10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

He collected the first data set, invented the experimental equipment, came up with the first conclusions, the theories and findings upon which subsequent studies have been based. “We have the ability to fix it, but we still need the collective will” (p. Did the model work? ’s Lights Out DC, to name a few.

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 253

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OCTOBER 26, 2014

However, the Sunda islands span over a large region, and if the teal’s range is projected onto North America, it covers the area between Los Angeles and the panhandle of Florida. Sunda Teals, showing a feeding behaviour called “collective suicide” while a Cave Swiftlet looks on.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2022

And just to be clear, we’re talking about the human snowbirds here. Jam Up Passion Fruit & Peach is a dry-hopped sour ale with peach and passionfruit from Collective Arts Brewing of Hamilton, Ontario. And this isn’t the first Collective Arts beer to feature Slothman’s playful avian art. Good birding and happy drinking!

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Collecting Phoenix New York Miami 182

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Just in North America north of the Rio Grande! Through the power of people taking collective action we will build an economy based on justice and sustainability and stop the climate crisis. This is an enormous threat to our birdlife! There is no time to waste – Wall Street must be transformed.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

How to Know the Birds talks about 200 commonly found birds in North America (including one extinct bird, the Passenger Pigeon) in 200 brief essays, each exactly one page long. I’m not sure if “the Ugly” refers to the cormorant itself or human reaction (catfish farmers are officially allowed to shoot the birds).

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Birds North America Breeding America 115

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2013

On the other extreme you have outrageous stories like the supposed Thunderbird photograph of the America West, ambiguous winged creatures like Mothman and the Jersey Devil, and the impossible but incredibly persistent belief that (modern, extant) eagles can and will carry off small children. Now why should this be?

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Apes Birds Woodpeckers Primates 160

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Now, in 21st century America, we’re entertaining new considerations, in keeping with our modern understanding of wild animals and conservation. The use of wildlife for subsistence purposes by human populations should not be equated with their commercial consumptive use. were funded by hunters and 95.1% funded by the non-hunting public.”

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 238

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

They weren’t hard to find, but I would have appreciated, if publishing them in the book is too costly, a small collection on the publisher’s web site.

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 176

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

There are many more factors than I imagined: compass errors, wind drift, overshooting, extreme weather and irruptions, natural dispersal, and human-driven vagrancy. Some birders may want to carefully read the chapter on human-driven vagrancy, which takes up the question of ship-assisted vagrancy. Next time, I’ll know why.

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 259

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

It’s clear that ibis have been part of human civilization for as long as there has been civilization of which to be part. The spoonbills are a collection of six species from around the world whose facial accouterments have reached their terrifying bizarre zenith. Biblical tales? No wonder ibis are so beloved.

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Birds North America Charlotte New Jersey 211

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Some people love books like that. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Like the Adjutants in Asia and Jabiru of the Americas, the Marabou is our bare-headed scavenging stork. It is also related to Wood Stork of the Americas and Milky Stork of Asia. The elegant White Stork is the species that fable has decided is the deliverer of human babies, a belief that dates back to ancient northern European folklore.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 239

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The species is recorded in the form of a published photograph or a specimen archived in an ornithological collection. The population is not directly dependent on human support. The Spot-breasted Oriole , a native of Central America, is one of the lucky exotics to make the list.

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Miami Parrots Research Birds 133

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. Community conservation – valuing what’s around us Kokako and Kaka on Kapiti Guano Still Collected in Peru.Or

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Do not buy these books, unless you are collecting old bird books. Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans. The artwork in my edition of Birds of Northern South America is much more intense in color. The Bibliography is extensive (14 pages) and scholarly.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 194

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2011

Stuff dropped off of the massive container ships or cruise vessels that ply these waters between New York and the Caribbean or just washed out from rivers on the mainland to collect in what is known among oceanographer types as the North Atlantic Subtropical gyre. Like, say, a treated piece of lumber.

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United States North Carolina Fish North America 157

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

I enjoy collecting children’s books about birds and nature that I come across in the expected (book stores) and unexpected (academic library conference reports) places. Clue: El Yunque is featured on one of the coins in the America the Beautiful Quarters program.). A hawk-avoidance training program is created. The birds thrive.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 232

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2020

The authors are Bianca Lopez ( The New School ), Emily Minor ( University of Illinois at Chicago ), and Andrew Crooks ( George Mason University ), and the article is “ Insights into human-wildlife interactions in cities from bird sightings recorded online.”. Why are birds a good proxy for broader human-wildlife interactions?

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Chicago Research Illinois Michigan 268

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

The longer Introduction lists and briefly summarizes topics covered in the Portfolio (evolution feathers, coloration, variation, senses, movement, physiology, migration, food and foraging, survival, social behavior, birds and humans, threats). copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. The Portfolio of Birds is comprised of 87 2-page spreads.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

In fact, the Dodo belonged to a clade (sometimes called Raphini) of 15 remarkable, bizarre, intriguing island-adapted pigeons, some of which are still alive today, but eight of which have been hacked from the tree of life, driven to extinction by humans. The painting above is by 17th-century Flemish artist Roelant Savery.

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 275

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Because of that, the bird has a manure-like odour and is only hunted by humans for food in times of dire need” [ Source ]. Located within a Puinave indigenous reserve, these remnants of ancient parent-rock are some of the oldest geological formations in all of South America. Black-collared Swallow by Tyler Ficker.

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Dolphins Colombia Otters Birds 260

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

This is what makes this memoir more than a collection of anecdotes; it’s our opportunity to understand the different parts that make the whole of a black gay man negotiating the natural world and the more challenging, the adjacent “real” world. Raw honesty is felt throughout. Nah, sadly, probably not.

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Emotional Birds Minneapolis Nepal 223

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

McCown , who first collected it in 1851, but is more known for being a Confederate general in the Civil War. But the cost of changing the installed hardware base and the human capital invested in QWERTY effectively precludes those alternatives. The species was named after John P. Some see political correctness run amuck.

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Birds Laws 2020 Jordan 236

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2015

A post I wrote a few weeks ago where I made some disparaging remarks about America’s pseudowarblers (and poetry) generated a certain amount of negative feedback, and clearly some apologies are in order. Mum, Dad, I’m sorry I described my childhood as feral.

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Mozambique Zambia Zimbabwe Namibia 164

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2022

Good Monster is a New England-style double IPA from Collective Arts Brewing of Hamilton, Ontario, which was released last April as a welcome addition to their “Core Lineup” of year-round offerings. At first glance, it almost seems like a whimsical sendup of Grant Wood’s iconic America Gothic , sans pitchfork.

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Collecting Barn Owls Eagles America 234

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Rightly or wrongly, there’s an hierarchy of extinct birds in North America, in the United States in particular. North America certainly doesn’t want for wood-warblers, many of whom are more dramatic that the little canebrake dweller. Bachman’s Warbler was named for the renowned southern naturalist, Rev. John Bachman.

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South Carolina Cuba Missouri Mississippi 178

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

crossing the Carribean and winding up in South America? For millenia, many of the world’s collective cultures have had an exceptionally strong anthropocentric bias when looking at the value of life. Can you imagine doing this when you are a couple of months old? Let’s cover the basics. But I digress.

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 204

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

Only, we didn’t shoot them and collect specimens at the end of the day.) More like five hours, if you don’t count gas and lunch stops, and, seriously, who stops for lunch when you are after the probable first Great Black Hawk sighted in North America? In September, Abigail Ruth, a small human, was born and I became a grandmother.

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2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 155

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2012

They occur in three biogeographic regions; the Neotropic, Afrotropic and Indo-Malaya ecozones, basically tropical South and Central America, Africa south of the Sahara and tropical Asia. Benson to collect birds. This has led some ornithologists to consider the specimen a hybrid of two other tinkerbirds, time will undoubtedly tell!

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Ethiopia Tanzania Africa Uganda 229

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. So, the birds start collecting mud and small sticks. One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. Humanity is not very human. You should try it too. Sometimes it works.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 184

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 117

Animal Person

AUGUST 6, 2009

In writing my new book Hoodwinked (Random House, Nov 2009 publication date), I recently visited Central America. Memories are short in the US, but not in Central America. There had been a collective sign of relief at Barack Obama’s election in the U.S., Haiti and Honduras have always set the bottom line for minimum wages.

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