10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2016

To wit: In an experiment informally called the “Cheetos Challenge,” a scientist investigated whether magpies or crows would be quicker to develop a taste for Cheetos—and which birds would ultimately steal them from the others. But there’s plenty of better—or at least more interesting—news for birders.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2020

Its waterproof fold-able covers bring back childhood memories… I must have had some illustrated children book with similar covers – my fingertips remember the experience. With its 394 pages, the book still feels relatively lightweight and manageable as a tool to be carried in the field. What I don’t like?

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Japan Asia Birds 2000 231

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2023

My book of choice for this time of year is Jerry Liguori’s Hawks At A Distance: Identification of Migrant Raptors, a brilliant tutorial on how to recognize raptors by shape and flight style, distilling years of experience and expertise into 216 pages. Both books are priced very reasonably in paperback format (see below).

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2011 North America 2005 Eagles 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

And so, I turn to Better Birding: Tips, Tools & Concepts for the Field , the new book by George L. To an intermediate-level birder like me, the material in Better Birding –highly focused, detailed, based on the latest research and years of field experience– is daunting, but also fascinating. Armistead and Brian L.

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 190

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The lessons are written in a relaxed personable way, with separate sections on tools, such as “carving tools and the marks they make” and on techniques, such as “watercolor studio painting,” “drawing from life,” and, of course, “making a block print.”

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Birds Eggs Laws Woodpeckers 156

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These crows have been shown to have a form of Theory of Mind or self-recognition, they understand some basic physics (mechanics, not quantum physics) at a level not seen in most animals, can fashion natural materials to make tools which, of course, they then use for extracting food from hard to get places, and so on.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Research 235

10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2014

Part of my regular routine would then be to sit down at my laptop and carefully enter this information in an eBird checklist and then spend however much time I had available to me, tooling around on the bar charts and maps and personal lists to see if that day’s birding had changed anything. I’ll bet I’m not alone here.

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Adoptable Birds Experience Experiments 186

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2018

This is why the Yellow Warblers and Baltimore Orioles of summer don’t linger to experience October 31st, and even late fall migrants like kinglets and sparrows move to slightly warmer regions. Lacking the benefit of heated shelters, birds must heed that warning or perish. Spectacled Owl.

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Costa Rica Bats Birds Falcons 168

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

As it turns out, a useful tool for the amateur phenologist is a dog. Cultures that experience it generally put a holiday of some sort at the end to motivate people to even bother living through it. It requires an ability to look at the familiar with a constantly fresh and inquisitive eye, and (even harder for me) it requires a routine.

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Bald Eagle Montana Owls Dogs 157

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

I was happy to see that the Resources section in the back of the book covers web sites and books on birds, photography techniques and computer tools programs not covered in the book (like Photoshop), and nature photography forums. In other words, if you value this type of bird photography, it is most probably worth it.

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Birds Ethics 2019 Experience 197

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2013

The white tool is used for adjusting your reticulation. The discovery of a bower is always a rewarding experience and once you have established the location of a bower it would appear you can watch the building and dismantling of bowers in the same area for many years to come. Bower at Lake Argyle.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

My interest in photography started at age 17 and now it has become a very important part of enjoying and improving my birding experience. This type of situation has repeated itself in many birding tours so I have decided to always bring my camera as a birding ID assistant tool.

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Birds Industry Laws Experience 182

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2012

The cover of the book (not of Derek Lovitch) gives you some idea of the tools the better birder needs in the early 21st-century. And one of those tools is Geography. That’s NEXRAD radar map in the left binocular lens and a surface weather map on the right. Do you want to be a better birder, a strategic birder?

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New Jersey Science United States Birds 242

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Harrison writes in the introductory section “How To Use This Book”: “The basis of distinguishing confusion species is personal field experience gained over the past 60 or more years of sailing the world’s oceans during which all but one of the more than 430 species contained in this volume have been observed.”

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Albatross Penguins Family Groups 279

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

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. The book becomes most engaging when Brooke tells stories based on his or his colleagues’ experience.

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Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 114

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2014

My thoughts won’t cover too many tech specs (you can peruse these at the link above), but will focus on a user’s experience. The 40215 Telephotoadaptor (connected with a T-mount and the eyepiece removed) is the tool of choice for DSLRs. First of all I was struck by how small and light it was. adaptor is not suitable for DSLRs.

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Protection Experience Experiments 157

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2012

Photography is a great tool to improve bird ID accuracy as explored in my previous post Photography and Birding. My experience is only with Canon equipment which I have used for five years, of course there is also Nikon and others but these will not be considered here. Also the 100-400 lens is shorter and fits better in my bag.

