10,000 Birds
APRIL 29, 2024
In what might nowadays be regarded as a slightly weird scientific practice, after meeting naturalist Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt, he married Messerschmidt’s widow after his death and got notes from Messerschmidt’s Siberia travels from her that had not been handed over to the Imperial Academy of Sciences.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. And now we have the third iteration in Audubon’s guide book history: National Audubon Society Birds of North America. I didn’t.). GUIDE COVERAGE.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 16, 2021
In fact, the best known member of the family, Central America’s aptly-named Resplendent Quetzal , looks less like Michoacán’s trogons than, say, Africa’s Narina Trogon , or the Red-naped Trogon of Indonesia. Honesty requires that I confess to having seen none of these species.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today. Now, in 21st century America, we’re entertaining new considerations, in keeping with our modern understanding of wild animals and conservation. The exploiter/developer pays.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 25, 2019
North American warblers, on the other hand, often bear names of, at best, marginal utility. Somehow, the northernmost redstart in the Americas didn’t receive the same treatment. For example, the legendary ornithologist Alexander Wilson happened upon in his broad travels a warbler previously undescribed by science.
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 14, 2012
We loved seeing penguins, whales, polar bears, and wolves. Science at the Ends of the Earth – An examination of the remarkable scientific work being performed at the South Pole. If you can’t wait to find out if you won use code FP312 for 10% off Frozen Planet DVD or Blu-ray purchase from the BBC Americas Online Shop.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 11, 2011
Ringer Proposition 491, recently submitted to the American Ornithologists’ Union South American Classification Committee (SACC), bears the esoteric title “ Change linear sequence of orders for Falconiformes, Psittaciformes, and Cariamiformes.&# I think this proposal has a good shot at passing, at least in South America.
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