10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Had it not been for the Wild Turkey, for instance, the first Pilgrims to America, the English ones, would not, possibly, have survived, he says. The book is a grab-bag of facts about the ten birds, mostly culled from other works. Nothing wrong with that, so long as the sources are credited, as they are.) What claptrap.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 16, 2012
Variation in finch beak shape is constantly arising due to the usual sources of genetic variation, and that variation is then culled across generational time, but which direction the culling happens in depends on the climate of that particular year or season. Thus, to the Grants, a dead finch is a very important piece of data.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
The 32-page insert of color plates presents 63 images of paintings, book plates, mosaics, photographs, and a map, culled from Wikipedia Commons and other sources. There are two subjects which I think could have been explored more thoroughly–women in ornithological history and colonialism. Birkhead knows that these are sensitive topics.
Animal Person
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
Since January the program has culled about 230,000 cows nationwide." We here in America claim we love dogs. "Desperate to drive up prices by stemming the gusher of unwanted milk, a dairy industry group, the National Milk Producers Federation, has been paying farmers to send herds to slaughter. They're our "best friends."
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. 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.
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