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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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The first half describes the problem (why birds hit windows, the scale of the deaths, scientific research, what happens when birds strike windows) and the second half discusses what to do about it (community and worldwide education, window deterrent solutions, legal mandates and building codes, citizen science–what individuals can do).

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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Thank you, goddess of birding luck and text group people).* The book is richly illustrated with contributions from a group of birders/photographers who were fortunate to see and document many of the vagrants covered. It reminds me a lot of Rare Birds of North America , the 2014 book by Steve N.

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Birding Under the Influence: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The first two chapters make clear that although environmental concerns were a factor, his major reason for doing a big year was personal–his work as a postdoc in research neurobiology was at a crisis point, he needed to change research direction or…do something else.

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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

10,000 Birds

And Sandwich Tern is Sandwich Tern, Howell finding the DNA research for splitting it “weak.” The inside front covers are the start of four-page pictorial guides to bird families/groups and the pages where they can be found, a quick, easy entry to the identification process (see image above).

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What Impact Will Drones Have on Birds?

10,000 Birds

In a recent study , a team of French researchers set out to test whether a drone’s color, speed, and angle of approach affected different groups of birds. It’s quite possible that further research into the internal stress indicators of birds may reveal similar findings.

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“Keep your taxonomy out of my field guide” – revisited

10,000 Birds

My reasons for not liking a strict taxonomic order were essentially twofold: Similar species are not grouped together making identification harder than it should be. The pittas ( Garnet Pitta seen above) are just such a sacred group of birds that even taxonomists dare not screw them over. Phillipps, Q. & van Balen, N.

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Everglades Long-Legged Birds Feed Their Young To Alligators, Everything is Good.

10,000 Birds

Previous research has shown that wading bird nesting colonies could provide substantial food for alligators in the form of dropped chicks. We compared alligator body condition in similar habitat with and without wading bird nesting colonies present.