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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
The potpourri covers some interesting bird related science of the last few weeks, and the promise is this: I’ll get to that other stuff soon, I promise! From National Geographic News : Cassin’s auklets are tiny diving seabirds that look like puffballs. You see, it is all connected. But I didn’t get to that either.
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
I put it in a small box for several hours, where it appeared to recover, but studies have shown that internal injuries from a strike usually kill the bird. Dead birds are a part of the life of a birder, a feeder of birds, and of bird science. The more glass, the more bird kills. ©2012 Donna L.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2014
” Ebola is in the news a lot at the moment. If you’re feeling fearful or ignorant, well, I can recommend vox.com’s coverage (as in most things), but you could also do worse that picking up Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
Each year, millions are injured or killed when they slam into the sides of glass-sheathed buildings that reflect the sky. The latest edition of Science News delves into the work of scientists studying this problem. News bird collisions glass skyscraper' There are larger-scale ways to address the issue, too.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2019
This is good news, and especially so for birders. It’s a matter of personal preference: neither does every reader like, say, science fiction, or the writing of Henry James, or romance novels. In A Dance of Cranes, dancing, both avian and human, is a leitmotif. (For Fair enough.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2018
According to a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study, human-induced climate change has doubled the area affected by forest fires in the western U.S. Some animals are injured and killed by wildfires. A fire might kill weak birds or, depending on the time of year, claim nestlings. over the last 30 years.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2022
These two islands are about halfway between the tip of South Africa and Antarctica in the Subantarctic Indian Ocean, have had relatively few human visitors, and are primarily inhabited with some of the rarest seabirds in the world and a smaller number of mammals.
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