10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2019
A PEC biologist expresses extreme frustration as he investigates a site where a dead eagle has been found. The bee footage is actually of Rettig in Gamboa in 2009, but I am going to assume that he had a similar, unfilmed experience in the Philippines. PEF Executive Director Dennis Salvatore is devoted but weary.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2015
As our Gypsy comes to a halt, one Oriental Honey Buzzard is investigating the new arrivals. She has grown up in the reserve and has no experience of the environment of which tourists would not be a permanent, however boring part of. Finally, the shores of the Telia lie in front of us. Telia, copyright © Nitin Bhardwaj.
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Animal Person
JUNE 27, 2009
They grill the chickens, and trust me when I say it's all presented as a peak spiritual experience. If you dare, check out this small chart and these diagrams , and also please let me know if you know of any from 2008 or 2009. If there's a lesson in Food Inc.,
4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
Horowitz and other scientists are now running experiments to determine what a behavior, like a kiss, really means. Horowitz wondered if they behave this way because they truly recognize they’ve done something wrong, so she devised an experiment. See TIME’s video “ The March of TIME: Hunting Dog Field Trials.&#.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2011
The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. Read Tim’s account and enjoy his (and the Tambopata Macaw Project’s Alan Lee’s) photos judge for yourself… (NOTE: we first published this post in January 2009 but have to run it again because it is so good!) Licking Clay’ Text and Photographs copyright T.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
Experiments in the field (the famed Asa Wright Nature Center veranda) involving Bananaquits and bananas came up with numbers ranging from 7 to 16, but a tanager always came along to interfere with Bananaquits’ noisy appreciation of their namesake fruit. (2) Which hummingbird was more beautiful—Tufted Coquette or Ruby-topaz Hummingbird? (3)
10,000 Birds
APRIL 21, 2011
These bird songs have two aspects, and I oversimplify but not excessively so: A genetically inherited template, usually specific to the song-producing sex, and a learned song that consists of the template shaped by experience as a developing bird hears the adult version of its own song. The top two are individuals with normal song.
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