10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

There are many more factors than I imagined: compass errors, wind drift, overshooting, extreme weather and irruptions, natural dispersal, and human-driven vagrancy. Some birders may want to carefully read the chapter on human-driven vagrancy, which takes up the question of ship-assisted vagrancy. Next time, I’ll know why.

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JULY 5, 2022

At the same time, or ideally shortly thereafter, the science will convince and stimulate popular writings to reach a broad audience, one that eventually enlist the general public to demand reasonable, justifiable changes that will benefit human society, which is part and interdependent with nature. (p. Did the model work?

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JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Some people love books like that. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

The 6 th edition of the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America , for example, includes “extinct” and “probably extinct” species in a chapter, mixed in with accidentals.) Princeton University Press, 2014 (also published by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2013). Other species are less known. by Errol Fuller.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Three books will have been published about the Passenger Pigeon by the end of 2014: A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction by Joel Greenberg, The Passenger Pigeon by Errol Fuller, and A Message From Martha: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its Relevance Today by Mark Avery.

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DECEMBER 20, 2014

2014), presents an authoritative framework for our understanding of and future work on bird phylogeny. Now it’s late 2014, six and a half years later, and here’s what we know today. So do parrots, some songbirds, humans, and a few other mammals. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert). Open Jarvis et al.’s

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The 2014 season demonstrated the power of cooperation, communication, and determination to save three Chimney Swifts. As a result of human interference, four Chimney Swift nestlings had to be rescued. Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it sometimes takes a “village” of rehabbers to save threatened wildlife.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

In fact, the Dodo belonged to a clade (sometimes called Raphini) of 15 remarkable, bizarre, intriguing island-adapted pigeons, some of which are still alive today, but eight of which have been hacked from the tree of life, driven to extinction by humans. The painting above is by 17th-century Flemish artist Roelant Savery.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2017

Corey wrote about the Common Tern chicks of Nickerson back in 2014, so I thought it was time for another post. Mothers tend to bring smaller tidbits of fish, according to the Birds of North America database (BNA), so I’m thinking that this is the mom.). I know I shouldn’t, these are not humans, but I do.).

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MAY 24, 2014

Just to be clear, as the main demographic reading here is from North America, this is the Soccer World Cup. The lower part of this loop often has much less human disturbance than the top half and thus can be more productive. It can be found on the road which loops off from the main trail. The other attraction is Lago Das Carpas.

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MARCH 3, 2015

I particularly liked the section on Anatomy and Morphology, which explains the anatomical adaptations that enable woodpeckers to do the things they do, like drum at rates that would explode human skulls. Firefly Books, 2014; 528 pages, 6.2 ———— Woodpeckers of the World: A Photographic Guide by Gerard Gorman.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

In 1850, the Passenger Pigeon ( Ectopistes migratorius ) was the most abundant bird in North America and possibly the world. Some people actually don’t consider human beings as animals. Some people think humans are superior to all other life forms. Why is this happening? People don’t respect wildlife.

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