10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Feel free to insert your own French joke here (though of course in the US, restaurants now serve Freedom Frogs rather than French Frogs). The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. This included recording a total of 77,760 minutes of video.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2022

Whittaker’s adventures in olfactory research take unexpected turns into genetics, chemistry, and the halls of academia. One of Whittaker’s first experiments was to place other birds’ preen oil on the nests and eggs of Dark-eyed Juncos. ” (p. There’s also roller derby stuff.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

And of course, this entry on the Red-tailed Laughingthrush would not be complete without mentioning a paper that presumably nobody will ever read: “The complete mitochondrial genome of red-tailed laughingthrush ( Garrulax milnei )” As usual, there are many authors (8 in this case), and all seem to be Chinese (also as usual).

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2024

Of course, only chemists have a rough idea what that might mean. When seeing a Black-sided Flowerpecker , of course, the first thought everyone has is “What an amazing black side!” ” Unless, of course, you see a female. ” Little research seems to have been done on many of the birds of Mount Kinabalu.

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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.” ” Of course, as a certified cat person, I was delighted to see a Green Catbird near Brisbane.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2023

If the male’s color fades after the first egg, the female reacts by laying a smaller second egg – seemingly deciding that it is better to cut her losses as the male apparently is the avian equivalent of a deadbeat father. Are these the paper mills one occasionally reads about in relation to Chinese research papers?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2023

The Large-billed Crow ( video ) is one of the natural enemies – in the study above, it predated 19 eggs from four pitta nests. Of course, what is shown here (and in the video ) is a female – kind of typical for this blog. of researchers looking for chemical contaminants in the environment.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

’ Gorman has read and distilled probably every research study ever written about Wrynecks or related to them; my quick count of the citations in the 16-page References section came to 295. and the rural Austrian folk name natterzunge or ‘adder tongue.’ Practically every sentence is documented with these studies.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Of course, it is hard to resist looking at a paper titled “Host personality predicts cuckoo egg rejection in Daurian redstarts” Basically, the personality of a female redstart (bold or shy) predicts the responses to parasitic eggs – bold hosts are more likely to reject parasitic eggs. They were missed.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

In the slightly frighteningly named journal “Science of The Total Environment”, there is a paper on organochlorine compounds in Purple Heron eggs nesting in sites located around a chloralkali plant (Ebro River). Summary result: relevant chemicals emitted by the plant can be found in the eggs. Bye, bye, Lesser Coucal.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2019

Species Accounts vary greatly in length, from nine pages for Undulated Antpitta to two pages for Alta Floresta Antpitta, length depending not only on how much we know about the bird but also Greeney’s tendency to thoroughly discuss, even argue, any kind of confusion in documentation, taxonomy, or research results.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Chinese researchers have actually been able to identify individual Asian Stubtails on the basis of their songs ( source ). The photo below shows a Sakhalin Leaf Warbler unless, of course, it shows a Pale-legged Leaf Warbler. An example is this study showing that indeed, cuckoo eggs are stronger than the eggs of the host species.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2023

And of course, birders (at least me) do not care too much for Giant Pandas, which are the main attraction of this area, despite their pathetic habits. Indeed, most cuckoo eggs are accepted by the babax ( source ), although a small proportion of hosts reject cuckoo eggs and often boast about this capability when having a few too many drinks.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Well-researched and footnoted, these sections never feel disconnected from the more personal sections. And we do feel like we know them, not as intimately as Sophie Osborn, of course, but stories create connections, especially when they are lively stories about birds with names and personalities. Endangered. Extinction. Conservation.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

I have written about the interesting sex life of these jacanas a few times already (short version: female mates with male, lays a bunch of eggs for him to incubate and raise the chicks, leaves him, finds another male, repeat). Apparently, after a male first mates with a female, he throws out the first one or two eggs she lays in their nest.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. She does, and her narrative serves as a role model for how to write about birds simply and knowledgeably; informing birds’ family stories with scientific facts and research findings. Cedar Waxwings exchange berries, carry nesting material, eggs. And of birds courting and mating.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2023

The most likely explanation – as judged by the authors – is something called the farming hypothesis, which states that brood parasites such as the koel may deliberately destroy nests as it gives them a good chance to deposit an egg in the replacement clutch. Why do nesting attempts of the Red-billed Blue Magpie sometimes fail?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Birders are always happy to see a turtle or tortoise, and there are times of the year when my social media feeds are sprinkled with photos of turtles beings removed from roads or crawling to land to lay eggs. Lovich and Whit Gibbons bring decades of research and experience to this book. This of course is not true.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Of the dozen gifts mentioned in the Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” seven are birds: the seven swans a-swimming, six geese a-laying, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and – of course – a partridge in a pear tree. This is a book that will be read with pleasure and amazement by both birders and nonbirders.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

When one Chinese researcher was very bored, he had a bright idea: Why not publish a paper on the complete mitochondrial genome of the Rhinoceros Hornbill ? Of course, their own mother is not the only threat to Wreathed Hornbill individuals. The Wreathed Hornbill is also listed as Vulnerable.

