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. Whittaker’s research road is more serpentine than most academics.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2012
What do you say when someone tells you they will be spending the summer in the Lower Michigan Peninsula? Recently it has also been documented as breeding in Wisconsin, Ontario, and the Upper Michigan Peninsula, but those birds are few and not always accessible. If you are a birder, you say “Kirtland’s Warbler!”
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
How many eggs did a pigeon lay? He reasons out answers to both questions, finally stating that, despite what many eyewitnesses wrote, the birds had to have laid more than one egg and that the birds had to have nested more than once a breeding season. This is not that kind of book, as Fuller makes clear from the beginning.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2011
Here’s some data from the famous research project of Manu, Peru, giving biomass in kilograms per hectare. To remedy this, I visited the Animal Diversity Web site at the University of Michigan. But if you look at a bit of prairie in South Dakota during the dead of winter, you may see very few birds and a lot of bison.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 29, 2006
Researchers have also learned that the cancer-causing chemicals that form in beef as it cooks also tend to form in chicken. Unfortunately, switching from red meat to chicken does not help very much. Chicken actually has just as much cholesterol as beef (about 100 milligrams of cholesterol in a 4-ounce serving) and almost as much fat.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2018
Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. 501-899 North Galbraith Road, Mio, Michigan, US (44.697, -84.171). Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access).
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2018
Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. 501-899 North Galbraith Road, Mio, Michigan, US (44.697, -84.171). Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access).
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