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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. 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! Odom, Naomi E.

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How Many Birders Are There, Really? (Updated)

10,000 Birds

Organizations : There is a group dedicated to birding, the American Birding Association. However, at least one source reported that way back in 2002, there were approximately 700,000 copies in print of the Sibley Guide to Birds and 250,000 of Kenn Kaufman’s Field Guide to Birds of North America. Several sources state that there are 2.75

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Hawks In Flight, Second edition: A Review of a New Version of a Birding Classic

10,000 Birds

Hawk watchers and birders who look at hawks (not always the same group!) There are probably more identification guides about raptors than there are for any other bird group. If the accipiter swivels its head to look at a group of hawk watchers without moving its body, it’s a Cooper’s.

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How Many Birders Are There, Really?

10,000 Birds

Organizations : There is a group dedicated to birding, the American Birding Association. However, at least one source reported that in 2002, there were approximately 700,000 copies in print of the Sibley Guide to Birds and 250,000 of Kenn Kaufman’s Field Guide to Birds of North America.

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Happy 50th Anniversary Jane Goodall Institute

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Goodall In the Shadow of Man in 1971, Through a Window in 1990, Reason for Hope in 1999, and a number of books for children); Nine films (including those produced by the National Geographic Society and Animal Planet, and an IMAX film with Science North in 2002); Hundreds of popular articles, secondary writings, radio and television interviews; and.

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Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean: A Book Review by a Lover of Parliaments

10,000 Birds

A group of owls is traditionally called a parliament, though there is a line of thought that C.S. I particularly enjoyed systematics and taxonomy and the unexpected, surprising relationships being discovered via molecular DNA analysis.) Lewis originated the term as a pun on Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

For those who didn't read the five-part Slate series " Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science " by Daniel Engber , I recommend it for the history, but also for the misconceptions and assumptions that you might want to discuss on the Facebook discussion about the series. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper?