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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 28, 2015
After my post about collecting two weeks ago I received a bit of feedback, some positive, some negative, and I’ve been mulling it over with the intention of writing about some of the issues that could be considered the root cause of the disagreement. You see, the bird was collected for scientific study. How it raised its chicks?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. 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. Did the model work?
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.
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.
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.
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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