10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Pel’s Fishing Owl, where were you? 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. The Black Heron – besides looking rather cool, though not really very black – also has an interesting fishing technique.
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2015
Experienced birders can identify birds using GISS; all birders can identify birds if they adopt the BBI approach. I would be more apt to accept the science of BBI if the science of hemispheric brain functions was not subject to so much misconceptions and simplification.* So say Kevin T.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2014
As I explained to my nephews when they were younger, “The Burrowing Owls don’t think we’re their friends. People on one side of the rope, owls on the other.” Substitute Snowy Owl here if you’d like the modern version). Perhaps it comes from keeping a conscious distance while I observe them.
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
AUGUST 19, 2012
At the recent Swarovski Social Media Summit in Arizona, Nate proselytized passionately for the program that both manages your sightings and contributes them to science. Imagine having to clarify every pygmy-owl, every whistling-duck, every brush-finch… the autocomplete on my cell phone is smarter than this.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
And that through the use of science based decisions (made by biologists who have trained and been schooled on that very thing (That is what gives them the “bestowing&# power you speak of. In addition to the fact that Sandhill Cranes are game birds by the fact that they are now and have traditionally been hunted for the table.))
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 16, 2013
“Why can’t the kittens be adopted,” I asked in her comments section. I have a dog, cats (domestic and feral), birds raccoons, hawks, owls, coyotes, foxes, bunnies and mice…they all share the yard and the woods. “These kittens aren’t socialized or domesticated,” she said.
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