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MAY 15, 2023

For example, a researcher and presumed ornithologist set out with two hypotheses related to the Ashy Drongo (and another drongo species) and wrote a paper about it. Of course, here in Tengchong, it is a very common bird. The Brown-winged Parrotbill looks quite similar to the Vinous-throated Parrotbill common in Shanghai.

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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. According to Couzens, after laying the eggs, females sometimes immediately abandon their first mate and pair up with another male. But maybe that is actually a good thing.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This species seems to frequently join mixed-species flocks – in research in Thailand, the species was found in 20% of the mixed-species flocks. One was reported to have raided the nest of a Grey-throated Babbler , eating at least two eggs and possibly one nestling ( source ). On the plus side, it looks rather funny when wet.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2011

Females seem to be the only sex to sit on the eggs according to literature, but no research appears to have been done on the night time routine. Female Red-capped Plover on nest in jogging area Another nest was in the higher area behind where vehicles access the beach and despite the odds the eggs successfully hatched.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2022

Once the egg has been laid, the female is chased away and the males hatch it.” Other research (cited on the rather straightforwardly named website www.genderinclusivebiology.com) found that 80% of gay swan couples successfully fledge their young, compared with only 30% for straight couples.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Of course, the paper ends with the usual thinly disguised request for more research grants: “This sharing behavior could indicate a high level of social awareness and prosociality that should be further investigated. .” Presumably, the photos below show Swinhoe’s White-eye. But then, who can be sure? salvadori ).”

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in. Baicich, Margaret A.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

An impressive combination of research and artwork, combined with a pragmatic organization aimed towards quick identification, and education, Baby Bird Identification extends the frontiers of bird identification guides and is an important contribution to wildlife rehabilitation literature. These books are concerned with behavior.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The Zoo episode focuses on two Pink Pigeon couples: The Stud and Serendipity, a male and female that the zoo people hope will mate and produce a viable egg, and Thelma and Louise, a same-sex pair-bonded couple who the zoo people hope will incubate the egg and nurture the chick. Because, Ms. On the WCS web page, Ms.

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JULY 3, 2012

Of course, I jest a bit in the above paragraph because as a sometime New Jersey birder I have birded the Delaware Bay and seen sights such as the memorable image below, in which thousands of Red Knots, Dunlins, and Short-billed Dowitchers fly up as if connected telepathically. The visual beauty and textual facts are a strong combination.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2022

I guess most scientists would love to see their original research become the basis for a vast field of further studies. She also laid eggs in Melba Finch nests. According to a local African superstition that I just made up, it is not harmful to eat toxically colored birds if you eat them in the dark. Red-billed Firefinch.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2023

To be honest, both the robin and the flycatchers shown above remind me of the easter eggs I hunted for as a child – the same strong colors in front of a green background, same time of the year (feel free to insert your own Proust Madeleine reference here) … Bluethroats apparently are good at imitating other birds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

A Barred Cuckoo-Dove showed somewhat atypical behavior or had not read its eBird entry about it being “seldom seen out in the open … quick to flee when approached” Of course, Hongbenghe, Yunnan is quite far away from Chicago. “It is not deep enough yet!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

To research this book, he traveled extensively to see as many woodpeckers as he could; this field experience was supplemented with museum research and consultations with other experts, plus a library of print material ranging from field guides to scientific papers. This makes it very difficult to research woodpeckers by genus.

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DECEMBER 15, 2011

To make it easier for birders to identify them, of course! But seriously, Science has a more interesting set of answers, and some recently published research on European Robins helps to examine this question in some detail. Why is the Robin’s breast red? Why are any of the parts of any birds colorful?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

Once a body of research was established and the bird was declared endangered, it took many more years of experimentation, political maneuvering, conflicts with the National Guard, and some tragic fires to establish what is now acclaimed as a model conservation project. Now there are volunteer guides, tours and a local festival.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

I mention these trips because, along with other trips and experiences closer to home, they inform my research into my future birding travel. That bird stuck around for a while, invariably associating with some Canada Geese on a specific fairway on a specific golf course near Half Moon Bay. Nome, Alaska.

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