10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2011
Which is bad news for someone like me who still struggles with the fact that bats are mammals. But one of the most important aspects of these advances in new-age birding is the fact that they have grown hand-in-hand with the almost exponential growth in citizen science. Clever buggers those real scientists.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 22, 2011
I stuffed it in my pocket and decided to take it to Richard Oehlenschlager at the Science Museum of Minnesota. But the jawbone…that was from a bat! Oehlenschlager apologized that he couldn’t say the exact species of bat. It was either a big brown bat or a hoary bat.
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Critter News
MARCH 28, 2010
I like this opinion piece from the Christian Science Monitor which calls for an "Endangered Species Hour." The Christian Science Monitor rightly points out that citizens and consumers need to get involved in endangered species protection, because at the CITES level, it's all about money and international politics.
10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2014
But did you know that there is a bat that specializes in eating birds that are migrating at night? Giant Bats Snatch Birds from Night Sky. But researchers have now found evidence of a giant European bat that is plucking migrating birds out of the night sky. Museum of Natural Sciences and N.C.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 20, 2015
Flight has evolved multiple times; it has emerged in lizards, snakes, fish, bats, maybe bats again, distant relatives of primates, regular primates, rodents, and a few other unlikely taxa, in a rather half baked fashion, not “true” flight. Science 12 December 2014: 346 (6215), 1253293 [DOI:10.1126/science.1253293].
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2014
Aficionados of natural history writing should recognise the author as that of the Song of the Dodo , the popular science book about biogeography and conservation that to me rates as one the finest popular science books ever written. The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2012
And when it comes to field work, you can’t beat some of my office mates, like this above Indigo Bunting who serenades me when I’m changing data cards and batteries in bat detectors. And can I point out how weird it is to see the word “weapon” applied to wildlife sciences. But back to the ads.
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