table of Contents is the best starting point for finding the gull you want, and with 61 species accounts, listed with common and scientific name, it’s pretty easy to scan and pinpoint a name.

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