10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2011

Tiny satellite tracking tags allowed scientists from the British Trust for Ornithology to track five cuckoos on their 5,000 km migration to Africa. Birds, technology, and science together are simply fascinating. One cuckoo is lagging slightly behind the rest and has made it as far as Morocco.

Burkina Faso 157

Burkina Faso Africa Chad Morocco 157

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 14, 2010

Goodall In the Shadow of Man in 1971, Through a Window in 1990, Reason for Hope in 1999, and a number of books for children); Nine films (including those produced by the National Geographic Society and Animal Planet, and an IMAX film with Science North in 2002); Hundreds of popular articles, secondary writings, radio and television interviews; and.

2002 100

2002 United States Research Meat 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

Erika is a first year graduate student studying Ecosystem Science and Conservation at Duke. As a group we tagged and weighed more than 500 terns, terns that can be recaptured in the future to teach us humans more about the dynamics of the colony. Banding is best done in teams split into three, potentially four groups.

Birds 175

Birds Florida Groups Breeding 175

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

More than 150 bird species are known to have become extinct over the past 500 years, and many more are estimated to have been driven to extinction before they became known to science. White-backed and Hooded occur throughout most of Subsaharan Africa, but Rueppell’s is restricted to East and West Africa.

Endangered Species 185

Endangered Species Species Morocco South Africa 185