10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Donna]: Danielle Whittaker takes a personal viewpoint of a very different aspect of ornithology in The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent , a perfect blend of science and autobiography. Whittaker’s research aims to disprove the centuries-old assumption that birds do not have a sense of smell.

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Sri Lanka Malaysia Birds Suriname 233

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works). million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about.

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America Industry Squirrels Birds 234

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

In November 2010, I backpacked for fifty days via the reasonably good bus system in Ecuador. The knowledge of its population status, ecology, and background story added color, depth, and meaning to what I was seeing — a species that disappeared from science, was rediscovered, and brought back from the brink of extinction.

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Ecuador California Condor Blackbirds Parrots 201

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. Jarvis et al. Sister to this group is the Strisores : the “night birds” (excluding owls), swifts, and hummingbirds.

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Still, I have been stuck trying to identify a dragonfly I photographed in 2010. I know how intense some birders can be), I can tell you from experience that there are some exquisite, stunning odonates flying around there. The dragonfly photo I have been puzzling over since 2010 turned out to be a Black-winged Dragonlet andromorph!

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Costa Rica North America Family America 262