article thumbnail

See OCEANS, Save Oceans!

4 The Love Of Animals

Also, in collaboration with National Geographic, Disneynature has developed educational materials that can be downloaded for free by visiting www.disney.com/Oceans. Due to the generous support from Disneynature, The Nature Conservancy has recently launched its Adopt-a-Coral-Reef program ( adopt.nature.org/coralreef/ ) in The Bahamas.

Bahamas 100
article thumbnail

Citizen Science or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love eBird

10,000 Birds

While that’s impressive, there was even more that sold me on eBird: * The site includes more than 12 million bird observations, making it, according to Kelling, “the largest single biodiversity resource in the world” * Anyone is free to download the data, which has been used for more than 100 published scientific papers. *

Science 238
article thumbnail

Hilty’s Birds of Colombia field guide review

10,000 Birds

Having that in mind, it is no small miracle that Colombia still has 1965 bird species left to be covered by this guide – more than any other country in the world. Among them are 94 endemics and 101 near-endemics, 4 introduced species and only 42 vagrants. Neither have I.) Neither have I.)

Colombia 264