10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2023

It could easily be mistaken for a book about aviation or space navigation or even a flight simulator game if you don’t read the long, adjective-filled subtitle: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration. Flight Paths is a splendid but risky title for a book about bird migration.

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Science Illinois Investigation Research 204

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Sandhill Hunt: They’re Voting Now Sandhill Cranes: Game Birds? One important reason is the wide discrepancy in mid-winter count survey numbers—in Tennessee those figures were 44,000 counted in 2010 versus only 12,000 counted in 2011. This slow reproduction rate is unlike any other avian game species currently hunted.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 256

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JULY 18, 2012

The species readily takes to nesting in small artificial boxes, and the scientists of PRBO Conservation Science have over 450 such boxes scattered across the island to monitor the species. The Cassin’s Auklets of the Farallon Islands, where I encountered the species, have been the subject of a long term study going on for decades.

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Eggs Puffins Breeding Raised 167

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MARCH 20, 2011

Over the winter, the universe lost four whooping cranes to what appears to be recreational shooting: three gunned down together in Georgia on December 30, 2010, and another in Alabama on January 28, 2011. That’s what you do with other game, right? It gives one to wonder why this designation was made. Here’s the petition.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Pickrell, an Australian science writer who grew up in Great Britain and studied for his master’s degree at London’s Natural History Museum, is clearly engaged with his subject. There is a lot of science here to explain. Pickrell puts the pieces together in 11 chapters.

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Mongolia Science Reptiles Indiana 192