10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Birds and airplane compete for right-of-way at Sky Harbor Airport and Seaplane Base (image by Donald Emmerich, Wikimedia Commons). The article cites avian radar proponents in the Netherlands and Israel who suggest that this technology can be quite effective at reducing the risk of birdstrikes. The damage to the plane, that is.

Netherlands 192

Netherlands Illinois Washington 192

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2016

Looking for terns, White-eyed Gulls , and other seabirds from North Beach, Eilat, Israel during Champions of the Flyway. That said, last fall, all of the right parts fell into place for Ernesto Carman and Jairo Jimenez on October 15th when they identified 351 species in Costa Rica in less than 24 hours !

Costa Rica 100

Costa Rica Birds Species 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2015

I’ve just returned from a trip to Israel and I feel like I’ve run 300 miles in a week…in the blazing sun…uphill…with no water…and carrying a one hundred pound sandbag. The playing field for the race was limited to southern Israel. And I had it easy.

Cyprus 257

Cyprus illegal Birds 257

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Chinese researchers have actually been able to identify individual Asian Stubtails on the basis of their songs ( source ). Or maybe they are quite excited about clarifying that Muscicapa latirostris is the wrong name for this bird while Muscicapa dauurica is right. This is not really an option at Nanhui though.

China 168

China Birds Ukraine Killing 168

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2022

I guess most scientists would love to see their original research become the basis for a vast field of further studies. In a study in Israel, migrating Steppe Buzzard s were found to have much higher lice infestation rates than non-migratory Common Buzzards in the same region. Some people wonder whether god exists.

South Africa 178

South Africa Africa Birds Cape Verde 178