10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2024
Hauber Hauber’s mini-essays focus on specific behaviors, enhanced by references to recent research yet written in a relaxed, personal way. of Chicago Press, 2014). 2023 Tony Angell; © 2023 Mark E. Mark Hauber is currently (just appointed!) I do wish he had included Fairywrens!
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). Common Guillemot research at Skomer Island, Wales. Egyptian tomb painting depicting duck hunting in the marshes, from the eBook version of Birds and Us, © 2022, Tim Birkhead and Princeton University Press.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
The Crested Serpent-eagle is not a vulture, but that does not keep me from mentioning a recent Economist article here, “The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people” And while this article is behind a paywall, the original research paper is not.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 20, 2015
Soon after carnivores that could hunt on land evolved, things like ancestral centipedes. Science 12 December 2014: 346 (6215), 1253293 [DOI:10.1126/science.1253293]. For a long time the plants were mostly left untouched but their dead leaves and protoleaves were consumed by things like ancestral millipedes. Erickson, and David J.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 13, 2019
In birding, perhaps only the proverbial wild goose chase and snipe hunt rank below owling in terms of expected success. Para Maria de los Tecolates is a California red wine blend from Stolpman Vineyards of Santa Barbara County, released every year since 2014. There’s the whole role of chance in owling, too.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2015
Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in. Baicich, Margaret A.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2018
The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Let’s take this thought–that some birds should be extinct–and apply it to some actual extinct birds.
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