10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2012

In this way, the cuckolding Cuckoo can convince its cuckoldee, the Reed Warbler, to back off when the Cuckoo comes around, allowing the Cuckoo to toss out one of the Warbler’s eggs and replace it with one of its own, to be raised by the hapless Warbler parents. However, Reed Warblers are social learners.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2022

Going back to that assumption that birds don’t have a sense of smell, it can be traced to John James Audubon (of course), who performed several experiments with Turkey Vultures and concluded that the vultures used sight, not scent, to find food. Whittaker started asking questions beyond “do birds have a sense of smell?”

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

Today, we know a little more, such as the fact that an eagle couple produces one egg every two years, but numbers remain low, too low. And, he tells us about the time he was attacked by a parent Philippine Eagle as he handled an egg at the nest, hundreds of feet above the ground. This film could not be made without them.

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Eagles Philippines Eggs Birds 203

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The lengthy Introduction gives both a personal history and a global history of birds and art, including brief profiles of John James Audubon and the far lesser known Genevieve Estelle Jones, who conceived of a book eventually called Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio in the late 19th century.

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Birds Eggs Laws Woodpeckers 165

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Given my west coast experience, I have made dedicated birding trips to several of the more predictable birding hotspots. I mention these trips because, along with other trips and experiences closer to home, they inform my research into my future birding travel. Your prior trips will inform your birding travel planning too.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2013

We hope that our journey will provide important information about many Neotropical bird species as well as inform conservation.” Clutch size, incubation period, time to fledge, and eggs are all undescribed. For more information on the Sinaloa Martin you can visit these sites: [link].

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The species is classified as Near Threatened for all the usual depressing reasons – pollution, drainage, hunting, and the collection of eggs and nestlings ( source ). My cats refuse to even try Fiery Minivets. Anyway, below is the female, and here are two videos.

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Birds Sri Lanka Taiwan Cats 233

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2011

Platypus have bills, bats and bugs can fly, and reptiles lay eggs, but only birds have feathers. Fortunately, Hansen does not beat you over the head with too much information all at once. Feathers are the unique ingredient when it comes to birds. Of all of the sections of the book I definitely learned the most from Evolution.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 8, 2012

This may be because there were no males to mate with, or she did not have any eggs fertilized. Some dogs may experience a false pregnancy after every heat term because they have such strong mothering instincts that trick her into thinking she is actually going to give birth. Symptoms of false pregnancies in dogs.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

But, not a lot of information about how this national passion (52.8 Bird Feeding in the Twenty-First Century: Experiences and Expectations,” the chapter in question, has other disappointing omissions. million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about. And, few insights into the economic side of what is essentially a profitable industry.

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America Industry Birds Squirrels 243

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

I think that’s great; even if these birds remain officially at the subspecies level in the future, it is tremendously helpful to have more information about them. There are no distribution maps, which makes me wonder how much information we miss when we rely only on maps. What is in the Species Accounts? Photographs.

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North America Sparrows America United States 164

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

Click here for more information on his photography. You can click here for more information about Year of the Eagle. Scientific experiments would be needed to demonstrate true cause-and-effect, but the extra attention appeared to pay off. Year of the Eagle is his third book. They would feed a bite to one.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Seattle Game 197

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

As a Northeast birder I am familiar with the alarming decrease in the number of Red Knots along Atlantic shores and have signed petitions and written e-mails calling for legislation and rules that will limit the overharvesting of the horseshoe crab, whose eggs Red Knots depend on. The visual beauty and textual facts are a strong combination.

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Delaware New Jersey Research Eggs 186

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. I’m wondering as I write if you are shaking your head, uneasy that all these FACTS will interfere with your love of observing owls, an experience that easily borders on the mystical for some of us. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors?

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 231

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

Where does the female Emperor Penguin go after she has produced that one egg and handed it over to the male for incubation? An array of tools ranging from geolocators to satellite trackers to depth measurers to miniature cameras have been employed by ornithologists and biologists over the past twenty years, yielding scads of information.

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Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 114

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2015

Did you know for example that some species of bee are cleptoparasites , exploiting the nests of other species for their own eggs. A magnifying glass or even a microscope will enhance the experience and close up, detailed photos and illustrations are included to reward the most determinedly curious.

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Ireland United States Game Species 102

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

And, in a very lovely section in the middle of the book, she describes the life cycle of the cahow, informing evocative passages about their nocturnal courtship and flight with recent research findings about how seabirds are able to function—eat, sleep, navigate home. These are magical experiences.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

They utilized GIS (geographic information systems) technology to pinpoint breeding bird location to a level far beyond the usual block-based geographic model. And, if you are part of an ongoing atlas project in your state, tell us about your experiences. Behind every distribution map, there must be a fascinating birding experience.

