10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2016
Compared with the results of a large-scale 2014 study in animals, the birds performed admirably well at devising ways to retrieve a treat from a transparent tube. A team of researchers from Sweden, the UK, and Germany collaborated to study intelligence in Ravens, Jackdaws , and New Caledonian Crows.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Stories enhance his 2014 history of modern ornithology, Ten Thousand Birds ( co-written with Jo Wimpenny and Bob Montgomerie). The book is chiefly about how people have conceptualized and studied birds, but there is an underlying theme, the changing ways in which our Western culture has viewed animals, nature and God.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2014
There is a fantastic paper just out in Science : “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of birds” by Michael Lee, Andrea Cau, Darren Naishe and Gareth Dyke. The paper that just came out in science has the following spectacular conclusion. Meanwhile I have a few random thoughts. And smaller.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2014
Even the cursed “polar vortex” which produced bone-chilling temperatures throughout large chunks of the United States in early 2014 doesn’t seem to have been long or cold enough to cause EAB die-off. “It’s unlikely that this would be enough to stop the invasion, but it could certainly slow it down, at least in some areas.”.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 20, 2015
It has evolved in non-vertebrate animals like insects more than once. Originally the land was occupied by plantish things, but they formed detritus, so some animals crawled from the aquatic habitat in which they had diversified to eat the detritus. Science 12 December 2014: 346 (6215), 1253293 [DOI:10.1126/science.1253293].
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 21, 2014
But, until recently this has not been confirmed by science. So, when they set out to study of the migration and habitat use of these animals in a South African lake in the Mapungubwe National Park, near the border with Botswana and Zimbabwe, they were not necessarily looking for fish flying out of the water. 84, 263–266 (2014).
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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