10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2022
In three cases of adoption the common factor was that the adopting individual was sexually attracted to one of the real parents of the young. If that isn’t a great basic plot for a soap opera, then what is? “Do you think I’m Sexy?”
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2014
And with no natural predators or resistant trees in their adopted territory, things have been looking pretty grim. If there is one silver lining to all of this gloomy news, it’s that the efforts of birders truly make a difference in helping to advance science. Enter the woodpecker.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2015
Experienced birders can identify birds using GISS; all birders can identify birds if they adopt the BBI approach. It is not a field guide, though it offers a wealth of information about field identification. So say Kevin T. The result is a different kind of book. It is not a textbook, though its aim is clearly instructional.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 16, 2014
Steve Kelling from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology gave the keynote talk, “The Birder Effect: Birding, Science, and Conservation.” The talk described eBird’s origins in 2002 and traced its history as a project aimed at using “citizen science” to help researchers and conservationists learn more about birds. .
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2014
We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. By including these stories, Cocker has created a book that is very much a part of our current information age, in which democracy rules.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
The HBW section on this species’ behavior mostly repeats the phrase “more information needed” Though of course scientists, hungry for grants and topics, say that all the time. Maybe a source more focused on birds than the HBW might have provided more accurate information. Not very exciting information, I know.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 4, 2016
To be fair, he was slightly better positioned to do so, being a professor of biological sciences with the University of Nebraska. Johnsgard was actually doing something about it. While the book as whole is both pleasurable and educational, I found the section on Sandhill Cranes to be the most engaging.
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