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 245

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2024

The island is teeming with so many birds that their eggs and young chicks were once harvested for food. Something I love about birding is the readily available sharing of information. I can mention somewhere we are going on our podcast or online, and someone will quickly share their experiences.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The amount of information varies, with less material on vagrants and rare species, and extended entries on notable species. ffrench’s descriptions are delightfully uneven, reflecting his personal experiences with the birds, his research, and his personality. 3) What was the best guide to the birds of Trinidad and Tobago?

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 211

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Plantema gives highly detailed information about the weather, terrain, ownership of and access to the islands and coasts where penguins breed. He draws on his personal experiences to inform the history, geography, and especially the travel option sections. © Otto Plantema, used with permission. His images show why.

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Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 279

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As we know from the French documentary La Marche de l’Empereur ( March of the Penguins) , the females skedaddle from the breeding colony once she produces an egg, leaving the egg to be incubated by the males, who fast for 120 days while keeping the egg in a flap of their feet. (I

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Penguins Seals Leopards Research 171

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 11, 2008

But then again, it could be due to the fact that we are constantly bombarded with billion-dollar advertising campaigns from the meat industries, the dairy industry, and the egg industry, as well as from myriad restaurant chains that promote and sell these very animal products. It could be "our little snake brains," as Ausubel suggests.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

Gorman’s personal field experience informs much of the text and his total grasp of the field means he relates one research finding to another with narrative ease. I do wish that Gorman included more of his personal experiences and stories in the natural history tradition of ornithologists like Alexander Skutch.

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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. On the positive side, authors Jeffrey E.

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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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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The authors emphasize in the Introduction the great degree to which the text and illustrations are based on current scientific information. And “Notes” contains information on distribution, habitat, migration patterns, noteworthy sightings for vagrants, as well as bits on behavior and nests. The maps, however are small.

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Australia Birds Penguins 2015 111

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2019

While growing up in western New York during the 70s and 80s, sure, we could have found some information, some illustrations of toucans at the local public library. Like crows and jays, they are social, vocal, intelligent, and omnivorous (including eating eggs and nestlings). Yes, this bird acts like a jay.

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Costa Rica Panama Eating Eggs South America 191

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

I visited Tengchong in late 2020 and wrote about it – but I also went there earlier, in 2017, and this post shows some photos I took during that trip, along with the usual comments that seem to be much more about ridiculing my fellow humans (especially ornithologists and the like) than providing useful information on birds.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

So sorry, but this is a necessary part of our thought experiment!) Let’s do another thought experiment. First, I set the dial to produce the kind of high energy radioactive radiation stuff that would be emitted by an atomic bomb, and calibrate it to dose you (sorry, but this is necessary for our thought experiment!)

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Mammals Birds Fish Cooking 250

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

I new him because we enlisted his Dryfus Lion and one of his tigers to carry out experiments with bones (this is something archaeologists do). It is probably true that there is a near 100% overlap in the rodents and other small terrestrial animals, as well as ground bird eggs, eaten by Coyotes and feral Cats. That was one of his cats.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 257

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

I know from experience how accessible Dennis is, last year he helped me identify a damselfly I photographed in Costa Rica (Argia anceps, no common name). Common and differing traits will include type of coloring, thorax patterning, how they perch or fly, how they copulate, and how they oviposit, lay eggs. More on this later.)

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United States Costa Rica Massachusetts North America 244

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2013

Besides the urgent need to identify my dragonflies, I was interested in hands-on experience using these field guides. The books (and, I assume the series) share a web-type design construct in which information is organized visually, by blocked colored spaces, bar separators, and size and color of font.

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Ireland France Breeding Eggs 185

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2019

While the hunting of game with trained birds of prey can be a controversial topic among birders , falconry was a valuable early source of information on birds, and its history, culture, and imagery continue to fascinate bird lovers, as we shall see. Few hobbies place such value on the written knowledge contained in books as does birding.

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2015 Italy Falcons Europe 113

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2023

In Kangding, there is a rather opulent bird hide – two stories, solid construction, spacious, lots of glass, a separate paved parking lot, though mysteriously (and as far as I can tell from my experience of living in China for almost 20 years, not indicative of fundamentally different physical needs of Chinese people) missing a bathroom.

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Birds Mammals St. Louis Monkeys 147

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. Sometimes interspersed with single knocks and taps.”

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