10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

An estimated one billion birds collide with glass each year in the United States* and most of them die; window collisions are considered the second highest cause of death of birds after cats (putting aside the big overall causes, like habitat loss and climate change).* ©2012 Donna L. And I don’t think that will be many people.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

The diverse range of vagrancy factors dips into related sciences–earth science and magnetic fields, geography and climate, dispersion and evolution–that may not be familiar to readers with little science background. It reminds me a lot of Rare Birds of North America , the 2014 book by Steve N.

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 254

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

These bark-burrowing beetles, which apparently hitched a ride in cargo shipments from their native Asia, have been starving the ash trees of eastern and midwestern North America to death for a dozen years now. With all due respect to Maria von Trapp, combating the greatest infestation that U.S. Enter the woodpecker.

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Woodpeckers Illinois Science Chicago 273

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2020

How many birders are there in America? Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) releases a survey called “ Birding in the United States: A Demographic and Economic Analysis.”. Several sources state that there are 2.75 For such a simple question, it turns out there are very few solid estimates. Every few years, the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

Chapter Two is a potpourri of stories about nemesis birds, birding by ear, birding for science, under the rubric of birding ‘for the love of it.’ Marybeth and Lynn chase birds familiar and unfamiliar to me, a Northeastern birder, and I’m sure it will be the same for any reader in North America. ” I wondered.

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

I recently asked ChatGPT some questions about the best birding locations in the United States and the results were decidedly mixed. What are the best field guides for birds in North America? How many birders are there in the United States? # # # Query: What is birding? Analysis : Good summary.

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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.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

He wrote about birds in North America, Central America, and parts of South America, including the Galapagos. This is probably one of the reasons Daniel Lewis,the author,turned from writing a popular biography to a history of ornithology as a science and the ornithologist as a profession. It’s challenging reading.

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Collecting Illinois United States Science 145

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2019

From the earliest days of European colonization in the Americas, attempts to make wine with native grapes proved unsuccessful; compared to the imported Vitis vinifera used for thousands of years of Old World winemaking, native grapes were fairly tart but lacking in sugars.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2016

How many birders are there in America? Fish & Wildlife Service released “ Birding in the United States: A Demographic and Economic Analysis.” But that estimate is admittedly more art than science, depending, as it does, on one’s estimate of what fraction of birders would engage in these countable activities.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2013

2 of which make their home in the United States. All populations mentioned above for both species have occurred in North America, and larophiles already attempt to separate out these forms when possible. This coastal jay was photographed at Ano Nuevo State Park, CA. Photographed off Hatteras, NC.

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San Francisco Fox Sparrows California 172

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

One of these days, Jeopardy will feature a category called “Field Guides” and the first clue will be: “This landlocked South American country finally got its own bird field guide in 2016, but it wasn’t available in the United State until 2019.” Clearly, this is an under-birded country. .

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 167

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2023

I was puzzled why the authors decided to include Buff-breasted Flycatcher, Pine Flycatcher, and Tufted Flycatcher, species that have extremely limited range in North America. It does get confusing, though, because the Species Account says that it is “unlikely to be confused with any other flycatcher in the United States” (p.51).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

This is not the first time that I have pointed out the perfidy of Republicans in United States government as it relates to birds or conservation. First passed in 1918, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act is one of America’s original conservation laws.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

In 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that irradiating half the meat and poultry consumed in the United States would mean 900,000 fewer cases of food-borne illness and 350 fewer deaths each year. Unfortunately, irradiated meat and poultry can’t be found on store shelves. Larry Katzenstein Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.,

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

It shows that of 588 species assessed, 314 species in the continental United States and Canada will lose half or more of their current ranges by 2080 if global warming continues at its current pace (which is approximately 8 degrees F of warming by the end of the century). Come back, click through, read, learn.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This bit of science is a nice final counterpoint to an account that has emphasized art, history, and literature. He effectively brings his point across by presenting facts and images and a little bit of hard science. I think this is one of the reasons I enjoy reading his books. journey, written up in diary format.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 159

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Lovich is a government scientist, Research Ecologist and Co-Deputy Chief, Terrestrial Ecosystems Drylands Branch, Southwest Biological Science Center, U.S. He has written several books, including Turtles of the United States and Canada, 2nd ed. , (with Carl H. Lovich and Whit Gibbons. Geological Survey.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

Any doubt I had about the need for a book about rare birds in the United States And Canada were wiped out on a Sunday evening in early February with two birding friends. Where did the Coney Island Gray-hooded Gull come from, Africa or South America? I kept wishing I had Rare Birds of North America , by Steve N.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. The Hoatzin, which may have reached South America by raft , has resisted placement in basically every study ever done. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Dragonflies and Damselflies of Costa Rica: A Field Guide by Dennis Paulson and William Haber fills a large gap in the field guide coverage of Costa Rica and continues the high level of excellence set by Paulson’s previous guides to dragonflies and damselflies of eastern and western North America.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

The sandhill crane has the lowest recruitment rate (average number of young birds joining a population each season) of any bird now hunted in North America. For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. to a high of 11%.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

At least in the northeastern United States, their rate of so doing is high, according to research I summarized here. At least she contributed to science… My Best Bird of the Year was a Snowy Plover , which I first spotted along the Florida Panhandle. I love participating in citizen science!

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