10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Conservation efforts have been sufficiently successful for the bird’s status to be downlisted, in 2018, from Critically Endangered to Endangered. In 2018, there were 1,745 birds living in 92 different zoos and collections. I haven’t managed to discover the latest population figures for Morocco, but it must be close to 1,000 birds.

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AUGUST 21, 2018

Here are a few other things regular readers of this site may be familiar with: The bird science journal “The Condor,” the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley, the concept of “niche,” and the system for making field observations of species known as the “Grinnell System.” PNAS August 6, 2018.

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DECEMBER 22, 2019

Since the last notice of him on this blogsite (in June 2018), Steve Burrows has published two more novels in his terrific “Birder Murder” series, the fifth and sixth – respectively, A Tiding of Magpies and, now the latest, A Dance of Cranes. In A Dance of Cranes, dancing, both avian and human, is a leitmotif. (For

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MAY 8, 2018

In the case of the Hawaiian Goose ( Branta sandvicensis ), the public notice was published in the Federal Register on April 2, 2018. It contains numerous citations to the literature, as the process must be based on the best available science. It appears that conservation organizations are not opposed to the downlisting.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Darwin Day is February 12th, and for an early celebration I thought I’d take a look at a book that rethinks the way Darwin, and we, think about evolution—a very specific part of evolution, the way beautiful features and behavior have developed amongst birds and, by extension, amongst humans. By Richard O. Doubleday, 2017, 448p.

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