10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Livingston, and on the dust jacket was a drawing of three Pine Grosbeaks ( Pinicola enucleator ) standing on a cone-bearing tree. His creative process involved both observation from life and from preserved specimens. The title read “Birds of the Northern Forest”, paintings by J.F. Lansdowne and text by John A. He died on July 27, 2008.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 19, 2015
Then the eagle is left with only two options: die, or go through a painful process of change which lasts 150 days. The process requires that the eagle fly to a mountaintop and sit on its nest. 3) Every year (usually) eagles molt and grow a whole new set of feathers, whether they want to or not, but it’s a gradual process.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
It is presented in two main parts, the “how” – considering the physical processes involved in the way animals perceive their environment, and “why” of animal behaviour – examining the evolutionary forces that have shaped the more complex behaviours. At some stage, a salmon-hunting bear at a shingle beach came too close, mere 9 steps.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2014
With luck, there has been enough negative feedback to stop this kind of insanity in its tracks, although it bears monitoring because there are no guarantees. They would realize that wild owls fly silently through the night and grab unwary rodents, not unsuspecting packages of processed cow meat. Today is the final commentary day.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2022
Challenging at times, especially for us nonscientists, but Whittaker very smartly combines explanations of scientific concepts and processes with her own thoughts and feelings about the work, the intellectual history that preceded it, and the people she works with. There’s also roller derby stuff.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2017
Larger feathers consist of a shaft (rachis) bearing branches (barbs) which bear smaller branches (barbules). These smaller branches bear tiny hook-bearing processes (barbicels) which interlock with the barbules of an adjacent barb to link the barbs into a continuous stiff vane.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2017
I took a brief, wobbly, video of the process. The Zapata Swamp, Ciénaga de Zapata , is of course known for the three birds that bear it’s name: the Zapata Rail, the Zapata Wren, and the Zapata Sparrow. The Zapata Rail is a mystery wrapped in an enigma. A book reviewer’s dream! ———-. Navarro, Nils.
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