10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2024
Hauber Hauber’s mini-essays focus on specific behaviors, enhanced by references to recent research yet written in a relaxed, personal way. And there is diversity in charisma–few people can resist an Emperor Penguin or a Secretary Bird, but common birds like Indian Myna and Black-crowned Night Heron also get their due respect.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
According to reports in the media , a recording from 1987 recently rediscovered by researchers has captured a Musk Duck ( Biziura lobata ) in Australia repeatedly uttering the phrase “You bloody fool” as part of its courtship display, apparently having picked up this impolite exclamation by mimicking overheard human speech.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 25, 2015
Severe weather can stress birds and even influence the coloration of their feathers , new research finds. Scientists investigate the DNA of Hawaii’s free-roaming fowl. Researchers have figured out where the thought-to-be-extinct Bryan’s Shearwater is roosting. Why did the chicken cross the archipelago? Different, but the same?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2021
And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. His employers were magnanimous in granting him time to research what was to be his magnum opus, published over the course of 20 years – the four-part Birds of the Belgian Congo.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 16, 2013
Also, as researcher Rufus Johnstone of the University of Cambridge notes, “The question I come away with is whether it’s possible to distinguish between blackmail and honest signalling of hunger.” ” A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2015
I could go on and on, it’s that kind of a book—a comprehensive treatment of a species we respect and adore, based on the most current research, written in a style that, while factual, is from the author’s viewpoint, flavoring facts with a witty, observant personal quality. Mitochondrial DNA analysis strikes again.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
They became known as “Turkie Fowl” (spelling varies) because they were coming from the general direction of Turkey. The “Fowl” was dropped and the term “Turkey” was applied to other large Galliformes that were encountered in the New World. They may have also had hunting dogs with them as well. Which would be weird.
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