10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2021
The six chapters that follow explore bird communication in mating; defending territory; rearing children; responding to predators; interacting with neighbors and functioning in large groups; and communicating successfully in a noisy human world. There is so much here! I do wish there was more about research on female bird song. Odom, Naomi E.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
It’s all about the improbable intersection of human beings and Emperor Penguins, and if I can’t make it to an Emperor Penguin colony (highly unlikely), reading this book has been the next best thing. It’s part memoir, part travelogue, part scientific narrative, part prologue to making an argument for Antarctic conservation.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2012
This species prefers wetlands and its numbers have been decimated due to a combination of habitat destruction caused by human population growth and illegal removal of birds and eggs from the wild for the pet and zoo trade. This plain used to be little affected by humans, being grazed by just a few cattle, goats and camels.
Animal Person
SEPTEMBER 5, 2009
From 2002-2005 I was heavily ensconced in a bird and waterfowl phase with sometimes daily drama of the life-and-death variety that led to my unintentional education about all things duck (Muscovies, in particular). Too Early Charley was a Muscovy who had just busted through his shell with his egg tooth.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2015
I particularly liked the section on Anatomy and Morphology, which explains the anatomical adaptations that enable woodpeckers to do the things they do, like drum at rates that would explode human skulls. Back of the book material includes an almost-comprehensive nine-page Bibliography of books and articles published after 2002.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2016
Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Big Egg Marsh. Still, the list will be as complete as we can keep it and will be updated on the first Saturday of every month. Negri-Nepote Grasslands.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 3, 2016
Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Big Egg Marsh. Still, the list will be as complete as we can keep it and will be updated on the first Saturday of every month. Negri-Nepote Grasslands.
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