10,000 Birds
APRIL 17, 2012
As you read the below timeline and see the below images, don’t ever forget the perils that walk hand-in-hand with human greed. July 24, 2010 BP brazenly says an internal investigation has cleared the company of all gross negligence in the spill. Least Terns resting on an oil-stained beach July 15, 2010 Wellhead is capped.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2011
Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet. Mar 7th, 2011 at 1:09 pm [.] That’s right – birds eating clay.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
My surprise at reading such a detailed account (I don’t have Klem’s dissertation in front of me, but I’m imagining this is a more personal retelling) was tempered by the thought that Klem wasn’t describing any old research, this was the FIRST research project investigating why birds fly into glass. Did the model work?
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2015
As our Gypsy comes to a halt, one Oriental Honey Buzzard is investigating the new arrivals. But, in the next year, 2009, only one human was killed by a tiger, leading to a conclusion that all the tigers in the conflict area (practically, the wider reserve buffer zone) have been wiped out.
Animal Person
AUGUST 16, 2011
Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists. In a manner that’s Malcolm Gladwell meets Freakonomics, which is the fascinating part, Herzog investigates our beliefs and actions regarding nonhuman animals (anthrozoology).
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2011
All of them were on the route of the Triathlon Hawks, our Swarovski Optik-sponsored team competing in the Carbon Footprint category of the 2011 World Series of Birding. Next we stopped by The Beanery where an extremely distant singing Veery at the limits of the human ear was the only new bird to grace our list.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2012
The good news is that Kirtland’s Warbler numbers are up, 1,828 singing males counted in the 2011 census. I very much enjoyed the first section, which relates the history of the bird and its relationship with us, humans, from its discovery in 1851 up to the fateful Lake Mack fire and its aftermath in the 1980’s.
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