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Birds Experience Experiments Protection 170

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2011

A wonderful Audubon magazine article on birds’ bills (“ Pecking Order “) notes that individual Great Tits in England experience a change in bill shape between summer and winter as their primary food sources shift. Iconic and amazing Galápagos finches, some of which even learned how to use tools.

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2003 Sparrows Family South America 218

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Floyd’s writing style draws the reader in, including us in his experiences and observations, making the personal communal. The sections are also labeled according to the months of the year, the idea being that the book will take us through a year of birding.

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Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Paul Island, Alaska and has been reworked into an even more exceptional essay about guiding work on the island, where the unusual is the norm and bird guides use a tool kit of time and space. This is a sampling of the literary array Rogers has gathered from birders who write and writers who love birds.

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New York City Birds Owls Fox 194

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2013

The book thus carves out a unique niche amongst hawk identification books, that of an identification tool that teaches as you read, that creates opportunities for interactive learning as a part of the identification and reference process. Very sneaky, Richard! And, quite enjoyable. They are a great addition. It is a bridge worth trying.

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North America Bald Eagle Falcons Owls 218

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

I know how intense some birders can be), I can tell you from experience that there are some exquisite, stunning odonates flying around there. This field guide gives us the best tool we have yet to get to know the damsels and dragons of Costa Rica. * “Introduction,” p.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? Crows from the remote Pacific island of New Caledonia show incredibly high-level skills when they make and use tools. They can add features to improve a tool, a skill supposedly unique to humans.

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Animal Person

MAY 13, 2009

I sometimes experience despair thinking about all of the suffering. It is, however, a tool that has demonstrated, positive effects on the human brain. We vegans have a lot of feelings associated with why we do what we do and I, for one, find it necessary to do a lot of work around my emotions. And I often am overcome with sadness.

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Emotional Vegan Ethics Suffering 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 7, 2010

4 on Forbes’ list of 2009 “Best Branded Mobile Applications” after its 2009 launch as an iPhone application, now provides pet owners an even more engaging mobile experience through location-based utility, entertaining content featuring videos and photos, and relevant pet information. “petcentric,” ranked No.

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Branding Pets 2009 United States 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2014

The multitude of tools and ways you can enter/view your personal data is quite impressive, and it only continues to grow…although it might be on a subconscious level, embracing eBird more can be another kick in the butt to get out in the field. EBird makes this possible. Try eBird.

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Birds Portland Oregon 2015 208

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. I hesitate to call it an identification guide.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2017

’ They are challenging to find, frustrating to photograph, and the antbird experience often includes heat and humidity, mud and bugs. It was one of those magic experiences when you are so absorbed you forget you have a camera. However, all is forgotten when you get a good look at them.

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Brazil Birds Los Angeles Tigers 157

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 3, 2009

Covering everything from quirky cats with a lot of energy to more complex matters like helping a once outdoor cat adjust to its new indoor lifestyle, Housecat Housecall gives cat owners the knowledge and tools they need to create a well-balanced home life for the whole family, including the cat.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Many of the full-page photographs are lovely in their own right, not just as teaching tools.) ” I’m curious about your experiences with these guides or other hawk books (or apps) in the field. Both books are priced very reasonably in paperback format (see below). I still don’t always love hawks.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

Furthermore, Binford claimed, if we maintained ideas of recently studied modern human hunter-gatherers in our brains, as the model for ancient hominids who used tools (sometimes associated with bones) we would tend to see those foragers, more or less, in the archaeological record of our past, whether they were really there or not.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

Using this hold, the runners would quickly walk from the netters to the weighing table, where at least one student would use plier-like tools to squeeze a delicate band on a bird’s right leg, one person would weigh the bird, and one person would record the unique band number as well as the bird’s weight. Each took merely a minute or two.

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Birds Florida Groups Breeding 182

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

What other tips do you have from your experience? Kenneth McCall builds creative and innovative tools for customers seeking self storage units. Otherwise, your pet may try to return to your previous home. Have you moved with a pet before?

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Pets Litter Medical Kennels 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Much of this, as Prum himself admits, is speculative and it is far less compelling than the ornithological chapters.

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Ducks Research Animal Stud 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2011

We started out as a team with enthusiasm and knowledge, but little experience in book-making. I submerge myself into its characteristics and into its ‘feel’, before I start working on the guide – and for the time that I am working on an area, that area is my favourite. As for the books, that is a different matter.

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Badgers Ethics Africa Spain 145

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

We need more publishers of quality birding books and more birder-writers offering fresh views, sharing their experiences, covering new, niche subjects. This is their first title that is not a cook or crafts book, and I hope there will be more. A Redux” but is really about birding and conservation.

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