Groups Investigation Science Species 
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
And, as I have mentioned before , under-birded countries like Mexico provide lots of opportunities for amateur birders like me to make real contributions to science. The photo also illustrates how our drought affects two groups of resident and wintering birds (which number in the hundreds of thousands). But obsessed I am.
10,000 Birds
MAY 2, 2023
It could easily be mistaken for a book about aviation or space navigation or even a flight simulator game if you don’t read the long, adjective-filled subtitle: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration. THIS IMAGE NOT IN THE BOOK. Schulman, 2023.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 7, 2024
Sixteen species that have been recorded in the United States are covered: six Myiarchus flycatchers and ten Kingbird ( Tyrannus ) flycatchers. As with the first volume, I was surprised to see the inclusion of a species that has only been seen in the U.S. Introductory Material Sixteen species, 190 pages.
10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2015
” But here I’m using it because someone ELSE used it … the Bird 10K project is an effort to do the whole DNA thing they do on groups of species on the whole mess of 10K (or more) birds. Beagle had an enormous impact on Darwin’s thinking about ‘On the Origin of Species’. 1 Genome-scale phylogeny of birds.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
It feels good to start a post with some truly attractive birds – such as two species of broadbills. Strangely, there do not seem to be many papers on this species. In one paper , you can find fascinating sentences such as “The new species is most similar to D.
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
The first half describes the problem (why birds hit windows, the scale of the deaths, scientific research, what happens when birds strike windows) and the second half discusses what to do about it (community and worldwide education, window deterrent solutions, legal mandates and building codes, citizen science–what individuals can do).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2016
In this study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a group of juvenile zebra finches was allowed to interact with an adult. Another group simply heard adult songs played through a speaker. I’m pretty sure this was already partly known or suspected, but this new research nails it down.
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